Champions League: McTominay delights, then darkness: Napoli collapses against PSV

Second setback in three games for Antonio Conte&#8217s Napoli in the Champions League 2025-2026: after the loss at home to Manchester City and the victory against Sporting at the Maradona, comes yet another heavy loss away from home against PSV, capable of coming back from a one-goal deficit and closing on 6-2 in their own favor.

Deluding the Parthenopeans was Scott McTominay’s fine header on 31′ off Spinazzola’s cross. From there on, however, the team from Eindhoven changes gears and in a few minutes overturns the score: on 35′ comes the 1-1 with the unfortunate deflection in its own goal by Buongiorno in an attempt to anticipate Til, three minutes later comes the 2-1 goal by Saibari, who catches the Azzurri defense totally unprepared and inserts behind Milinkovic-Savic.

The script does not change.

The script doesn&#8217t change in the second half: it&#8217s former Parma man Dennis Man who makes it 3-1, slotting in the best possible way on Mauro Junior&#8217s cross. Things get even worse in 76′, when Lorenzo Lucca gets himself sent off for protesting in a manner deemed offensive by referee Siebert, and four minutes later Man closes the score for good with a conclusion from distance that the Napoli goalkeeper fails to intercept. There’s time in the final minutes for McTominay&#8217s second goal of the evening at’86’, followed, however, by goals scored by Pepi at’87’ and Driouech at’89’, which set the score at 6-2 final.

The Eindhoven goal was scored by the Napoli goalkeeper.

That in Eindhoven is a heavy knockout for Napoli, which must raise its head again as early as Nov. 4, in its home match against Eintracht Frankfurt, if it does not want to jeopardize qualification. The next games will then be played on Nov. 25 against Qarabag also at the Maradona, Dec. 10 in Lisbon with Benfica, Jan. 20 in Copenhagen and Jan. 28 at home against Chelsea.