Carlo Ancelotti and Eusebio Di Francesco have repeatedly reshuffled Napoli and Roma this season, so there are many options for tonight’s Derby del Sole.
It kicks off at 19.30 GMT, click here for a match preview.
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Carlo Ancelotti and Eusebio Di Francesco have repeatedly reshuffled Napoli and Roma this season, so there are many options for tonight’s Derby del Sole.
It kicks off at 19.30 GMT, click here for a match preview.
The game can be viewed on Eleven Sports in the UK and Ireland. It’s available on mobile, online and via connected TV sets. Click here to watch now!
Simone Verdi, Adam Ounas, Sebastiano Luperto, Amin Younes and Vlad Chiriches are unavailable, but Faouzi Ghoulam is back in the squad for the first time since he ruptured his ACL in November 2017.
While Ancelotti has been using the so-called ‘three-and-a-half-man defence’ system in the Champions League against Liverpool and Paris Saint-Germain, he is expected to return to a more traditional 4-4-2 this evening.
That means Nikola Maksimovic and Fabian Ruiz on the bench, with Elseid Hysaj and Piotr Zielinski starting.
If Kevin Malcuit is chosen rather than Mario Rui, then Hysaj would move over to the left.
Arkadiusz Milik is the favourite to play in attack rather than Dries Mertens, with Lorenzo Insigne having shaken off a knock to his ribs at the Parc des Princes.
Roma are missing injured Javier Pastore, Justin Kluivert, Diego Perotti and Rick Karsdorp, but Daniele De Rossi and Aleksandar Kolarov should be fit to start after injury.
Alessandro Florenzi is slightly more in doubt and his position is somewhat up in the air too, as he can play at right-back or as part of the trident in a more advanced attacking role in place of Cengiz Under.
If that were the case, then Davide Santon would be in defence instead.
There are multiple reports Juan Jesus could start in the centre rather than Federico Fazio, who has looked tired of late.
Lorenzo Pellegrini maintains his position in the trequartista role behind centre-forward Edin Dzeko.
Probable line-ups
Napoli: Ospina; Hysaj, Albiol, Koulibaly, Mario Rui; Callejon, Allan, Hamsik, Zielinski; Insigne, Milik
Roma: Olsen; Florenzi, Manolas, Fazio, Kolarov; De Rossi, Nzonzi; Under, Lorenzo Pellegrini, El Shaarawy, Dzeko