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Juventus and Napoli will play the Italian Super Cup in Doha, Qatar. It’s a way to raise some money for Italian football, and to increase popularity for their domestic football league which has been in steady decline since the 90′.
Juventus will probably start with their usual lineup. I think this Juventus is worse than last season. First of all, no new transfers have been made, so basically it’s the same Juve as last season, only 1 year older. Evra has been brought but he is not a regular, he will play today but only because Barzagli is long-term injured. Conte i think was a better coach than Allegri, although i did not like Conte either. With the squad Juve has they should have won Europa League en-fanfare, yet they struggled vs Benfica and lost. I remember the first leg vs Benfica, lost 2-1. It seems that Tevez could score 3 goals if his team-mates would only give him the ball but Juventus engaged in a boring and useless passing game.
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That’s Juventus’ problem, they play a slow game and hope for a goal from a set-piece or some spark from Tevez. When they meet a very good opponent, they step up their game but not too much, so they struggle. They are not good in big matches.
Napoli is a very hard to evaluate team. Their defense is in shambles, they make silly mistakes, i have watched some games and i was astonished at what mistakes they made. Still, they have an incredibly good team spirit and they raise their level tremendously for big matches. In their home stadium they defeated Arsenal 2-0, Dortmund 2-0, Roma 2-0 but they have also managed to lose against a lot of teams. Also they did a great game winning 2-1 away at Sampdoria. So they are capable of putting on a great performance. Higuain, Hamsik, Callejon and Mertens are really good and in midfield they have 1 stand out player, Inler.
I agree that Juve are favorites, but not that much, and Napoli is a team made for the big matches. Benitez is a coach who managed to win Europa League with Valencia and Champions League with Liverpool(reaching the final 2 times) but has not won a title except for the one won with Valencia. Napoli +0.5 asian handicap is my bet, stake of 8 units on this prediction on odds of 1.95 at Sbobet.
Pick: Napoli (+0,5 handicap)
Odds: 1.95 @ Sbobet
Stake: 8
Possible profit: 7.6
Event date: 22 December
