Salernitana vs Napoli Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Salernitana

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Salernitana will be hoping to return to winning ways here following a 8-2 Serie A defeat in their last game at the hands of Atalanta.

In that match, Salernitana managed 42% possession and 7 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. For Salernitana, goals were scored by Boulaye Dia (10') and Hans Nicolussi Caviglia (56'). Atalanta had 19 attempts at goal with 13 on target. Jérémie Boga (5'), Ademola Lookman (20', 54'), Giorgio Scalvini (23'), Teun Koopmeiners (38'), Rasmus Højlund (41'), Éderson (61') and Nadir Zortea (85') scored for Atalanta.

Salernitana have been conceding pretty frequently of late, although they have also found ways to hit the back of the net themselves. Looking at their last 6 games, Salernitana have been punished defensively in 6 of them in addition to scoring in 5 of those matches. We will find out whether or not that trend will be sustained in this game.

Their past results show that Salernitana:

• are winless against SSC Napoli in their last 5 league games.
• haven’t won at home in the past 3 league games.

SSC Napoli

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Previously, Napoli drew 2-2 in the Coppa Italia tie with Cremonese.

In that game, SSC Napoli had 70% possession and 20 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. For SSC Napoli, the goals were scored by Juan Jesus (33') and Giovanni Simeone (36'). Cremonese had 7 shots on goal with 2 on target. Charles Pickel (18') and Felix Afena-Gyan (87') scored for Cremonese. Cremonese won the match 4-5 in a dramatic penalty shootout.

Indicating their penchant for action-packed encounters, goals have been seen as many as 20 times in the prior 6 matches in which SSC Napoli have played, making it a mean average of 3.33 goals each clash. Their opponents have managed 6 of these goals.

Heading into this contest, SSC Napoli haven't been defeated by Salernitana in away games against them for the last 2 league games.

↔️ Head to head

A quick look at their past head to head meetings stretching back to 26/04/2003 shows that these fixtures have been pretty painful for Salernitana. They’ve not managed to register any wins at all whereas Napoli have maintained the edge over them, finishing as winners in 67% of those ties.

A total of 13 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 3 from I granata and 10 belonging to Partenopei. That is an average goals per game value of 2.17.

The last league meeting featuring these sides was Serie A match day 23 on 23/01/2022 when the final score was SSC Napoli 4-1 Salernitana.

In that game, SSC Napoli managed 82% possession and 26 shots at goal with 14 of them on target. The goals were scored by Juan Jesus (17'), Dries Mertens (45'), Amir Rrahmani (47') and Lorenzo Insigne (53').

Salernitana had 1 shots on goal with 1 of them on target. Federico Bonazzoli (33') was the scorer.

The referee was Luca Pairetto.

🗞️ Team News: Salernitana

Federico Fazio (Calf Injury), Dylan Bronn (Thigh Problems), Ivan Radovanovic (Unknown Injury), Luigi Sepe (Disrupted Calf Muscle), Giulio Maggiore (Hamstring Injury) and Pasquale Mazzocchi (Cruciate Ligament Surgery) will not be able to play for Salernitana boss Davide Nicola. Sanasi Sy will not be able to play in this game through being suspended.

📋 Team News: Napoli

Napoli manager Luciano Spalletti has to choose from a squad that has some fitness concerns. Juan Jesus (Bruise) and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (Flu) miss out here.

⚡ Prediction

We believe that SSC Napoli will most probably see a lot of the ball and convert quite a few goal-scoring opportunities.

At the other end, Salernitana could well find it tough getting goals, although we do see them getting the chances to score, too.

Our selection here is for a decent 1-3 winning margin for SSC Napoli when the referee blows the final whistle.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Lucas Pereira, 01:50 17/01/2023