Beautiful Napoli's Story In The Champions League Makes New History In The City Of Naples

Napoli qualified for the Champions League quarter-finals for the first time. (Photo: Twitter/@sscnapoli)

JAKARTA - Napoli ended their long wait in the Champions League. The Italian Serie A club qualified for the first time in the quarter-finals.

Napoli stepped into this round after winning 3-0 over Eintracht Frankfurt in the second leg of the last 16 of the 2022/2023 Champions League at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium, Thursday, March 16 in the morning WIB. I Partenopei also won 5-0 on aggregate.

The coach's wish, Luciano Spalletti, to bring his team into the history book in Naplesn folklore has also come true. However, the dream of continuing to go further has not gone out.

Returning to the match, Napoli, who acted as the host, still appeared to attack despite having bagged a 2-0 lead in the first leg.

However, Piotr Zielinski and his friends' efforts only paid off in the extra minutes of the first half. Victor Osimhen scored in the 45+2 minute using the ball from Matteo Politano.

Osimhen scored the second goal in the 53rd minute. This time he successfully completed the ball presented by Giovanni Di Lorenzo.

Zielinski further closed Frankfurt's chances of trying to get up. He added to Napoli's lead 3-0 after successfully carrying out his duties as penalty taker.

The 3-0 score lasted until the end of the match and made Napoli the third team in the Italian Serie A which qualified for the Champions League quarter-finals.

Previously, Inter Milan and AC Milan had also confirmed tickets to the last eight. Inter eliminated FC Porto, while AC Milan kicked Tottenham Hotspur.