Napoli and Cagliari will clash on Saturday the 16th of December at 6:00 pm in the 16th week of the Serie A. The match is going to be staged in Napoli at the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona. The referee will be Matteo Marcenaro.
Napoli is in the 6th position in the standings with 24 points. It comes from a 1-0 loss against Juventus in its last match in the Serie A. Until now, it has won 7 times, draw 3 times, and lost 5 times.
Cagliari sits in the 16th place in the standings with 13 points. It comes from a 2-1 win against Sassuolo in its last match in the Serie A. To date, it has won 3 times, draw 4 times, and lost 8 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Napoli
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (15 times).
Walter Mazzarri is expected to play against Cagliari with the following players: Alex Meret, Natan, Juan Jesus , Amir Rrahmani , Giovanni Di Lorenzo, Stanislav Lobotka, Frank Anguissa, Piotr Zielinski, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Matteo Politano and Victor Osimhen .
If the line up is confirmed as above, the projected average age of Napoli would be 27.45.
Walter Mazzarri will probably not be able to employ Mário Rui because of injury.
Mathías Olivera will definitely miss the match.
Cagliari
Cagliari has mostly adopted the 3-5-2 line-up during the season (4 times or 26.67%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-5-2 (4 times), 4-3-1-2 (3 times), 4-4-1-1 (once), 3-4-1-2 (once), 4-3-2-1 (once), 4-4-2 (once), 3-4-2-1 (once), 4-1-3-2 (once), 4-2-3-1 (once) and 3-4-3 (once).
Claudio Ranieri is expected to play against Napoli with the following players: Simone Scuffet, Tommaso Augello, Edoardo Goldaniga, Alberto Dossena, Nahitan Nández, Jakub Jankto, Antoine Makoumbou, Matteo Prati, Nicolas Viola, Andrea Petagna and Zito Luvumbo.
In case that this will be the line-up, the projected average age of Cagliari would be 26.73.
Claudio Ranieri will probably not be able to employ Elio Capradossi and Gianluca Lapadula because of injury.
Marko Rog will definitely miss the match.