Napoli vs Udinese Betting Tips 18.04.2018

Napoli vs Udinese Soccer Prediction Today

After Sunday’s 0-0 draw away to AC Milan, Napoli find themselves six points behind top-of-the-table Juventus and with their dreams of their first Scudetto since 1989/’90 all but extinguished. With Udinese in town, Napoli will at least have a chance to get back to winning ways.
After leading Serie A (SA) for a large part of the season, Napoli’s loss of form from early March (W2, D3, L1) has handed the initiative to Juventus. That said, however, they have still only lost two games all season (W24, D6, L2), although both those losses were at home.
Udinese have been in freefall since early February, losing nine SA games on the bounce – a new all-time club record. With 19 defeats in total this season, Udinese are not that far off their worst ever season in 1961/’62 when they lost 23 games in total.
Thankfully for them, Udinese remain six points above the relegation zone due almost entirely to their form before Christmas. They do play the bottom three in the weeks to come however, and coach Massimo Oddo remains a worried man. Speaking after Saturday’s 2-1 loss to fellow strugglers Cagliari, he said the crisis is: “Purely psychological, as this team is terrified of everything.”
Udinese won’t be able to take much heart from the recent H2H, having lost the last four. They have also lost seven of the last eight to Napoli, drawing the other.

Players to watch:

is on 99 SA career goals, and is already the club’s leading all-time scorer with 117 in all competitions.
Kevin Lasagna (UDI) recently returned from injury and has two in two games.

Stat attack:

Neither side has scored more than two goals in any of Udinese’s last 11 games. Furthermore, Udinese themselves haven’t scored twice or more in a game since December 30 – a run of 14 games.
Only one of Napoli’s last five games has seen over 2.5 goals.