National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Napoli or Cremonese that keep their silverware dream alive.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Napoli form and stats
Last season, Napoli's Coppa Italia journey ended in the round of 16.8-1-0 is the performance here at Stadio Diego Armando Maradona so far in the Serie A, giving Napoli a total of 25 from their 9 games here. Outstanding results!
Napoli's previous game was also played at home, ending 5-1 versus Juventus. The home side are looking to build on that result. As indicated by the result mentioned above, Napoli played a great game against Juventus and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one. The gifted forward Kvaratskhelia outshone all others in that game and got a match rating of 9.12 out of 10. Kvaratskhelia scored one goal, signed up for two assists, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 4 of 7 times.
Before that match, a Serie A win away at Sampdoria.There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Napoli as they are travelling to their away game against Salernitana in the Serie A. That match is four days after this one.
Napoli are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Stadio Diego Armando Maradona in their league games, having scored an impressive 26 goals in 9 matches. From these home matches, Napoli have conceded only 7 goals.
Cremonese form and stats
They also participated in Coppa Italia last season. This ended in the 1st round.Cremonese have only collected 4 points from their away games in the Serie A, after 0-4-5 (9 played).
Cremonese's previous game was their home loss versus Monza (2-3). Valeri got a match rating of 7.45 in that game, top player of the team. Valeri served one assist, hit three key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
Preceding that game, the 0-2 loss visiting Hellas Verona's place.Cremonese's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 17 goals from these trips.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  V. Osimhen 12 goals |  K. Kvaratskhelia 7 goals |  E. Elmas 5 goals |
Napoli missing players
Cremonese missing players
| Napoli | Cremonese | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 10 | 25 | ||
| 20 | 11 | Won | W | 0 | 5 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 5 | 8 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 5 | 12 | ||
| 63 | 38 | Scored | S | 9 | 37 | ||
| 24 | 14 | Conceded | C | 17 | 40 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 90% | 84% | ||
| 84% | 92% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 80% | 72% | ||
| 68% | 77% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 40% | 56% | ||
| 48% | 69% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 40% | 52% | ||
| 36% | 46% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 10% | 28% | ||
| 60% | 69% | BTTS | BTTS | 60% | 52% | ||
| 32% | 31% | Clean Sheets | C S | 10% | 24% | ||
| 12% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 40% | 40% | ||
| 4.5 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.1 | 5.4 | ||
| 4.8 | 5.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.9 | 4.1 | ||
| 1.2 | 0.9 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 2.1 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 16.2 | 17.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 14.6 | 15.7 | ||
| 6.3 | 6.4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 5 | ||
| 40% | 45% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 20% | 25% | ||
| 11.2 | 11.1 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 14.9 | 14.3 | ||
| 3.2 | 3.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.8 | 5.6 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Napoli | 18 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 44 | 14 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 7 | 30 | 47 |
| 2 | Milan | 18 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 35 | 20 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 9 | 15 | 38 |
| 3 | Juventus | 18 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 27 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 21 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 37 |
| 4 | Inter | 18 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 38 | 24 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 20 | 14 | 37 |
| 5 | Lazio | 17 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 29 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 6 | 14 | 31 |
| 6 | Atalanta | 17 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 26 | 18 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 8 | 31 |
| 7 | Roma | 17 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 21 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 31 |
| 8 | Udinese | 17 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 25 | 19 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 25 |
| 9 | Fiorentina | 17 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 21 | 22 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 8 | -1 | 23 |
| 10 | Torino | 17 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 18 | 19 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 14 | -1 | 23 |
| 11 | Monza | 18 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 22 | 27 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 17 | -5 | 21 |
| 12 | Lecce | 18 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 18 | 20 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 9 | -2 | 20 |
| 13 | Bologna | 17 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 21 | 28 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 20 | -7 | 19 |
| 14 | Empoli | 17 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 15 | 22 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 14 | -7 | 19 |
| 15 | Salernitana | 17 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 21 | 27 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 16 | -6 | 18 |
| 16 | Sassuolo | 17 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 17 | 26 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 17 | -9 | 16 |
| 17 | Spezia | 17 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 16 | 28 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 13 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 16 | -12 | 15 |
| 18 | Hellas Verona | 18 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 15 | 31 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 10 | 17 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 14 | -16 | 9 |
| 19 | Sampdoria | 17 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 8 | 30 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 15 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 15 | -22 | 9 |
| 20 | Cremonese | 18 | 0 | 7 | 11 | 13 | 32 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 15 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 17 | -19 | 7 |
