After the national team break, the league officially begins.

Due to the impact of the FIFA virus, Napoli were held to a 0-0 draw at home by Lazio.

They are level on 21 points with Fiorentina but have one less clean sheet than Fiorentina, so they have jumped to seventh in the table.

However, there is only a four-point gap between seventh and third in the league, and the gap has not widened, and there is still a fight. Inter Milan have established their advantage from the start, and after 13 league games, they are top of the table with 32 points, stretching second-placed Juventus a full five points.

Jose Mourinho's Inter Milan seems to be un......stoppable in Italy.

When Napoli won away against Inter Milan, the Italian media thought that Mazzari's team could wrestle with Mourinho, but Napoli was not stable enough in other games, and the results fluctuated, and finally Milan was pulled further and further away.

Mazzarri is not focused on the domestic league at the moment. It is impossible for him to win the league and his goal this season in the domestic league is to finish in the bottom four of the league and qualify for the Champions League. Winning the championship is something that has to be done in the long run...

His focus this season is on the Champions League.

On November 24, Napoli welcomed Liverpool at home.

Liverpool, who have always prided themselves on Anfield, saw a different kind of terrifying home atmosphere here, and in the end, Napoli won 1-0 at home to Liverpool after ten minutes of fierce action.

Chen Yingying stopped his pace of scoring a goal in every Champions League game, which made many people breathe a sigh of relief, and it was too scary to go in like this!

He didn't score, but a powerful shot from his shot gave Cassano a chance to score the crucial goal.

After the game, Chen Yingying invited guests to comfort the injured Skrtel Slovak that he was not really injured.

Liverpool qualified for the Champions League this season, Martin Skrtel had planned to make a big splash in the Champions League, but it would be a ......shame to say that Liverpool's performance in the Champions League this season was so bad.

It is said that the Liverpool hierarchy are already considering a change of manager.......

Not yet

。 The thought of these questions made Skrtel feel particularly annoyed.

When he joined Liverpool, he originally thought that he would join a giant club with a glorious tradition, but he didn't expect to come

。

This team, from the top to the bottom, is no longer the Reds Liverpool of 20 years ago.

Chen Yingying

So today everyone doesn't talk about football, they don't talk about the Champions League. Just play with him and relax.

In the end, when Skrtel was about to return to Yongdian, he patted Chen Yingying on the shoulder and said: "I think you have 100% no problem in qualifying from the group, just see if you can appear as the first in the group, which is very important, so in the last round, the game with Lyon is an opportunity, even if it is away, try to win them!" The Champions League knockout stage and the group stage are completely two levels, and it can even be said that it is not a ...... at all,"

Chen Yingying gave him a big finger change: "You can rest assured" Martin. Even if we run into Real Madrid and Barcelona, we are not afraid! ”

Skrtel gave him a punch: "You're not so lucky, La Liga has two top two and you still have to meet it!" Let's go, let's go! All in all, good luck to you guys! If you are eliminated, come to Liverpool to find me, brother will comfort you! ”

That's how Skrtel is gone, and he still has to fight for the league this season.

In this round of group stage, Napoli won at home against Liverpool. And what about Lyon? They had the same problems as Napoli away from home, "one lost to Zenit St. Petersburg in a snowstorm.

These two games led to another change in the group standings, with Lyon losing the match against Zenit St. Petersburg and Napoli beating Liverpool. Lyon, which originally accumulated nine points, has not changed, while Napoli relied on beating Liverpool to get three points, and the points increased to 10 points to surpass Lyon by one point and become the first place in the group again!

If it goes on like this, Napoli really has a chance to appear as the top of the group.

Zenit St. Petersburg, on the other hand, relied on their strong home advantage to get seven points, all of which came at home to them, with two wins and a draw with Liverpool. Now the qualifying situation, which had no gold in suspense, suddenly became full of gold in suspense.

In the final round, if Napoli can beat Lyon, then they can be assured of qualifying as group winners, while if Zenit St. Petersburg beat Liverpool in the examination room, they can surpass Lyon in points to qualify as second in the group. In this way, Lyon, which was already in a good situation, had to play the League Cup sadly.

Of course, this is the best outcome.

In fact, it certainly can't be so smooth, but whatever the outcome, Napoli's group qualification is a certainty. They've already qualified!

After the match against Liverpool, many Napoli fans refused to leave, gathering around the St Paulo stadium to sing and cheer in celebration of Napoli's qualification for the second stage of the Champions League. Because Napoli and Lyon and the two matches were played at the same time, so after the end of the Napoli game, they also

, Lyon lost! That means Napoli have overtaken Lyon again to top the group, and they have advanced one round earlier due to the points!

Before participating in the Champions League, even the most optimistic and arrogant Napoli fans, how many people thought about it now? They have thought about qualifying from the group, but they may not have thought of doing it in advance...

The next day, the Neapolitan press announced the exciting news in large pages.

"This is something that Napoli have never done since the team was founded! We've qualified for the second stage of the Champions League! This was not done in the Maradona era! "At this time, even if the media says such things, no one cares about .......

The fact is that even Maradona did not make it to the second stage of the Champions League at Napoli.

De Laurentiis also issued a statement the following day, praising the performance of the entire Napoli team and speaking about Mazzalhi's work and the players.

"......, for me, it's the best Christmas and New Year's gift. Now I'm going to enjoy the joy and joy and hold the key until the draw results come out. The lads did a great job and I thank them on behalf of the Napoli fans and I hope they have a great Christmas holiday," ......

It's a joy to qualify from the Champions League group early, but it's not worth always rejoicing, it's not enough to just qualify from the group.

The team's excellent performance in the group stage gave Mazzarri confidence as well. He's starting to plan for the longer term, so why can't we go further in the knockout rounds of the Champions League?

In order to go far in the knockout rounds, you need to meet an easy opponent in the quarter-finals, which depends on the ...... of the draw, and a very important factor in determining the outcome of the draw is the team's position in the group stage.

One of the rules for the draw for the Champions League knockout stage is that the first place in each group cannot meet, so the round of 16 can only be a contest between the first and second place in the group.

Since it is the second place in the group, how much can it show that this team is weak, otherwise why didn't it win the first place in the group?

The first team is strong, and the strong meets the weaker ......, so the chances of winning will not be high soon?

Otherwise, why do all those giants still pursue the first place in the group?

Since you want to pursue the first place in the group, the last game of the group stage is crucial If you feel that it doesn't matter if you feel that the group is first or second, as long as you can qualify, then Napoli's last game against Lyon can play soy sauce.

At that time, the main players can rest, or even go to the away game, to recharge their energy and prepare for the league. In the league, they have all jumped to seventh place.

But now that we are fighting for the top spot in the group, this last group game will have to go all out to win, and it will be difficult to win away, but it is not hopeless. Moreover....... Even if they don't win in the end, the draw will be the first place in the group for Napoli. So Mazari obviously has more tactical leeway than Puel, and he has more options.

Soon, the team was up and down

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This is the second day of technical training, and Mazzari said to everyone before training.

First place in the group? That's what the players want, of course.

At first, they didn't have that idea, and they thought it would be nice to be able to qualify from the group. However, human beings are always greedy, if they can qualify first in the group, who wants to qualify second in the group? Now that we are back in the top spot of the group, there is no need to accept the result of finishing second in the group.

Since we want to focus on the Champions League, the domestic league naturally has to give up for the time being, at least before the final round of the game against Lyon. Avoid the main players exerting too much physical strength and causing physical inability to keep up, and the most important thing is to avoid injuries when they qualify.

As time progressed, the schedule was getting closer to Christmas, when the weather changed and the players' physical fitness began to be unable to keep up, which was naturally the time when the players were most vulnerable to injury. This time period must be strictly controlled to prevent players from getting injured.

For this reason, in the fourteenth round of the league, Napoli played Parma away, and Mazzarri made another rotation, and it was not a rotation of minor repairs, but a big rotation that almost replaced the entire starting lineup.

With such a large rotation, it stands to reason that they are away from home... Draw Parma.

In his post-match press conference, Mazzari explained the purpose of his rotation as he was aiming for the Champions League.

"A lot of people say we've done it by qualifying from the Champions League group stage, but that's not the case.

Because we haven't retained the top spot in the group yet. Yes, we want to qualify from this group as the first in the group! ”

One word shocked the audience.

None of those journalists could have imagined that Napoli's ambitions would be so great! (To be continued.)