Inter and Napoli are going to face off on Wednesday the 4th of January at 8:45 pm in the 16th week of the Serie A. The match will be staged in Milano at the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza. The chosen referee is Simone Sozza.
Inter is in the 5th position in the standings with 30 points. It comes from a 2-3 win against Atalanta in its last match in the Serie A. To date, it has won 10 times and lost 5 times.
Napoli is in the 1st place in the standings with 41 points. It comes from a 3-2 win against Udinese in its last match in the Serie A. Thus far, it has won 13 times and drawn twice.
Napoli won the last 11 consecutive matches.To date it is still unbeaten this season (Serie A).
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Inter
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-5-2 (15 times).
Simone Inzaghi is expected to play against Napoli with the following players: A. Onana, A. Bastoni, F. Acerbi, M. Škriniar, F. Dimarco, N. Barella, H. Çalhanoğlu, D. Dumfries, E. Džeko and R. Lukaku Menama.
Assuming that the line up is confirmed as above, the projected average age of Inter would be 28.90.
There are doubts about the presence of H. Mkhitaryan.
Simone Inzaghi will probably not be able to employ S. de Vrij because of injury.
M. Brozović and Dalbert will definitely miss the match.
Napoli
Napoli has mostly adopted the 4-3-3 line-up most used during the season (12 times or 80.00%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (12 times) and 4-2-3-1 (3 times).
Luciano Spalletti is expected to play against Inter with the following players: A. Meret, M. Olivera Miramontes, M. Kim, Juan Jesus, G. Di Lorenzo, S. Lobotka, P. Zieliński, A. Zambo Anguissa, K. Kvaratskhelia, M. Politano and V. Osimhen.
Presuming that the line up is confirmed as above, the resulting average age of Napoli would be 27.64.
Luciano Spalletti will probably not be able to employ S. Sirigu because of injury.
G. Gaetano will definitely miss the match.
