Shakhtar crushing defeat by SSC Napoli in the Champions League

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Champion of Ukraine Shakhtar failed the second half in the away match against Napoli and has postponed an exit in the playoffs of the Champions League.

Although standings have forced Napoli to actively attack, in the first half Shakhtar were more often disturbed the goalkeeper of the Italians. Experienced Reina had to come into play after the shock of Fred and Marlos and taison in the counterattack missed the one-on-one with the goalkeeper. The owners of the chance to change the score had Insigne and Callejón both time repaid Pyatov.

The key moment of the match came in the 56th minute Insigne slipped away from Butko and Fred and great execution of the shot into the far top corner of the net was forced to remove the ball from the net his goal.

Shakhtar immediately started to attack and tried to crush Napoli from a position of strength, but the Italians retreated to their goal and without any problems reflected positional attacks.

Finally everything became clear in the 81st minute. Mertens and Zielinski two opened the defense of Shakhtar – pole from a few metres left to drive the ball into the net. Two minutes later no one stopped to Mertens put the ball in empty gate after blow of albios and save from Pyatov.

Despite the defeat in Napoli, Shakhtar is still the master of his position. On the sixth of December in Kharkov the team, Paulo Fonseca for the exit in the playoffs will need to win unmotivated Manchester city.

Miner – Napoli 3:0
Scorers: Insigne, 56, Zielinski, 81, Mertens, 83

Manchester City – Feyenoord 1:0
Goal: Sterling, 88

Standings: Manchester city – 16, a miner – 9, Napoli – 6, Feyenoord – 0.

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