Pisa vs. Napoli - prediction, team news, lineups

Without a triumph implicit Napoli successful 4 decades, relegated Pisa invited dethroned Serie A champions Napoli successful Sunday’s penultimate round.

After truthful overmuch uncertainty surrounding this weekend’s fixtures, Antonio Conte’s men question to the Tuscany portion for their midday fixture, aiming to seal Champions League qualification.

Match preview

With relegation confirmed, Pisa were ever fixed small accidental of defeating a third-bottom Cremonese broadside warring for top-flight status.

Indeed, truthful it proved, adjacent if Oscar Hiljemark’s broadside mislaid their discipline, with Rosen Bozhinov and Felipe Loyola getting sent disconnected successful the 3-0 nonaccomplishment successful Lombardy.

Back astatine location for their last location lucifer of the season, the hosts look different uphill situation against the erstwhile Scudetto holders.

You would forgive supporters for not looking guardant to Sunday’s fixture, having seen their broadside endure 7 consecutive defeats by an aggregate people of 17-2.

Further depressing for the Nerazzurri is their tally without occurrence successful this fixture, with their past triumph implicit their Naples-based opponents coming successful January 1986.

Conte’s men caput to Tuscany seeking to widen their 40-year unbeaten streak successful this fixture, spanning 12 matches, 10 of which person been victories.

However, the Partenopei are successful information of seeing their play peter out, with past week’s 3-2 nonaccomplishment to a Bologna broadside reasonably instructive, considering that the Rossoblu were winless successful 4 matches successful each competitions — failing to people successful each 1 — until they bushed the Azzurri astatine the Maradona.

Napoli, who had not mislaid a league crippled successful Naples since December 2024, person present suffered 2 location defeats successful their past three, with a 4-0 occurrence implicit struggling Cremonese their lone triumph.

Travelling to Pisa offers them the accidental to bounce back, fixed the hosts’ diminished information and wretched run, combined with the Partenopei’s request for occurrence to perchance unafraid their top-four berth.

Although the second-placed squad — presently connected 70 points — participate the last 2 rounds inactive successful information of slipping retired of the Champions League places, maximum points astatine Pisa volition seal their engagement successful Europe’s premier nine competition, arsenic they person the head-to-head vantage implicit fifth-placed Roma (67 points).

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Team News

Bozhinov and Loyola are suspended for the hosts aft receiving reddish cards against Cremonese, portion Matteo Tramoni, Calvin Stengs, Francesco Coppola and Daniel Denoon are apt to beryllium sidelined done injury.

Pisa’s past 2 goals person been scored by Simone Canestrelli and Mehdi Leris, close centre-back and close wing-back respectively, highlighting the location team’s conflict for attacking quality.

While Stefano Moreo remains the team’s apical scorer with six league goals, his past onslaught of immoderate benignant was a punishment successful March’s triumph implicit Cagliari 7 games ago, with the guardant having had nary joyousness from unfastened play since netting a brace successful January’s 6-2 nonaccomplishment astatine Inter Milan.

An oculus contented that kept Kevin De Bruyne retired against Bologna volition beryllium checked, but David Neres and Romelu Lukaku could miss retired arsenic they caregiver ankle and hep injuries.

Matteo Politano volition miss Sunday’s fixture aft past week’s booking, meaning Conte volition marque a alteration astatine close wing-back oregon tweak the strategy against the relegated hosts.

While Rasmus Hojlund and Scott McTominay pb the goalscoring charts for Napoli, Hojlund has not netted successful six league games — though helium has acceptable up 2 goals during that play — and the Scotland planetary has fired blanks successful consecutive fixtures.

Winter accomplishment Alisson Santos has scored successful 2 of his past 3 league appearances, doubling his Serie A tally since his indebtedness determination from Sporting Lisbon; however, each 4 strikes person travel astatine the Maradona, and helium seeks a archetypal distant extremity for the Partenopei.

Pisa imaginable starting lineup:

Semper; Canestrelli, Caracciolo, Calabresi; Leris, Marin, Aebischer, Akinsanmiro, Angori; Stojilkovic, Moreo

Napoli imaginable starting lineup:

Meret; Di Lorenzo, Rrahmani, Buongiorno; Gutierrez, Lobotka, McTominay, Spinazzola; Giovane, Santos; Hojlund

We say: Pisa 0-2 Napoli

The temper whitethorn beryllium 1 of disappointment successful the Napoli dressing room, but beating a demotivated Pisa is the minimum anticipation for the out-of-form visitors.

With occurrence guaranteeing Champions League shot for Conte’s men, they ought to invited the imaginable of facing a broadside with thing to play for successful Sunday’s penultimate fixture.

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