Napoli will have his first opportunity to win his fourth series of Serie A Sunday evening when the league leaders go to Parma with a thin advance on Inter Milan before the penultimate weekend of the season. Antonio Conte’s team has only one point ahead of the Champions Inter ruling after being detained by Genoa last weekend, but a victory on Parma could seal a second Scituditto in three seasons. Conte said after the draw last weekend that Napoli had “lost their bonus” by shaving only one of the seven points – now six – they had to get the title.
“We have to go winning the other two games, that’s all there,” said Conte.
Napoli will face Parma while the Inter hosts the Champions League at Lazio hunting in San Siro, where fans will be dynamic after watching their team reach the Champions League final and cut the gap at the top of Serie A.
Everything except a victory over the Lazio could well give Napoli the title while the two teams play at the same time in a bumper on Sunday evening football.
Nine games will start at 8:45 p.m. local time (1845 GMT) with only one – the Atalanta match at Mid -Table Genoa – being without consequences and all the other potentially decisive for the title, European qualification or relegation.
And the final of the season was thrown into chaos with the closing of potentially moved lighting of next weekend on Wednesday and next Thursday while a Scudetto eliminat becomes an increasing possibility.
If Napoli and Inter end on the same points, the destination of the title will be decided by a single competition between the pair, in theory in San Siro, while Napoli would lead to the difference in goals.
However, a possible play-off could be transferred to the Stadio Olimpico in Rome if the public security authorities in Italy consider it necessary.
If a play-off can still occur after this weekend games, the final matches will be reprogrammed for the middle of the week so that any scudetto force test takes place on weekends, giving Inter a full week of preparation for the final of the Champions League.
While Inter definitively has the more difficult match, Napoli will have a test on the hands in Parma which has given many large teams frightened this season and will want to provide security in front of their home support.
Bologna will continue his candidacy for football in the Champions League in Fiorentina after having marked the story on Wednesday evening by winning the Italian cup.
The Vincenzo Italiano team defeated Sorry AC Milan – at Roma – 1-0 to win the first major trophy of the Léger club since 1974, and a place in European club competition is still a possibility.
Bologna is two points behind the fourth Juventus, which welcomes Udinese and are the favorites to take the last place in the Champions League.
Man to watch: Cristian Chivu
Inter icon as a player and coach in his implementation of youth until last summer, Chivu could give his former club a great hand to defend his League title.
Chivu, who as a player won three Serie A and the Champions League 2010 in six seasons at Inter, is in his first senior coach position in Parma and almost obtained the series status of his team for next season.
Promoted Parma was in the relegation zone and on a sequence of seven consecutive defeats when Chivu replaced Fabio Pecchia in mid-February, but is now four points above the fall area.
The defeats against the high -flying como and the other empoli mean relegation wrestlers are always a possibility with a trip to Atalanta to come after the visit of Napoli.
Key statistics
1 – Only one point separates Napoli from Inter.
17 – The number of games that more Inter have played this season compared to Napoli.
Lights (times GMT)
SATURDAY
Genoa V Atalanta (1845)
Sunday
Cagliari V Venezia, Fiorentina v Bologne, Verone v Como, Inter Milan V Lazio, Juventus v udinese, Lecce C Torino, Monza V Empoli, Parma V Napoli, Roma against Milan (all 1845)
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