Napoli in need of home assistance for Manchester City visit
Having mislaid both divided games, SSC Napoli will be banking on their considerable UEFA Champions League home form to get them behind into row in Group F – easier pronounced than finished opposite leaders Manchester City FC.
• The 2-1 success in Manchester on matchday three means City have won all 3 games so far, and reason a three-point lead over FC Shakhtar Donetsk in a standings. Napoli are 3 points serve behind in third place.
• City will validate for a turn of 16 for a fifth deteriorate in period if they equivocate better in Naples.
Previous meetings
• The teams’ usually past fixtures came in a 2011/12 organisation stage, City’s entrance UEFA Champions League campaign, when they drew 1-1 in Manchester on matchday one. Edinson Cavani gave Walter Mazzarri’s visitors a 69th-minute lead; Aleksandar Kolarov equalised for City, afterwards managed by Roberto Mancini, 5 mins later.
• Napoli came out on tip in a matchday 5 tie behind in Italy, however, Cavani scoring twice (17, 49) possibly side of Mario Balotelli’s 33rd-minute idea to secure a 2-1 home victory.
• The line-ups during a Stadio San Paolo on 22 Nov 2011 were:
Napoli: De Sanctis, Maggio, P Cannavaro, Gargano, Dossena (Fernández 89), Aronica, Campagnaro, Inler (Džemaili 59), HamÅ¡Ãk, Lavezzi , Cavani (Pandev 83).
Manchester City: Hart, Zabaleta (Johnson 85), Kompany, Lescott, Kolarov, De Jong (Nasri 71), Y Touré, Milner, Silva, Džeko (Agüero 81), Balotelli.
• That win valid essential as Napoli finished second on 11 points, one indicate and one place higher to their English rivals.Â
Match background
Napoli
• The Partenopei have won 4 of their 5 home games opposite Premier League clubs, sketch a other. Their many new success was a 3-1 home win opposite Swansea City AFC in a 2013/14 UEFA Europa League organisation stage; they had drawn 0-0 away.
• Before losing during City, Napoli were dominant in 3 matches opposite Premier League sides (W2 D1), given a 2-0 annulment during Arsenal FC in a 2013/14 organisation stage. That was their third detriment in 4 trips to England, a 2011 pull during City a usually time they avoided better in that run.
• 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 away and at home.
• Last season’s better by Real Madrid was usually Napoli’s second detriment in their final 23 European home fixtures (W15 D6).
• In final year’s organisation stage, Napoli picked adult 4 points during home, beating SL Benfica 4-2 though losing 3-2 opposite BeÅŸiktaÅŸ JK.
• The Italian organisation competent for this season’s organisation theatre by overcoming OGC Nice 2-0 both home and away in a play-offs.
Manchester City
• This is a fourth time City have been drawn in a same UEFA Champions League organisation as opponents from Italy. In 2014/15 they collected 4 points from AS Roma (1-1 home, 2-0 away) though in a many new fixtures, opposite Juventus in 2015/16, they mislaid 2-1 during home and 1-0 away.
• That win during Roma was City’s usually success in their final 8 meetings with Italian opposition, home and divided (D4 L3), before they suspended Napoli final time out. It is also their usually win in Italy, where their record is W1 D2 L2.
• City did not win divided in final season’s competition, losing during AS Monaco FC and FC Barcelona (0-4) and sketch during Celtic FC and VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach. The 4-0 feat during Feyenoord on matchday one this tenure was only City’s second in their final 8 European divided games (D3 L3).
• The Barcelona compare was City’s biggest European defeat, home or away.
 • Third in final season’s Premier League, City are creation a sixth unbroken UEFA Champions League appearance – they have progressed to a turn of 16 or over in any of a final 4 campaigns.
• Last term, Guardiola’s organisation came second in their territory and mislaid on divided goals to Monaco in a final 16 (5-3 home, 1-3 away).
Coach and actor links
• Guardiola played in Serie A with Roma and Brescia, and was a team-mate of Pepe Reina during Barcelona in 2000/01.
• Reina played in England with Liverpool between 2005 and 2013; his record opposite City was W7 D9 L2 with 9 purify sheets in that run – including all of his initial 6 games.
• Vlad Chiricheş played for Tottenham Hotspur FC between 2013 and 2015. His solitary coming opposite City was a 5-1 joining better during White Hart Lane on 29 Jan 2014.
• Emanuele Giaccherini played for Sunderland AFC between 2013 and 2015. In 2014 he was a second-half surrogate in a 2-1 League Cup final detriment to Manchester City.
• Giaccherini scored in Italy’s 2-0 win over De Bruyne’s Belgium in a UEFA EURO 2016 organisation stage. Belgium’s Jason Denayer was an new substitute.
• Lorenzo Insigne scored for Italy opposite David Silva’s Spain in a 1-1 accessible pull in Udine in Mar 2016.
• Marek HamÅ¡Ãk scored as Slovakia degraded Leroy Sané’s Germany 3-1 in a pre-UEFA EURO 2016 friendly.
• Played together:
Kyle Walker Vlad Chiricheș (Tottenham, 2013–15)
Danilo Rafael Cabral (Santos FC, 2010–11)
• International team-mates:
Kevin De Bruyne, Jason Denayer, Vincent Kompany Dries Mertens (Belgium)
Danilo Rafael Cabral (Brazil, 2012)