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Internazionale vs Napoli

Competition – Serie A

Stadium – Stadio Giuseppe Meazza

Date: 26th December 2018

Kick-off time – 19:30 GMT

Inter Milan host Napoli in this Boxing Day clash as they look to close the gap on Juventus and it promises to be an interesting game from two in-form sides.

Inter Milan qualified for the Champions League this season but a late capitulation has seen them exit the competition in the group stages.

Luciano Spaletti’s men nevertheless are expected to continue finishing inside the Italian top four so they will want to at least maintain their 3rd place position at the moment.

They come into this game in a fairly inconsistent run of form as they have won two, lost two, and drawn two of their last 6 league games and this is the kind of match they need to win at home to delight their fans.

Napoli have been the closest challengers to Juventus in the Italian Serie A over the last few seasons and even the dismissal of Maurizio Sarri hasn’t stopped them from remaining the second best team in Italy at the moment.

They come into this game in second position, 8 points behind Juve who are top of the standings and 8 points above Inter who are 3rd.

Exiting the Champions League at the group stage would have hurt them but they can now focus more on pursuing Juventus and hope that their Europa League campaign will not affect their league form.

The visitors haven’t lost any of their last 10 league games and come into this game on a run of four consecutive league wins.

This is one of the closest betting markets of the week as Napoli are current favourites by less than a quarter of a point.

Mauro Icardi and Dries Mertens are favourites to score the first goal

Other fixtures taking place this week in Serie A:

March 17, 2024
Atalanta 18:00 Fiorentina
March 30, 2024
SSC Napoli 12:30 Atalanta
Genoa 15:00 Frosinone
Torino 15:00 Monza
Lazio 18:00 Juventus
Fiorentina 20:45 AC Milan
April 1, 2024
Bologna 10:30 Salernitana
Cagliari 13:00 Verona
Sassuolo 13:00 Udinese
Lecce 16:00 Roma
Inter Milan 18:45 Empoli
April 5, 2024
Salernitana 18:45 Sassuolo
April 6, 2024
AC Milan 13:00 Lecce
Roma 16:00 Lazio
Empoli 18:45 Torino
April 7, 2024
Frosinone 10:30 Bologna
Monza 13:00 SSC Napoli
Cagliari 16:00 Atalanta
Verona 16:00 Genoa
Juventus 18:45 Fiorentina

Serie A Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Inter Milan 29 24 4 1 71 14 +57 76
2 AC Milan 29 19 5 5 55 33 +22 62
3 Juventus 29 17 8 4 44 23 +21 59
4 Bologna 29 15 9 5 42 25 +17 54
5 Roma 29 15 6 8 55 35 +20 51
6 Atalanta 28 14 5 9 51 32 +19 47
7 SSC Napoli 29 12 9 8 44 33 +11 45
8 Fiorentina 28 12 7 9 41 32 +9 43
9 Lazio 29 13 4 12 36 33 +3 43
10 Monza 29 11 9 9 32 36 -4 42
11 Torino 29 10 11 8 28 26 +2 41
12 Genoa 29 8 10 11 31 36 -5 34
13 Lecce 29 6 10 13 26 45 -19 28
14 Udinese 29 4 15 10 28 44 -16 27
15 Verona 29 6 8 15 26 39 -13 26
16 Cagliari 29 6 8 15 29 50 -21 26
17 Empoli 29 6 7 16 22 43 -21 25
18 Frosinone 29 6 6 17 37 60 -23 24
19 Sassuolo 29 6 5 18 33 56 -23 23
20 Salernitana 29 2 8 19 23 59 -36 14

Serie A Results

March 17, 2024
Inter Milan 1 - 1 SSC Napoli
Roma 1 - 0 Sassuolo
Verona 1 - 3 AC Milan
Juventus 0 - 0 Genoa
March 16, 2024
Frosinone 2 - 3 Lazio
Salernitana 0 - 1 Lecce
Monza 1 - 0 Cagliari
Udinese 0 - 2 Torino
March 15, 2024
Empoli 0 - 1 Bologna
March 11, 2024
Lazio 1 - 2 Udinese
March 10, 2024
Fiorentina 2 - 2 Roma
Juventus 2 - 2 Atalanta
AC Milan 1 - 0 Empoli
Lecce 0 - 1 Verona
March 9, 2024
Genoa 2 - 3 Monza
Bologna 0 - 1 Inter Milan
Cagliari 4 - 2 Salernitana
Sassuolo 1 - 0 Frosinone
March 8, 2024
SSC Napoli 1 - 1 Torino
March 4, 2024
Inter Milan 2 - 1 Genoa

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