The first leg of the Europa
League 16th rounds between Napoli
and RB Leipzig will be played
tonight starting at 21.05 at the San Paolo stadium in Naples.
Match Schedule:
Napoli vs. Leipzig
Europa League
Date: 22 February 2018;
Time: 21.05
Venue: Red Bull Arena (Leipzig)
Tonight Napoli
will make his debut in the Europa League
after being "relegated" by the Champions League group, finished in
third place behind Manchester City and Shakhtar Donetsk. Maurizio Sarri's team
is still in full swing for the Scudetto's victory: he is first in the standings
with a point of advantage on Juventus.
For this reason, and for the squad not wide enough to keep
the pace so high in two different competitions, tonight Sarri will send many
reserves on the field and did not hide the fact that the championship is the
real priority for the current season. The Leipzig,
in addition to being one of the teams of Red Bull, is a year and a half the
second in the German championship and is in its first participation in European
cups.
Like Napoli, Leipzig has been "relegated"
to the Champions League after finishing third in the group stage behind
Besiktas and Porto. He comes from two consecutive victories in the league and
his only unavailable player tonight is Austrian midfielder Stefan Ilsanker.
Naples will instead be without Zinedine Machach and Dries Mertens.