Napoli vs. Cremonese - prediction, team news, lineups

Aware that they could surrender their Serie A rubric successful gameweek 35, Napoli big relegation-threatened Cremonese astatine the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium connected Friday, aiming to hold Inter Milan’s expected coronation for 1 much weekend.

Antonio Conte’s men had made the Scudetto contention absorbing with 5 consecutive league victories, lone to driblet the shot successful successive rounds, leaving them 12 points adrift with 5 games to play.

Match preview

Nothing seemed much ill-timed than Napoli’s show and effect successful past weekend’s 2-0 loss to a Lazio broadside managed by erstwhile brag Maurizio Sarri.

The Partenopei were unbeaten successful the league astatine the Maradona each season, lone to prevention perchance their worst show for the sojourn of the superior club, against whom they failed to registry a changeable connected target.

Booed disconnected by their fans, Conte’s squad person present fallen 12 points down Inter with 5 matches remaining, and it present seems a substance of when, not if, the Nerazzurri assertion different Scudetto crown.

Having reeled disconnected 5 consecutive wins to marque the run-in interesting, taking 1 constituent from six present leaves the Azzurri warring for 2nd spot, with AC Milan level connected 66 points and Juventus conscionable 3 adrift.

With Leonardo Spinazzola admitting that the squad lacked “mental energy” successful the Lazio defeat, it volition beryllium absorbing to spot whether Conte’s men respond against a struggling Cremonese broadside successful Campania.

Marco Giampaolo takes the Violini to the Maradona this play alert of the humanities disadvantage the Lombardy outfit look against their hosts from Naples.

The visitors person not beaten Napoli successful Serie A successful 32 years, since a 2-0 triumph implicit the Partenopei successful Lombardy successful 1994, portion they person nary wins connected grounds against the hosts successful Campania.

Given the distant side’s precarious concern heading into gameweek 34, thing but maximum points connected Friday leaves La Cremo astatine hazard of sliding into the relegation portion aft the imminent circular of fixtures.

Cremonese are level connected 28 points with 18th-placed Lecce, who sojourn second-bottom Hellas Verona, highlighting the request to extremity a three-match winless sequence, 2 of which person been defeats.

However, a affirmative effect volition necessitate Giampaolo’s men to amended connected a dismal distant grounds that has seen them suffer 4 of their past 5 connected the roadworthy — 10 wide — with lone Lecce (11) having suffered much away-day setbacks.

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Team News

While Conte’s broadside did not look to endure immoderate wounded problems successful the Lazio defeat, they stay without Giovanni Di Lorenzo, Romelu Lukaku, David Neres and Antonio Vergara for this weekend.

Even though Rasmus Hojlund and Scott McTominay person 18 goals betwixt them, six of Hojlund’s goals person travel distant from home, portion McTominay’s 2 goals successful Naples item his superior returns connected location soil.

Despite the half-time substitutions of Frank Anguissa and Kevin De Bruyne, some men are expected to support their places successful the broadside for Friday’s sojourn of Cremonese.

Youssef Maleh and Jari Vandeputte scored the goals successful Cremonese’s archetypal distant triumph since December, and the travelling supporters volition anticipation for different affirmative travel connected Friday.

Federico Bonazzoli, though, remains the club’s starring marksman this term, adjacent if the guardant has not scored from unfastened play since the March 8 nonaccomplishment astatine Lecce.

The Violini look acceptable to navigate this weekend’s lucifer without Jamie Vardy, Martin Thorsby, Faris Moumbagna and Michele Collocolo.

Napoli imaginable starting lineup:

Milinkovic-Savic; Beukema, Buongiorno, Olivera; Politano, Anguissa, Spinazzola; De Bruyne, McTominay; Hojlund

Cremonese imaginable starting lineup:

Audero; Terracciano, Baschirotto, Luperto, Pezzella; Mussolini, Bondo, Grassi, Vandeputte; Bonazzoli, Sanabria

We say: Napoli 2-1 Cremonese

This whitethorn not beryllium a straightforward evening for Napoli, peculiarly if their caller deficiency of fluency carries into Friday’s encounter.

Nevertheless, the location broadside ought to find a mode done against a squad with specified a mediocre grounds distant from Lombardy.

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