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Betting tips for Napoli VS Sassuolo 13.01.2019

Napoli and Sassuolo come face-to-face this Sunday at San Paolo in a challenge to qualify for the last 16 of the Italian Cup. Napoli finished the year with a difficult victory over Bologna and goes into 2019 looking to start the year in the best possible way, meaning looking for the first win of the year. Sassuolo finished the year in the worst possible way after leaving the reception at Atalanta, looking for a different start to the year.

Napoli went straight into the last 16 and started another campaign for the Italian Cup, which has won five times in its history, the most recent being in 2011/12 and 2013/14, and since then the team have tried to repeat the feat, having reached two semi-finals in 2014/15 and 2016/17, losing against Lazio and Juventus respectively. The team come here after finishing the year with a difficult win at the home crowd against Bologna (3-2), thus redeeming themselves from their previous defeat at Inter Milan (1-0). the only defeat since the beginning of October, that is, the only snub in the last 12 consecutive games of the championship.

The Neapolitans are unbeaten to play at home for the championship since the start of the season, winning 8 of the 10 games played here, tying the remaining 2, with a total of 23 goals scored and 6 goals conceded. With the team already 9 points behind Juventus, it is common sense that the championship will be, it seems, Juventus, Carlo Ancelotti should at least fight for this domestic title.

 Sassuolo, meanwhile, had to eliminate Ternana and Catania in the previous qualifiers, starting another campaign for the Italian Cup away, a test that never won in their history. The best record in the race that the team presents was in 2014/15 and 2016/17, where they reached the last 16 on both occasions, ending up eliminated by AC Milan and Cesena respectively. Sassuolo have been unable to win any of the last three games, drew 1-1 at Torino and lost their last two games against AS Roma (3-1) and Atalanta (2-6).

The team then closed 2018 with a heavy thrashing against their fans, and became the fifth team with more goals conceded in the Italian league, although it is also the 7th with more goals scored in the competition, with the defensive organization to turn out to be your Achilles heel. Out of doors Sassuolo has 9 games played for the championship, won 3 and lost 4, scoring 11 goals and 11 goals conceded. After finishing the year in the worst possible way, the team tries here to start the year on the right foot.


Naples are already too far away from Juventus to dream of winning the title, being aware that it is very unlikely that Juve will lose the 9-point lead. For this reason, the Azzurri will try to fight for the title, and they have enough weapons to take the Sassuolo out of their way, although everything indicates that this can be an animated game, with some goals to the mix.

Napoli VS Sassuolo Prediction: X/1 4.80

Napoli VS Sassuolo   Betting Tip: Over 2.5 Goals @ 2.00

Napoli VS Sassuolo  Score Recommendations: 2-1 10.00