Champions League, Tuesday, October 1: Arsenal – Napoli
Rafa Benitez and Arsene Wenger meet again. Former Liverpool coach, currently in Naples bench, returned to England to face the Gunners led by Frenchman, in a challenge where two technicians know each other for the sake of the past. Arsenal comes pretty loaded after winning last in the league with Swansea and is currently only at the top of the Premier League. At the meeting in the Champions League group as the team Wenger, Benitez and she won 2-1 against Marseille and Dortmund respectively and in the second test, each will require to keep track of all that has been launched. In an interview to the British newspaper “Daily Express”, Wenger does not hesitate to call a great coach who leads the kaltërit man from Naples.
“Benitez is pretty neat. Dortmund win was special for Napoli. Plays with dangerous counterattacks and releases bombs whenever recovers the ball. This Napol is terrific. We started our adventure in the Champions good to triumph over Marseille and if we win again in this meeting, then we would have a real chance to pass to the next round. I can not say that it is a decisive match, but will have weight in the final result. ”
Further, during the summer transfer window Wenger claimed would have loved to take one of the stars of Real Madrid, referring to Argentine Gonzalo Higuain, who finished in Naples, but the Frenchman said he comforted that the Blancos failed to provide Mesut card Ozil.