Serie A – Season Continues – Napoli v Sassuolo on Match-day 35

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Serie A action on Saturday as Napoli and Sassuolo meet at Stadio Diego Armando Maradona – 3:00pm GMT.

Napoli will take on Sassuolo on Saturday, as third takes on tenth in the League.

Napoli arrive at this meeting, having secured 67 points so far this season

Napoli come to this fixture on the back of a 3-2 away win against Empoli at Carlo Castellani.

Also, Napoli keep finding ways to win, having secured eight victories in their last 14 games is astonishing this season, which is responsible for their Champion’s League qualification position. With 67 points (21W, 7L and 7D), they are established in third position in the League having won 21 fixtures, drawn seven meetings, and lost seven matches.

Playing at home, Napoli have won nine meetings, drawn three fixtures, and lost five matches.

A win in this fixture, would take Napoli’s points from 67 to 70, so far this season.

Good atacking and defensive team

It’s an easy statement to make, but to win you simply have to score more goals than your opponent. Napoli have been consistently applying this principle, whilst remaining defensively solid as a unit this season, with 31 goals in their previous games. They have a good scoring rate of 67 goals (62 from open play and five penalties). This season, their stand-out attacking players have been Victor Osimhen (8), Lorenzo Insigne (6), and Dries Mertens (5).

Going into Saturday’s game, Luciano Spalletti without one of his players, due to illness or injury.

This season’s Serie A campaign, has so far seen Sassuolo achieve 46 points

Sassuolo will have doubtless licked their wounds, following their recent defeat to Juventus at the MAPEI Stadium. Alessio Dionisi’s men will hope that is enough to deliver a positive result in this match.

Also, with an unfortunate Sassuolo that has not managed to win in their last League so far, Alessio Dionisi’s men form is worryingly poor. They should solve their trend if they don’t want to occupy the lasts places in the League Table. They currently stand tenth in the League, with 46 points for a total of 12 wins, 13 losses and 10 draws having won 12 meetings, drawn 10 meetings, and lost 13 games.

Sassuolo’s away record is remarkable and poses a significant threat to Napoli. In the 17 games they’ve played on the road this season, they have so far won six matches, drawn five fixtures, and lost six games.

A victory for Sassuolo would put them on 49 points.

Good Attacking Performance

This has been a good season so far for Sassuolo, in terms of goals scored (60). Their stand out attacking players have been Hamed Junior Traoré (6), Gianluca Scamacca (5), and Giacomo Raspadori (4). Teams that leak goals on a consistent basis, don’t tend to win anything, such is the situation with Sassuolo so far, having conceded 61 goals in their last matches so far.

Injury and illness have depleted Alessio Dionisi’s Sassuolo and they will likely be missing three key personnel for Saturday’s match.

Napoli v Sassuolo – Head-to-Heads.

Regarding their historical duels Napoli and Sassuolo have faced each other 18 times in the past, with the balance of wins sitting in Napoli’s favour (9 – 2). Also, Napoli recent form against Sassuolo has been outstanding, winning on nine out of the last 15 fixtures. The last time both teams met in this competition was December 2021 and the score line ended up with a 2-2 draw.

Players to watch

For Napoli, Victor Osimhen has nettedeight goals in 34 League matches this season, while Hamed Junior Traoré is a top performing player who has scoredsix goals in 34 League games this Serie A Season for Sassuolo.

Other players of note for Napoli are Lorenzo Insigne and Dries Mertens with six goals and five goals respectively and for Sassuolo are Hamed Junior Traoré and Gianluca Scamacca with six goals both.

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