New Kermanic Napoli spoke about the upcoming match against Barcelona in the Champions League playoffs.

As part of the first part of the two-match confrontation in the 1/8 finals of the UEFA Champions League, Napoli will take on Barcelona at the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona near Naples.

The newly appointed head coach of the Neapolitans, Francesco Calzona, who literally replaced Walter Mazzarri before the match, shared his thoughts on the upcoming match with the Blaugranas..

“Today we are starting everything anew, leaving a few minutes behind and starting a new path. The team was hidden from me. We once said a bunch of words - now we need not words, but actions. Napolya patients are special, so we want to make them happy with our games and results.

Barcelona is a strong team, one of the strongest in Europe. We know its power, but we are not afraid, because we are Napoli.

President of the club De Laurentiis is dissatisfied with the current situation. “Vin asked me to believe in our meta, which believes that we will reach the next round of Liza champions and rise to fourth place in Serie A,” Calzoni is quoted as saying by the official UEFA website.

The match between Napoli and Barcelona will take place on Wednesday, 21 February, at 22:00. You can follow the key points of this competition in the online text broadcast on Footballball. ua.