Roma and Napoli are going to play on Saturday the 23rd of December at 8:45 pm in the 17th week of the Serie A. The match is going to take place in Roma at the Stadio Olimpico. The encounter will be officiated by Andrea Colombo.
Roma occupies the 8th position in the league with 25 points. It comes from a 2-0 loss against Bologna in its last match in the Serie A. Thus far, it has won 7 times, draw 4 times, and lost 5 times.
Napoli occupies the 5th position in the league with 27 points. It comes from a 2-1 win against Cagliari in its last match in the Serie A. So far, it has won 8 times, draw 3 times, and lost 5 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Roma
Roma has mostly adopted the 3-5-2 line-up during the season (12 times or 75.00%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-5-2 (12 times) and 3-4-2-1 (4 times).
José Mario Felix dos Santos Mourinho is expected to play against Napoli with the following players: Rui Patrício, Diego Llorente, Gianluca Mancini, Evan Ndicka, Leonardo Spinazzola, Lorenzo Pellegrini, Bryan Cristante, Leandro Paredes, Rasmus Kristensen, Romelu Lukaku and Andrea Belotti.
In case that the line up is confirmed as above, the estimate average age of Roma would be 28.73.
José Mario Felix dos Santos Mourinho will probably not be able to employ A. Bordin, Marash Kumbulla , Rick Karsdorp and Riccardo Pagano because of injury.
L. Valeau, F. Tripi, Mile Svilar, Pietro Boer, Chris Smalling, Zeki Çelik, Houssem Aouar, Nicola Zalewski, Renato Sanches , Tammy Abraham , Paulo Dybala, Stephan El Shaarawy and Sardar Azmoun will definitely miss the match.
José Mario Felix dos Santos Mourinho will not be able to have the presence of Edoardo Bove who is suspended.
Napoli
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (16 times).
Walter Mazzarri is expected to play against Roma with the following players: Alex Meret, Mário Rui, Amir Rrahmani , Natan, Giovanni Di Lorenzo, Stanislav Lobotka, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Matteo Politano and Victor Osimhen .
In case that the above line up is confirmed, the projected average age of Napoli would be 27.22.
There are doubts about the presence of Frank Anguissa and Piotr Zielinski.
Walter Mazzarri will probably not be able to employ Nikita Contini, Hubert Idasiak, Karim Zedadka, Lorenzo Russo and Gianluca Gaetano because of injury.
V. Boffelli, Mathías Olivera, Igor Łasicki, D. Costanzo, Eljif Elmas, Diego Demme, Jens Cajuste, Alessio Zerbin, Giacomo Raspadori and Giovanni Simeone will definitely miss the match.
