Last season Napoli failed to achieve success. Gennaro Gattuso had a task to break into the Champions League and the Neapolitans were literally 20 minutes away from the goal, but a 1:1 draw with Verona in the last round turned into a fall to the fifth line. For this reason, the management changed the head coach. Luciano Spalletti will try to return the club to the top four in Italy. The season began quite successfully for the “Parthenopeans”. In the first round they beat Venice with a score 2:0 without any problems, playing in the minority from the first half. Genoa caused more problems in the second round, but managed to snatch a 2:1 victory away. Thanks to these two victories, Napoli moved up to fifth place in the table and lagged behind the leader of Lazio only due to additional indicators.
The six-time champion of England managed to get only 12 victories in 38 rounds last season and nine matches ended in a draw, which brought the 12th final place in the standings. The team was close to the TOP-10, but even three victories at the end of the season did not allow it to break into the top ten. In the summer Joe Willock from Arsenal joined the squad, for whom they paid € 29.4 million. The start of the new football year brought three defeats in a row. The Black and White lost to West Ham (2:4) and Aston Villa (0:2), followed by a fiasco in the League Cup against Burnley (0:1 pen). Before the break for the national teams’ games, the black-and-white drew with Southampton (2:2) at home, for which we made a prediction. Hayden, Wilson, Dammett, Shelvey, Dubravka, Darlow, Anderson and Almiron will not be able to enter the field today.
