Cagliari and Napoli will clash on Sunday the 25th of February at 3:00 pm in the 26th week of the Serie A. The match is going to be played in Cagliari at the Sardegna Arena. The chosen referee is Luca Pairetto.
Cagliari sits in the 19th position in the standings with 19 points. It comes from a 1-1 draw against Udinese in its last match in the Serie A. Thus far, it has won 4 times, draw 7 times, and lost 14 times.
Napoli occupies the 9th position in the league with 36 points. It comes from a 1-1 draw against Genoa in its last match in the Serie A. Until now, it has won 10 times, draw 6 times, and lost 8 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Cagliari
Cagliari has mostly adopted the 4-3-1-2 line-up during the season (6 times or 24.00%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-1-2 (6 times), 4-3-2-1 (5 times), 3-5-2 (5 times), 3-4-2-1 (2 times), 3-5-1-1 (once), 4-4-1-1 (once), 3-4-1-2 (once), 4-4-2 (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, Yerry Mina, Alberto Dossena, Alessandro Deiola, Tommaso Augello, Gabriele Zappa, Antoine Makoumbou, Nahitan Nández, Gianluca Gaetano, Zito Luvumbo and Gianluca Lapadula.
Granting that the above line up is confirmed, the estimate average age of Cagliari would be 27.55.
Claudio Ranieri will probably not be able to employ Gaetano Oristanio because of injury.
Velizar-Iliya Iliev, Pantelis Hatzidiakos, Marco Mancosu and Ibrahim Sulemana will definitely miss the match.
Napoli
Napoli has mostly adopted the 4-3-3 line-up during the season (22 times or 91.67%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (22 times), 3-5-1-1 (once) and 3-4-2-1 (once).
Walter Mazzarri is expected to play against Cagliari with the following players: Alex Meret, Mário Rui, Amir Rrahmani , Juan Jesus , Pasquale Mazzocchi, Stanislav Lobotka, Frank Anguissa, Piotr Zielinski, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and Victor Osimhen .
Granting that the above line up is confirmed, the resulting average age of Napoli would be 29.00.
There are doubts about the presence of Matteo Politano.
Cyril Ngonge will definitely miss the match.
Walter Mazzarri will not be able to have the presence of Giovanni Di Lorenzo who is suspended.
