Napoli and Salernitana will face on Saturday the 13th of January at 3:00 pm in the 20th week of the Serie A. The match will be played in Napoli at the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona. The appointed referee is Livio Marinelli.

Napoli occupies the 9th position in the table with 28 points. It comes from a 3-0 loss against Torino in its last match in the Serie A. As of now, it has won 8 times, draw 4 times, and lost 7 times.​​

Salernitana is in the 20th place in the league with 12 points. It comes from a 1-2 loss against Juventus in its last match in the Serie A. So far, it has won twice, draw 6 times, and lost 11 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 (19 times).

Walter Mazzarri is expected to play against Salernitana with the following players: Pierluigi Gollini , Mário Rui, Juan Jesus , Amir Rrahmani , Giovanni Di Lorenzo, Stanislav Lobotka, Piotr Zielinski, Jens Cajuste, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Matteo Politano and Giacomo Raspadori.

Suppose that the line up is confirmed, the projected average age of Napoli would be 29.00.

Walter Mazzarri will probably not be able to employ Leo Østigård because of injury.

Alex Meret, Natan, Mathías Olivera, Frank Anguissa and Victor Osimhen  will definitely miss the match.

Walter Mazzarri will not be able to have the presence of Pasquale Mazzocchi who is suspended​.

Salernitana​

Salernitana has mostly adopted the 3-4-2-1 line-up during the season (12 times or 63.16%).

Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-4-2-1 (12 times), 4-2-3-1 (3 times), 4-3-2-1 (2 times), 3-5-2 (once) and 4-3-3 (once).

Filippo Inzaghi is expected to play against Napoli with the following players: Guillermo Ochoa, Federico Fazio, Norbert Gyomber, Flavius Daniliuc , Domagoj Bradaric, Mateusz Legowski, Agustín Martegani, Junior Sambia, Antonio Candreva, Loum Tchaouna and Simy.

Presuming that the line up is confirmed as above, the resulting average age of Salernitana would be 29.00.

Lorenzo Pirola , Emil Bohinen , Lassana Coulibaly , Grigoris Kastanos, Jovane Cabral and Boulaye Dia will definitely miss the match.

Filippo Inzaghi will not be able to have the presence of Giulio Maggiore who is suspended​​.