Napoli need Feyenoord win and assistance elsewhere
Having kept themselves in row final time out, SSC Napoli contingency now finish Group F by inflicting a sixth detriment in a territory on Feyenoord – nonetheless even that competence not be adequate for a Italian side.
• Napoli changed within 3 points of second-placed FC Shakhtar Donetsk with a 3-0 win opposite their Ukrainian rivals on matchday five. That was usually a initial partial of a equation, however; now a Partenopei contingency win during Feyenoord – whom they beat 3-1 in a retreat fixture – and wish Shakhtar remove during home to organisation winners Manchester City FC, who have limit points. If that is a case, a Italian organisation will finish second on head-to-head.
• Feyenoord, who have mislaid each diversion on their organisation theatre return, will finish fourth.
Match background
Feyenoord
• Feyenoord’s home record opposite Serie A sides is W2 D3 L1. The better came in a many new fixture, a 2-1 detriment opposite AS Roma in a 2014/15 UEFA Europa League turn of 32 second leg (2-3 aggregate).
• Feyenoord have not beaten an Italian opponent, home or away, given a 1-0 success during FC Internazionale Milano in a semi-final initial leg of their jubilant UEFA Cup debate in 2001/02. Their record given is D3 L3.
• At home in this season’s foe a Rotterdam bar have mislaid 4-0 to Manchester City and 2-1 opposite Shakhtar.
• Before this season, 19 clubs had mislaid all 6 games in a UEFA Champions League organisation stage.
• The Rotterdammers have mislaid their final 8 matches in a UEFA Champions League, organisation theatre to final – 12 including qualifying.Â
• Feyenoord have not purebred a home win in a UEFA Champions League, organisation theatre to final, given a 2-1 feat over FC Spartak Moskva on 31 Oct 2001. Their record given is D2 L3.
• Having carried a initial Eredivisie pretension in 18 years final season, Feyenoord are in a final 32 of a UEFA Champions League for a initial time given 2002/03, when they were separated in a initial organisation stage. They mislaid in a third subordinate turn in both 2012/13 (to Dynamo Kyiv) and 2014/15 (Beşiktaş JK).
Napoli
• The Italian outfit have done dual prior trips to a Netherlands, both in the UEFA Europa League organisation stage, and are still to win. They drew 3-3 during FC Utrecht in 2010/11 and lost 3-0 during PSV Eindhoven in 2012/13 with Dries Mertens, now a Napoli player, scoring a second goal.
• Matchday dual brought Napoli’s initial win opposite an Eredivisie club, home or divided (D2 L2).
• Napoli have mislaid both divided games in this season’s organisation stage, going down 2-1 during both Shakhtar on matchday one and Manchester City in a third turn of fixtures.
• Defeats during Shakhtar and City meant Napoli have now mislaid 4 of their final 11 European divided fixtures given a start of 2015/16 (W6 D1). They picked adult 7 points divided from home in final year’s organisation stage.
• Napoli are in a organisation theatre for a second year running. In 2016/17, a Partenopei mislaid to contingent champions Real Madrid CF in a turn of 16, going down 3-1 both away and at home.
• The Serie A organisation competent for this season’s organisation theatre by violence OGC Nice 2-0 both home and away in a play-offs.
Coach and actor links
• Mertens played in a Netherlands with AGOVV Appeldorn (2007–09), Utrecht (2009–11) and PSV (2011–13), winning a Dutch Cup with PSV in 2012.
• Mertens faced Feyenoord 9 times in joining and crater (W3 D2 L4), scoring twice.
• Arkadiusz Milik was during AFC Ajax between 2014 and 2016, concealment 32 times in 52 Eredivisie outings, including dual draws with Feyenoord.
• Kevin Diks is on loan during Feyenoord from ACF Fiorentina, for whom his second and many new joining coming was a 3-3 pull with Napoli on 22 Dec 2016.
• Played together:
Brad Jones Pepe Reina (Liverpool FC, 2010–13)
• Feyenoord manager Giovanni outpost Bronckhorst scored in the Netherlands’ 3-0 win opposite Italy in a UEFA EURO 2008 organisation stage.