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25 February 2021 Napoli beats Granada 2-1 at the 'Maradona' but the Spaniards go to the second round of the Europa League by virtue of the 2-0 first leg.
Without a center forward available, Gattuso lines up Zielinski behind the strikers, Insigne and Politano.
Many unavailable such as Osimhen and Petagna.
Mertens starts from the bench, behind a 3-player side, with Di Lorenzo on the line of the midfielders.
Among the central players, Koulibaly on the center left, with Rrahmani on the right and Maksimovic in the middle.
The Azzurri, who start from the 2-0 defeat of the first leg, unblock it immediately.
At 3 'ball recovered by Bakayoko who launches Zielinski, The Pole reaches the limit, feinting with his right, returns to the left and kicks full neck at the corner of the Spanish goal and is Neapolitan advantage.
The Andalusians begin to build the game with a decent dribble which however shows little effectiveness in depth, but at 25 'Foulquier serves a perfect assist for the head of Montoro who mocked the defense of Napoli and equalized the score.
For the hosts, the road is all uphill.
At 35 'wonderful free kick kicked by Insigne, but goalkeeper Rui Silva gets there by deflecting on the crossbar.
At the beginning of the second half Gattuso changes Maksimovic with Ghoulam and puts himself at 4 in defense.
At 52 'Elmas devours a goal face to face with Rui Silva.
At 59 'another ring from Napoli: Insigne serves Fabian Ruiz who this time makes no mistake and signs the doubling goal.
Immediately Gattuso also tries the Mertens card which takes Elmas's place.
At 67 'the Belgian heads a cross from the right by Di Lorenzo at the near post and just misses the door.
At 74 'Fabian Ruiz has another good ball from a favorable position, but kicks high.
Napoli seems to want to believe it even if the guests put the game asleep as much as possible.
In the 86th minute of Insigne's insidious turn, Rui Silva stretches out well and neutralizes.
In the first of the 7 minutes of injury time, Napoli close to scoring, but Rui Silva's miracle on Ghoulam who heads off very high without surprising the goalkeeper.
The result does not change anymore and for Napoli it is the farewell to Europe.