Napoli vs Atalanta Prediction & Betting Tips - Serie A

Prediction published on 19/04/2019, 03:09  by Donal Kearns | Modified on 19/04/2019 at 07:24 in Serie A Prediction

Napoli has won the last three Serie A matches against Atalanta: it has never reached four consecutive victories against the Bergamo players in the top flight. In the last five challenges at the San Paolo between these two teams the same result was never repeated twice in a row (in the last match the Neapolitans won). Napoli does not miss a Serie A match played after a game in European cups since October 2016, right against Atalanta: since then 18 victories and eight draws in 26 league games. Atalanta is the team that scored more points in the standings than the first leg after the same number of days (+7), while only three teams did worse than Napoli (- 6). Considering only the second round, only Juventus (31) obtained more points than Atalanta (25) in this Serie A; Napoli would be fifth, at 23. Challenge between the two teams that made the most shots in this Serie A: the Napoli 582 and the Atalanta 554. Only Inter (59.36%) has a greater middle possession of Naples (59.32%) and Atalanta (58.54%) in this league. Naples and Atalanta are the only two teams in this Serie A to already have two players in double figures: Arkadiusz Milik (17) and Dries Mertens (11) for the Neapolitans, Duván Zapata (20) and Josip Ilicic (11) for the Bergamo players. The challenge between Naples and Atalanta sees the three top scorers from outside the area of ​​this Serie A: Arkadiusz Milik (six), Dries Mertens (five) and Josip Ilicic (four). Alejandro Gomez from Atalanta has already overtaken the total number of chances created for his team-mates in this season compared to the last Serie A: currently at 96, he finished last season at 95.