Napoli vs Fiorentina prediction and betting tips on January 18, 2024
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Saudi Arabia is becoming the epicentre of European football, but in a pretty curious format. The confrontations in the Spanish Super Cup were held in Riyadh just last week. And now, on Thursday, a similar tournament, but for Italy, starts there. This will happen even in accordance with a similar, new format – it will start with semi-finals. The first of these will be between Napoli and Fiorentina on Thursday. The analysts of the website have made a prediction for this match on January 18, 2024.
Napoli has become one of the main disappointments of the current season, even on a pan-European scale
“The Parthenopeans” began to “deflate” a year ago, after a brilliant first lap, due to which Khvicha and the company secured the Scudetto (the first since Diego Armando Maradona). Spalletti, who understood this very well, left immediately after winning the championship, under the plausible pretext of the desire to rest (and the specialist quickly took over the leadership of the national team a couple of months later). The successor, Rudi Garcia, was responsible for everything – De Laurentiis was disappointed in him by mid-autumn. Still, the irony is that under the rule of the next coach, Mazzarri, everything completely fell apart. For instance, there happened a 0-4 result in the cup struggle with Frosinone and a 0-3 score in the confrontation with Torino in the Serie A. Well, at least modest Salernitana was squeezed in the very end of the game – 2-1.
Fiorentina continues to improve its performance in the current season
“The Violets” are in their third season under the leadership of Italiano. It was possible to finish twice in the European tournament zone with Vincenzo and 2023 gave an opportunity even to reach the finals of both the Coppa Italia and the Conference League. By the way, the higher mentioned tournaments are actual in the current cycle – “Squadra Viola” continues to fight there. As for the Coppa Italia, the team, having eliminated Bologna on penalties, has already reached the semi-finals. Still, it is reasonable to say that the achievements in the Serie A are more important – the club from Florence was able to become a real contender for 4th, “Champions League” place. Taking into account the higher mentioned results, a 2-2 draw in the struggle with Udinese is an undisputed misfire.
Previous head-to-head matches
The clubs played twice last year, both times in Naples. If “the Parthenopeans” won in the spring, then the guests succeeded with a 3-1 score in October.
Free prediction for the match Napoli vs Fiorentina on January 18:
The nominal hosts are considered to be the favourite of the following battle. They are more experienced, so we bet on the victory of the club from Naples with “a 0 goal handicap” (odd: 1.79).