Juventus and Napoli are going to face on Thursday the 6th of January at 8:45 pm in the 20th week of the Serie A. The match is going to be staged in Torino at the Allianz Stadium. The chosen referee is Simone Sozza.
Juventus is in the 5th position in the table with 34 points. It comes from a 2-0 win against Cagliari in its last match in the Serie A. To date, it has won 10 times, draw 4 times, and lost 5 times.
Napoli occupies the 3rd position in the league with 39 points. It comes from a 0-1 loss against Spezia in its last match in the Serie A. As of now, it has won 12 times, drawn twice, and lost 4 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Juventus
Juventus has mostly adopted the 4-4-2 line-up most used during the season (11 times or 57.89%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-4-2 (11 times), 4-3-3 (3 times), 4-2-3-1 (3 times), 3-1-4-2 (once) and 4-3-1-2 (once).
Massimiliano Allegri is expected to play against Napoli with the following players: W. Szczęsny, M. de Ligt, J. Cuadrado Bello, W. McKennie, A. Rabiot, M. Locatelli, F. Bernardeschi and Á. Morata Martín.
Assuming that this will be the line-up, the estimate average age of Juventus would be 27.75.
There are doubts about the presence of L. Pellegrini, L. Bonucci and P. Exequiel Dybala.
Massimiliano Allegri will probably not be able to employ F. Chiesa, M. Kean and K. Pinto Ramos because of injury.
C. Pinsoglio, G. Chiellini, D. da Silva, A. Ramos de Oliveira Melo and A. Ramsey will definitely miss the match.
Napoli
Napoli has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (10 times or 55.56%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (10 times), 4-3-3 (7 times) and 3-4-3 (once).
Luciano Spalletti is expected to play against Juventus with the following players: D. Ospina Ramírez, J. Nunes Jesus, A. Rrahmani, G. Di Lorenzo, S. Lobotka, P. Zieliński, M. Politano and D. Mertens.
If the line up is confirmed, the average age of Napoli would be 30.25.
There are doubts about the presence of K. Malcuit, F. Ruiz Peña and L. Insigne.
K. Koulibaly, E. Elmas, H. Lozano Bahena, A. Ounas, A. Zambo Anguissa and V. Osimhen will definitely miss the match.
Luciano Spalletti will not be able to have the presence of M. Silva Duarte who is suspended.