EL: Arsenal draw Napoli

[elber]

Horrible draw.

Dangerous all round team with an experienced European winner at the helm. Plus they’re very good at home while we’re useless away.

We’ll have to play two excellent legs to go through.

[Highbury Hillbilly]

The more I look at this, the tougher the fixture seems. Ancelotti has gotten Napoli to 2nd in the league and they have one of the most in-demand CBs in Koulibaly. Mustafi has to be dropped for the away leg surely.

[Royal Gooner]

We've sent René back to the cafe. Now it's:

[jayramfootball]

Horrible draw.

Dangerous all round team with an experienced European winner at the helm. Plus they’re very good at home while we’re useless away.

We’ll have to play two excellent legs to go through.

We'll beat Napoli easily.
They are tripe.

[Pudpop]

A lot of overrating Napoli here...

[Jase89]

Everyone seems to be missing the point that they almost went out on Thursday, losing to Salzburg 3 - 1. I'm quietly confident

[BrunelGooner]

They are the hardest team we could have drawn for sure, and they've got some incredible players, but I was looking at their results this season and they've not exactly been performing amazingly...

In the league, since the turn of the year, their results are as follows:

Napoli 2-1 Lazio
AC Milan 0-0 Napoli
Napoli 3-0 Sampdoria
Fiorentina 0-0 Napoli
Napoli 0-0 Torino
Parma 0-4 Napoli
Napoli 1-2 Juventus
Sassuolo 1-1 Napoli

3 wins, 4 draws, 1 loss.

They got knocked out of the Coppa Italia QFs by AC Milan in January, too. And they were obviously close to getting knocked out by Salzburg on Thursday.

Make no mistake - it will be a very tough two legs.

But I think we are perfectly capable of beating them.

[Ach]

They dominated against Juve tbh

It's a tough game against a manager we all wanted here. The winner of this should go on and win it all

[jamesmatthew]

I went to see Napoli last year when they beat Milan 1-0. The stadium is a historic Italia 90 stadium. I think the Napoli fans will be quite intimidating. Having said that, Man City hammered them at the San Paolo so I don't see why Arsenal can't beat them. Here's my Napoli Matchday experience https://onlybyland.com/napoli-match-day-experience-stadio-san-paolo-naples/ with pics of the stadium, good luck! There's also a huge Roman Amphitheater nearby if you will do a little tourism as well! By the way, they haggle the price for the snacks on the way into the stadium!

[DiamondGooner]

They dominated against Juve tbh

It's a tough game against a manager we all wanted here. The winner of this should go on and win it all

I never wanted Ancelloti.

I prefer Emery tbh, also Ancelloti has a good squad of players where we're under funded.

We definitely have a chance, it depends how our players go at them, we need to put them to the sword at home and then play staunch away.

[Jedi]

A lot of overrating Napoli here...

Not according to the bookies

[Arsenal Tone]

Do we go back to a more defensive line up or risk the more attacking formation used in the last two games?

[Manoban]

our squad is better
their coach is better

we're out

[Arsenal Tone]

our squad is better
their coach is better

we're out

Its the opposite

[Pudpop]

Remember last season when Milan were going to walk all over us?