Midfield accidents haven’t cleared up for Antonio Conte, who might have to call the identical Napoli beginning XI for the second time in 4 days for Wednesday night time’s Champions League conflict towards Jose Mourinho’s Benfica.
The Partenopei have been capable of pull out in Serie A over the weekend, regardless of accidents to 4 key midfielders in Kevin De Bruyne, Stanislav Lobotka, Frank Anguissa and Billy Gilmour.
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Eljif Elmas was referred to as in to play in central midfield in Lobotka’s absence over the weekend, and is predicted to start out alongside once more in Lisbon this night.
NAPLES, ITALY – DECEMBER 07: Eljif Elmas of SSC Napoli runs with the ball while underneath strain from Francisco Conceicao of Juventus in the course of the Serie A match between SSC Napoli and Juventus FC at Stadio Diego Armando Maradona on December 07, 2025 in Naples, Italy. (Photograph by Francesco Pecoraro/Getty Pictures)
Rasmus Hojlund has 4 objective involvements in his three league matches for the reason that November worldwide break, together with a brace towards Juve, and can be anticipated to go once more at centre-forward towards Benfica with Romelu Lukaku but to return from his thigh harm. Lorenzo Lucca is prone to begin amongst the substitutes.
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predicts that Conte will title an unchanged beginning XI towards Benfica, which might imply consecutive begins for Sam Beukema, Amir Rrahmani and Alessandro Buongiorno within the again three, Giovanni Di Lorenzo and Mathias Olivera at wing-back and David Neres and Noa Lang on the wings.
Kick-off is due at 20.00 GMT (21.00 CET).
Benfica vs. Napoli: Possible line-ups
NAPLES, ITALY – DECEMBER 07: Antonio Conte, Head Coach of SSC Napoli, applauds in the course of the Serie A match between SSC Napoli and Juventus FC at Stadio Diego Armando Maradona on December 07, 2025 in Naples, Italy. (Photograph by Francesco Pecoraro/Getty Pictures)
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Napoli (3-4-3): Milinkovic-Savic; Beukema, Rrahmani, Buongiorno; Di Lorenzo, Elmas, McTominay, Olivera; Neres, Hojlund, Lang.
Benfica (4-2-3-1): Trubin; Dedic, Silva, Otamendi, Dahl; Barrenechea, Rios; Aursnes, Barreiro, Sudakov; Pavlidis.
The place to look at Benfica vs. Napoli
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