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Good evening! Welcome to Eurosport's live text coverage of Inter Milan's trip to Naples to face a Napoli side gunning for the top four. Stay right where you are and follow every kick, whistle and goal here as Antonio Conte's men seek to stretch their lead at the top of the table.

Serie A / Matchday 31
Stadio Diego Armando Maradona / 18.04.2021
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Ben Snowball

Updated 18/04/2021 at 20:39 GMT


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Off we go.
19:43
The players are out. We're ready.
19:40
Five minutes to kick off.
19:21
Inter, meanwhile, have all-but cemented their first league title since 2010 - they sit eight points clear of city rivals AC with a game in hand, so that lead could well stretch to 11 should they win here.
19:17
Lazio are also hot on the heels of the Champions League places: they sit 6fh - level on points with Napoli but a huge 21 goal difference separates them. That could increase tonight.
19:15
After Juventus' slip up today, the hosts will be looking to take advantage of their game in hand and leapfrog the reigning champions into the top four, but that will only happen if they are to win by a two goal margin. And knowing Inter's rock solid defence, that could prove tricky.
19:04
Romelu Lukaku and Lautaro Martinez, both potential targets for Manchester City, go up against the pacey and powerful partnership of Kalidou Koulibaly and Kostas Manolas, so we're in for a real treat of a battle deep in Napoli territory.
19:02
Inter, meanwhile, are back in their 3-5-2. Milan Skriniar and Stefan de Vrij will act as ball-players on either side of the back three, with Alessandro Bastoni the primary aerial presence in the middle. Christian Eriksen and Nicolo Barella offer the creativity flanking the Croat Marcelo Brozovic, and Matteo Darmian and Achraf Hakimi offer the width in the wing-back positions. It remains to be seen who will play on which flank.
18:59
Tactically, how will both sides fare? The hosts are in a 4-2-3-1 shape: Mario Rui will be encouraged to overlap Lorenzo Insigne down the left, whilst Giovanni di Lorenzo will be more reserved down the right, with Matteo Politano an out-and-out winger by trade. Fabian is partnered in the double pivot by Diego Demme, and Victor Osimhen will lead the line, looking to stretch the Inter back three with his pace in behind.
18:58
Inter: Handanovic, Skriniar, de Vrij, Bastoni, Hakimi, Barella, Brozovic, Eriksen, Darmian, Lukaku, Martinez.
18:56
Napoli: Meret, di Lorenzo, Manolas, Koulibaly, Rui, Fabian, Demme, Zielinski, Politano, Osimhen, Insigne.
18:55
The teams are in...
18:49
The visitors have won their last five away league games against their hosts as well - after a winless streak of 13 games on the road against them in Serie A.
18:48
Inter have won each of their three Serie A games against Napoli under Conte: the last time the Nerazzurri won four consecutive league encounters against the Partenopei was back in 2000.
18:48
Team news to follow...