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MANCHESTER, ENGLAND – SEPTEMBER 18: Antonio Conte, Head Coach of Napoli, provides the crew directions through the UEFA Champions League 2025/26 League Section MD1 match between Manchester Metropolis and SSC Napoli at Metropolis of Manchester Stadium on September 18, 2025 in Manchester, England. (Photograph by Dan Istitene/Getty Photographs)
The humiliating 6-2 defeat to PSV Eindhoven made unlucky historical past for each Antonio Conte and Napoli, however reaffirmed the coach’s poor Champions League file.
This was the primary time Napoli had ever conceded six targets in a European competitors, and the primary time considered one of Conte’s groups have let in six in a single sport.
The final time the Partenopei leaked six targets in any event was their 6-3 Serie A defeat to Sampdoria in December 1997.
Conte no stranger to Champions League disappointment
Whereas these had been firsts, the painful loss in Eindhoven did add to the on-going struggles that Conte has skilled within the Champions League.
Throughout his whole teaching profession, the Italian has managed solely 16 victories on this event, 14 attracts and 15 defeats, a median of 1.38 factors per sport.
Most notably, he has by no means made it previous the quarter-final stage, solely attaining this throughout his very first season within the Champions League with Juventus in 2012-13.
After that, Conte went out within the group stage with Juventus in 2013-14, reached the Spherical of 16 at Chelsea in 2017-18, the group stage for Inter in 2020-21, and the Spherical of 16 once more for Tottenham Hotspur in 2022-23.
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