One-sided contest expected as Napoli welcomes Spezia

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Competition: Italy Serie A
Competition: Wed 06.January
Match begins: 17:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio San Paolo, Napoli (60240 seats)

There should be a significant difference in quality between these teams based on table positions so far, with Napoli leading Spezia by 17 points.

Insights:
  • Napoli has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (4) in Serie A
  • Spezia is in the worst form (0-1-5)

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.

Spezia play their home games on artifical turf, while this game is played on grass. Recent stats for Spezia when playing on grass are 16 wins, 11 draws and 19 defeats from 46 matches. They have scored 63 goals and conceded 64 times in these games.

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Napoli form and stats

Napoli have collected 13 points from their Serie A home games so far after 4-1-2.

A strong away win for Napoli against Cagliari the last match, as Piotr Zieliński (2), Hirving Lozano and Lorenzo Insigne were on target. In the match before that, Napoli hosted Torino and drew the game 1-1.

Napoli are traveling soon after this match as the Serie A match at Udinese awaits in four days.

Napoli are showing their attacking force in their league home games this season, scoring more than 2,5 goals per game on average (18 goals in 7 games). On the other hand, Napoli have conceded 8 goals.

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Spezia form and stats

2-2-3 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Spezia in their Serie A matches away. Recent form does not give Spezia much hope, as the visitors have lost three games in a row. Napoli will be a tough nut to crack. Spezia has lost their two previous away games and are eager to kill a negative trend in its infancy.

Spezia failed to get anything from their last game, a Serie A home match vs Hellas Verona (placed 8th) that ended with defeat 0-1. A 1-2 loss hosting Genoa before that.

As mentioned above, the bookmakers do not believe the away team will get anything from this match. Checking Spezia's match history for similar games we find one match. The home team won one of these as expected, zero of them by at least two goals. Spezia managed zero draws and zero surprise wins.

Spezia are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 11 times in 7 away games so far. As for defending, Spezia rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 13 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Last three meetings between the teams: Napoli won three, Spezia won zero and zero draws. two games with over 2,5 goals, one match with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

NapoliH. Lozano Bahena
H. Lozano Bahena
7 goals
SpeziaM. N'Zola
M. N'Zola
7 goals
NapoliL. Insigne
L. Insigne
6 goals

Napoli missing players

Spezia missing players

Napoli Spezia
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
14 7 2 Played P 2 7 15
9 4 1 Won W 0 2 2
1 1 1 Drew D 0 2 5
4 2 0 Lost L 2 3 8
31 18 7 Scored S 1 11 19
13 8 1 Conceded C 5 13 30
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 93%
86% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 87%
57% 71% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 86% 80%
43% 57% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 43% 47%
21% 29% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 14% 20%
43% 57% 50% BTTS BTTS 50% 57% 67%
36% 29% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 29% 20%
21% 14% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 14% 20%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.9 2 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 3 3.3
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
18.1 18 16.5 Shots (avg) S ( 5.5 9.6 10.3
6.5 7.7 8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.5 4 3.4
34% 33% 44% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 39% 37%
Key stats in Serie A this season:
  • All of Napoli's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • All of Spezia's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Napoli has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (4) in Serie A
  • Napoli have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Napoli have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Napoli haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Spezia have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Spezia haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Spezia is in the worst form (0-1-5)

  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 15 11 4 0 34 16 7 4 3 0 17 9 8 7 1 0 17 7 18 37
2 Inter 15 11 3 1 40 19 8 6 1 1 23 13 7 5 2 0 17 6 21 36
3 Roma 15 9 3 3 32 23 8 6 2 0 19 7 7 3 1 3 13 16 9 30
4 Napoli 14 9 1 4 31 13 7 4 1 2 18 8 7 5 0 2 13 5 18 28
5 Sassuolo 15 7 5 3 27 22 7 2 3 2 10 10 8 5 2 1 17 12 5 26
6 Atalanta 14 7 4 3 33 21 7 4 1 2 19 10 7 3 3 1 14 11 12 25
7 Juventus 13 6 6 1 25 13 6 3 2 1 9 6 7 3 4 0 16 7 12 24
8 Hellas Verona 15 6 5 4 19 14 8 3 2 3 10 8 7 3 3 1 9 6 5 23
9 Lazio 15 6 4 5 23 24 7 2 2 3 9 12 8 4 2 2 14 12 -1 22
10 Benevento 15 5 3 7 17 25 8 2 2 4 8 14 7 3 1 3 9 11 -8 18
11 Sampdoria 15 5 2 8 23 25 7 2 1 4 13 12 8 3 1 4 10 13 -2 17
12 Bologna 15 4 4 7 21 27 7 3 1 3 14 15 8 1 3 4 7 12 -6 16
13 Udinese 13 4 3 6 14 17 7 2 1 4 5 9 6 2 2 2 9 8 -3 15
14 Fiorentina 15 3 6 6 16 21 8 2 4 2 8 8 7 1 2 4 8 13 -5 15
15 Cagliari 15 3 5 7 22 31 7 2 2 3 11 14 8 1 3 4 11 17 -9 14
16 Parma 15 2 6 7 13 28 8 1 4 3 3 11 7 1 2 4 10 17 -15 12
17 Torino 15 2 5 8 25 32 7 0 3 4 12 17 8 2 2 4 13 15 -7 11
18 Spezia 15 2 5 8 19 30 8 0 3 5 8 17 7 2 2 3 11 13 -11 11
19 Genoa 15 2 5 8 15 28 8 1 2 5 11 16 7 1 3 3 4 12 -13 11
20 Crotone 15 2 3 10 15 35 7 2 1 4 8 13 8 0 2 6 7 22 -20 9

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Serie A is the division at the top of the Italian football league system and regarded as one of the top leagues of the world. 20 teams play each other home and away to create a final league table after 380 fixtures. The winners are titled “Campione d’Italia” (Champion of Italy), often referred to as the scudetto.