Juventus and Napoli are going to play on Thursday the 6th of January at 8:45 pm in the 20th week of the Serie A. The match will be staged in Torino at the Allianz Stadium. The chosen referee is Simone Sozza.
Juventus occupies the 5th place in the league with 34 points. It comes from a 2-0 win against Cagliari in its last match in the Serie A. As of now, it has won 10 times, draw 4 times, and lost 5 times.
Napoli sits in the 3rd place in the table with 39 points. It comes from a 0-1 loss against Spezia in its last match in the Serie A. To date, 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, A. Lobo Silva, D. Rugani, M. de Ligt, J. Cuadrado Bello, A. Rabiot, M. Locatelli, W. McKennie, F. Bernardeschi and Á. Morata Martín.
Assuming that the above line up is confirmed, the average age of Juventus would be 28.10.
There are doubts about the presence of F. Chiesa.
Massimiliano Allegri will probably not be able to employ L. Pellegrini, P. Exequiel Dybala, A. Ramos de Oliveira Melo, M. Kean and K. Pinto Ramos because of injury.
C. Pinsoglio, L. Bonucci, G. Chiellini, D. da Silva 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, F. Ghoulam, J. Nunes Jesus, A. Rrahmani, G. Di Lorenzo, S. Lobotka, D. Demme, P. Zieliński, M. Politano and D. Mertens.
Suppose that the above line up is confirmed, the average age of Napoli would be 30.40.
There are doubts about the presence of L. Insigne.
Luciano Spalletti will probably not be able to employ E. Elmas because of injury.
A. Meret, K. Koulibaly, K. Malcuit, H. Lozano Bahena, A. Ounas, F. Ruiz Peña, 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.
