Inter and Milan in front with 5 and 6 points ahead to compete for the Scudetto, Atalanta and Juventus behind two points behind to fight for third and fourth place. In the middle, Napoli, which in the postponement restarts from the trip to Bologna with the first small exit from the tunnel of absences and covid and the desire to look towards the top of the standings throughout the second part of the season. "We don't have to worry about the six teams that have always aspired to the Champions League. We know that they are there and that those who finish fifth and sixth are disappointed, we want to stay in the top four and we have what it takes to do so", he takes stock. Napoli coach Luciano Spalletti who does not want to hear about the top but only to find his team. He wants to rediscover it, also thinking of Africa,where Koulibaly's recovery from Covid comes from and Anguissa's show with her winning Cameroon. In Naples, however, there is Osimhen, who has a great desire to return to the field from November 21, armed with a mask: he is called up for Bologna, together with the return to the list of Mario Rui and Zielinski, in an already richer squad with Fabian Ruiz and Lozano. Insigne and Ospina are still missing, injured, but progress is being made: "We played - summarizes Spalletti - with a quantitative problem of players, not qualitative, because if they always play the same it becomes a difficult bone to bite, but now we are confident we have quality and right ambition. Our future will be better, we have strength and ambition: in Bologna we will have Fabian Ruiz, we will have Osimhen who trained for three or four days,we will have Malcuit and also Tuazebe who has been with us for a while and allows us to have worked on things. Plus Zielinski is better off, we have choices to consider from the start. "
Probable formations of Bologna-Naples.
Bologna (3-5-2): 28 Skorupski; 5 Soumaoro, 4 Bonifazi, 6 Theate; 29 De Silvestri, 32 Svanberg, 8 Dominguez, 21 Soriano, 3 Hickey; 7 Orsolini 9 Arnautovic. (22 Bardi, 12 Molla, 2 Binks, 35 Dijks, 14 Viola, 30 Schouten, 44 Pagliuca, 10 Sansone, 11 Skov Olsen, 20 Van Hooijdonk, 74 Cangiano, 91 Falcinelli). Coach: Mihajlovic. Disqualified: none. Beware: De Silvestri, Hickey, Medel, Soumaoro, Svanberg. Unavailable: Barrow, Kingsley, Mbaye, Medel, Schouten, Vignato. Naples (4-2-3-1): 1 Meret; 22 Di Lorenzo, 13 Rrahmani, 5 Juan Jesus, 6 Mario Rui; 68 Lobotka, 8 Ruiz; 11 Lozano, 14 Mertens, 7 Elmas; 37 Petagna. (12 Marfella, 46 Idasiak, 2 Malcuit, 59 Zanoli, 3 Tuanzebe, 31 Ghoulam, 4 Demme, 82 Vergara, 20 Zielinski, 21 Politano, 9 Osimhen, 73 Cioffi). Coach: Spalletti. Disqualified: none. Beware: Rrahmani, Anguissa, Demme. Unavailable:Anguissa, K. Koulibaly, L. Insigne, Ospina, Ounas.
Referee: Marinelli of Tivoli.
Snai odds: 3.90;
3.40;
2.00.
