As expected, with a string of corner-kicks, the home side Napoli applied the early pressure, but it was Beşiktaş who would take the lead as Adriano Correia converted a super Quaresma pass from the 6-yard line on 13 minutes. The home side recovered quickly and levelled through Mertens at the half-hour mark, only to see Beşiktaş surge back in front with Vincent Aboubakar, who took advantage of a bad back-pass 8 minutes later. The Black Eagles were up 2-1 going into the intermission. The Italian team went all out in the second half and won two penalty-kicks. The first one was saved by Fabricio, but Gabbiadini wouldn’t miss the second one to make it 2-2 after 69 minutes. However, the resilient Black Eagles refused to quit as they found the target one more time through Aboubakar 4 minutes before the full-time and picked up their first Champions League group stage win at the San Paolo.
San Paolo Stadium
19 OCTOBER 2016 21.45
Necip Uysal - Anderson Talisca
Vincent Aboubakar
Vincent Aboubakar
Piotr Zielinski - Allan Marques
Tolgay Arslan – Cenk Tosun
Adriano Correia - Gökhan İnler
Jorginho - Amadou Diawara
Manolo Gabbiadini (P)
Caner Erkin
Lorenzo Insigne – Manolo Gabbiadini
Christian Maggio
Adriano Correia
Vincent Aboubakar
Dries Mertens
Adriano Correia
Pepe Reina
Christian Maggio
Kalidou Koulibaly
Faouzi Ghoulam
Vlad Chiriches
Marek Hamsik
Jorginho
Piotr Zielinski
Lorenzo Insigne
Dries Mertens
Jose Callejon
YEDEKLER
Luigi Sepe
Elseid Hysaj
Nikola Maksimovic
Emanuele Giaccherini
Allan Marques
Amadou Diawara
Manolo Gabbiadini
Fabricio Ramirez
Andreas Beck
Marcelo Guedes
Dusko Tosic
Caner Erkin
Atiba Hutchinson
Necip Uysal
Ricardo Quaresma
Tolgay Arslan
Adriano Correia
Vincent Aboubakar
YEDEKLER
Tolga Zengin
Gökhan Gönül
Luiz Rhodolfo
Olcay Şahan
Gökhan İnler
Anderson Talisca
Cenk Tosun