Empoli vs Napoli Prediction & Betting Tips - Serie A

Prediction published on 23/02/2023, 11:02  by Kennedy Kechula in Serie A Predictions

Empoli will host Napoli on Saturday at the Stadio Carlo Castellani in round 24 of the Italian Serie A. Empoli look set to make it two seasons in a row in the Italian topflight as they sit in 12th place with 28 points while Napoli are runaway league leaders with 62 points. No team in the league has drawn more times than Empoli this season (10). They go into this round on the back of successive stalemates against Fiorentina and Spezia. The Blues were on the verge of a rare win against Fiorentina last time out but conceded the equalizer in the 85th minute. Against Spezia, it was Paolo Zanetti’s men who scored late in the game to force a 2-2 draw. Half of the draws for Empoli have come in their last eight matches and rather surprisingly only one of their 10 draws has ended 0-0. The bulk of their points however have come from their six wins with the last victory, a 1-0 away win over Inter, coming four match days ago. For this weekend, Empoli will be without Fabiano Parisi due to suspension. Parisi became Empoli’s fifth dismissal of the season with his red card against Spezia. Forward Mattia Destro is injured and will also miss this weekend’s clash. In Destro’s absence, Nicolo Cambiaghi and Tomaso Baldanzi have stepped up with the former scoring in each of Empoli’s last two matches.

Napoli resume domestic duties following an impressive 2-0 win away to Eintracht Frankfurt in the Champions League in midweek. The win extended Napoli’s winning run to six matches across all competitions and they now have one leg in the quarterfinals of the tournament. In the league, Luciano Spaletti’s men have steamrolled their opposition and have failed to win only one of their last 19 matches. They beat Sassuolo 2-0 last time out in the league to register their fifth clean sheet in their last seven games. Napoli have excelled on both sides of the pitch, conceding the least amount of goals as well as scoring the league’s best tally. Victor Osimhen and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia have been the Gli Azzurri’s leading lights in attack with 28 goals between them in the league. The two have scored in the last three league matches with Osimhen scoring in each of his last seven league matches.