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AC Milan vs Napoli

Competition – Serie A

Stadium – Stadio Giuseppe Meazza

Date: 29th October 2024

Kick-off time – 19:45 GMT

Serie A continues this Tuesday with AC Milan facing Napoli in one of the biggest fixtures of Round 10.

The hosts have endured unexpected downtime ahead of this Serie A clash with Napoli after Saturday’s game against Bologna was postponed due to flooding. Milan president Paolo Scaroni called the decision “incomprehensible,” especially as Milan will have to play this game without the suspended duo of Théo Hernandez and Tijjani Reijnders.

The hosts enter this round trailing leaders Napoli by eight points with a game in hand but they look primed to cut the gap in this game as they have won their last three home games without conceding. They are also unbeaten in their last seven Serie A home outings  (W4, D3), so Milan fans will be hopeful that they can repeat the 1-0 win over Napoli in last season’s corresponding fixture.

Meanwhile, Napoli enter this tie in impeccable form having taken 22 points from their opening nine games (W1, D1, L1).  That impressive return has been built on a solid defence that has conceded just five goals this season.

Impressively, they have conceded just once across their last seven competitive outings (W6, D1). It’s the sort of defensive solidity that head coach Antonio Conte prides himself on and he’s incidentally never lost a managerial H2H against opposite number Paulo Fonseca (W1, D3).

Moreover, the Partenopei have also kept clean sheets in each of their last three league away games (W2, D1), their longest such run since they did so six times in a row en route to the title in 2022/23. While it might be too early for the players to be dreaming of a second scudetto in three seasons, Napoli fans are allowed to dream, as the visitors are only one point behind where they were in that triumphant campaign after nine rounds of fixtures (W7, D1, L1 currently).

This game gets underway at 19:45 BST.

Other fixtures taking place this week in Serie A:

October 26, 2024
Bologna 16:00 AC Milan
November 23, 2024
Verona 15:00 Inter Milan
AC Milan 18:00 Juventus
Parma 20:45 Atalanta
November 24, 2024
Genoa 12:30 Cagliari
Como 15:00 Fiorentina
Torino 15:00 Monza
SSC Napoli 18:00 Roma
Lazio 20:45 Bologna
November 25, 2024
Empoli 18:30 Udinese
Venezia 20:45 Lecce
November 29, 2024
Cagliari 20:45 Verona
November 30, 2024
Como 15:00 Monza
AC Milan 18:00 Empoli
Bologna 20:45 Venezia
December 1, 2024
Udinese 12:30 Genoa
Parma 15:00 Lazio
Torino 15:00 SSC Napoli
Fiorentina 18:00 Inter Milan
Lecce 20:45 Juventus

Serie A Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 SSC Napoli 12 8 2 2 19 9 +10 26
2 Atalanta 12 8 1 3 31 15 +16 25
3 Fiorentina 12 7 4 1 25 10 +15 25
4 Inter Milan 12 7 4 1 26 14 +12 25
5 Lazio 12 8 1 3 25 14 +11 25
6 Juventus 12 6 6 0 21 7 +14 24
7 AC Milan 11 5 3 3 20 14 +6 18
8 Bologna 11 4 6 1 15 13 +2 18
9 Udinese 12 5 1 6 15 18 -3 16
10 Empoli 12 3 6 3 9 10 -1 15
11 Torino 12 4 2 6 15 18 -3 14
12 Roma 12 3 4 5 14 17 -3 13
13 Parma 12 2 6 4 16 18 -2 12
14 Verona 12 4 0 8 17 27 -10 12
15 Como 12 2 4 6 13 23 -10 10
16 Cagliari 12 2 4 6 12 22 -10 10
17 Genoa 12 2 4 6 9 22 -13 10
18 Lecce 12 2 3 7 5 21 -16 9
19 Monza 12 1 5 6 10 15 -5 8
20 Venezia 12 2 2 8 11 21 -10 8

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