Napoli vs Verona Prediction & Betting Tips (4 February)

Winner of the Scudetto last year for the first time since 1990, Napoli obviously had a lot of difficulty digesting a title long awaited by fans. Quickly falling in the standings this season, Piotz Zielinski's partners are currently only 9th in Serie A. Despite their shortcomings, they can still believe in qualifying for the next Champions League, only 4 points behind 4th. To do this, it will be necessary to show real progress. In the last 5 days, Walter Mazzarri's men have only won against the last, Salernitana 2-1, for 2 draws and 2 defeats. Last weekend, they took a point at Lazio 0-0. This follows a narrow defeat against Inter in the Italian Super Cup final 0-1.

2nd in its Champions League group, Naples will face another sick team in the 8th final, Barcelona. Saved after a relegation play-off last year, Hellas Verona is still in difficulty this season and today occupies 16th place in Serie A with the same number of points as the first relegation. Without being transcendent, Marco Baroni's men have, however, shown a slight improvement for some time. Indeed, they have pocketed 2 victories in the last 6 days, for 1 draw and 3 defeats. After narrowly losing to Roma 2-1, Hellas Verona had to settle for sharing the points at home against Frosinone last weekend 1-1.

Naples remains without number 1 goalkeeper Meret, potential starting defenders Natan and Olivera and winter recruit Traoré, all on the flank. In addition, the essential Nigerian striker Osimhen (7 goals in SA) is still affected by the CAN. Eliminated with Cameroon, midfielder Zambo-Anguissa could, for his part, make his return. Note that midfielder Cajuste and attackers Kvaratskhelia (5 goals and 3 assists in SA) and Simeone have finished serving their suspension. This winter, full-back Mazzocchi (Salernitana), midfielder Dendoncker (Aston Villa) and attackers Ngonge (Hellas Verona) and Traoré (Bournemouth) arrived at the club. Conversely, midfielder Elmas (Leipzig) was transferred while full-back Zanoli (Salernitana), midfielder Gaetano (Cagliari) and winger Zerbin (Monza) were loaned. The Hellas Verona coach is only deprived of replacement goalkeeper Berardi, injured.

Promising Slovak playmaker Suslov stood out last weekend by scoring his first league goal. He could be renewed this weekend in support of rookie Noslin. The winter transfer window is hurting this team, which was forced to let executives leave. This is the case of Ngonge (Naples), Doig (Sassuolo), Hien (Atalanta), Terracciano (AC Milan), Djuric (Monza), Hongla (Granada) and Faraoni (Fiorentina) but also of Mboula (Santander) and Amione (Santos Laguna). To compensate for these departures, arrived the full-backs Centonze (Nantes) and Ruben Vinagre (Sporting), the wingers Noslin (Fortuna Sittard), Mitrovic (Red Star of Belgrade) and Tavsan (NEC Nijmegen), the striker Swiderski (Charlotte) as well as midfielders Dani Silva (Guimaraes) and Belahyane (Nice).