Preview · Serie A

Unbeaten Roma visit a wounded Napoli with no Svilar in goal

Roma travel without their goalkeeper Svilar, without Koné and without Pellegrini. Napoli lost at Venezia last week and Allegri is under pressure. A tight match with two goals or fewer, the home side only just ahead.

Wide view of the stadium bowl in Naples with blue seats in tiers around the pitch.
Stadio Diego Armando Maradona in Naples, then named San Paolo, at half-time of a Napoli home match, 14 September 2019. Photo: Gaetano Capaldo / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0

Roma are third on seventeen points from seven, with five wins, two draws and a goal difference of plus thirteen. Napoli are tenth on ten after losing 1-0 at Venezia, and the Italian press is questioning Allegri's position after that defeat and one at Villarreal in the Champions League.

Napoli hold a slight advantage in a tight game of two goals or fewer.

Roma travel without Svilar, Koné and Pellegrini, and Dybala is not ready: the goalkeeper and two of the midfield's starters. Napoli at home with a near-full side against a weakened Roma is the reason the home side edge the result, though only just. Both sides' last five league matches averaged just over two goals, and Roma conceded three in those five.

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