Serie A leaders Napoli host Sassuolo at the Stadio San Paolo on Saturday night as they aim to hold on to top spot.
The Partenopei finished the first half of the season as winter champions with 41 points from 19 games and their 5-1 victory away at Frosinone last Sunday was their fourth league win in a row.
The Neroverdi are enjoying an impressive campaign themselves and they are sixth in the Serie A table with 31 points and one game in hand.
Eusebio Di Francesco’s team had a part to play in Napoli sealing top spot when they defeated Inter 1-0 in Milan in Sunday’s lunchtime game.
The Neroverdi also have not lost a game since losing 2-1 away to Genoa in gameweek 13.
Napoli lost 2-1 to Sassuolo when these teams faced each other on the opening day of the 2015-16 season.
Marek Hamsik opened the scoring in Maurizio Sarri’s league debut with the Partenopei but Antonio Floro Flores and Nicola Sansone completed a comeback win for Di Francesco’s side.
Since then, Napoli have only lost one match in all competitions, when they were surprisingly defeated 3-2 by Bologna in early December.
The Partenopei defeated the Neroverdi on both occasions in the 2014-15 season, winning 1-0 in Reggio-Emilia and then 2-0 in Naples.
Sarri has a full strength squad to choose from.
After the Frosinone victory, he is expected to bring back Faouzi Ghoulam for Ivan Strinic at left-back and Lorenzo Insigne for Dries Mertens on the left wing.
Di Francesco will be forced to make two significant changes to his starting line-up.
Centre-back Paolo Cannavaro and right-winger Domenico Berardi are unavailable after picking up yellow cards against Inter and they will be replaced by Lorenzo Ariaudo and Floro Flores respectively.
Form Guide: Napoli (D-W-W-W-W) Sassuolo (D-W-D-D-W)
Napoli: Reina; Hysaj, Albiol, Koulibaly, Ghoulam; Allan, Jorginho, Hamsik; Callejon, Higuain, Insigne
Sassuolo: Consigli; Vrsaljko, Ariaudo, Acerbi, Peluso; Missiroli, Magnanelli, Duncan; Floro Flores, Defrel, Sansone
