Comments and predictions for Napoli vs Sporting Lisbon: Pity for the home team
The match between Napoli vs Sporting Lisbon in the Champion League takes place at 2:00 a.m. on October 2. Nghe An Newspaper, Radio and Television analyzes performance, comments on football and predicts the score.
Latest Napoli vs Sporting Lisbon team information
Napoli were without almost all of their key defenders against Milan: Amir Rrahmani, Mathias Olivera, Leonardo Spinazzola and Alessandro Buongiorno were all absent. Di Lorenzo was also suspended after his red card in Manchester, while Luca Marianucci was not included in the Champions League squad. Only Spinazzola and Olivera could return in time, leaving Conte likely to have to patch up his defence.
Up front, Romelu Lukaku remains out injured long-term, so Lorenzo Lucca and Rasmus Hojlund will compete for a starting spot.
For Sporting, Rui Borges will be without Daniel Braganca, Nuno Santos and Ousmane Diomande. However, goalkeeper Rui Silva returned over the weekend. Luis Suarez – who scored four goals for Colombia earlier this month and was the top scorer in the Spanish Second Division – will lead the attack. He will be supported by the trio of Geovany Quenda (who is set to join Chelsea), Pote Goncalves and Trincao.
Latest expected lineup Napoli vs Sporting Lisbon
Napoli:
Meret; Spinazzola, Beukema, Jesus, Gutierrez; Lobotka; Politano, Anguissa, De Bruyne, McTominay; Hojlund
Sporting Lisbon:
Silva; Fresneda, Inacio, Debast, Araujo; Hjulmand, Kochorashvili; Quenda, Trincao, Goncalves; Suarez
Latest football commentary Napoli vs Sporting Lisbon
When captain Giovanni Di Lorenzo was shown a red card for a foul on Erling Haaland after just 20 minutes on Napoli's return to the Champions League, their chances of beating Man City vanished almost instantly.
Despite several saves from goalkeeper Sergej Milinkovic-Savic, Haaland still scored to become the fastest player to reach 50 goals in the history of this arena. Napoli were completely outplayed, only had one shot and accepted a 0-2 loss – their first defeat of the season.
After winning their second Scudetto in three years and their first Serie A title under Antonio Conte, Napoli started the 2025-26 season perfectly, but have now lost two of their last three games. They beat Pisa 3-2 at home, but then succumbed to a 2-1 defeat at the San Siro to AC Milan, despite Kevin De Bruyne's penalty.
Napoli have lost just four of their last 30 home games in the Champions League, though, so they will be hoping to get back to winning ways on Wednesday.
The two previous encounters between Sporting ended 0-0, with Napoli advancing on penalties in the UEFA Cup. 36 years later, the two teams will meet again in Campania.
As for Sporting, the only memory of them keeping a clean sheet in Italy is that draw in 1989. To date, the Portuguese team has never won in Italy, losing 13/17 matches.
But this time, Sporting are in a different mood. They are three points ahead of Napoli in the group thanks to a 4-1 win over Kairat in the opening game. Francisco Trincao scored twice to help Sporting easily take all three points at home.
In his first season in charge of Sporting, coach Rui Borges got off to a dream start: winning six of his seven Primeira Liga games, including a win over Estoril last weekend. Luis Suarez's early goal was enough to see them overtake rivals Benfica and close in on leaders Porto.
Sporting have conceded just four goals domestically and have scored in each of their last eight games in all competitions. However, their upcoming Champions League fixtures are tough, with PSG, Bayern and Juventus all in the mix, so points in Napoli are vital if they are to challenge for a top eight finish and avoid the play-offs.
Latest score prediction for Napoli vs Sporting Lisbon
Based on the above football comments, we and the world's leading football sites have given the results of the match.Napoli vs Sporting Lisbonas follows:
- Sportsmole:Napoli 2-1 Sporting Lisbon
- WhoScore:Napoli 2-2 Sporting Lisbon
- We predict:Napoli 1-1 Sporting Lisbon
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