FC Barcelona host the first leg in this deciding Europa League Knockout Round Play-offs game. Napoli will try their very best to bring a solid result back to Stadio San Paolo before the return leg in 10 days.
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 1500 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
These are hectic days for the home side, as they had a match only four days ago in the La Liga. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Espanyol.
FC Barcelona form and stats
FC Barcelona was eliminated in the group stage last season in the Champions League.23 points is a decent return from 11 La Liga games here at Camp Nou for FC Barcelona. The data says 7 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses.
An away draw last time out for Barcelona, facing Espanyol in a game that ended 2-2. Traoré, who usually features in attack, was the best performer for the side in that game, receiving a rating of 7.93 (out of 10). Traoré served one assist, hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 4 of 6 times and had 29 successful passes (of 34 total).
Before that, FC Barcelona had a La Liga home game versus Atlético Madrid which ended with a victory 4-2.There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for FC Barcelona as they are travelling to their away game against Valencia in the La Liga. That match is three days after this one.
The Barcelona manager Xavi has got the team scoring with 23 from 11 home games in the league. FC Barcelona's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 13 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Napoli form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Spartak Moskva, Leicester City and Legia Warszawa in order to reach knockout round play-offs of Europa League. They also participated in Europa League last season. This ended in the 16th finals, when Granada drew the shortest straw.Napoli have an excellent away record in the Serie A so far with 8-3-1 from 12 games. When we have look at the Europa League statistics, we find 3W-1D-2L. This is both home and away.
There were no winners in Napoli's previous match, the home game that ended 1-1 vs Inter. Koulibaly was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.85. The defender Koulibaly hit one key pass and won 5 of 7 duels.
Preceding that game was the away Serie A victory against Venezia with the score of 2-0.We have checked recent matches where Napoli have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those four games were one victory, zero draws and three defeats.
The visitors will be packing their bags again in only four days as another away game awaits: The Serie A trip to Cagliari.
The travelling fans enjoy Napoli's attacking play in away games, having scored 23 goals in 12 league matches away. Napoli are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 8 times in 12 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above. It's worth mentioning that 5 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.
Head 2 Head
FC Barcelona-Napoli H2H statistics last four meetings regardless of arena: FC Barcelona three wins, Napoli zero wins, one draw. three of these four matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  M. Depay 8 goals |   D. Mertens 7 goals |  V. Osimhen 6 goals |
FC Barcelona missing players
Napoli missing players
| FC Barcelona | Napoli | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 10 | 5 | Won | W | 6 | 13 | ||
| 8 | 3 | Drew | D | 3 | 5 | ||
| 7 | 3 | Lost | L | 2 | 7 | ||
| 36 | 17 | Scored | S | 18 | 45 | ||
| 33 | 13 | Conceded | C | 10 | 28 | ||
| 96% | 91% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 91% | 96% | ||
| 68% | 64% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 73% | 72% | ||
| 48% | 45% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 45% | 52% | ||
| 36% | 36% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 27% | 36% | ||
| 20% | 27% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 18% | 28% | ||
| 60% | 64% | BTTS | BTTS | 55% | 52% | ||
| 24% | 27% | Clean Sheets | C S | 45% | 40% | ||
| 20% | 18% | Failed to Score | F T | 9% | 12% | ||
| 5.9 | 6.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.3 | 5.8 | ||
| 2.6 | 2.1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.9 | 3.7 | ||
| 2.2 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 1.7 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 4 | ||
| 13.3 | 13.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 14.9 | 17.1 | ||
| 4.2 | 4.4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.7 | 5.6 | ||
| 34% | 35% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 35% | 32% | ||
| 9.8 | 8.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.6 | 11 | ||
| 3.3 | 2.9 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.6 | 3.3 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Real Madrid | 24 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 48 | 20 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 25 | 8 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 23 | 12 | 28 | 54 |
| 2 | Sevilla | 24 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 36 | 16 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 26 | 10 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 20 | 50 |
| 3 | Real Betis | 24 | 13 | 4 | 7 | 45 | 29 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 23 | 14 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 22 | 15 | 16 | 43 |
| 4 | FC Barcelona | 23 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 38 | 27 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 23 | 13 | 12 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 15 | 14 | 11 | 39 |
| 5 | Atlético Madrid | 23 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 42 | 33 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 21 | 11 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 21 | 22 | 9 | 39 |
| 6 | Real Sociedad | 23 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 24 | 21 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 15 | 3 | 38 |
| 7 | Villarreal | 24 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 38 | 23 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 29 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 15 | 36 |
| 8 | Athletic Club | 23 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 23 | 18 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 13 | 12 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 34 |
| 9 | Osasuna | 24 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 25 | 27 | 12 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 16 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 11 | -2 | 32 |
| 10 | Celta de Vigo | 24 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 28 | 25 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 15 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 31 |
| 11 | Rayo Vallecano | 23 | 9 | 4 | 10 | 27 | 27 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 8 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 19 | 0 | 31 |
| 12 | Valencia | 24 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 36 | 38 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 18 | 13 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 18 | 25 | -2 | 30 |
| 13 | Espanyol | 24 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 29 | 34 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 19 | -5 | 28 |
| 14 | Elche | 24 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 26 | 33 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 13 | 22 | -7 | 26 |
| 15 | Getafe | 24 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 23 | 27 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 11 | 12 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 16 | -4 | 25 |
| 16 | Granada | 24 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 26 | 36 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 17 | 13 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 19 | -10 | 24 |
| 17 | Mallorca | 22 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 19 | 34 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 25 | -15 | 23 |
| 18 | Deportivo Alaves | 24 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 19 | 39 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 15 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 24 | -20 | 20 |
| 19 | Cadiz | 24 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 20 | 38 | 12 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 17 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 21 | -18 | 19 |
| 20 | Levante | 23 | 1 | 8 | 14 | 23 | 50 | 12 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 13 | 21 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 29 | -27 | 11 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Milan | 25 | 17 | 4 | 4 | 50 | 26 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 21 | 11 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 29 | 15 | 24 | 55 |
| 2 | Inter | 24 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 55 | 20 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 30 | 10 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 25 | 10 | 35 | 54 |
| 3 | Napoli | 25 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 46 | 17 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 23 | 9 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 23 | 8 | 29 | 53 |
| 4 | Juventus | 25 | 13 | 7 | 5 | 37 | 22 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 8 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 21 | 14 | 15 | 46 |
| 5 | Atalanta | 24 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 46 | 29 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 20 | 18 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 26 | 11 | 17 | 44 |
| 6 | Lazio | 25 | 12 | 6 | 7 | 52 | 39 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 31 | 16 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 21 | 23 | 13 | 42 |
| 7 | Roma | 25 | 12 | 4 | 9 | 42 | 32 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 25 | 20 | 10 | 40 |
| 8 | Fiorentina | 23 | 11 | 3 | 9 | 41 | 33 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 29 | 15 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 18 | 8 | 36 |
| 9 | Hellas Verona | 25 | 10 | 6 | 9 | 47 | 40 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 27 | 17 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 20 | 23 | 7 | 36 |
| 10 | Torino | 24 | 9 | 5 | 10 | 31 | 25 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 25 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 12 | 6 | 32 |
| 11 | Empoli | 25 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 38 | 48 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 20 | 34 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 18 | 14 | -10 | 31 |
| 12 | Sassuolo | 25 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 41 | 44 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 21 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 24 | 23 | -3 | 30 |
| 13 | Bologna | 24 | 8 | 4 | 12 | 29 | 40 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 16 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 24 | -11 | 28 |
| 14 | Udinese | 24 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 33 | 40 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 18 | 18 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 22 | -7 | 27 |
| 15 | Spezia | 24 | 7 | 5 | 12 | 26 | 44 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 14 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 14 | 30 | -18 | 26 |
| 16 | Sampdoria | 25 | 6 | 5 | 14 | 33 | 42 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 20 | 25 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 17 | -9 | 23 |
| 17 | Cagliari | 25 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 25 | 46 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 21 | 13 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 25 | -21 | 21 |
| 18 | Venezia | 24 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 22 | 43 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 23 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 20 | -21 | 21 |
| 19 | Genoa | 25 | 1 | 12 | 12 | 21 | 46 | 12 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 19 | 13 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 27 | -25 | 15 |
| 20 | Salernitana | 24 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 17 | 56 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 26 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 30 | -39 | 12 |
