Categories: Football

Napoli, Granada's rival in the 1/16 of the Europa League

In your first experience in Europe, he Pomegranate of Diego Martinez managed to 'sneak' into the round of 32 and the draw held this morning in Nyom has provided that his rival is Naples. Fate has not been too lucky for the Nasrid team that will face a team, the Italian, which is undoubtedly among the favorites to go far in this competition.

How do Naples play?

The Parthenopean painting, directed by Gattuso and that was above Real Sociedad in the group stage, it is a rocky team, that knows what it plays, and that, like its coach in his footballing stage, has intensity in each set of the game.

With a very marked scheme formed by a 4-2-3-1, Napoli is a team with quality players when it comes to touching the ball (Zielinski, Fabian or Mertens) and great world-class defenders such as Koulibaly and greek Manolas.

His star: Lorenzo Insigne

The most decisive player of the Italian team is undoubtedly Lorenzo Isigne. He is, beyond a player, a symbol in the city that, in recent weeks has mourned the loss of Maradona and that he now takes refuge in that of his great captain raised in the city of Vesuvius.

With a lot of speed in his legs, a good touch of the ball and a scoring nose, Insigne is the banner of an attack in which there are also dangerous players such as Oshimen or Hirving
Lush.

Undoubtedly, the draw has not been too benevolent with a Granada that, although it is true, is used to signing great feats, Naples will be one of the important ones. The duels will be played on February 18 and 25.

Gabby Barker

Gabby is someone who is interested in all types of sports, she loves to attend watching matches live. Whenever there is a match being played in her city, she makes sure to get the tickets in advance. Due to the love for sports, she joined Sportsfinding, and started writing general sports news. Apart from writing the news, she is also the editor for the website who checks and edits every news content before they go live.

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