Osimhen's freshness versus Giroud's experience.
Luciano Spalletti plays many scudetto chances in the watershed challenge on Sunday evening with Pioli.
The tournament is in its most delicate phase: Napoli has caught up with the two Milanese in bending while Juve are cleared from the rear, with Atalanta still in the game.
Anything can happen in increasingly balanced races, which are often resolved and overturned in the recovery phases.
In addition to Napoli-Milan, there are two other more fascinating challenges of the football weekend, in an atmosphere increasingly worried by the tragic news of the war in Ukraine: Rome-Atalanta and Fiorentina-Verona.
While waiting for the new round of Cups, Inter first tries to find goals, success and smiles that have been missing for too long with Salernitana, and then will try a thrilling feat in Liverpool on Tuesday.
But the spotlight is on Maradona: Napoli after various skids has found cohesion and orientation, has recovered positions by returning to the lead thanks also to the return of Osimhen and Koulibaly, to the quality of Ruiz and Zielinski, managing the troubled year in a calibrated manner. farewell to Insigne.
No one has done better than Spalletti since the beginning of the year, not even Milan, which focuses on Theo Hernandez's verve,
the growth of Tonali, the irresistible ideas of Leao.
The prolonged absences of the central defenders in a game that Milan must try to win, after the knockout of the first leg, can weigh.
To hope for an equal is Juve in constant recovery.
In fact, it seems difficult that he can find a serious obstacle in Thiago Motta's Spezia, who has just returned from a trio of defeats.
The happy transplant of Vlahovic, the awakening of Dybala, the maturation of De Ligt in armoring the defense often deprived of the rusty Chiellini and Bonucci: three clues make a test to feed the hopes of a comeback of Allegri's Juve who, although deprived for some time of six owners, advances at a brisk pace.
He hasn't lost against Atalanta since 27 November and has scored 18 consecutive useful results in the three competitions.
Atalanta's task is more complicated, without Zapata but who are about to recover Muriel, in the home of the Roma of a Mourinho still disqualified, dragged by the vein of Abraham and who is proud of the only feat against a big one, precisely the 4-1 of the outward journey to Bergamo.
Gasp, who has complained a lot about the referees, has a proven team at his disposal who rarely get depressed in the clashes that matter.
Zaniolo and Pellegrini accompany the English striker, but the defensive structure is always perplexing.
After Venuti's tears and bad luck in the match lost against Juve, which followed the one against Sassuolo, the Italian's Fiorentina seeks redemption in a very delicate match, with Tudor's rampant Verona who found again the goals in clusters of Simeone.
Treacherous match also for Lazio of Sarri and Immobile,
who finds Acerbi in defense, in dispute with the fans, in the home of a Cagliari that Mazzarri is ferrying to the safety zone after an exploit of 15 points in the new year, 9 in the last 5 races.
The thrilling Sassuolo with the trio Berardi-Raspadori-Scamacca is looking for the third success in a row, which Mancini is ready to use in the world play-offs, in the home of a Venice stuck in third from last place.
Even worse is Blessin's Genoa, which continues to draw, but has not won a game for five months: the internal confrontation with a struggling Empoli, who has just won two points in five games, is a sort of last resort.
A bit like Juric's undistinguished Torino who focuses on Mandragora, Brekalo and Belotti to resume the run at Bologna of the former Mihajlovic, who counts on Barrow and doses the recovery of Arnautovic.
On the border between the relegation zone and the middle class, the match between Udinese and Sampdoria, which still have two and one game to recover.
The Friulians focus on Deulofeu, the Ligurians of Giampaolo on a trio of old men in great shape like Quagliarella, Caputo and in particular Candreva, who gave his fans seven goals and eight assists.