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Competition: Italy Serie A
Competition: Sun 07.November
Match begins: 17:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Diego Armando Maradona

The standings shows that 16 points separate the pair of contenders in this Serie A match. Napoli carry both the points- and home advantage.

Insights:
  • Napoli have the fewest conceded goals (3) in Serie A
  • Hellas Verona have the most scored goals in the first half (13) in Serie A

These are hectic days for the hosts, as they had a match only three days ago in the Europa League. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Legia Warszawa.

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Napoli form and stats

Napoli have played 5 Serie A games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 5-0-0 (wins-draws-losses). Napoli haven’t lost a league-game in eleven attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus Venezia, 76 days ago.

The Napoli goalkeeper David Ospina Ramirez is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 422 minutes without conceding a goal in the Serie A.

Napoli enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Legia Warszawa's place. The match ended 4-1 with Piotr Zieliński, Dries Mertens, Hirving Lozano and Adam Ounas scoring. Piotr Zieliński (midfield was the top team player in that game with a rating of 8.42/10. Zieliński scored one goal, hit the woodwork once, hit three key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 27 successful passes (of 33 total).

In the preceding match a 1-0 victory visiting Salernitana.

The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Napoli home games with this odds we find eleven games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in seven wins, one draw and three defeats. Looking at the victories, five matches were won by at least two goals.

Goals decide football matches and Napoli are scoring many of them at home; 10 on target from 5 league matches. Napoli have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 1 goal.

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Hellas Verona form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Serie A travels is 0 wins, 3 draws and 2 defeats.

Giovanni Simeone (2) scored in Hellas's previous match, the home game against Juventus that ended 2-1. The attacker Giovanni Simeone got a match rating of 8.41 in that game. Simeone scored two goals.

Before that, Hellas Verona travelled to Udinese and returned home with a draw after the game finished 1-1.

We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Hellas played away with similar odds. This revealed seven games. The visitors overcame the odds to win one time, three were draws and the home team won as expected three times.

Hellas has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 8 goals from 5 games. For Hellas Verona, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.

Head 2 Head

Head to head totals (for the former ten meetings): Napoli won seven games, one match ended with a draw and Hellas Verona managed two wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: four / six

Top Goalscorers

Hellas VeronaG. Simeone
G. Simeone
8 goals
NapoliV. Osimhen
V. Osimhen
5 goals
NapoliL. Insigne
L. Insigne
4 goals

Napoli missing players

Hellas Verona missing players

Napoli Hellas Verona
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
11 5 3 Played P 1 5 11
10 5 3 Won W 0 0 4
1 0 0 Drew D 0 3 3
0 0 0 Lost L 1 2 4
23 10 6 Scored S 2 8 24
3 1 1 Conceded C 3 10 20
91% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
73% 80% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 80% 91%
55% 40% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 60% 82%
18% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 60% 73%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 100% 40% 45%
27% 20% 33% BTTS BTTS 100% 80% 82%
73% 80% 67% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 9%
9% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 20% 9%
 
4.8 5.6 6.7 Corners for (avg) C F 4 3.4 3.7
3.9 2.6 2.3 Corners against (avg) C A 5 5 4.6
1.7 1.6 1.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 4 2.8 2.7
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
15.1 16.2 17 Shots (avg) S ( 10 8.6 10.1
5.9 5.6 5.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 3.4 4.1
35% 36% 35% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 47% 53%
 
9.4 8 9 Shots against (avg) S A 18 14.8 14.6
2.5 2.2 1.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5 4.8 4.9
Key stats in Serie A this season:
  • Hellas Verona have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Hellas Verona have the most conceded goals in the second half (16) in Serie A
  • Hellas Verona have the most matches over the total-line (9) in Serie A
  • Hellas Verona have the most scored goals in the first half (13) in Serie A
  • Hellas Verona have yet to win a game away.
  • Hellas Verona haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Napoli have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Napoli have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Napoli have the fewest conceded goals (1) at home in Serie A
  • Napoli have the fewest conceded goals (3) in Serie A
  • Napoli have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (2) in Serie A
  • Napoli have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (1) in Serie A
  • Napoli have the most clean sheets (4) at home in Serie A
  • Napoli have the most clean sheets (8) in Serie A
  • Napoli have the the best goal difference (+20) in Serie A
  • Napoli have won all their matches at home so far.
  • Napoli have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Napoli haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

  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 11 10 1 0 23 3 5 5 0 0 10 1 6 5 1 0 13 2 20 31
2 Milan 11 10 1 0 25 10 5 5 0 0 12 3 6 5 1 0 13 7 15 31
3 Inter 11 7 3 1 28 12 5 3 2 0 15 4 6 4 1 1 13 8 16 24
4 Roma 11 6 1 4 19 12 6 4 1 1 9 4 5 2 0 3 10 8 7 19
5 Atalanta 11 5 4 2 20 14 6 1 3 2 8 9 5 4 1 0 12 5 6 19
6 Lazio 11 5 3 3 22 19 5 4 1 0 15 6 6 1 2 3 7 13 3 18
7 Fiorentina 11 6 0 5 16 13 5 3 0 2 10 6 6 3 0 3 6 7 3 18
8 Hellas Verona 11 4 3 4 24 20 6 4 0 2 16 10 5 0 3 2 8 10 4 15
9 Juventus 11 4 3 4 15 15 5 2 1 2 6 6 6 2 2 2 9 9 0 15
10 Bologna 11 4 3 4 17 22 6 4 1 1 13 8 5 0 2 3 4 14 -5 15
11 Empoli 11 5 0 6 16 21 6 1 0 5 7 16 5 4 0 1 9 5 -5 15
12 Torino 11 4 2 5 15 11 6 3 1 2 12 6 5 1 1 3 3 5 4 14
13 Sassuolo 11 4 2 5 15 15 6 2 1 3 6 6 5 2 1 2 9 9 0 14
14 Udinese 11 2 5 4 12 16 6 1 3 2 7 9 5 1 2 2 5 7 -4 11
15 Sampdoria 11 2 3 6 14 23 6 1 2 3 8 14 5 1 1 3 6 9 -9 9
16 Venezia 11 2 3 6 8 17 4 1 1 2 4 5 7 1 2 4 4 12 -9 9
17 Genoa 11 1 5 5 15 22 5 0 3 2 7 9 6 1 2 3 8 13 -7 8
18 Spezia 11 2 2 7 12 26 5 1 1 3 6 8 6 1 1 4 6 18 -14 8
19 Salernitana 11 2 1 8 10 23 6 1 1 4 5 12 5 1 0 4 5 11 -13 7
20 Cagliari 11 1 3 7 12 24 6 1 2 3 9 11 5 0 1 4 3 13 -12 6

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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.