No Napoli for Barcelona stars Pedri and De Jong

Barcelona will be unable to depend on star duo Pedri and Frenkie De Jong for his or her Champions League Spherical of 16 conflict with Napoli.

The Blaugrana have been held to a 1-1 draw by the defending Italian champions of their first assembly final month, when Robert Lewandowski’s opener was cancelled out by Victor Osimhen’s equaliser, holding issues stage heading into the return leg.

Within the meantime, Napoli have began to rediscover their kind a little bit, successful their final two Serie A outings towards Sassuolo and Juventus. Barcelona have discovered a little bit extra problem, beating Getafe however being held to a goalless draw towards Athletic Membership. 

As officially announced right now, Barcelona will be unable to depend on Pedri or De Jong towards Napoli after the previous suffered a proper quadriceps damage and the latter picked up a proper ankle ligament sprain, ruling them out of the return leg with Napoli on March twelfth.

The Partenopei are determined to progress within the Champions League as reaching the semi-finals would qualify them for subsequent yr’s Membership World Cup rather than present candidates Juventus.