Sassuolo and Napoli will face on Wednesday the 1st of December at 19:45 in the 15th week of the Serie A. The match is going to be staged in Reggio nell’Emilia at the MAPEI Stadium – Città del Tricolore. The chosen referee is Ivano Pezzuto.
Sassuolo occupies the 12th position in the standings with 18 points. It comes from a 1-3 win against Milan in its last match in the Serie A. Up to now, it has won 5 times, draw 3 times, and lost 6 times.
Napoli is in the 1st position in the standings with 35 points. It comes from a 4-0 win against Lazio in its last match in the Serie A. Thus far, it has won 11 times, drawn twice, and lost once.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Sassuolo
Sassuolo has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (9 times or 64.29%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (9 times), 4-3-3 (4 times) and 4-1-4-1 (once).
Alessio Dionisi is expected to play against Napoli with the following players: A. Consigli, G. Kiriakopoulos, V. Chiricheș, G. Ferrari, M. Müldür, M. Lopez, D. Frattesi, G. Raspadori, D. Berardi and G. Scamacca.
In case that the line up is confirmed as above, the projected average age of Sassuolo would be 25.80.
There are doubts about the presence of M. de Souza.
Alessio Dionisi will probably not be able to employ E. Goldaniga and J. Boga because of injury.
F. Romagna, F. Đuričić, P. Mba Obiang Avomo and N. Schiappacasse Oliva will definitely miss the match.
Napoli
Napoli has mostly adopted 2 line-ups: 4-3-3 and 4-2-3-1 (7 times or 50.00% each of them).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (7 times) and 4-2-3-1 (7 times).
Luciano Spalletti is expected to play against Sassuolo with the following players: D. Ospina Ramírez, M. Silva Duarte, K. Koulibaly, A. Rrahmani, G. Di Lorenzo, F. Ruiz Peña, S. Lobotka, P. Zieliński, L. Insigne, H. Lozano Bahena and D. Mertens.
Granting that this will be the line-up, the projected average age of Napoli would be 28.82.
Luciano Spalletti will probably not be able to employ A. Ounas and M. Politano because of injury.
K. Manolas, A. Zanoli, A. Zambo Anguissa and V. Osimhen will definitely miss the match.
