Added on February 4, 2018 Category Football Tips

The table of the twenty-third round of the Italian Championship in its edition 2017/2018 scheduled for Sunday, February 4, the meeting between the best and worst teams of the tournament. The Benevento lantern will welcome leader Napoli. The match will be held from 17:45 (Brasília time) at the Ciro Vigorito stadium in Benevento.

Benevento’s recent performance

After only one point in the 19 first-round matches, Benevento had two consecutive wins against Chievo (1-0) and Sampdoria (3-2) at the start of the second round giving signs that he could react. The joy lasted little. Then the team picked up 3-0 Bologna and Torino looking forward to their real coming back to Serie B in the Italian league next season.
With seven points (two wins, one draw and 19 losses), the team remains sunk in the twentieth and last position of the competition. The difference for Crotone, seventeenth and first out of the sticking region, is 12 points. Although there are still 48 points left in contention, it is quite difficult to believe that a team with such poor performance can reverse this situation.
The only positive aspect that can be seen before the confrontation with the leader of the Italian League is the fact that coach Roberto de Zerbi have practically all the cast at his disposal. The only question is with regard to defender Luca Antei (eight matches in the Italian Championship 2017/2018, no goal). It is in the process of recovery from bruising. So you can count on all of your headlines. Not that they are of high technical quality, but the reserves are much worse.

The current form of Napoli

The obligation to win is likely to be Napoli’s biggest hurdle on Sunday. The team knows they can not lose points in front of the tournament lantern. This can be definitive in the title fight with Juventus.
The Neapolitans accumulated 57 points (18 wins, three draws and one loss). It’s just one more than Torino’s half-black. It is quite probable that he enters the field in the second position, since Juve has his commitment of the round scheduled for 12h. You will receive the Sassuolo.
The situation repeats what happened on the day of number 22. The Turin team played earlier, defeated Chievo 2-0 away from home, taking the lead. The next day, Napoli managed to get back to the top of the standings by beating Bologna (3-1), ranking six wins in the Italian Serie A.
To try to extend this sequence to seven, coach Maurizio Sarri has as doubt the defender Raul Albiol (17 games in the Italian Championship 2017/2018, no goal). A muscular injury has caused him to stay out of the previous match and most likely he will remain vetoed by the medical department, which also has defender Faouzi Ghoulam (11 matches, two goals) and striker Arkadiusk Milik (three games, one goal).

History of the bouts between Benevento and Napoli
Napoli won all three matches against Benevento. The first two took place in the 2004/2005 season when the teams were in the Third Division. The other was in the first round of the current season. The Neapolitans thrashed 6-0.

Napoli is immensely superior technically than the rival. There is no doubt about that. Thus, the only factor that could complicate the achievement of three more points would be the nervousness of the athletes in relation to a possible loss of leadership. That was not enough to jeopardize the performance in the previous round and before an even weaker team, nothing indicates that will be problem this Sunday. Thus, the guessing of visitors is the best option for confrontation. It has a price of 1.16 in Bet365. Draw has a return of 7.00. Victory of Benevento pays 15.00 per invested real. Quotes were in effect at 18:25 on 1/2/2018.