Società Sportiva Calcio Napoli vs. Juventus Football Club Prediction on December 7, 2025

Match info

This is a heavyweight clash in 2025–26 Serie A Enilive, Italy’s top men’s football division. Società Sportiva Calcio Napoli, as defending champions, are again right in the title race; they’re currently sharing the top of the table with Milan, while Juventus Football Club are trying to climb back into the Champions League places from seventh.

It’s also one of Serie A’s most charged rivalries, with a strong North vs South, Turin vs Naples dimension. Historically, Juventus have the upper hand in the overall head-to-head, but in the last few seasons, Napoli have flipped the script, claiming some huge wins, including league doubles and streak-ending results.

Napoli vs Juventus is set to kick off on Sunday, December 7, 2025, at 20:45 CET (Central European Time, local time in Naples). The game is played at Stadio Diego Armando Maradona, which is one of the most intimidating atmospheres in Europe, regularly selling out for big games.

Given how much is at stake for both clubs, this fixture is also drawing heavy attention from fans comparing odds across top football bet sites, especially with Napoli pushing for another title and Juventus trying to climb back into European positions.

Meeting statistics

Current form and & playstyle: Società Sportiva Calcio Napoli

Napoli under Antonio Conte looks like a proper title defender again. They’re near the top of the table and have just taken a huge away win at Roma (1–0), neutralizing a team that was pushing to go top. In Europe, “The Blues” also came off a controlled 2–0 home win over Qarabağ in the Champions League – league phase, where they needed patience to break down a stubborn opponent.

Overall, form-wise, Napoli’s 2025–26 profile under Conte looks like this: Strong in Serie A, sitting second with big wins over sides like Inter and Atalanta; their only real black eye this season was a heavy Champions League loss to PSV. Their playstyle is classic Conte: very structured, often out of a back three / flexible 3-5-2 or 3-4-3 shape. They defend in a compact block, then break quickly through wide players and late-arriving midfielders.

Napoli is defensively tight in big games, puts huge emphasis on work-rate and second balls, while midfielders like Scott McTominay and Frank Anguissa chip in with important goals in big moments. At home in Naples, with that crowd, they tend to play 10–15 metres higher up the pitch, pinning teams back and then springing into the box with runners from midfield and wing-backs.

Current form & playstyle: Juventus Football Club

“The Old Lady” comes in off a morale-boosting 2–1 comeback win over Cagliari. That result snapped a run of two straight league draws and lifted them to seventh, five points off the top in a very congested table. Their season has been turbulent: Igor Tudor started the campaign, then Massimo Brambilla briefly acted as interim, and now Luciano Spalletti has taken charge. That coaching turnover is reflected in their performances: Juventus have swung between very cautious, defensively solid games and more open, chaotic ones where they chase an equaliser or a winner late on.

Right now, their form is mixed but stabilizing; they’re in the top half and not far from the European spots, but they’ve already dropped a lot of points via draws. The Cagliari win was described as halting their run of two consecutive league draws, and it also came with a worry: Dušan Vlahović went off injured. You can see Spalletti trying to move Juve toward a more possession-oriented, 4-3-3-style structure, but the squad is still built with some of the more conservative, pragmatic DNA from previous regimes. They still rely on a solid defensive block and set-piece strength. Transition threat often comes via wide players and hybrid forwards like Kenan Yıldız, who drifts between the lines and attacks from the half-spaces.

The biggest issue with Juventus is that creativity in settled possession can dry up, especially away from home. They’ve been vulnerable when pressed high and forced into rushed clearances, which is exactly what Napoli are good at punishing.

Head-to-head

Older sources indicate that over the history of their rivalry (all competitions), Napoli and Juventus have met 184 times, with Napoli recording 48 wins, Juventus prevailing 85 times, and 51 games ended in draws. That suggests Juventus still hold the greater number of wins overall over many decades, though, given recent seasons, and especially recent games in Naples, momentum has tilted slightly towards Napoli.

Match analytics

Napoli comes in as the better-oiled unit: defending champion, clearer identity, very strong recent form both in Serie A and in the Champions League. Conte’s side is used to high-pressure games at the Maradona and have already dispatched top opponents there this season. Juventus are dangerous but inconsistent. They showed character to come back against Cagliari, but that game also exposed defensive lapses and came with a Vlahović injury concern that could hurt their attacking threat. Recent meetings (the last five) all landed in the 2–3 goal range, with Napoli shading it but not blowing Juve away. Putting that together, our lean is… 1x2 & total, Napoli & under 3.5 at 2.80 odds on FezBet.