The second leg of the Champions League last 16 tie between Barcelona and Napoli will take place on Tuesday 12 March at 10pm at the Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys and will be broadcast live on Digi Sport 1, Orange. Sport 1 and Prima Sport 1.

Barcelona and Napoli are essentially starting from scratch in their battle to qualify for the quarter-finals of the competition after the first round draw at Sao Paolo (Osimhen 75 / Lewandowski 60).

Barcelona qualified for the last 16 of the Champions League after winning Group H in which they achieved the following results: 5-0 (a) and 2-3 (d) with Antwerp, 1-0 (d) and 2-1 ( a) with Porto, 2-1 (a) and 0-1 (d) with Shakhtar Donetsk.

In La Liga, the team coached by Javi Hernandez, who has announced his retirement at the end of this season, is in 3rd place after 28 matches with 61 points, eight behind leaders Real Madrid, with a league win at home in their last official game score 1-0 against Mallorca.

Attention, the Catalans are on a streak of eight consecutive matches without defeat in all competitions and have not conceded a goal in the last three league games!

Barcelona have won the Champions League five times, most recently in 2015, 3-1 in the final against Juventus in Berlin, and have lost three more times in the last leg of the competition, most recently in 1994 (score 0). -4 from Milan to Athens).

Napoli qualified for this phase of the competition after finishing 2nd in Group C where they achieved the following results: 2-1 (d) and 2-0 (a) with Braga, 2-3 (a) and 2-4 (d). ) with Real Madrid, 1-0 (d) and 1-1 (a) with Union Berlin.

In Serie A, the team coached by Francesco Calzona (he is also the coach of Slovakia from 2022, which he qualified for Euro 2024), is in 7th place after 28 stages with 44 points, seven behind the Champions League, and in the last official match ended in a draw, at home, in the championship, the score was 1-1 with Torino.

It should be noted that the Neapolitans have six matches in a row without defeat, but in 2024 they won only once on the road, in all tournaments, 6:1 in the championship against Sassuolo!

Napoli’s best result in the Champions League is the quarter-finals of the previous season in 2022-2023, when they lost 0-1 away to AC Milan and 1-1 at home in the second leg.

Apart from the round of 16, the two teams last met in the last 16 of the 2021-22 Europa League when they drew 1-1 in Spain, with Barcelona beating Napoli, Italy, 4-2 in the second leg.

Superbet offers odds of 1.28 on the 1X prediction: a home win or a draw in the regular time of 90 minutes of the Barcelona-Napoli match.

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