On Wed Dec 22nd, in week 19, Napoli will host Spezia at Stadio San Paolo, Napoli in a meeting of these two Serie A teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 10 degrees, a perfect day for football. Napoli is fresh off their 0-1 loss against Empoli. Patrick Cutrone struck first for Empoli in the 70th minute, and with that single goal the scoring was complete. Neither team could manage anything else At the end of 90 a dissapointed Napoli couldn’t manage to score, and Empoli took the shutout win. Napoli is looking for direction having earned 15 points in their last 10 matches, while in their last match, Spezia recorded a 0-2 loss against Lecce. Listkowski scored the first goal for Lecce in the 43rd minute, then Arturo Calabresi added another in the 55th minute on a feed from Pablo Rodriguez Delgado In the end, Spezia was frustrated by Lecce’s defence and couldn’t put any tallies on the board. Lecce ended the match with the shutout victory. They’re hoping to improve on their recent performance, having lost 7 of their last 10.
In their last match on Thursday Jan 28th, Napoli won by a score of 4 to 2. Kalidou Koulibaly struck first for Napoli in the 5th minute, then Hirving Lozano added another in the 20th minute on a feed from Diego Demme.
Gyasi and Rey Manaj are the top scorers for Spezia in the last 5 matches, but unfortunately they only have one goal.. Dries Mertens has been on a hot streak lately. In the last 5 games, the attacker has scored four goals for Napoli.