Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Napoli & Spezia face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Coppa Italia. All the pre-match information is available here!
These are busy days for the home team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Serie A. That game was an away game at Hellas Verona, so at least Napoli are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!
This pitch has grass, which is not Spezia's usual surface at their own ground. When playing on grass Spezia have performed like this: Played 48 matches resulting in 18 wins, 12 draws and 18 defeats with the goal stats 71-67 (scored/conceded).
Napoli form and stats
Napoli have played 9 Serie A games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 5-1-3 (wins-draws-losses).
Napoli manager I. Gattuso and his team return home after a 1-1 draw away versus Hellas Verona in the Serie A. Prior to that, an away loss at Juventus in the Super Cup.
The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Napoli home games with this odds we find nine games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in three wins, two draws and four defeats. Looking at the victories, two matches were won by at least two goals.
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Parma are coming to town in three days.
Napoli are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Stadio San Paolo, Napoli in their league games, having scored an impressive 25 goals in 9 matches. Napoli's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 10 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only -1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.
Spezia form and stats
Spezia was sent out of Coppa Italia in the 3rd round last season.3-3-4 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Spezia in their Serie A matches away. The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the Coppa Italia stats, they have 3 wins, 0 draws and 0 losses both home and away.
Spezia lost away at Roma (3-4) in their previous game and are perhaps starting to feel homesick. Before that one, a nice away victory 4-2 at Roma (after extra-time).
A crazy, crazy match with lots of goals last time out for Spezia, as mentioned above. 7 goals in that one, will this match be as much fun? Late heartbreak for Spezia in the Roma match, as the deciding 3-4 goal came deep into overtime.
We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Spezia played away with similar odds. This revealed two games. The visitors overcame the odds to win one time, zero were draws and the home team won as expected one time.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Udinese in just three days.
Spezia has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 16 goals from 10 games. It's worth mentioning that 10 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Spezia have conceded 18 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
Head-to-head totals (for the last four meetings): Napoli won three games, zero matches ended with a draw and Spezia has one win. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: three / oneTop Goalscorers
  L. Insigne 9 goals |   M. N'Zola 9 goals |  H. Lozano Bahena 8 goals |
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| Napoli | Spezia | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 14 | 7 | Won | W | 7 | 9 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Drew | D | 3 | 6 | ||
| 7 | 4 | Lost | L | 4 | 10 | ||
| 49 | 31 | Scored | S | 27 | 42 | ||
| 25 | 14 | Conceded | C | 22 | 41 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 93% | 92% | ||
| 84% | 92% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 86% | 80% | ||
| 52% | 62% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 71% | 72% | ||
| 32% | 46% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 43% | 44% | ||
| 20% | 31% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 29% | 28% | ||
| 52% | 54% | BTTS | BTTS | 57% | 60% | ||
| 28% | 31% | Clean Sheets | C S | 36% | 28% | ||
| 20% | 15% | Failed to Score | F T | 14% | 20% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1.6 | 1.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.4 | 3.4 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 3 | 4 | ||
| 16.1 | 17.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9 | 9.8 | ||
| 5.8 | 7.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.9 | 3.5 | ||
| 34% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 49% | 44% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Milan | 19 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 39 | 22 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 20 | 15 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 7 | 17 | 43 |
| 2 | Inter | 19 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 45 | 23 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 25 | 13 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 20 | 10 | 22 | 41 |
| 3 | Roma | 19 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 41 | 32 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 25 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 20 | 9 | 37 |
| 4 | Atalanta | 19 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 44 | 23 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 22 | 13 | 21 | 36 |
| 5 | Napoli | 17 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 40 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 25 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 6 | 24 | 34 |
| 6 | Juventus | 17 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 35 | 18 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 19 | 10 | 17 | 33 |
| 7 | Lazio | 18 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 30 | 25 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 12 | 5 | 31 |
| 8 | Sassuolo | 18 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 31 | 27 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 15 | 4 | 30 |
| 9 | Hellas Verona | 18 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 22 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 27 |
| 10 | Sampdoria | 18 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 28 | 29 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 15 | -1 | 23 |
| 11 | Benevento | 19 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 23 | 36 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 20 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 16 | -13 | 22 |
| 12 | Fiorentina | 19 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 20 | 30 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 21 | -10 | 21 |
| 13 | Bologna | 18 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 24 | 31 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 17 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 14 | -7 | 20 |
| 14 | Udinese | 19 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 20 | 28 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 16 | -8 | 18 |
| 15 | Spezia | 19 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 26 | 36 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 18 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 18 | -10 | 18 |
| 16 | Genoa | 18 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 18 | 30 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 16 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 14 | -12 | 15 |
| 17 | Torino | 19 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 28 | 37 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 18 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 19 | -9 | 14 |
| 18 | Cagliari | 18 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 23 | 36 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 18 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 18 | -13 | 14 |
| 19 | Parma | 18 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 14 | 34 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 21 | -20 | 13 |
| 20 | Crotone | 19 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 22 | 43 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 17 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 26 | -21 | 12 |