Roma v Napoli Predictions & Betting Odds – 14th October 2017

Napoli's superior firepower to count

European Football

Roma v Napoli Betting Preview – Serie A 14th October 7.45pm

This is a cracker of a match from Serie A this weekend as league leaders Napoli, who have so far been unstoppable in the Italian top flight, make the trip to Roma. Roma have been defensively sound, for the most part, this season, but will they be able to stop the immense scoring power of Napoli, who are the top scorers in the division so far this season? This is a real highlight of the European action this weekend and there’s not going to be much quarter given by either.

Roma v Napoli Betting Tips

Roma have strung together a four match winning streak in Serie A since a loss at home against Inter Milan back towards the end of August. Roma have fired off twelve goals in their last four wins and have collected three clean sheets, conceding just the one goal in total. It has been fantastic form by them and they have Edin Dzeko in among the goals again this season already and he is a price of 5/6 at bet356 in the anytime goalscorer market. This is another of the weekend’s top games from Serie A that should produce plenty of goals. Over 2.5 goals at bet365 is an obvious 8/15 punt but over 3.5 is appealing to at 5/4.

Roma did hold out for a draw with Atletico Madrid in the Champions League and they will have to go and face Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in midweek following this. Will they have one eye on that? Since that draw with Madrid, Roma have put together a five match winning streak which culminated in them taking a win at the San Siro against AC Milan at the start of October. So they are bang in form right now. That is four clean sheets in six games this season that they have collected for themselves in Serie A and they will need all of their defensive strengths to hold Napoli at bay. To highlight that, there is a price of 4/9 on both teams to score at bet365.

Napoli have won all seven league games this season and across the matches have totalled 25 goals. That’s a phenomenal return form them and not even Juventus have been able to keep pace with them. It has come with some defensive stretch as well as they have taken three clean sheets in their last five league games. They are a tremendously positive and free-flowing side to watch and they should make strides in Europe as well this season. Dries Mertens has seven league goals this season and he is the 10/3 bet365 first goalscorer favourite for the match. Napoli took a win in this corresponding fixture last season but that is their only win in their last six visits to Roma.

Roma v Napoli Betting Odds

Napoli 7/5, Roma 19/10, Draw 23/10

Roma v Napoli Predictions

Napoli to win: This should be a humdinger of a game. Both are strong at the back but Napoli just bring that extra powerful attack to the table and that may be the only thing that separates the two at the end of the day in this. Look for Napoli to collect at 7/5 value in a game which should easily go over 2.5 goals.