Our prediction for this Serie A match:
Napoli
Match Time & Date:
23/01/2022
15:00
Prediction: 3-0
Salernitana
Buoyed by a 2-0 win over Bologna, Napoli will look to stay in the title race when they host Salernitana to their Stadio Diego Armando Maradona. The Neapolitans are still without Koulibaly, Anguissa, and Ounas, who are on Africa Cup of Nations, with Ospina and Insigne both missing out with injuries. Fit-again Nigeria attacker Victor Osimhen is pushing for a start. Salernitana, on the other hand, are fighting hard to secure the Serie A survival.
The newcomers, though, experienced all sorts of problems at the back in a 3-0 loss to Lazio, and seeing that Napoli are a real force to be reckoned with at home, the underdogs are unlikely to grab something from the match. In the first half of the season Napoli defeated Salernitana thanks to Piotr Zielinski’s goal. To make things even worse for the visitors, all Ranieri, Strandberg, Kastanos, Zortea, Capezzi, Djuric, Cagliolo, Bogdan, Coulibaly, Ribery, and Jaroszynski are out of contention through different reasons.
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 
Como
Man City 
Everton
Bournemouth
Crystal Palace 
Chelsea 
Fulham
Newcastle 
Aston Villa 
Nottingham Forest 
Tottenham
