SSC Napoli vs Monza Preview 21/08/2022

SSC Napoli vs Monza – 21/08/2022

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Napoli kicked off the 2022-23 Serie A season with a 5-2 win away to Hellas Verona. The Partenopei at the moment are searching for a second straight win to start out the marketing campaign with hopes of difficult for the Scudetto.

Up subsequent is freshly promoted Monza. Matchday No. 1 in Serie A wasn’t nice for Monza as they fell 2-1 at house to Torino. Now, the brand new Serie A aspect are aiming to take factors off of one in all Serie A’s large hitters.

Napoli certified for the Champions League final time period. After the marketing campaign, the workforce misplaced workforce captain Lorenzo Insigne to a free switch to Toronto FC. The membership additionally cashed-in on long-time centre-back Kalidou Koulibaly.

The membership has tried to re-build the squad by signing striker Giovanni Simeone from Hellas Verona. Mathias Olivera arrived from Getafe and Min-Jae Kim was bought from Fenerbahçe. Each gamers are anticipated to play large roles this time period.

Kim began within the centre of defence on matchday No. 1 alongside Amir Rrahmani. New signing, left-wing Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, additionally began the primary sport of the season, scoring a aim for Napoli.

There are a whole lot of new faces at Napoli and coach Luciano Spalletti will hope the contemporary gamers bed-in shortly. Spalletti may nonetheless have new gamers come on this switch window whereas one other established title leaves.

Monza are overseen by coach Giovanni Stroppa. The 53-year-old led the aspect to promotion in his first season on the membership. Stroppa is well-travelled having labored with Crotone, Foggia, and Spezia beforehand.

Stroppa does have Serie A-quality gamers within the workforce. Within the offseason, the membership signed veteran striker Andrea Petagna from Napoli. Monza additionally made quite a lot of mortgage signings with the likes of Marlon becoming a member of from Shakhtar Donetsk, Matteo Pessina from Atalanta, and Gianluca Caprari from Hellas Verona.

Napoli and Monza haven’t performed in over 20 years. There are not any tendencies to go off of forward of this fixture.

Based on the newest reviews from Italy, Stroppa has no new damage points forward of the match and may have a completely match squad to pick out from.

Spalletti has only one new damage drawback. Midfielder Adam Ounas is affected by a abdomen situation that may hold him out of the fixture this weekend.

Napoli ought to decide up a house win on matchday No. 2 in opposition to Monza. The Partenopei’s first match noticed loads of targets however this one could not. Napoli ought to win with underneath 2.5 targets going into the nets on the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona.