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Champions League, shock start costs Napoli dearly: Barcelona goes through
Champions League: Barcelona-Napoli 3-1, advance the blaugrana
Three minutes of blackout in the first half cost the Napoli very dearly, who despite their subsequent efforts to try to come back lose 3-1 in the temporary home of Barcelona, the Montjuic stadium, and thus have to say goodbye to the Champions League: after the 1-1 draw in the first leg, the Blaugrana scored two goals in quick succession in the opening stages, which proved crucial for the success. Rrahmani shortened, Lewandowski closed the score in the final.
First half: Napoli gets off to a bad start
Calzona’s team’s start è uncertain, Barça immediately takes the field and between 15′ and 17′ scores twice: Fermin Lopez, who scored the first goal by taking advantage of Lewandowski’s veil, while the doubling came two laps of the clock later thanks to Jao Cancelo, who rebounded into the net the ball rejected by the post after Raphinha’s first conclusion, at the end of a deadly counterattack.
Overcoming the initial shock, Napoli tried to come back and at 30′ shortened the distance: è fruitful the foray into the offensive zone by Amir Rrahmani, who received the ball from the right from Politano and beat Ter Stegen with a precise conclusion. The match gets tough, as evidenced by the three first-half cautions (Christensen and Yamal for Barcelona, Juan Jesus for Napoli): at halftime it goes to 2-1.
Second half: there’è a crossbar after 3-1
In the resumption, Napoli starts with great desire and in the first four minutes comes twice to the conclusion with Kvaratskhelia and Politano, without success. The partenopei stationed a lot in the opponent’s half of the field, the blaugrana chose to wait and eventually restart. Chapter changes: Sergi Roberto, Romeu and Jao Felix for the Barça in place of Fermin Lopez, Christensen and Raphinha; Lindstrom, Olivera and Raspadori for Napoli in place of Politano, Mario Rui and Traoré.
At the 83’83’ the strike at the end of a very fast action of the hosts: Gundogan’s perfect filter for Sergi Roberto, who finds himself in the condition to serve Lewandowski practically alone in the area. At 3-1, the games are practically done.
The Parthenopeans bid farewell to the Champions
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Still, Napoli has the merit of trying until the end: Olivera hits the crossbar at’89’, Kvaratskhelia sends just wide at 92′, just seconds before being replaced by Ngonge. The final whistle comes after 4′ of recovery: Barcelona passes, Napoli’s adventure in the Champions as reigning champions of Italy ends here.
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Not a single TV channel, streaming platform or cinema in Russia will show the competitions from the Summer Olympics in Paris, which begin on July 26, sports.ru writes. This happened for the first time in 40 years, when in 1984 the USSR boycotted the Olympics in Los Angeles.
The official explanation is that this time only 16 athletes will participate under a neutral flag, without an anthem and in “unpopular sports”. The unofficial thing is that this is a purely political decision of the Kremlin, and heads of federations call those who agreed to participate traitors, homeless people and foreign agents.
Paris Mayor on Russians at the 2024 Olympics: It would be better if they didn’t come
Anne Hidalgo condemned the International Olympic Committee’s decision regarding representatives of the aggressor country, she said already in March.
According to the official, it would be good if athletes from the terrorist country did not participate in international competitions.
“I prefer that they not come. We cannot act as if the invasion does not exist. We cannot act as if Putin is not a dictator who is threatening all of Europe today.”
At the same time, she added that such sanctions cannot be imposed against Israeli athletes, since Israel’s actions are different from Russia’s aggression.
“There can be no talk of imposing sanctions against Israel in connection with the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Because Israel is a democratic country,” the mayor told Reuters.
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Theo Hernandez tries to shut down the controversy
In the second half of the challenge between Milan and Lazio Rafa Leao and Theo Hernandez did not participate in the cooling break with their teammates. The two champions remained on the other side of the field and did not join the group that was listening to Paulo Fonseca's instructions.
The behavior è appeared to be a kind of polemic against the coach, who was guilty of keeping the Portuguese and the Frenchman initially on the bench.
In the postgame Theo Hernandez tried to explain: “We had been in for two minutes, we did not need the cooling break. It was nothing against team and coach. Now we have to keep working to win all together. Then people talk, they say things that are not true. Rafa and I are always with the team to help, and è that’s the important”.
These are the words of Paulo Fonseca on the’incident: “There are no problems with Theo Hernandez and Leao, we do not create cases becauseé this week I spoke with both of them explaining my choice, which they accepted. I didn’t see that they stayed on the field during the cooling break, but they had been in for two minutes and didn’t need to stop or directions. The players’s reaction to entering the field è was positive, so let's not create problems that are not there”.
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Antonio Conte furious: “Absurd, soì è difficult”
At the end of the match won in extremis against Parma, Antonio Conte è vented: “It’s absurd that the soccer market ends on the third day. You coach players who are going to leave and you find yourself playing with players you haven't coached. Since soccer è is constantly changing I hope we change this rule that è is absurd. We had Lobotka and Anguissa on the field today and I didn’t have any other midfielders on the bench because Iaccarino and Saco who were with us were sold on loan”.
“This is not good and I hope that in the future we will change this rule. Lukaku today è entered with two training sessions, Neres è arrived very recently. Now I hope to use this break to get both of them fit, while Gilmour and McTominay will leave with the Scottish national team and return next week. Soì è really difficult”.
The Parthenopeans triumphed 2-1 thanks to goals from Lukaku and Anguissa, both of which came in the dying minutes: “I told the boys that we have to sweat the three points and always celebrate wins. Every game will be hard-fought and we should sweat it out. We have a path to take. The way we approached these three games, with a small number of players, there’s something to be proud of. Today we had no changes in midfield, è the è absurdityà of starting the championship with the market in progress”.
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