A long-awaited event. Leo Messi's Barcelona will challenge Rino Gattuso's Napoli at the San Paolo for the Champions League. The challenge of Naples ignites with a San Paolo stadium ready to welcome the strongest player in the world, cradling an ill-concealed dream: to dress the Argentine champion in blue.
APPOINTMENT AT 9 PM - The spotlights of the Fuorigrotta stadium will turn on even stronger this time on the green rectangle of play. The warm-up of the teams will already be an infernal bedlam in welcoming Leo Messi's Barcelona with respect. Gattuso has already prepared the game in detail by consuming the videos available to harness Setien's game. At 9 this evening a show will begin destined to remain in everyone's mind for many more years - with the strongest footballer in the world in the temple of Diego Armando Maradona. Who knows if the blue torcida will impress Lionel Messi as it happened when Yaya Tourè's Manchester City entered the San Paolo stadium.
THE TACTICAL KEY - Napoli will have to maintain an identity style of play, with the ball coming out of the defense and personality to be sold. In this way we will try to get around the first pressing of Setien's team that aims to recover the ball in the first few bars of construction of the maneuver. The lucidity of the defense will be of crucial importance, in our opinion not to lose your temper will be the fundamental point from which to start playing on par with the battleship Blaugrana. Fabian Ruiz, in great shape, will be called to lead the Neapolitan midfield giving luster to the offensive maneuver of Naples as well as Piotr Zielinski. Diego Demme instead should provide that fundamental balance between defense and midfield. In attack there should be Dries Mertens preferred to Arek Milik, who with his blows and his connection work can hurt. On the flanks the captain Insigne always in goal against the European battleships and the workaholic Callejon - for him it is a derby having grown up in Real Madrid.
THE DREAM - Lionel Messi with the Napoli shirt. This is the dream, unattainable but beautiful. Napoli fans can do their part today by demonstrating an overwhelming affection and support for their team worthy of the twelfth man on the pitch. And Leo Messi will be able to think of becoming the head of this city, just as the greatest of all has been. Diego Armando Messi.