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Quote from: Newlifebtc on February 14, 2022, 07:30:03 PM

Xavi's team did quite great in the la Liga fixture against Espanyol, but failed to win there.
I'm sure with the performance they're sure of hurting Napoli at home.
My predictions bfir this game will be a two to nil score.
Barcelona wins there first Europa league competition under Xavi Hernandez.

You are right, for now Napoli has very good expectations, but I think the team does not have the necessary luck to do things well, on the other hand for me Barcelona with Xavi is not having it easy at all (I am not a fan of Barcelona) but I have seen that many players have a great heart for that team and have given everything as is the case with Dani Alves, for me the biggest of all Barcelona's mistakes and I will always repeat it is letting Messi go of the team, I think that was the worst move of the team, and it was Barcelona, I'm sure that with Messi they would have achieved more things and more in the Spanish League, I think the Europa League will be something else, at least that's what I hope.

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My predictions for European league matches

Barcelona vs Napoli both teams to score or Barcelona win
Dortmund vs Rangers Dortmund win
Zenit vs Betis i think Betis will win
Porto vs Lazio home team or Porto will win

So far these are my prediction but i will rules out other matches besides these because not too familiar with their strength and statistics

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Quote from: masulum on February 16, 2022, 11:39:19 AM

Speaking with Football Italia, Xavi says if Barcelona not favorite for the title, but he believe in Sevilla because their experience to win the league. I think it's a bit surprising, because Xavi might be didn't really want to win this trophy. On the other hand, it makes perfect sense for Xavi not to focus on the Europa League, considering that their position in La Liga has not been so good this season. However, I think, Xavi seems to have good coaching skills in the next few years, indeed Barcelona can't do much in the transfer market, however, Barcelona has started to be consistent. Versus Napoli, they still can win the match, even for 1 goal different.

https://football-italia.net/xavi-barcelona-vs-napoli-could-be-a-champions-league-game/

I think without focus on UEFA Europa League Barcelona will pass this season without any trophy yet on their cupboard collecting and looks bad beginning for Xavi Hernandez without give any trophy for Barcelona, looking situation on La Liga still need hard working how get back to top four position maybe become reason why Xavi more prefer keep La Liga than UEFA Europa League competition, but I think Barcelona will give best performance faced with Napoli what ever said by Xavi I think just strategies how to give another reason for against team.

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Quote from: LTU_btc on February 16, 2022, 06:46:17 PM

I'm biased about Barca, but I think that playing at home against Napoli we are favorites. Game against Aletico showed that Barca is capable to play good football against solid opponents.
Borussia - Rangers sounds good on paper, but Dortmund is heavy favorites, Rangers looks disppointing after Steve G. left team.
Sheriff - Braga. In Champions league Sheriff made some noise, but I see good value in Braga win. For Sheriff it will be just first official game after winter break, so, they will be far from their best condition.
Zenit also comes out from winter break, but I'm not backing Betis. Zenit will play at home and friendly games Zenit had good results against solid opponents.
Porto - Lazio. Good odds for Porto. They dominate in domestic league, while Lazio looks a bit disappointing. While Olympiacos looks a bit too much underrated against Atalanta. Atalanta have really poor performance recently.
Sevilla is big favorites against Dinamo Zagreb, despite that it's not best period for them. But Dinamo is capable to make surprise.
And Leipzig - Real Sociedad, I'm backing Leipzig, Sociedad isn't as good as they were in first part of season.

Yes but who is Atletico this season? Who are they even? This is not the Atletico of three years ago. This Atletico is about to miss the Champions League qualification and they lose home games against Levante. They won 2 out of the last 5 games. They lost the Supercopa against Bilbao, also in a home game. Lost against Granada, Sevilla and Madrid three games in a row. This is really not the standard you could use to judge Barcelona's status quo. Napoli is doing alright currently, 4 wins and 1 draw in Serie A. It is going to be tough for Barcelona.

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Quote from: Rockstarguy on February 15, 2022, 07:03:04 PM

Barcelona welcomes Italian side Napoli to Camp Nou, they'll be wanting to revenge Barcelona who knocked them out from the Champions League on this same Camp Nou.
Barcelona are are meant to go far in there first ever UEFA Europa league campaign..
They have scored two plus in their last four to five matches, Frankie de Jong seems to be in a good goal scoring form as he has score in back to back games for them.

napoli is not an easy draw for barcelona. They also have a strong team. I think barcelona could be very difficult. Especially if these players are not motivated, because they are used to playing in the champions league. when frenkie de Jong has his day he plays the stars in the sky but sometimes he is invisible the whole match that is probe it is an enormous talent. barcelona will continue in 2 games presumably

Barcelona vs Napoli match is very interesting for me, because I want to see Barcelona who used to play in the Champions League now have
to play in the Europa League. Is it true that Barcelona players are not motivated to win the Europa League trophy or is it just a rumour.
We can all see it later when Barcelona face Napoli, but my prediction is that Barcelona will give their best in this match. Because I believe Xavi
and the Barcelona players are professionals, so even if they play in the Europa League they will try to show their best game. I'm pretty optimistic
that Barcelona will beat Napoli, although Napoli is not an easy team to beat.

We wouldn't predict this match based on their performance in their various leagues. Camp Nou will be hot tomorrow and Barcelona will want secure their prestige at home and the first leg in the Europa against Napoli and Napoli isn't easy either. Napoli seems a sure odd but I wished Barcelona finds an early goal and return back to play defensive

Barcelona must show that they are still one of the strongest European teams by beating Napoli at Camp Nou. This is a very interesting match,
although not the Champions League trophy that Barcelona are usually chasing. But in this Europa League competition also Barcelona must show
they can play well and beat every opponent. I agree that Barcelona should achieve goals in the early minutes, so that Barcelona players are more
motivated and it will be easier to score the next goal. But I don't agree that if Barcelona manages to score a goal in the early minutes, then after that
they play defensively, that's a very risky strategy. Because it will provide an opportunity for Napoli players to build attacks and there is a possibility
that Napoli can score goals. I prefer to see Barcelona continue to attack throughout the game, and try to score as many goals as possible.
In addition to ensuring to win, it can make Napoli players fall morally.

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Quote from: yayayo on February 16, 2022, 05:10:28 PM

Barcelona will be hungry for trophies by now. I don't think that will work with this team in the Europa League. Midfield and in the back is ok, but the front lacks great class. And other teams in this league have good strikers up front. I think the top 6 of England all have better strikers than Barcelona. Napoli also have better strikers up front. We shouldn't be surprised if Barca flies out.

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Barcelona now has on paper probobly the best attack in the Europa League,but the tricky thing is that they are playing Napoli that is doing really good in the Serie A and i think this matchup will be really intresting to watch,o most like a final. But with how Barcelona is struggling i wouldnt be shocked if Napoli won the first match between them.

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I'm biased about Barca, but I think that playing at home against Napoli we are favorites. Game against Aletico showed that Barca is capable to play good football against solid opponents.
Borussia - Rangers sounds good on paper, but Dortmund is heavy favorites, Rangers looks disppointing after Steve G. left team.
Sheriff - Braga. In Champions league Sheriff made some noise, but I see good value in Braga win. For Sheriff it will be just first official game after winter break, so, they will be far from their best condition.
Zenit also comes out from winter break, but I'm not backing Betis. Zenit will play at home and friendly games Zenit had good results against solid opponents.
Porto - Lazio. Good odds for Porto. They dominate in domestic league, while Lazio looks a bit disappointing. While Olympiacos looks a bit too much underrated against Atalanta. Atalanta have really poor performance recently.
Sevilla is big favorites against Dinamo Zagreb, despite that it's not best period for them. But Dinamo is capable to make surprise.
And Leipzig - Real Sociedad, I'm backing Leipzig, Sociedad isn't as good as they were in first part of season.

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Barcelona will be hungry for trophies by now. I don't think that will work with this team in the Europa League. Midfield and in the back is ok, but the front lacks great class. And other teams in this league have good strikers up front. I think the top 6 of England all have better strikers than Barcelona. Napoli also have better strikers up front. We shouldn't be surprised if Barca flies out.

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Quote from: Slow death on February 16, 2022, 03:55:53 AM

Quote from: toast on February 15, 2022, 07:08:17 PM

napoli is not an easy draw for barcelona. They also have a strong team. I think barcelona could be very difficult. Especially if these players are not motivated, because they are used to playing in the champions league. when frenkie de Jong has his day he plays the stars in the sky but sometimes he is invisible the whole match that is probe it is an enormous talent. barcelona will continue in 2 games presumably

i agree that napoli is not an easy team to deal with and i also want to add that napolo can win this game, napoli has a good defensive and attack structure even when playing against big teams of the series they can get good results while on the side of barcelona when they play against small league teams they can't get good results, in my opinion napoli will win that game. barcelona needs better players even if they were old players they need to save this great team

I am not really interested in saying that Barcelona would not have a hard time, after all Napoli is playing awesome this year and they are a leading power in Italy right now whereas Barcelona has been playing horrible for the whole season. However, at the same time Barcelona managed to change their manager to Xavi who I believe is better, and got a few more players than they started the season and have been doing fairly decent.

So, I do not think that it is clear cut for any sides, it looks like there is going to be some situation in hand but I am not sure what type of situation it will be. I prefer a tie in this game, since it is a two game elimination, it means a tie is possibility on this game and I feel like they are both equally matched.

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Quote from: rudolfaxl on February 16, 2022, 02:31:15 PM

Barcelona needs to win the Europa League in my opinion because they need the money badly as they are in quite a big debt still. Napoli is a very hard opponent for this Barcelona squad but I think if Barcelona can play their level best they will be able to beat Napoli.

Look, the prize money given in the Europa League won't make such a big difference. Of course, all money is welcome, but the prize money will certainly not be the most motivating element for a team like Barcelona.

We can understand that, when we look at the winners of the Europa League in recent years, and we look at the teams that took part in the tournament, and we notice that the teams that normally go far in the Champions League often end up not even reaching the final.

Barcelona want to win, because like any good team, that's the objective. Now I'm not sure how much money the Europa League can give, which will be a motivating aspect.

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Quote from: rudolfaxl on February 16, 2022, 02:31:15 PM

I think ""Barcelona is not motivated enough to win the Europa league"" is just some baseless rumor and I obviously believe that Barcelona is going to give it their best to win the Europa League.

Barcelona needs to win the Europa League in my opinion because they need the money badly as they are in quite a big debt still. Napoli is a very hard opponent for this Barcelona squad but I think if Barcelona can play their level best they will be able to beat Napoli.

H2H refers that Barcelona is favorite over Napoli but Napoli is also a strong team. They have ability to beat Barcelona. Besides, Barcelona is not doing so well and their players are not in the form. I hope Barcelona will win this match.

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Quote from: BuNga_cute on February 15, 2022, 07:57:36 PM

Barcelona vs Napoli match is very interesting for me, because I want to see Barcelona who used to play in the Champions League now have
to play in the Europa League. Is it true that Barcelona players are not motivated to win the Europa League trophy or is it just a rumour.
We can all see it later when Barcelona face Napoli, but my prediction is that Barcelona will give their best in this match. Because I believe Xavi
and the Barcelona players are professionals, so even if they play in the Europa League they will try to show their best game. I'm pretty optimistic
that Barcelona will beat Napoli, although Napoli is not an easy team to beat.

I think ""Barcelona is not motivated enough to win the Europa league"" is just some baseless rumor and I obviously believe that Barcelona is going to give it their best to win the Europa League.

Barcelona needs to win the Europa League in my opinion because they need the money badly as they are in quite a big debt still. Napoli is a very hard opponent for this Barcelona squad but I think if Barcelona can play their level best they will be able to beat Napoli.

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Quote from: dbc23 on February 16, 2022, 11:48:55 AM

We wouldn't predict this match based on their performance in their various leagues. Camp Nou will be hot tomorrow and Barcelona will want secure their prestige at home and the first leg in the Europa against Napoli and Napoli isn't easy either. Napoli seems a sure odd but I wished Barcelona finds an early goal and return back to play defensive

The match against Napoli will be a difficult match for Barcelona, even though they are playing at home but I don't think it will have a significant impact on barcelona, Napoli who are starting to get out of the race for the Scudetto will of course try to focus on winning the European League trophy this season and obviously this will improve the mentality of the Napoli players when facing Barcelona, in my opinion the current condition of Barcelona has not really improved so I prefer to risk my money for Napoli victory in the first leg later.

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Quote from: BuNga_cute on February 15, 2022, 07:57:36 PM

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Quote from: Rockstarguy on February 15, 2022, 07:03:04 PM

Barcelona welcomes Italian side Napoli to Camp Nou, they'll be wanting to revenge Barcelona who knocked them out from the Champions League on this same Camp Nou.
Barcelona are are meant to go far in there first ever UEFA Europa league campaign..
They have scored two plus in their last four to five matches, Frankie de Jong seems to be in a good goal scoring form as he has score in back to back games for them.

napoli is not an easy draw for barcelona. They also have a strong team. I think barcelona could be very difficult. Especially if these players are not motivated, because they are used to playing in the champions league. when frenkie de Jong has his day he plays the stars in the sky but sometimes he is invisible the whole match that is probe it is an enormous talent. barcelona will continue in 2 games presumably

Barcelona vs Napoli match is very interesting for me, because I want to see Barcelona who used to play in the Champions League now have
to play in the Europa League. Is it true that Barcelona players are not motivated to win the Europa League trophy or is it just a rumour.
We can all see it later when Barcelona face Napoli, but my prediction is that Barcelona will give their best in this match. Because I believe Xavi
and the Barcelona players are professionals, so even if they play in the Europa League they will try to show their best game. I'm pretty optimistic
that Barcelona will beat Napoli, although Napoli is not an easy team to beat.

We wouldn't predict this match based on their performance in their various leagues. Camp Nou will be hot tomorrow and Barcelona will want secure their prestige at home and the first leg in the Europa against Napoli and Napoli isn't easy either. Napoli seems a sure odd but I wished Barcelona finds an early goal and return back to play defensive

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Speaking with Football Italia, Xavi says if Barcelona not favorite for the title, but he believe in Sevilla because their experience to win the league. I think it's a bit surprising, because Xavi might be didn't really want to win this trophy. On the other hand, it makes perfect sense for Xavi not to focus on the Europa League, considering that their position in La Liga has not been so good this season. However, I think, Xavi seems to have good coaching skills in the next few years, indeed Barcelona can't do much in the transfer market, however, Barcelona has started to be consistent. Versus Napoli, they still can win the match, even for 1 goal different.

https://football-italia.net/xavi-barcelona-vs-napoli-could-be-a-champions-league-game/

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Quote from: bering on February 16, 2022, 08:37:59 AM

Quote from: hahay on February 16, 2022, 02:53:50 AM

The match between Barcelona v Napoli became difficult to predict, in contrast to the previous one where Barcelona was not so good and inversely proportional to the previous Napoli. Now after yesterday's transfer window, the situation has changed as both are at their best at the moment and both have chances to win. It's different if this happened a few seasons ago then of course Barcelona would be the one to win, but now both seem to have equal quality and therefore I think it's difficult to predict. But even so, the odds currently available suggest that Barcelona are still the favourites and I think both teams will certainly be able to score.

Barcelona had good records during met Napoli on 2020 but at that time Messi still in the team and Barcelona were very strong but this season very different that Barcelona still unstable in laliga however for my bets i think i will pick Barcelona win because seems the odds for them are decent to try and i wish in this match new players will showing good performance such as against Atletico

Yes, I also think that Barcelona has better odds to win against Napoli because even though they have started the season really badly but right now they are doing quite well. They have made a good comeback.

I know this match is going to be really hard for Barcelona to win but they should still be able to do it judging by their current performance. If this was a few weeks ago, I would have said that Barcelona has no chance but now things are looking good for them.

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Quote from: hahay on February 16, 2022, 02:53:50 AM

The match between Barcelona v Napoli became difficult to predict, in contrast to the previous one where Barcelona was not so good and inversely proportional to the previous Napoli. Now after yesterday's transfer window, the situation has changed as both are at their best at the moment and both have chances to win. It's different if this happened a few seasons ago then of course Barcelona would be the one to win, but now both seem to have equal quality and therefore I think it's difficult to predict. But even so, the odds currently available suggest that Barcelona are still the favourites and I think both teams will certainly be able to score.

This is a good guess (BTTS). The bookmakers are giving odds of 1.67 on this outcome, which looks reasonable. Barcelona concede a lot of goals and even from weak opponents, so we can safely assume that a team like Napoli will score at least once. At the same time, Barcelona will be playing at home plus they have stepped up their attack so they will most likely be able to score as well. Based on this, it may be worth making an additional bet on the total.

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Quote from: hahay on February 16, 2022, 02:53:50 AM

The match between Barcelona v Napoli became difficult to predict, in contrast to the previous one where Barcelona was not so good and inversely proportional to the previous Napoli. Now after yesterday's transfer window, the situation has changed as both are at their best at the moment and both have chances to win. It's different if this happened a few seasons ago then of course Barcelona would be the one to win, but now both seem to have equal quality and therefore I think it's difficult to predict. But even so, the odds currently available suggest that Barcelona are still the favourites and I think both teams will certainly be able to score.

Barcelona had good records during met Napoli on 2020 but at that time Messi still in the team and Barcelona were very strong but this season very different that Barcelona still unstable in laliga however for my bets i think i will pick Barcelona win because seems the odds for them are decent to try and i wish in this match new players will showing good performance such as against Atletico

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Quote from: toast on February 15, 2022, 07:08:17 PM

Quote from: Rockstarguy on February 15, 2022, 07:03:04 PM

Barcelona welcomes Italian side Napoli to Camp Nou, they'll be wanting to revenge Barcelona who knocked them out from the Champions League on this same Camp Nou.
Barcelona are are meant to go far in there first ever UEFA Europa league campaign..
They have scored two plus in their last four to five matches, Frankie de Jong seems to be in a good goal scoring form as he has score in back to back games for them.

napoli is not an easy draw for barcelona. They also have a strong team. I think barcelona could be very difficult. Especially if these players are not motivated, because they are used to playing in the champions league. when frenkie de Jong has his day he plays the stars in the sky but sometimes he is invisible the whole match that is probe it is an enormous talent. barcelona will continue in 2 games presumably

i agree that napoli is not an easy team to deal with and i also want to add that napolo can win this game, napoli has a good defensive and attack structure even when playing against big teams of the series they can get good results while on the side of barcelona when they play against small league teams they can't get good results, in my opinion napoli will win that game. barcelona needs better players even if they were old players they need to save this great team

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Quote from: BuNga_cute on February 16, 2022, 02:45:05 AM

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Quote from: BuNga_cute on February 15, 2022, 07:57:36 PM

Quote from: toast on February 15, 2022, 07:08:17 PM

Quote from: Rockstarguy on February 15, 2022, 07:03:04 PM

Barcelona welcomes Italian side Napoli to Camp Nou, they'll be wanting to revenge Barcelona who knocked them out from the Champions League on this same Camp Nou.
Barcelona are are meant to go far in there first ever UEFA Europa league campaign..
They have scored two plus in their last four to five matches, Frankie de Jong seems to be in a good goal scoring form as he has score in back to back games for them.

napoli is not an easy draw for barcelona. They also have a strong team. I think barcelona could be very difficult. Especially if these players are not motivated, because they are used to playing in the champions league. when frenkie de Jong has his day he plays the stars in the sky but sometimes he is invisible the whole match that is probe it is an enormous talent. barcelona will continue in 2 games presumably

Barcelona vs Napoli match is very interesting for me, because I want to see Barcelona who used to play in the Champions League now have
to play in the Europa League. Is it true that Barcelona players are not motivated to win the Europa League trophy or is it just a rumour.
We can all see it later when Barcelona face Napoli, but my prediction is that Barcelona will give their best in this match. Because I believe Xavi
and the Barcelona players are professionals, so even if they play in the Europa League they will try to show their best game. I'm pretty optimistic
that Barcelona will beat Napoli, although Napoli is not an easy team to beat.

Barcelona have too bad a vanguard at the moment. Definitely not world class players. It's not Messi, Suarez and Neymar. Now they have to make do with Luuk de Jong and Depay. That does make a difference. I think it will be a 50-50 game, maybe we can see some goals in this game. Napoli is certainly not to be underestimated. It is very difficult to estimate where Barcelona currently stands in Europe.

I admit that the quality of the forwards that Barcelona currently has is not as good as Messi or Neymar, but it was because Barcelona were
having financial problems so Xavi had to bring in players who didn't have to spend a lot of money. Maybe Depay still can't play because of injury,
while Luuk de Jong is better as a super sub, Barcelona can rely on their new players, namely Adama Traore and Aubameyang. Therefore
Barcelona cannot underestimate Napoli, even though Barcelona's head to head record is still better than Napoli. Moreover, in Serie A, Napoli are
also in good form and are playing quite consistently, being able to compete with Inter and AC Milan. As I said before I did predict Barcelona will
beat Napoli, but Barcelona need to work hard to beat Napoli.

I think we all can agree that it’s too risky to bet on the winner as both sides look good on paper, and the only safe bet is on the number of goals, but then again I feel that’s risky too because the possibilities of them playing a goalless draw is also high?. Lastly one will need to take a huge leap of faith irrespective of the bets he/she decides to place, and I would strongly advise not to wager huge in this unpredictable match.

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