Carpi vs. Napoli: Confirmed lineups, match discussion, and how to watch Serie A online

It's time to take on Carpi as Napoli look to make it three wins in a row heading into a crucial match with Juventus this weekend. Napoli need to make sure they don't lose focus and don't get caught looking ahead, because another embarrassment to a smaller team would be too much to take right now.

To that end, Napoli have named a shockingly strong lineup. For some reason, it includes Marek Hamsik, who is at less than 100% after spraining his ankle on Sunday. Risking him for this match seems ill-advised, but maybe he's recovered better than we'd been lead to believe? Hard to get a read on that one.

Anyways, instead of seeing four or five changes to the lineups as we'd expected, we got two: Mirko Valdifiori starting for Jorginho -- gulp -- and Dries Mertens starting for Jose Callejon. Valdifiori has been the much shakier player this season, quickly losing the calm confidence he showed in preseason and Napoli's first league match. Hopefully he gets it back and improves dramatically in this game. Mertens starting is always a good thing, so nothing more needs to be said there.

Lineups

Carpi: Benussi; Zaccardo, Romagnoli, Bubnjic; Letizia, Lollo, Cofie, Fedele, Gabriel Silva; Matos, Mbakogu

Napoli: Reina, Hysaj, Albiol, Koulibaly, Ghoulam, Allan, Valdifiori, Hamsik, Insigne, Higuaín, Mertens

Watch It

TV: Premium Calcio 3, Sky Calcio 4 (Italy)

Online: Sky Go Italia (Italy)

It appears that there is no English-language coverage of this match, thanks to midweek League Cup action in England. Yay. Other live viewing options can be found here. You can follow along with the match in the comments below (links to illegal streams in the comments will be removed and repeat offenders banned), and as always, you can also follow along with us live on Twitter, and we'll have updates of the most important events on our Facebook page, which you should definitely like.