Our prediction for this Serie A match:
All eyes will be on Stadio Diego Armando Maradona when Napoli and Inter face each other in the Serie A derby. The Neapolitans did well to bounce back from a 2-1 loss to Juventus, but they need to keep on winning in the season finale if they are to represent Italy in the Champions League next term. Belgium international Dries Mertens is pushing for a start, while Mexico winger Lozano is out of contention through suspension.
The Nerazzurri, on the other hand, are leading the chase for Scudetto, with the team eyeing their 12th consecutive win in the Serie A. Considering that both Napoli and Inter are likely to go for a win in Sunday’s clash, we believe that there is a big value in betting on both teams to score. Aleksandar Kolarov is out of contention with injury, but there are no suspended players in the away team.
Highlighted Player (Dries Mertens):
Dries Mertens is a Belgian football player born on the 6th of May 1987 in Leuven. Mertens started his football career in the youth of RSC Anderlecht and AA Gent. In season 2005/2006 he made his debut for the first team of AA Gent.
After playing for AGOVV, FC Utrecht and PSV Mertens got transferred to Napoli for approximately 9.5 million euro. Mertens made his debut for the Belgian national team in October 2010 and played over 40 games for the national team already. Mertens played during World Cup 2014 and EURO 2016 for Belgium.
Mertens is a right attacking midfielder, which can play as a forward as well. Mertens is known for being a very small fast player, which has the ability to get past several defenders and deliver a cross to his team mates. In his career Mertens didn’t win any big prizes yet. The biggest achievements of Mertens are winning the Dutch national cup with PSV in 2011/2012, the Coppa Italia and the Supercoppa in 2014 with Napoli.
Highlighted Team (Inter):
Internazionale Milano, known as Internazionale, Inter or Inter named Milan, is a football club from Italy, founded on March 9, 1908 by a number of "rebels" who did not like in the regulations of the Milan Cricket and Football Club, now known as AC Milan. The main objection was that no foreign players were allowed. In 1928 the club merged with US Milanese and strongly entered a time when Ambrosiana-Inter survived.
The club, nicknamed the Nerazzurri or the blue / blacks has had many successes. This is how Inter Milan won 18 national titles, seven times the Italian Cup, the UEFA Cup 3x, and 3x times the Champions League, formerly known as the European Cup I.