Napoli should have a nice chance to make it count on Sunday afternoon when they play host to Sampdoria in the 21st round of the competition.

The Partenopei could not hold on to the early lead against Juventus on Thursday evening at Allianz Stadium as they had to settle for a 1-1 draw in Turin in their first match of the year.

The team from Naples generally offered a decent display against the likes of Juventus despite missing several important first-team regulars on the occasion.

Andre Zambo-Anguissa, Kalidou Koulibaly, and Adam Ounas are away at African Cup of Nations, while the main two strikers Hi9rving Lozano and Victor Osimhen are also sidelined.

In their absence, it was Belgian international Dries Mertens who found the back of the net for Napoli who were led by Marco Domenichini as their head coach Luciano Spalletti was also sidelined.

Nevertheless, Napoli desperately need to return on winning track despite these problems with the first-team roster.

They won only one of the last six Serie A outings and are now as many as six points shy of leaders Inter Milan who also have a game in hand on them.

Sampdoria produced their worst performance of the season on Thursday afternoon when they registered only one shot on target (four in total) in the 1-2 home defeat to the likes of Cagliari.



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那不勒斯应该有一个很好的机会在周日下午，他们将在第21轮主场迎战桑普多利亚。

周四晚上，在安联球场，帕特诺佩未能保持领先，他们不得不在本赛季的首场比赛中以1-1战平都灵。

这支来自那不勒斯的球队在与尤文图斯这样的球队的比赛中表现不错，尽管缺少了几名重要的一线队常规球员。

安德烈·赞博-安圭萨、卡里杜·库利巴利和亚当·乌纳斯将缺席非洲国家杯，而两名主力前锋洛扎诺和维克多·奥西姆亨也将缺席。

在他们缺席的情况下，比利时国脚德莱斯·莫滕斯为多梅尼奇尼率领的那不勒斯队破门，而他们的主教练斯帕莱蒂也被罚下场。

尽管如此，那不勒斯迫切需要回到胜利的轨道上，尽管一线队存在这些问题。

在过去的六场意甲比赛中，他们只赢了一场，现在离领头羊国际米兰还有六分的差距，而后者也比他们少一场比赛。

周四下午，桑普多利亚在主场1-2败给卡利亚里这样的球队的比赛中，只射中了一球(总共四球)，这是他们本赛季最差的表现。