On February 18, Beijing time, the first leg of the Europa League knockout play-off, Barca drew 1-1 at home to Napoli. The failure to take all three points also made the road to promotion for the Red and Blues worrying.
After exiting the Champions League, Barca played in the Europa League as the third in the group, but could not directly enter the round of 16, and had to play a play-off match with the second place in the Europa League group, and their signing luck was not very good, and they even drew the Serie A powerhouse Napoli!
As a result, the first leg was placed at Camp Nou, and Barca's backline was hit! In the 29th minute, Elmas clipped Alba's inverted triangle from the right side of the penalty area, Andrlinski's low left-footed shot was saved by Ter Stegen, and Jay's right-footed shot into the net, 0-1!
In the 58th minute, Ferran Torres scored on a penalty to equalize, but the winter window new signing missed several scoring opportunities in the game, and in the end Barca could only accept a 1-1 draw!
The data shows that Barca has drawn at home in the first leg 12 times in European history, and only 5 times have been able to successfully qualify, with a chance of only 48%! Less than half. That is to say, the second leg of the visit to the St. Paul's Stadium is really difficult, and it is possible to miss the europa league quarterfinals.
Still, Pique is confident. He said: "We had 3, 4, 5 chances and only scored 1 goal. The most wrong thing today was the score, we played very well. If we play like that, I'm sure we can win the championship, we're very excited, we want to win. ”