After midweek success within the Champions League, the Juventus Males’s First Group’s consideration returns to Serie A issues as Napoli go to the Allianz Stadium on Sunday night. Kick-off on this Matchday 22 fixture is ready for 18:00 CET.
The Bianconeri shall be hungry to bounce again after the slip at Cagliari final day trip, and are available into the weekend in fifth place on 39 factors.
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Napoli, for his or her half, are third within the desk with 43 factors.
Let’s rise up to hurry with the pre-match statistics forward of Sunday afternoon.
Attention-grabbing Information
Juventus are the aspect towards whom Napoli have misplaced essentially the most Serie A matches – 71 of 159. As effectively, the Partenopei have misplaced 48 occasions on the street to Juventus, profitable simply 9, solely shedding extra away video games to Inter (51).
Since Luciano Spalletti’s arrival as coach, the Bianconeri have picked up 24 factors in Serie A – greater than Napoli’s 22, and bettered solely by Milan (28) and Inter (31).
The Bianconeri have stored six clear sheets from their final 9 matches, conceding simply three objectives in that point and by no means a couple of per recreation. The final time they conceded greater than as soon as in a recreation got here towards Napoli on 7 December.
Kenan Yildiz has had a hand in 101 photographs taken this season in Serie A – 60 of his personal and 41 probabilities created – fewer than solely Nico Paz’s 117. Yildiz has additionally hit the submit greater than some other participant within the league this season (5 occasions), in addition to being the league’s most-fouled participant within the closing third of the pitch.
Manuel Locatelli is one look away from his three hundredth in Serie A. Curiously, the primary of his three penalty objectives got here towards Napoli on 1 November, 2020, as a Sassuolo participant.
For the reason that starting of the Serie A season, no outfield participant has performed greater than Pierre Kalulu’s 2610 minutes – 100% of these performed by Juventus.
Jonathan David has been concerned in 4 objectives in his final 5 league video games (two objectives and two assists). He’s additionally one win away from his a centesimal victory throughout Europe’s top-five leagues in 198 appearances to this point.
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Napoli are the crew with the best proportion of their objectives scored by midfielders this season (48% – 15 of 31).
After his brace towards the Bianconeri in December, Rasmus Hojlund may grow to be simply the third Napoli participant to attain in every of the 2 league matches towards Juventus, after Marek Hamsik in 2009/10 and Lorenzo Insigne in 2020/21.
Scott McTominay has been concerned in 4 objectives (three of his personal, one help) in his final six Serie A appearances, which is as many as he’d managed in his earlier 14 league outings. Since his arrival in Italy, no participant has scored extra headers throughout all competitions than his 9 – together with Matteo Pellegrino and Marcus Thuram.
Napoli have received 70% of the video games by which David Neres has been a starter, averaging 2.2 factors per recreation, versus simply 55% with out him of their preliminary XI for a mean of 1.9.
Romelu Lukaku may seem to play, 247 days after his final Serie A outing on 23 Might, 2025. He has three objectives towards the Bianconeri in Serie A, two of which have are available in his three most up-to-date video games towards them.