Italian Serie A
2025-12-28 - Cremonese vs Napoli
A Sports Betting Pick by Cafa
Italy Serie A - Round 17
Stadio Giovanni Zini, Cremona, Lombardy, Italy (20,641)
Sunday, 28 December 2025, 15:00 CET
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Cremonese Team News
After the surprising win at Bologna, Cremonese had enough in the tank to beat Lecce at home, and then failed to score in their next two matches, both on the road, against Torino and Lazio. This doesn't necessarily mean anything, as Cremonese did enough to score if you look at the stats, posting an xG of almost 0.70 on both occassions, with 9-10 shots.
Same performance is probably expected here, as Cremonese always finds ways to go forward and to make things difficult for whatever the opposing defence may be.
Napoli Team News
Napoli is the new, flawless, Super Cup champion as they took care of Milan in semifinals 2-0 and then did the same to Bologna in the final. In the league, however, Napoli suffered a setback as they lost 1-0 to Udinese, and as a result they are now in the 3rd spot, two points behind Inter and one point behind Milan. This is most certainly a must-win game for Napoli to keep them close to the top, or even to move above one of their rivals if they don't win their respective matches.
Probable Lineups
Cremonese (3-5-2): Audero - F.Terracciano, Baschirotto, Bianchetti - Barbieri, Payero, Bondo, Vandeputte, Floriani - Vardy, Bonazzoli. Coach Nicola.
Napoli (3-4-2-1): Milinkovic-Savic - Beukema, Rrahmani, Buongiorno - Politano, Lobotka, McTominay, Spinazzola - Neres, Elmas - Hojlund. Coach Conte.
Napoli's injury worries in midfield are over as Lobotka, Politano and Spinazzola all return.
The Betting Market
In this Serie A round we got a similar fixture to this one, Juventus at Pisa, and the price on the big team is 1.45 there. Here, we get 1.58 from the bookmakers, yet we see Napoli as the stronger favourite.
Under 2.5 Goals and Both Teams To Score: NO are both priced at around 1.70, so make your pick. The latter is likely the better bet as Napoli keeps winning to nil. In last ten matches in all competitions, Napoli conceded twice. Once to Juventus, the other time to Cagliari at home in the cup.
The Betting Verdict
Cremonese has fizzled out to a certain degree as the teams possibly figured out how to approach games against this particular playing style. Napoli and Conte will definitely look to win this 1-0 without allowing any chance for a counter attack.
The Pick :
Cremonese 0-1 Napoli
