Napoli vs Frosinone - prediction, team news, lineups

Trailing down their promoted visitors successful the Serie A standings, Napoli volition effort to leapfrog Frosinone erstwhile the brace clash astatine Stadio Maradona connected Saturday.

Having stunned Como conscionable earlier the break, the Canarini present purpose to down different Champions League nine successful Campania.

Match preview

With conscionable 2 wins from his archetypal six games, caller Napoli manager Massimiliano Allegri has failed to person his galore doubters since taking implicit from Antonio Conte this summer.

A pugnacious fixture database has not helped, arsenic the Partenopei person already suffered back-to-back defeats against the champions of Italy and England - to Inter Milan successful Serie A, past Arsenal successful the Champions League. 

Before planetary shot intervened, Allegri's broadside relieved immoderate unit by beating Bologna astatine the Maradona, past picked up a constituent successful Florence past clip out.

Billy Gilmour's extremity enactment them up midway done the archetypal fractional against Fiorentina, but they yet had to settee for a 1-1 draw, leaving them ninth successful the aboriginal Serie A standings.

Theoretically, Napoli's docket should easiness with consecutive league games against recently promoted opponents - they volition sojourn Venezia aft hosting Frosinone - nevertheless the second beryllium wrong Italy's apical six.

At slightest past volition beryllium connected their broadside this weekend: the Campanian nine person won 5 of six erstwhile top-flight meetings, portion averaging much than 3 goals per game.

Of course, the visitors indispensable anticipation existent signifier is simply a much applicable indicator, having made a hugely affirmative commencement to their latest comeback campaign.

The Canarini's caller visits to Serie A person each resulted successful contiguous relegation, but Massimiliano Alvini's men are truly impressing truthful far.

In opposition to Napoli's cautious attack nether Allegri, their progressive benignant has paid off, earning Alvini Serie A's manager of the period grant and young striker Antonio Raimondo the 'Rising Star' prize.

Before an ill-timed interruption for planetary football, Frosinone bushed high-flying Como 2-0 astatine Stadio Stirpe, moving them up to sixth spot connected a steadfast tally of 10 points. 

Now, different daze triumph would spot them go the archetypal promoted nine to scope 13 aft six matches since a post-Calciopoli Juventus broadside deed that people immoderate 19 years ago.

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Team News

The planetary interruption has allowed Napoli to trim their agelong lack list, with Alex Meret, Leonardo Spinazzola and Scott McTominay each backmost successful afloat training.

Having missed retired connected Scotland duty, the second has been cleared to play aft undergoing a insignificant bosom operation, but helium is not expected to start.

Less positively, Antonio Vergara suffered a calf strain portion shining connected his archetypal commencement for Italy and helium whitethorn beryllium ruled retired for the remainder of October.

Alisson Santos, Alessandro Buongiorno, Mathias Olivera and Costantino Favasuli are besides sidelined, portion Frank Anguissa's beingness remains successful immoderate doubt.

While Rasmus Hojlund is the hosts' apical scorer with 2 league goals, Frosinone brace Raimondo and Giorgi Kvernadze already person 7 betwixt them.

The second is statistically 1 of the apical dribblers successful Serie A and has scored successful his past 3 nine appearances; however, helium failed to find the nett arsenic Georgia fired 4 consecutive blanks successful the UEFA Nations League.

Though Raimondo inactive hopes to diagnostic contempt leaving the Italy Under-21s squad with an Achilles issue, Florian Grillitsch has yet to instrumentality pursuing hernia surgery.

With Raimondo struggling and Romania guardant Daniel Birligea ruled retired by a muscular injury, Slovak striker Tomas Bobcek could beryllium handed his archetypal Serie A start.

Napoli imaginable starting lineup:

Milinkovic-Savic; Di Lorenzo, Rrahmani, Marin, Spinazzola; Gilmour, Lobotka; Politano, De Bruyne, Neres; Hojlund

Frosinone imaginable starting lineup:

Palmisani; Oyono, Calvani, Monterisi, Bracaglia; Masini, Calo; Ghedjemis, Schmid, Kvernadze; Bobcek

We say: Napoli 2-1 Frosinone 

Though Frosinone person looked the much fluent broadside truthful far, Napoli are ever pugnacious to bushed connected location turf - and a three-week intermission whitethorn person stalled the Canarini's momentum.

With cardinal men returning, the hosts tin assertion triumph and determination level with their plucky visitors connected 10 points.

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