Betting preview: Salernitana faced with a tough challenge when Napoli visits

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Competition: Italy Serie A
Competition: Sat 21.January
Match begins: 17:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Arechi (37245 seats)

Battling Salernitana pray to pull off a surprise victory when they play hard-driving Napoli in the next league fixture. It’s 16th vs 1st and the home crowd will have low expectations.

Insights:
  • Salernitana have the most conceded goals (35) in Serie A
  • Napoli have the most scored goals (44) in Serie A

There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a Coppa Italia game only four days ago.

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Salernitana form and stats

3 victories, 3 draws and 3 defeats. That’s what Salernitana, who have the most conceded goals (35) in Serie A, have to build on here at Stadio Arechi in the Serie A.

Salernitana are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 2-8 away versus Atalanta. Salernitana were outplayed and humiliated in their previous game, as mentioned in the paragraph above. They will need to reinstall their confidence before this one. The forward Dia bettered all the other footballers in that game and was awarded a match rating of 7.85 out of 10. Dia scored one goal, served one assist, hit two key passes and had 19 successful passes (of 23 total).

In the match before that, Salernitana hosted Torino and drew the game 1-1.

No one expects the home team to get anything from this game. It's not often a home team are such massive outsiders as in this game. We've searched our database for matches where Salernitana had similar winning odds as today, and found 7 games. In these, the hosts won 0, drew 1 and lost 6. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that Salernitana lost 4 similar games by at least two goals.

Lots of goals? We don't know about this one, but we do know that 11 of the 14 most recent league games with this side has contained three or more goals.

Salernitana have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Stadio Arechi with 14 goals in 9 league matches. Salernitana have conceded 11 in these home matches.

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Napoli form and stats

Napoli have an excellent away record in the Serie A so far with 7-1-1 from 9 games.

Napoli delivered a 2-2 draw playing at home against Cremonese in their previous match; a Coppa Italia duel. Defender Jesus was the best team player with a rating of 8.03. Jesus scored one goal and won 7 of 9 duels.

Prior to that match, a home win 5-1 against Juventus in the Serie A.

They concede less than a goal on average per away game (7 so far).

Head 2 Head

Head-to-head statistics (for the last three meetings): Salernitana won zero games, zero matches ended with a tie and Napoli managed three wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: two / one. The matches between these clubs have sometimes been rough and physical, having seen 3 red cards from the last three encounters.

Top Goalscorers

NapoliV. Osimhen
V. Osimhen
12 goals
SalernitanaB. Dia
B. Dia
7 goals
NapoliK. Kvaratskhelia
K. Kvaratskhelia
7 goals

Salernitana missing players

Napoli missing players

Salernitana Napoli
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
18 9 1 Played P 3 9 18
4 3 0 Won W 3 7 15
6 3 0 Drew D 0 1 2
8 3 1 Lost L 0 1 1
23 14 1 Scored S 11 18 44
35 11 2 Conceded C 3 7 14
94% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 89% 94%
83% 78% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 67% 78%
67% 67% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 56% 61%
39% 33% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 67% 22% 44%
11% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 67% 22% 28%
61% 67% 100% BTTS BTTS 67% 56% 56%
17% 22% 0% Clean Sheets C S 33% 33% 39%
28% 11% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 22% 11%
 
4 4.3 6 Corners for (avg) C F 5 4.4 5.5
4.6 4.6 2 Corners against (avg) C A 3.7 4.6 4.2
2.2 2.4 4 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.3 1.9 1.3
3 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
11.3 12.9 8 Shots (avg) S ( 20.7 14.6 17.2
3.3 4 1 Shots on Target (avg) S O 7 5.3 5.9
39% 39% 100% Goal Efficiency G E 52% 38% 41%
 
16.4 15.8 17 Shots against (avg) S A 7.7 10.7 10.2
6.3 5.9 12 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 1.3 2.4 2.8
Key stats in Serie A this season:
  • Napoli have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Napoli have the most points (22) away in Serie A
  • Napoli have the most scored goals (18) away in Serie A
  • Napoli have the most scored goals (44) in Serie A
  • Napoli have the most scored goals in the first half (21) in Serie A
  • Napoli have the most scored goals in the second half (23) in Serie A
  • Napoli have the the best goal difference (+11) away in Serie A
  • Napoli have the the best goal difference (+30) in Serie A
  • Napoli have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Salernitana have the most conceded goals (35) in Serie A
  • Salernitana have the most conceded goals in the first half (19) in Serie A
  • Salernitana haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

  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 18 10 4 4 31 15 9 5 2 2 16 9 9 5 2 2 15 6 16 34
6 Atalanta 18 10 4 4 34 20 9 4 2 3 19 13 9 6 2 1 15 7 14 34
7 Roma 18 10 4 4 23 16 9 5 1 3 10 5 9 5 3 1 13 11 7 34
8 Udinese 18 6 7 5 26 21 9 3 4 2 14 9 9 3 3 3 12 12 5 25
9 Torino 18 6 5 7 18 20 9 3 3 3 7 6 9 3 2 4 11 14 -2 23
10 Fiorentina 18 6 5 7 21 24 9 4 3 2 14 14 9 2 2 5 7 10 -3 23
11 Bologna 18 6 4 8 23 29 9 4 3 2 13 8 9 2 1 6 10 21 -6 22
12 Empoli 18 5 7 6 16 22 9 4 2 3 8 8 9 1 5 3 8 14 -6 22
13 Monza 18 6 3 9 22 27 9 4 1 4 13 10 9 2 2 5 9 17 -5 21
14 Lecce 18 4 8 6 18 20 9 2 5 2 11 11 9 2 3 4 7 9 -2 20
15 Spezia 18 4 6 8 17 28 9 2 6 1 13 12 9 2 0 7 4 16 -11 18
16 Salernitana 18 4 6 8 23 35 9 3 3 3 14 11 9 1 3 5 9 24 -12 18
17 Sassuolo 18 4 4 10 17 28 9 3 2 4 12 11 9 1 2 6 5 17 -11 16
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 18 2 3 13 8 31 9 0 2 7 2 15 9 2 1 6 6 16 -23 9
20 Cremonese 18 0 7 11 13 32 9 0 3 6 4 15 9 0 4 5 9 17 -19 7

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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.