Napoli couldn't secure a winning score against Blaugrana in the first leg and its pure motivation for Barcelona to fight back in the second leg. Barcelona will hosts Napoli in the second leg of round of 16, an important game that deserves the big winning from the exact club that clinched on winning form. Nobody gets a clear view except for clubs that have fought really hard to enter significant phase in the UEFA Champions League. Xavi Hernandez will ensure everything works smoothly as plan for his side because he already missed out on the La Liga title race but the UEFA Champions League will be intact for them this season.
There is a big possibility that Barcelona will be able to get to the next round in the match which will take place at home in two days. But I am not sure that Barcelona will survive intact in the Champions League this season because in terms of performance there is still something lacking from Barcelona even though the team is still slightly better than Napoli, who they will host in the next two days. I also believe that Napoli will not be able to do much in the second leg of the Champions League unless the team is blessed with a high level of luck in the second leg.
When comparing Napoli and Barcelona team, Barcelona team is considered as favorite. The overall condition of the Napoli team is not good. However, it cannot be said that Barcelona are in a very good rhythm. However, Barcelona's performance is stable compared to Napoli.
Napoli did not play well at home in the first leg match. Their performance was very poor. They cannot carry out such a powerful attack. The Napoli team played defensively. The next match is Barcelona's home match. Barcelona players will be more confident at home. I believe Barcelona will win the next match. Napoli's performance is completely dependent on Osimhen.
If it's just a comparison, it's clear that in terms of experience, Barcelona is superior, but unfortunately Barcelona doesn't know whether it will appear without its main players because as we can see, Xavi has just lost 2 of its main players and is injured and if the match against Napoli is without the presence of 2 of its main players this will be very worrying about Barcelona victory.
while Napoli still, as usual, only relies on Osimhen, who is currently still a scoring machine, but in the UCL you can't just rely on one player to get satisfactory results, while we don't know yet whether Napoli new coach can provide very valuable experience in terms of performance since the change of coach, Napoli have not been able to provide any achievements that we can see are only bad performances like before.
In the second leg, many people want to speculate that Barcelona will win and I would also say the same thing, but the process of getting a win will not be easy because Napoli will definitely put pressure on Osimhen attack.
Xavi will not waste this opportunity as long as he sees the bad things that happen to his opponent, Xavi will plan the right strategy to get victory and qualify for the next round and for me if Barcelona fails in the round of 16 it is too early unless Barcelona fails in the quarter finals maybe it makes more sense.