As the most influential giant team in European football, Barcelona lost the absolute core of the past many years after Messi this season, which also directly led to the team's ability to attack the team was greatly reduced, La Liga withdrew from the ranks of the title early, and in the most influential Champions League group stage, their performance was not satisfactory, they could not break into the champions league sixteen, and if they wanted to compete in the Europa League, they also needed to pass the test of the Europa League knockout play-off! Barcelona's opponent is Napoli, who has performed amazingly in Serie A this season, the first leg of the two sides was held at Camp Nou, and Barcelona, which brought in a number of new signings, had an absolute advantage in the field and created a lot of threatening attacking opportunities, but the club spent 55 million euros to bring in Ferrantores from Manchester City, and in the case of Napoli's first goal, used penalties to help Barcelona equalize, but repeatedly missed opportunities. At one point, head coach Xavi covered his face on the sidelines and said he couldn't watch it, and finally Barcelona shook hands with Napoli 1-1!
After Xavi took charge of the team's coaching seal, Barcelona still made significant progress, once ranked in the middle of the La Liga table, they also regained the initiative to compete for next season's Champions League qualification in their own hands, in this game with Napoli, Barcelona, which plays at home, also occupies a very obvious advantage in the scene, their possession rate reached 69% in the whole game, and also completed as many as 21 shooting opportunities, while Napoli can only rely on defensive counterattacks to deal with Barcelona. Only 4 shots were made in the game.
Despite being in a passive defensive position on the pitch for a long time, Napoli took the lead in scoring the goal and upset the balance of the field, in the 28th minute Elmas inverted triangle back to the middle of the road, Zelinsky followed up with a shot, although Ter Stegen struggled to save the ball, but Zelinsky reacted quickly, quickly supplemented the shot to help the team to take a 1-0 lead, the score behind Barcelona continued to put pressure on the Napoli defense, and the cross-pass after the breakthrough of new signing Traore in the 55th minute caused a handball in the Napoli penalty area After looking back at the VAR, the referee decisively gave Barcelona a penalty, and Ferrantores took a steady shot to make the score 1-1 draw.
This penalty hit became the only highlight of Therrez game, because the rest of the time he has been wasting the excellent scoring opportunities created by his teammates, in the 28th minute Aubameyang did the ball, Torres shot near the penalty spot to shoot an anti-aircraft cannon, in the 86th minute Dembele after a consecutive pass, and then won the shot for Torres, who hit the plane again, 1 minute later Dembele broke through and crossed the goal, and Torres, who was wrapped up in front of the goal, did not touch the ball, In injury time, Torres's shot inside the penalty area was a direct kick, which also made the head coach on the sidelines Xavi cover his face and express incredible, 55 million euros to buy a defensive cannon, which became the fans' evaluation of Torres after the game.
As we all know, the spokesperson for happy football in today's world football is Torres' teammate Sterling at Manchester City, but after seeing Torres's performance in this game, he has successfully brought happy football to camp Nou, hoping that he can find his shooting boots as soon as possible and not live up to the expectations of the team management!