It's all Napoli at the moment, unsurprisingly. They pass the ball around the midfield without making much progress.

Victor Osimhen immediately wins a corner. The visitors are on the front foot.

This set-piece is easily cleared though.

Will history be made tonight? We get going after a short delay.

Udinese's ground is almost a sea of blue.

There's only the end of Udinese ultras that seem to be supporting the home team. Scenes.

The players are out, kick-off is moments away.

If Napoli are to get over the line tonight they will become the third team this century to win Serie A with five games left to play - Juventus did it four years ago and Inter in 2006-07.

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Napoli have a whole new cast of superstars.

Nigeria forward Victor Osimhen has scored 21 goals in 26 league games and Georgian winger Khvicha Kvaratskhelia has contributed 12 goals and 10 assists.

Will somebody write themselves into the history books tonight?

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Just over 10,000 Napoli fans have made the trip up north for this one.

There's some noise in Dacia Arena now.

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Udinese could finish as high as eighth if results go their way this season.

They have a brilliant home record having beaten both Inter and AC Milan in front of their own supporters at Dacia Arena this campaign.

They have lost three of their past five in the league though and fell to a 1-0 loss to Lecce last time out.

Udinese are 14th in Serie A, with no threat of relegation looming over them. Will they play party-poopers tonight?

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Napoli have won each of their last eight away matches in the top flight - keeping a clean sheet in seven - and have also won 12 of their last 13 league meetings with Udinese.

Udinese's last home win over Napoli came back in April 2016 - since then, they have lost five and drawn one.

Everything is pointing towards a Napoli win tonight folks.

There's a live broadcast of this match happening outside Diego Armando Maradona stadium. The party looks like it's already started.

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Napoli had hoped to claim the Scudetto last weekend with six games to go, but were held to a 1-1 draw against Salernitana.

Luciano Spalletti's side were on course for the victory they needed when Mathias Olivera headed home a 62nd-minute corner.

But Boulaye Dia equalised with a left-footed drive six minutes from time.

It silenced an expectant crowd who made a cacophony of noise and set off blue smoke flares inside and outside the stadium, where thousands of fans lined the streets, when Napoli went ahead.

Even so, the team are 18 points clear at the top. It's a case of when not if.

Nice and simple for Udinese, they are unchanged from the team that lost 1-0 to Lecce at the weekend.

Udinese XI: Silvestri, Becao, Bijol, Perez, Ehizibue, Samardzic, Walace, Lovric, Udogie, Pereyra, Nestorovski.

Napoli make two changes to the side that drew to Salernitana last time out.

Tanguy Ndombele and Elif Elmas replace Piotr Zielinski and Hirving Lozano.

Napoli XI: Meret, Di Lorenzo, Rrahmani, Minjae, Olivera, Anguissa, Lobotka, Ndombele, Elmas, Osimhen, Kvaratskhelia

Fancy some team news?

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Napoli have only ever won the Serie A title twice before, both in the days of legend Diego Maradona - who their stadium is named after these days, in 1987 and 1990.

Maradona spent seven years at Napoli after joining from Barcelona in 1984, also winning the 1987 Coppa Italia and 1989 Uefa Cup with the Italian club.

Maradona made 188 appearances for Napoli, more than he made for any other club in his career, and scored 81 goals.

The Former Argentina attacking midfielder died aged 60 in November 2022.

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Napoli require just a point from their final six matches to secure their first Serie A title since 1990.

Tonight their away to Udinese. Naples in primed. Is today the day their 33-year wait finally comes to an end?