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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:

April 4, 2025
Genoa 19:45 Udinese
April 5, 2025
Monza 14:00 Como
Parma 17:00 Inter Milan
AC Milan 19:45 Fiorentina
April 6, 2025
Lecce 11:30 Venezia
Empoli 14:00 Cagliari
Torino 14:00 Verona
Atalanta 17:00 Lazio
Roma 19:45 Juventus
April 7, 2025
Bologna 19:45 SSC Napoli
April 11, 2025
Udinese 19:45 AC Milan
April 12, 2025
Venezia 14:00 Monza
Inter Milan 17:00 Cagliari
Juventus 19:45 Lecce
April 13, 2025
Atalanta 11:30 Bologna
Fiorentina 14:00 Parma
Verona 14:00 Genoa
Como 17:00 Torino
Lazio 19:45 Roma
April 14, 2025
SSC Napoli 19:45 Empoli

Serie A Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Inter Milan 30 20 7 3 67 28 +39 67
2 SSC Napoli 30 19 7 4 47 24 +23 64
3 Atalanta 30 17 7 6 63 29 +34 58
4 Bologna 30 15 11 4 50 34 +16 56
5 Juventus 30 14 13 3 46 28 +18 55
6 Roma 30 15 7 8 45 30 +15 52
7 Lazio 30 15 7 8 51 42 +9 52
8 Fiorentina 30 15 6 9 47 30 +17 51
9 AC Milan 30 13 8 9 45 35 +10 47
10 Udinese 30 11 7 12 36 41 -5 40
11 Torino 30 9 12 9 35 35 +0 39
12 Genoa 30 8 11 11 28 38 -10 35
13 Como 30 7 9 14 36 47 -11 30
14 Verona 30 9 3 18 29 58 -29 30
15 Cagliari 30 7 8 15 31 44 -13 29
16 Parma 30 5 11 14 35 49 -14 26
17 Lecce 30 6 7 17 21 49 -28 25
18 Empoli 30 4 11 15 24 47 -23 23
19 Venezia 30 3 11 16 23 43 -20 20
20 Monza 30 2 9 19 24 52 -28 15

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