Italy has been home to the fiercest title race across Europe’s big five leagues this season and the action continues in Serie A this weekend with a huge contest on Sunday in particular.
In a potential six-pointer at the top, leaders Napoli take on second-placed AC Milan with both sides level on points after 27 matches respectively.
Napoli are 23/20 to come out on top with Milan 51/20 and the draw available at 23/10.
Napoli returned to the Serie A summit with a 94th-minute winner against Lazio last time out, whereas Milan were held to a draw by Udinese and then shared the spoils with rivals Inter in the Coppa Italia on Tuesday.
That means Milan have won only three of their last eight assignments in all competitions and they also lost the reverse fixture with Napoli back in December when Elif Elmas scored the only goal of the game.
Form certainly favours the Naples club right now and they could take a huge step towards the Scudetto with a victory over Milan, who are arguably lacking leadership with Simon Kjaer, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and commanding defender Alessio Romagnoli all sidelined right now.
Napoli’s Victor Osimhen could be a potential match-winner in this one and is 3/1 to open the scoring and 6/4 to find the net at any time.
Vlahovic Departure Has Not Rocked Fiorentina as Expected
Fiorentina have suffered setbacks against Sassuolo in Serie A and Juventus in the Coppa Italia in their last two matches, but they can get back to winning ways against Verona, who are close to them in the standings.
Despite losing Dusan Vlahovic to Juve in January, the Florence club have coped well and enjoyed two wins over Atalanta as well as victory against Spezia in February.
Sunday’s opponents Verona, meanwhile, are not good travellers, having won only three of their 11 Serie A matches on the road and they are worth opposing when these sides clash at the Stadio Artemio Franchi.
Fiorentina are 21/10 to win with the draw 12/5 and a Verona triumph 11/4.
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Roma Can Prevail Despite Mourinho Absence
On Saturday Roma will be without manager Jose Mourinho on the sidelines for the second consecutive match after the former Chelsea and Manchester United boss was hit with a two-match ban for gestures he made towards a match official in their game with Verona last month.
But the capital club should still be confident of getting a result against Atalanta given they are unbeaten in their last six Serie A games.
Atalanta, meanwhile, lost their last away league match against Fiorentina and could be lacking in the final third with top scorer Duvan Zapata and key creator Josip Ilicic still absent.
Roma can be backed at 33/20 to pull off a key win against Atalanta, who are 17/10 to take the spoils and the draw is 47/20.
*All odds correct at time of writing