Chapter 723: Back-to-Back Battles

In such a winning streak, Napoli ushered in the fourth round of the Champions League group stage, and Napoli's opponent was Shakhtar Donetsk, who played back-to-back games, this time they flew away to play Shakhtar Donetsk.

Jiang Chen naturally followed the Napoli team to the away side this time, and he was the main force in this game.

Jiang Chen went to Ukraine and started against Shakhtar Donetsk.

In the last round of the game, Shakhtar Donetsk lost a heavy defeat to Napoli at the away Sao Paulo Stadium, which made Shakhtar Donetsk fans and players very unhappy.

This time, after returning to their home stadium, Shakhtar Donetsk will be hoping for a victory in revenge for Napoli's humiliation at home.

As for the home game against Napoli, Shakhtar Donetsk fans are very confident, and they have expressed their opinions before the game.

Shakhtar Donetsk's goalkeeper Pyatov said: "Back at home, we are confident of beating Napoli, we are ready for the game and here I believe that Napoli will not be as comfortable as they were at the Sao Paulo Stadium. ”

Shakhtar Donetsk's defensive backbone, Ismaily said in front of media reporters: "For the Napoli team, we are already very familiar with it, and I also know Jiang Chen very well, Jiang Chen is indeed very powerful, but I am confident that I can defend him, this time I am very confident." ”

Shakhtar Donetsk's striker Patrick Ferreira is more confident, saying: "I have a lot of experience in playing Napoli, we have already scored in the last game, and I will score more goals in this game. ”

Shakhtar Donetsk's head coach Fonseca said: "After the last game, we know more about Napoli, and we know more about it, and we know it substantively, for this game, we have prepared well, this game, we will definitely win. ”

Shakhtar Donetsk, for their part, are really confident that they can beat Napoli to win.

Before coming to Shakhtar Donetsk, the whole Napoli team was still very confident, after all, they beat Shakhtar Donetsk in the last round, and they have reason to believe that they will easily beat Shakhtar Donetsk.

Napoli captain Hamsik said before the game: "Shakhtar Donetsk have quality, their ability is good, but compared to us, there is still a gap in quality, we firmly believe that we must win this game." ”

Napoli defender Edouard Mendy also said: "We are full of confidence for this game, the last round of the tournament gave us enough strength, we firmly believe that this game, the winner will still be ours." ”

Napoli manager Maurizio Sarri also said: "I am very confident in the game against Shakhtar Donetsk, we won the last round, we are very confident in this game, victory, it must be ours! ”

And Jiang Chen said before leaving: "In this game, we naturally hope to win, otherwise there is no need to go out with all the main forces, and it also shows our confidence, we are ready to take three points away from Ukraine." ”

But after coming to Ukraine, the Napoli players are not very confident, because the weather in Ukraine is surprisingly cold, snowflakes, and the natural turf on the training ground is frozen like a chopping board.

During the game that day, there was no snow, but the weather was really cold, and Jiang Chen, a player from northern China, also felt very cold.

After the game started, it really proved this, the players of the Napoli team, as if they were collectively hibernating, couldn't get excited on the field, and they were very constrained to kick the ball, and they couldn't let go at all.

On the sidelines, Maurizio Sarri was also frowning at this time, this game was more difficult than they imagined, and he also felt that this game was very hanging.

Before coming, Sarri thought about the harsh weather in Ukraine, but he didn't expect it to be so harsh, which exceeded their expectations, Sarri directly shook his head and sighed, this game is very suspenseful.

On the field, the players of Shakhtar Donetsk were very confident and calm, they seemed to be very used to playing in such weather, and they were all very excited.

The players of the Napoli team were very slow, and Jiang Chen was also very wilted, and the weather was indeed a little cold.

Shakhtar Donetsk, attacking frantically from the beginning, they played with excitement and had a lot of opportunities on the pitch, and Ferreira showed that he was even more at home.

In this game, Ferreira was very excited because he started against his old boss.

At the beginning of the game, Ferreira actually had a very good chance, Butko's pass on the flank found Ferreira in the box.

Ferreira dived with a header and smashed the incoming ball into the goal, which flew quickly towards the Napoli goal, but goalkeeper Sepe reacted quickly and saved the ball off the line.

Although the goal was not scored, it was the prelude to Shakhtar Donetsk's wild attack, and they began to besiege Napoli in a frenzied manner.

The Napoli team, on the other hand, only has a defensive part, which makes Sarri worried.

Sure enough, in the fifteenth minute of the first half, Shakhtar Donetsk finally scored.

It was an assist from Buteko on the wing, who received the ball on the wing and immediately took it with him to the Napoli half.

Buteko's breakthrough this time was very sharp, and the players of the Napoli team, as if they were frozen, were easily broken through by Buteko.

Buteko immediately cut inside with the ball and slotted towards the Napoli penalty area, where Mendy went up to intercept the defence.

But it was Buteko who found the opportunity, and he made a direct cross to Ferreira, who swept the ball straight and the ball rolled into the goal.

Sepe didn't touch the ball this time, and Ferreira shot very accurately this time, and the ball rolled into the goal.