📏 Form Guide

SSC Napoli

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Napoli, who won their previous game, will hope for a similar result following the 0-2 Serie A victory versus Lazio.

In that game, SSC Napoli managed 65% possession and 14 shots at goal with 3 on target. For SSC Napoli, the goalscorers were Leonardo Spinazzola (13') and Amir Rrahmani (32'). Lazio had 5 shots at goal with 0 of them on target.

A recurring aspect of more recent SSC Napoli games is the number of results with a nil in them.

Taking their prior six clashes before this one, in as many as 6 of them a wager on both teams scoring would have lost.

Coming into this contest, SSC Napoli haven't been defeated in their previous 18 league matches at home. Incredible, really.

Hellas Verona

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Since a losing effort in their last game against Torino in Serie A action, Hellas Verona and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that game, Hellas Verona had 48% possession and 7 shots on goal with 3 on target. At the other end, Torino had 21 shots on goal with 5 on target. Giovanni Simeone (10'), Cesare Casadei (87') and Alieu Eybi Njie (91') scored for Torino.

Looking at their form, and Hellas Verona have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, conceding 9 goals in all. Defensively, Hellas Verona can certainly do much better. That kind of pattern might not be continued into this next game, of course.

🤜🤛 Head to head

An examination of their most recent head to head clashes stretching back to 15/08/2022 shows us that Napoli have won 4 of these games and Hellas Verona 1, with the number of drawn games standing at 1.

A sum of 19 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 12 of them from Partenopei and 7 netted by Verona. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 3.17.

The last league encounter featuring the two was Serie A match day 20 on 12/01/2025 when it finished SSC Napoli 2-0 Hellas Verona.

In that game, SSC Napoli had 69% possession and 14 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Frank Anguissa (61').

Hellas Verona got 6 attempts on goal with 2 on target. Lorenzo Montipò (5' Own goal) was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Luca Zufferli.

🗞️ Team News: Napoli

David Neres (Ankle sprain), Sam Beukema (Foot bruise), Billy Gilmour (Pubalgia), Romelu Lukaku (Rest), Frank Anguissa (Hamstring injury) and Kevin De Bruyne (Hamstring muscle injury) won’t be available for Napoli gaffer Antonio Conte. Pasquale Mazzocchi will not be able to play in this game through being suspended.

It looks as if Partenopei will probably make use of the 3-4-2-1 system for this one with V. Milinkovic-Savic, Giovanni Di Lorenzo, Amir Rrahmani, Juan Jesus, Matteo Politano, Stanislav Lobotka, Scott McTominay, Leonardo Spinazzola, Eljif Elmas, Noa Lang and Rasmus Hoejlund.

📋 Team News: Hellas Verona

Hellas Verona manager Paolo Zanetti has not got a full squad to pick from. Jean-Daniel Akpa Akpro (Ankle problems) and Tomas Suslov (Torn knee ligaments) are not able to play. Rafik Belghali will not be able to play in this game through being suspended.

From our viewpoint, Hellas Verona could decide to begin the game with a 3-5-2 system with a starting lineup of Lorenzo Montipo, Unai Nunez, Victor Nelsson, Armel Bella-Kotchap, Daniel Oyegoke, Cheikh Niasse, Roberto Gagliardini, Antoine Bernede, Martin Frese, Giovane Nascimento and Daniel Mosquera.

🧠 Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that SSC Napoli can and should dominate possession and create several successful chances.

However, Hellas Verona are also probably going to find it difficult to get a goal of their own but we do think that it’s more than likely that they will be pulling one back during this clash.

Therefore, we are anticipating a fairly comfortable 3-1 winning score for SSC Napoli at full-time.

Victor Martins, 17:01 07/01/2026