Soccer match preview: Home crowd has high hopes when Napoli welcomes Fiorentina

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Competition: Italy Serie A
Competition: Sun 17.January
Match begins: 11:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio San Paolo, Napoli (60240 seats)

Napoli perform at a high level so far being 6th in the table. Fiorentina can look both up and down from their 12th position.

Insights:
  • Napoli have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Napoli have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Fiorentina have scored away.

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Napoli and Fiorentina.

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Napoli form and stats

Napoli have collected 13 points from their Serie A home games so far after 4-1-3.

Napoli's previous game was a Coppa Italia match also played at home, ending 3-2 versus Empoli. The home side are looking to build on that result. Before that match, a Serie A win away at Udinese.

There will be little rest for Napoli after this match as they are travelling to Juventus for a Super Cup game in only three days.

Napoli can score goals in their home matches. After 8 league matches they have found the net 19 times. Napoli have conceded 10 in these home matches.

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Fiorentina form and stats

There's been little loot from Fiorentina's travels as they have only collected 5 points from 8 away games in the Serie A. Fiorentina only have 1 win to counter their 5 defeats and 2 draws.

Home advantage was not enough for Fiorentina in their previous game, as they lost their Coppa Italia-match, hosting Inter (after extra-time), 1-2. Before that, Fiorentina secured a home win against Cagliari with the score 1-0.

It's a bit worrying for Fiorentina that their goalkeeper Pietro Terracciano made seven saves in the Inter (after extra-time) game last time out, but still couldn't prevent the loss.

Fiorentina have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 8 league away games 9 goals have been scored. As for defending, Fiorentina rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 15 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Napoli won four games, four matches ended with a draw and Fiorentina has two wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: four / six

Top Goalscorers

NapoliH. Lozano Bahena
H. Lozano Bahena
7 goals
NapoliL. Insigne
L. Insigne
7 goals
FiorentinaD. Vlahović
D. Vlahović
6 goals

Napoli missing players

Fiorentina missing players

Napoli Fiorentina
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
16 8 2 Played P 5 8 17
10 4 1 Won W 1 1 4
1 1 0 Drew D 0 2 6
5 3 1 Lost L 4 5 7
34 19 2 Scored S 6 9 18
16 10 3 Conceded C 11 15 23
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 88% 88%
88% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 88% 71%
62% 75% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 60% 62% 41%
38% 50% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 20% 25% 18%
19% 25% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 20% 12% 12%
50% 62% 50% BTTS BTTS 20% 38% 47%
31% 25% 0% Clean Sheets C S 20% 25% 29%
19% 12% 50% Failed to Score F T 60% 50% 35%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.8 2 2.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.6 2.2 2.2
2 1 0 Red cards R C 1 1 1
 
18.7 19.2 21 Shots (avg) S ( 7.4 7.8 10.2
6.6 7.8 6.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 3.5 3.4
32% 31% 15% Goal Efficiency G E 40% 32% 31%
Key stats in Serie A this season:
  • All of Napoli's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Fiorentina have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • 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 scored at least twice as many goals at home as Fiorentina have scored away.
  • Napoli haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Milan 17 12 4 1 37 19 9 5 3 1 20 12 8 7 1 0 17 7 18 40
2 Inter 17 11 4 2 43 23 8 6 1 1 23 13 9 5 3 1 20 10 20 37
3 Roma 17 10 4 3 37 26 9 6 3 0 21 9 8 4 1 3 16 17 11 34
4 Juventus 16 9 6 1 35 16 8 5 2 1 16 8 8 4 4 0 19 8 19 33
5 Atalanta 16 9 4 3 40 22 8 5 1 2 22 10 8 4 3 1 18 12 18 31
6 Napoli 16 10 1 5 34 16 8 4 1 3 19 10 8 6 0 2 15 6 18 31
7 Sassuolo 17 8 5 4 30 26 8 3 3 2 12 11 9 5 2 2 18 15 4 29
8 Lazio 17 8 4 5 27 25 8 3 2 3 11 13 9 5 2 2 16 12 2 28
9 Hellas Verona 17 7 6 4 22 16 9 4 2 3 12 9 8 3 4 1 10 7 6 27
10 Benevento 17 6 3 8 20 30 9 2 2 5 9 18 8 4 1 3 11 12 -10 21
11 Sampdoria 17 6 2 9 26 28 8 3 1 4 15 13 9 3 1 5 11 15 -2 20
12 Fiorentina 17 4 6 7 18 23 9 3 4 2 9 8 8 1 2 5 9 15 -5 18
13 Bologna 17 4 5 8 23 31 8 3 2 3 16 17 9 1 3 5 7 14 -8 17
14 Spezia 17 4 5 8 23 32 9 1 3 5 10 18 8 3 2 3 13 14 -9 17
15 Udinese 16 4 4 8 18 25 8 2 1 5 6 11 8 2 3 3 12 14 -7 16
16 Cagliari 17 3 5 9 23 34 8 2 2 4 12 16 9 1 3 5 11 18 -11 14
17 Genoa 17 3 5 9 18 30 9 2 2 5 13 16 8 1 3 4 5 14 -12 14
18 Torino 17 2 6 9 26 35 8 0 4 4 13 18 9 2 2 5 13 17 -9 12
19 Parma 17 2 6 9 13 33 9 1 4 4 3 13 8 1 2 5 10 20 -20 12
20 Crotone 17 2 3 12 17 40 8 2 1 5 9 16 9 0 2 7 8 24 -23 9

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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.