Kante is a very important missing from them, he was a very good defensive midfield who would both help with defense, and also allow offense to start. They do not really "need" to buy a player, if they could loan someone until end of the season and Kante comes back, that would be enough, that way they would play better until end of the season and I know it is not going to be easy to find a player like that on loan, but they could pay some other team to give their player until end of the season, and if Kante doesn't show up and leaves then they could buy that player as well.
It almost seems as though his no longer a name in football @Kante. Such an important player to the squad that handles some of the teams dirty job, marking and brings on some good quality to the game. Yet, his been out for way too long and Chelsea seem to be in a rather deteriorating state at the moment from there EPL performance.
Even still, I don't see Chelsea for a title contender in the UCL this season with there level of bad play in the EPL, 10th in the league and still struggles to record 3 points.
The chances of Napoli getting into the quarter-finals are estimated by the bookmakers as 1.46. To be honest, I'm quite surprised by this estimate, because from the outside it seems that it should be in the region of 1.2-1.25. Eintracht is not a bad club but compared to the phenomenal season that we see from Napoli, they look like obvious outsiders.
I suppose the odds will drop when the game approaches. Napoli has been defiling and destroying teams this season. Scoring over 4 goals in successive games and they are not done yet. That odd is something one should look forward to taking advantage of.