AC Milan vs. Napoli - prediction, team news, lineups

A heavyweight contest between two of the three sides locked together <a href="/football/serie-a/table.html">atop Serie A</a> sees champions AC Milan and southern rivals Napoli convene at San Siro on Sunday.

In the final match of the seventh round, just before international football intervenes, Milan aim for a third straight victory, while their visitors arrive in the second city having posted four wins on the spin.

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Still unbeaten this season - and, beyond that, in their last 22 Serie A games all told - Milan have made an excellent start to their defence of the Scudetto they won in May after so many years of failure.

Following successive domestic . . .