Rafael Benitez: 'Napoli must up tempo against Swansea City'

Napoli head coach Rafael Benitez has urged his side to up their tempo in Thursday's home clash with Swansea City in the Europa League in order to outscore the Premier League team.

The two sides drew 0-0 in Wales a week ago, but Benitez said that he was confident that his players could improve in front of their own fans at Stadio San Paolo.

"We want to progress and in order to do that, we need to score more goals than they do and win," Sky Sports News quotes Benitez as saying. "This is a crucial game for us.

"We are confident because we can do good things this season. We already saw that Swansea play great football. We have to play as we know how, but we must increase the tempo.

"We have to be ready, we need to be clinical in attack and strong in defence. We need to impose our game."

Napoli dropped into the Europa League having finished behind Arsenal and Borussia Dortmund in their Champions League group.