The uphill climbs Villarreal

My partner Gabriel Caballero issued yesterday prior to the party of the second day of the Group Stage of the UEFA Champions League that played last night and SSC Napoli San Paolo Villarreal CF could well serve as a match report, since more than one presentation seems a good omen.

He told us that the team led by Walter Mazzarri had grown compared to last year, after completing a great season and be able not only to retain its trio of stars, the Slovakian Hamsik, Uruguayan and Argentine Lavezzi Cavani, but also to strengthen its workforce after spending more than 42 million euros on transfers in 12 overs, most notably the Swiss Ilner (€ 16M) and interest Pandev (loan).

On his return to the Champions League, all with the push partenopei told a cheering crowd as few are in Western Europe. The Azzurri went out to eat the Yellow Submarine and succeeded in just fifteen minutes. In 14 Lavezzi put a ball behind the back of the Spanish that Hamsik, enabled by the poor start to Bruno, he used to cross shot rifles Diego Lopez and advance their own. And just a minute after a double error Villarreal punishment became the second goal: Senna lost a ball in the middle of his field, takes him back Lavezzi Gonzalo for speed and ended up knocking the central Argentine countryman making a penalty question that will convert the Matador Cavani.

Made it's early hit 2-0 at Villarreal and allowed to settle into his script Napoli. As pointed out in his previous Gabriel, depression football has lost the compass of Cazorla, we can add the penalty down Borja Valero, who had been the key to the comeback of last year, Villarreal 2 - 1 Napoli UEFA Europa League. With the departure of the megaproject Málaga Asturias, the team of Juan Carlos Garrido has been weakened their midfield, on the contrary to what has happened to the south of Italy with the acquisition of Ilner, a Swiss of Turkish descent Although not a global crack does have some characteristics that fit very well with Mazzarri system, a combined 3-4-3 with a 5-4-1, according to advance or delay their position Zuniga and Dossena and support Hamsik and Lavezzi at the retreat.

Villarreal cost to get into the game and the only chance to close the gap of which ruled in the first half was wasted by Nilmar, although somewhat difficult angle only to De Sanctis, marró the occasion with a shot without any confidence. As bad as Garrido was made ​​when the first change had not yet been played more than half-hour, removed and introduced to Gonzalo Camuñas delaying the position to accompany Musacchio Bruno in the center of the rear. In the second half, Villarreal became the domain of possession, partly because it improved their placement and the rate of circulation, but also because he was interested Napoli give ground to create space at the back of the defense to throw yellow in speed to their attacking trio to hit the counter.

The scoreboard did not move and the three points remained in the city that was founded in honor of the siren Parthenope. The uphill climbs Villarreal after yielding two defeats in the first two games in Group of Death, his worst start in the Champions League. Your chances of reaching the knockout pass through to get two good results in their next two matches, both with the Manchester City, who clearly lost yesterday at the Allianz Arena against Bayern Munich with two goals from Mario Gomez, the first of them in England.

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