Napoli and Salernitana are going to face off on Sunday the 23rd of January at 3:00 pm in the 23rd week of the Serie A. The match will take place in Napoli at the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona (Napoli). The referee will be Luca Pairetto.
Napoli is in the 3rd position in the league with 46 points. It comes from a 0-2 win against Bologna in its last match in the Serie A. So far, it has won 14 times, draw 3 times, and lost 4 times.
Salernitana sits in the 20th place in the table with 10 points. It comes from a 0-3 loss against Lazio in its last match in the Serie A. Until now, it has won 3 times, drawn twice, and lost 16 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Napoli
Napoli has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (13 times or 61.90%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (13 times), 4-3-3 (7 times) and 3-4-3 (once).
Luciano Spalletti is expected to play against Salernitana with the following players: A. Meret, M. Silva Duarte, A. Rrahmani, J. Nunes Jesus, G. Di Lorenzo, S. Lobotka, F. Ruiz Peña, E. Elmas, P. Zieliński, H. Lozano Bahena and D. Mertens.
Assuming that the above line up is confirmed, the resulting average age of Napoli would be 28.27.
Luciano Spalletti will probably not be able to employ D. Ospina Ramírez and L. Insigne because of injury.
K. Koulibaly, A. Ounas and A. Zambo Anguissa will definitely miss the match.
Salernitana
Salernitana has mostly adopted the 4-3-1-2 line-up most used during the season (7 times or 33.33%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-1-2 (7 times), 5-3-2 (4 times), 3-5-2 (3 times), 3-4-1-2 (3 times), 4-4-1-1 (2 times), 4-3-3 (once) and 5-4-1 (once).
Stefano Colantuono is expected to play against Napoli with the following players: V. Belec, M. Ruggeri, F. Delli Carri, N. Gyömbér, J. Chukwuma Obi, F. Di Tacchio, A. Schiavone, W. Kechrida, F. Bonazzoli and C. Gondo.
If the above line up is confirmed, the average age of Salernitana would be 27.50.
There are doubts about the presence of N. Zortea.
R. Aya, L. Bogdan, R. Gagliolo, P. Jaroszyński, S. Sy, S. Strandberg, L. Capezzi, L. Coulibaly, M. Coulibaly, G. Kastanos, M. Đurić and F. Ribéry will definitely miss the match.
Stefano Colantuono will not be able to have the presence of L. Ranieri who is suspended.