Juventus victory over Roma ensured that they will be “Winter champions”, the virtual title for the club at at the half way stage in the season. The Bianconeri are now 7 points ahead of Roma, and this makes them the only candidates to win the Scudetto once again.

Milan have dropped 5 points in their last two games, but their campaign has still be full of positives. They are only one point adrift of third place, which was their aim for the season.

While the Lega Calcio should surely be blamed for the scheduling of this game (meaning two Serie A games were postponed just to make room for it), AC Milan also haven’t covered themselves in glory after failing to turn up in Doha on time. Not only they have put the match in doubt of being played, they will, if the match goes ahead, have little time to prepare for the game. Place your on bet on Naijabet.com

Juve are in a better form and will already be accustomed to the climate of Doha, and they are simply a better team than Milan at the moment.

Torino clearly did not approach the game at Napoli in the best way, but then tried to come back and their reaction was enough to avoid humiliation.

Genoa suffered a surprise upset against Palermo in the final few minutes of the match and Ivan Juric will now have to act quickly to ensure his players forget about that result.

The Granata will have to use that second half against Napoli as a way to forget they are actually on a three-game losing streak. Genoa might feel some tiredness since they also played 62 minutes against Fiorentina in their re-arranged fixture last week. Naijabet.com

Team News

Torino – After applying a little rotation against Napoli, Sinisa Mihajlovic should go back to his favourite XI.

Sampdoria are on a two-game losing streak which has put an end to a good streak they had that allowed them to enter the top half of the table. They will be content with how things have gone in the first half of the season but may want to achieve more in the remainder of the season.

Udinese are just two points ahead but they have won three consecutive games. They more or less have the same targets as their rivals, so this is one of those games that can shape the middle of the table.

Expect a balanced match, possibly with some tactical changes in order to experiment for the second half of the season. Playing at home could help Sampdoria find their best form back and stop Udinese’s run.

Team News

Sampdoria – Patrik Schick keeps scoring and should be rewarded with a starting spot alongside Luis Muriel.

Fabio Quagliarella will be the one making room for the young Czech forward. Naijabet.com

Udinese – Danilo will be back available after serving his one-game suspension, so no doubt he will play here.

Emmanuel Badu seems to have lost the starting spot he had at the beginning of the season, but he might start in order to help with the rotation.

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Match Facts

Udinese have won their last 3 matches in Serie A.

Sampdoria are undefeated in 12 of their last 13 home matches against Udinese in all competitions.

Sampdoria have scored at least 2 goals in 5 of their last 6 matches against Udinese in all competitions.

NaijaBet Odds

As at this post Sampdoria has 2.04 odd to win the match on NaijaBet  while Udinese has 3.81 odd to win the match also, while the odd to draw the match is 3.18.

After losing both two trips to Genova and Rome, Fiorentina are now 7 points away from 5th position. A bad finish to 2016 could put Paulo Sousa’s job at serious risk as they are now a long way from their pre-season target.

Napoli should have humilated Torino when they entered half-time 3-0 up on Sunday. However, while defeat was never in question, they did allow Torino back in the game and they will need to cut out those defensive mistakes to maintain their pursuit of Juventus at the top of the league.

The visitors are favourite here since they are in better form and have better morale, but Fiorentina gave a good reaction in the last minutes against Lazio and Paulo Sousa could try to use it as a lesson for his players. You can now credit your Naijabet.com account with *737*50*Amount*46# direct from your Gtbank account

Team News

Fiorentina – Paulo Sousa should have most of his roster available since Carlos Salcedo served his suspension on Sunday.