Why Napoli vs Bodø/Glimt is trending: Allegri under fire before Champions League clash

Why Napoli vs Bodø/Glimt is trending

Napoli vs Bodø/Glimt is trending because Napoli host Bodø/Glimt in the Champions League on Tuesday with manager Massimiliano Allegri under real pressure. Napoli sit 32nd in the league-phase table with zero points after a 1-0 home loss to Arsenal and a 3-1 defeat at Villarreal. Just days before this kickoff, Napoli lost 1-0 at home to Serie A strugglers Venezia, a result that snapped an 84-year drought for Venezia in that fixture on Davide Nicola's touchline debut.

What is not known yet is how Napoli respond. This match kicks off at 20:00 at the Diego Maradona Stadium and had not been played as of this writing, so there is no result to report here and no prediction to offer. What happens next is straightforward: Napoli and Bodø/Glimt play their third league-phase match, with Napoli still searching for a first point and a first win.

Allegri's Champions League skid

Allegri's own record is part of why this one is getting attention. He has lost eight of his last nine Champions League games, winning just once in that stretch. His current five-game losing streak in the competition is the worst in Champions League history by an Italian manager, a mark reported by Yahoo Sports' Cult of Calcio column. Napoli have lost five of their last eight matches across all competitions, with two wins and a draw mixed in.

That backdrop has put Allegri's job under scrutiny, per the same report, after a fifth loss in eight games across competitions. None of that is a prediction for Tuesday. It is the context for why Napoli, and Allegri by extension, are drawing search traffic right now.

Bodø/Glimt arrive in better form

Bodø/Glimt, managed by Kjetil Knutsen, sit 24th in the league-phase table with three points, well ahead of Napoli on points and position. The Norwegian club opened its campaign with a 5-0 loss at Bayern Munich, then answered with a 1-0 win over Borussia Dortmund in the following round, a result that Yahoo Sports said rekindled the club's hopes of reaching the knockout stage for a second straight season.

The two sides have met before. Napoli beat Bodø/Glimt in both legs of the 1976/77 Cup Winners' Cup and did not concede in either match. That history favors Napoli on paper, and Napoli have won their last two competitive matches at the Maradona Stadium without conceding, but none of that decides Tuesday's game.

What to watch at kickoff

Kickoff is 20:00 at the Diego Maradona Stadium as part of a full Champions League matchday that also includes Liverpool vs Villarreal, Manchester City vs AEK Athens, Paris Saint-Germain vs Barcelona, Porto vs PSV, Roma vs Slovan Bratislava and Stuttgart vs Atletico Madrid, per BBC Sport. For Napoli, last season's Serie A runners-up, the game comes with two tough European trips still waiting on the schedule against Porto and Manchester City.

There is no betting angle here, just the facts as they stand before kickoff. Check back for how Napoli and Bodø/Glimt actually played it out once the match is final.

Facts per BBC, Yahoo Sports. Opinion is the taproom's.