Napoli vs Udinese Match Analysis and Prediction

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Napoli welcome Udinese to Stadio Diego Armando Maradona for their Serie A Matchday 30 tie on Saturday evening with kickoff at 17:00.

Napoli suffered a 1-0 loss to league leaders AC Milan at home a fortnight ago, with the defeat seeing the Rossoneri go on top of Serie A with three points in clear and above Napoli. Napoli managed to return to winning ways with a 2-1 away win at Verona last week and still remain three points behind Milan who also won their match last week against Empoli.

Defending Champions Inter Milan are breathing heavily on Napoli’s shoulder and thus Gli Azzurri’s hopes for a Scudetto in more than three decades rely on them taking maximum points from games such as this weekend’s.

They will fancy their chances of claiming all three points on Saturday as they have not lost to their visitors in their last four Serie A games, winning in all encounters and they claimed an emphatic 4-0 at away in the reverse fixture earlier this season.

Meanwhile Udinese maintained their four-match unbeaten run in Serie A as they held Roma to a 1-1 draw at home last Sunday, claiming one victory and a three draws in the run.

They currently sit 14^th on 30 points from 27 matches, eight points above the relegation zone and 10 outside the top-half. They will be hoping for a top-10 finish this season and to that they need to extend their unbeaten run, but also start putting together some victories.

Napoli vs Udinese head to head

Both sides have met in 41 encounters since 1993 with Napoli claiming 20 victories while Udinese have claimed nine victories and there have been 12 draws.