Napoli's season is not going as expected. Ancelotti managed to get them into the knockout stages of the Champions League, but despite all of that, he lost his job. Napoli now want Gennaro Gattuso to do something even more difficult. Beat a Barca side obsessed about winning the Champions League.
Napoli will have to change their way of playing. Gattuso's team do not play like Ancelotti's do and that will mean the squad will adapt to the coach. But time is pressing and the Champions League is not far away.
25th February is an important date for Napoli. That is the day Barcelona visit San Paolo in the first leg of the Champions League last 16 tie.
Therefore, Gattuso is working against the clock to try and turn around the situation he is faced with. As winning Serie A is now an impossible task, Napoli seem to have made winning the Champions League their priority.