Serie A preview: Home team members eyeing a victory when Napoli host Atalanta

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Competition: Italy Serie A
Competition: Sat 11.March
Match begins: 17:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Diego Armando Maradona

Napoli and Atalanta are both high-flying in the Serie A with their 1st and 6th positions respectively. Expect a great match!

Insights:
  • Napoli have the most scored goals (58) in Serie A
  • Atalanta haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

This could be an engrossing match with lots of spark and bustle as both teams are well recovered since they last saw competitive action. Let's get started!

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Napoli form and stats

10-1-1 is the performance here at Stadio Diego Armando Maradona so far in the Serie A, giving Napoli a total of 31 from their 12 games here. Outstanding results!

Napoli's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 0-1 versus Lazio (placed 3rd). Up until that match this team had gone eight consecutive league meetings without a defeat. Kim, defender, was given a rating of 7.32/10 in that game, top of the team. Kim won 8 of 10 duels.

In the game before, an away victory match versus Empoli with a 2-0 scoreline.

It should be considered that a glance at the 10 most recent league fixtures shows that 8 of them qualified as a both teams to score: NO result (only one or none of the sides scored a goal).

The match schedule is unforgiving for Napoli as they have a new game in only four days, a Champions League match thankfully also at home. Eintracht Frankfurt are visiting.

Napoli are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Stadio Diego Armando Maradona in their league games, having scored an impressive 31 goals in 12 matches. Napoli have only conceded 9 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Atalanta form and stats

Playing away, Atalanta have won 7 games, drawn 3 and suffered 3 defeats in the Serie A this season.

The attacking players of Atalanta have been feeble for some time now, the team not scoring a league goal in the last 183 minutes.

Atalanta played 0-0 against Udinese in their previous match. Goalkeeper Musso got the top player rating of the team with 7.44/10. Musso topped it up with a clean sheet.

A 0-2 defeat away at Milan before that.

Atalanta has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 20 goals from 13 games. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 2 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

The latest H2H encounter ended Atalanta - Napoli 1-2, earlier this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Napoli three wins, two draws and Atalanta five victories. As for goals, eight matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

NapoliV. Osimhen
V. Osimhen
19 goals
AtalantaA. Lookman
A. Lookman
12 goals
NapoliK. Kvaratskhelia
K. Kvaratskhelia
10 goals

Napoli missing players

Atalanta missing players

Napoli Atalanta
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
25 12 2 Played P 3 13 25
21 10 1 Won W 2 7 12
2 1 0 Drew D 0 3 6
2 1 1 Lost L 1 3 7
58 31 2 Scored S 3 20 42
16 9 2 Conceded C 2 13 28
96% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 96%
80% 83% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 77% 80%
56% 67% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 38% 44%
32% 50% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 23% 24%
20% 25% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 8% 12%
44% 50% 50% BTTS BTTS 0% 38% 52%
48% 42% 0% Clean Sheets C S 67% 46% 36%
12% 8% 50% Failed to Score F T 33% 15% 16%
 
5.8 6.6 5.5 Corners for (avg) C F 3.7 4.2 4.7
4.2 4.3 5.5 Corners against (avg) C A 4.7 4.5 4.1
1.4 0.8 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.3 2.6 2.4
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 2 3
 
16.2 18.2 12.5 Shots (avg) S ( 10.3 12 13.6
5.8 6.3 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.7 4.2 5
40% 41% 25% Goal Efficiency G E 27% 36% 34%
 
9.7 9.3 8.5 Shots against (avg) S A 15.7 13.5 12.2
2.6 2.9 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.3 3.8 3.9
Key stats in Serie A this season:
  • Atalanta haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Napoli have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Napoli have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Napoli have the fewest conceded goals (16) in Serie A
  • Napoli have the most scored goals (31) at home in Serie A
  • Napoli have the most scored goals (58) in Serie A
  • Napoli have the most scored goals in the first half (28) in Serie A
  • Napoli have the most scored goals in the second half (30) in Serie A
  • Napoli have the the best goal difference (+22) at home in Serie A
  • Napoli have the the best goal difference (+42) in Serie A
  • Napoli haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Napoli is in the best form (5-0-1) in Serie A

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Napoli 25 21 2 2 58 16 12 10 1 1 31 9 13 11 1 1 27 7 42 65
2 Inter 25 16 2 7 46 28 13 11 0 2 27 6 12 5 2 5 19 22 18 50
3 Lazio 25 14 6 5 41 19 13 7 3 3 22 12 12 7 3 2 19 7 22 48
4 Roma 25 14 5 6 32 21 12 8 1 3 14 5 13 6 4 3 18 16 11 47
5 Milan 25 14 5 6 42 32 12 9 1 2 27 16 13 5 4 4 15 16 10 47
6 Atalanta 25 12 6 7 42 28 12 5 3 4 22 15 13 7 3 3 20 13 14 42
7 Juventus 25 15 5 5 40 20 13 9 3 1 29 10 12 6 2 4 11 10 20 35
8 Bologna 25 10 5 10 31 34 13 6 4 3 17 10 12 4 1 7 14 24 -3 35
9 Torino 25 9 7 9 27 29 12 5 4 3 11 8 13 4 3 6 16 21 -2 34
10 Udinese 25 7 11 7 33 30 12 3 7 2 19 14 13 4 4 5 14 16 3 32
11 Monza 25 9 5 11 30 35 13 5 3 5 18 15 12 4 2 6 12 20 -5 32
12 Fiorentina 25 8 7 10 29 31 13 5 4 4 18 19 12 3 3 6 11 12 -2 31
13 Sassuolo 25 8 6 11 30 37 12 5 2 5 16 15 13 3 4 6 14 22 -7 30
14 Empoli 25 6 10 9 23 33 12 4 4 4 12 14 13 2 6 5 11 19 -10 28
15 Lecce 25 6 9 10 24 29 12 2 6 4 13 15 13 4 3 6 11 14 -5 27
16 Salernitana 25 6 7 12 28 44 13 4 3 6 17 18 12 2 4 6 11 26 -16 25
17 Spezia 25 4 9 12 21 41 13 2 7 4 13 19 12 2 2 8 8 22 -20 21
18 Hellas Verona 25 4 6 15 20 37 13 4 1 8 14 21 12 0 5 7 6 16 -17 18
19 Sampdoria 25 2 6 17 11 39 13 0 4 9 3 18 12 2 2 8 8 21 -28 12
20 Cremonese 25 1 9 15 21 46 12 1 3 8 7 20 13 0 6 7 14 26 -25 12

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Read more about Serie A

Serie A is the division at the top of the Italian football league system and regarded as one of the top leagues of the world. 20 teams play each other home and away to create a final league table after 380 fixtures. The winners are titled “Campione d’Italia” (Champion of Italy), often referred to as the scudetto.