Good morning, my friends! Here are the front pages from the Italian newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport, Thursday 27 October 2022
La Gazzetta dello Sport, Front Page, Thursday 27 October 2022.
Front Page, La Gazzetta dello Sport, Thursday 27 October
👉Champions League
Round of 16: It’s done
Forward in three, our football needs it
👉 Inter full house
Dzeko sinks Plzen, Lukaku returns and scores
Corriere dello Sport, Front Page, Thursday 27 October 2022 .
Front Page Corriere dello Sport, Thursday 27 October
👉Champions League, an evening to be framed for our teams: two triumphs
Inter, ciao Barça
Splendid 4-0 to Viktoria, Round of 16 conquered with Lukaku’s seal
65% Ball Possession NAPOLI and 35% Ball Possession RANGERS
Napoli 3 – 0 Rangers
11′ Giovanni Simeone
16′ Giovanni Simeone
80′ Leo Östigard
🏆👉 Napoli already qualified to the Round of 16 with full 15 points after defeating Rangers. Napoli win the Champions League Matchday 5 game keeping a perfect score on Wednesday 26 October 2022 at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium in Napoli, Italy. Napoli have won all five games of this Champions League and become the first Italian team to squeeze five wins in the first five matches of a single edition since Juventus in 2004-05.
Napoli and Liverpool will play for first place in the last round in the direct clash of Anfield. Napoli, however, have the advantage in goal difference and even with a defeat with a difference of three goals they would remain in first place. Double for Simeone in the first half, in the second half the Neapolitans touched the third goal on several occasions until they found it, the 100 in the Champions League, with Leo Östigard.
Napoli are in the 1st position with 15 points
Napoli opened the score in the 11th minute. Argentinean forward Giovanni Simeone defeated Rangers goalkeeper with a right-footed shot to the bottom left corner. The assist is by Giovanni Di Lorenzo.
🏆👉 Napoli 1 – 0 Rangers, 11th minute, ⚽️ goal by Giovanni Simeone for @en_sscnapoli with a right-footed shot to the bottom left corner. The assist is by Giovanni Di Lorenzo. https://t.co/wWrlf2fqhH
The good moment is on for Simeone scoring a brace in the 116th minute! Giovanni scored with a headed shot to the bottom left corner. The assist is by Mário Rui.
🏆👉 Napoli 2 – 0 Rangers, 16th minute, ⚽️ goal by Giovanni Simeone for @en_sscnapoli with a headed shot to the bottom left corner. The assist is by Mário Rui. https://t.co/PPyfKFLQYO
In the 80th minute, Leo Östigard scored with a headed shot to the bottom right corner following a corner conceded by Allan McGregor. The assist is by Giacomo Raspadori.
🏆👉 Napoli 3 – 0 Rangers, 80th minute, ⚽️ goal by Leo Östigard for @en_sscnapoli with a headed shot to the bottom right corner following a corner conceded by Allan McGregor. The assist is by Giacomo Raspadori. https://t.co/6VUHkIlAcs
✅ Stats before the game: The only European precedent between Napoli and Rangers was the one played in the second round of this Champions League: a 3-0 victory for the Neapolitans at Ibrox. Considering all the European competitions, Rangers have won only one of the 12 away games played in Italy (2N, 9P), namely the one 3-2, against Livorno, in the UEFA Cup, in 2006, thanks to goals from Charlie Adam, Kris Boyd and Nacho Novo. British teams have so far won only two of the 15 away games played against Napoli in a European competition (2N, 11P). The only English team to snatch the success (4-2), in the home of the Neapolitans, in the Champions League, was Manchester City, in November 2017.
🏆👉 Lineup NAPOLI (4-3-3): Meret; Di Lorenzo, Ostigard, Kim, Mario Rui; Ndombele, Lobotka, Elmas; Politano, Simeone, Raspadori.
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📺 Click the video to watch Napoli 3 – 0 Rangers highlights on Wednesday 26 October 2022
Turkish Referee Halil Umut Meler will be assisted by Mustafa Eysoy (TUR) and Cevdet Komurcuoglu (TUR). The Fourth Official will be Arda Kardeşler (TUR). The VAR will be Abdulkadir Bitigen (TUR). The AVAR will be Marco Fritz (GER). The Referee Observer will be Terje Hauge (NOR).
Photo via twitter.com/en_sscnapoli
Photo via twitter.com/RangersFC
Photo via twitter.com/RangersFC
🏆👉 Napoli vs Rangers, Match Officials
UEFA Champions League
🗓️ Wednesday 26 October 2022
🏟️ Diego Armando Maradona Stadium
⏲️ 21:00
🙍♂️ Referee: Halil Umut Meler
🚩 Assistants: Eysoy and Komurcuoglu
Fourth Official: Kardeşler
🏆👉 Here are Napoli vs Rangers for the Champions League Matchday 5 game on Wednesday 26 October 2022 at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium in Napoli, Italy at 21:00.
🏆👉 Lineup NAPOLI (4-3-3): Meret; Di Lorenzo, Ostigard, Kim, Mario Rui; Ndombele, Lobotka, Elmas; Politano, Simeone, Raspadori.
Turkish Referee Halil Umut Meler will be assisted by Mustafa Eysoy (TUR) and Cevdet Komurcuoglu (TUR). The Fourth Official will be Arda Kardeşler (TUR). The VAR will be Abdulkadir Bitigen (TUR). The AVAR will be Marco Fritz (GER). The Referee Observer will be Terje Hauge (NOR).
Napoli are in the 1st position with 12 points
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Photo via twitter.com/en_sscnapoli
Photo via twitter.com/RangersFC
Photo via twitter.com/RangersFC
🏆👉 Napoli vs Rangers, Match Officials
UEFA Champions League
🗓️ Wednesday 26 October 2022
🏟️ Diego Armando Maradona Stadium
⏲️ 21:00
🙍♂️ Referee: Halil Umut Meler
🚩 Assistants: Eysoy and Komurcuoglu
Fourth Official: Kardeşler
🏆👉Inter win the Champions League Group Stage – Group C game against Viktoria Plzen on Wednesday 26 October 2022 at the Giuseppe Meazza Stadium in Milan, Italy. This victory gives Inter the certainty of qualifying for the Round of 16 of the Champions League with one round ahead of the end of the group. Inter are second with 10 points behind the almost unattainable Bayern Munich still with full points. Inter boasts a reassuring +3 on the Catalans, at a disadvantage in direct comparisons. Viktory Plzen are in fact the only ones still at 0 points among the 32 of the Champions League group stage together with Rangers, with whom Viktoria also shares the negative record of the worst defense (16 goals conceded), albeit with the mitigation of being been included in the most difficult group of the competition.
Inter are in the 2nd position with 10 points.
Inter opened the score in the 35th minute. Henrikh Mkhitaryan defeated Viktoria Plzen goalkeeper Jindrich Stanek with a headed shot to the bottom right corner. The assist is by Alessandro Bastoni.
🏆👉Inter 1 – 0 Viktoria Plzen, 35th minute, ⚽️ goal by Henrikh Mkhitaryan for @Inter_en with a headed shot to the bottom right corner. The assist is by Alessandro Bastoni. https://t.co/HQ3HzgTcYm
Inter closed the first half with a 2-0. In the 42nd minute, forward Edin Džeko scored from very close range with a right-footed shot to the center. The assist is by Federico Dimarco.
🏆👉 Inter 2 – 0 Viktoria Plzen, 42nd minute, ⚽️ goal by Edin Džeko for @Inter_en from very close range with a right-footed shot to the center. The assist is by Federico Dimarco. https://t.co/F6YVR9sxYo
A super-motivated Edin Džeko scored again for the 3-0 in the 66th minute with a left-footed shot to the bottom left corner. The assist is by Lautaro Martínez.
🏆👉 Inter 3 – 0 Viktoria Plzen, 66th minute, ⚽️ goal by Edin Džeko for @Inter_en with a left-footed shot to the bottom left corner. The assist is by Lautaro Martínez. https://t.co/VHh9TGUxxy
Forward Romelu Lukaku scored a goal in the 87th minute with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner. The assist is by Joaquín Correa.
🏆👉 Inter 4 – 0 Viktoria Plzen, 87th minute, ⚽️ goal by Romelu Lukaku for @Inter_en with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner. The assist is by Joaquín Correa. https://t.co/nKUMTsa7cK
4 – Inter have won a UEFA Champions League match by a 4-goals margin for the first time since September 2010 (4-0 v Werder Bremen back then). Pass.#UCL#InterViktoriapic.twitter.com/ZpfDpCAjQl
✅ Stats before the game. The only confrontation staged so far in Europe between Inter and Viktoria Plzen is the one that took place in the second round of the group stage of this Champions League, which ended with the Nerazzurri’s away victory 2-0. Viktoria Plzen have lost three of the four European away games played in Italy: the exception is in the partial, the 3-0 victory at Napoli, in February 2013, in the Europa League. The only Czech team to beat Inter in a European competition was Sparta Prague, in September 2016: 3-1 domestic success in the Europa League. Overall, the Nerazzurri have won six of the nine matches played in Europe against these opponents (2D, 1L). Inter are unbeaten in the three previous Champions League matches played against Czech teams (2W, 1D), even if the only home game played by the Nerazzurri ended in a draw (1-1), against Slavia Prague, in September 2019. Inter have lost only two of their last nine Champions League group stage matches (5W, 2D): one against Real Madrid (0-2, in December 2021), which then took the title last season. and the other against Bayern Munich (0-2 on the first day of this edition).
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📺 Click the video to watch Inter 4 – 0 Viktoria Plzen highlights on Wednesday 26 October 2022
Swedish Referee Andreas Ekberg will be assisted by Mehmet Culum (SWE) and Niklas Nyberg (SWE). The Fourth Official will be Fredrik Klitte (SWE). The VAR will be Bastian Dankert (GER). The AVAR will be Christian Dingert (GER). The Referee Observer will be Darko Čeferin (SVN).
The Giuseppe Meazza Stadium ready for Inter vs Viktoria Plzen
🏆👉 Here are Inter vs Viktoria Plzen official starting lineups for the Champions League Group Stage – Group C game on Wednesday 26 October 2022 at the Giuseppe Meazza Stadium in Milan, Italy at 18:45.
By Anna Italia
Photo via twitter.com/fcviktoria_en
