North vs South in Italy: Always a tense rivalry

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Competition: Italy Serie A
Competition: Sun 12.September
Match begins: 00:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Diego Armando Maradona

This promises to be yet another engrossing skirmish at Stadio Diego Armando Maradona in the Serie A. Napoli is in 5th position and welcome Juventus in 12th position. Read about the fixture here!

Even though the relationship between Northern and Southern Italy has improved, there's still cultural, political and historical differences. These play out in the football matches between the big teams from each region, such as when Juventus from the north meet Napoli from the south. The sporting rivalry has increased since the 1980s when Napoli became more regular contenders for trophies, led by legend player Diego Maradona. This should be an all-action match!

Both crews have had enough days rest since their previous exertion in an official match. Let's agree to expect an energetic fixture!

It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Juventus, who are travelling more than 800 kilometers to play this game.

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Napoli form and stats

The hosts won their first Serie A game here at Stadio Diego Armando Maradona, lifting spirits. Home statistics for Napoli last season were 12 wins, 4 draws and 3 losses from 19 games.

Napoli enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Genoa's place. The match ended 2-1 with Andrea Petagna and Fabián Ruiz scoring. Matteo Politano, who plays in attack, was the top performer for the team in that game, scoring a rating of 7.85 (out of 10). Politano served one assist, hit three key passes and dribled passed the opponent 4 of 7 times. The victory against Genoa came after Andrea Petagna's winning goal. The Napoli manager L. Spalletti was very happy afterwards with the decision to bring on that player in the 82nd minute.

Ahead of that match, Napoli won a home game hosting Venezia (2-0).

At Stadio Diego Armando Maradona, Napoli has the goal stats of 2-0 (for/against) from 1 league fixture.

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Juventus form and stats

The visitors settled for one point in their first Serie A away game of the season. During their previous season 19 away games resulted in 9 wins, 7 draws and 3 defeats.

Home advantage was not enough for Juventus in their previous game, as they lost their Serie A-match, hosting Empoli, 0-1. Juan Cuadrado was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.83. The defender Cuadrado hit four key passes and won 6 of 8 duels.

Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Udinese that ended 2-2.

There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Juventus manager M. Allegri as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Malmö FF.

As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Juventus has managed 2 goals and let in 2 from 1 match.

Head 2 Head

As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's three Napoli victories, one draw and six Juventus wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

NapoliE. Elmas
E. Elmas
1 goals
NapoliF. Ruiz Peña
F. Ruiz Peña
1 goals
NapoliL. Insigne
L. Insigne
1 goals

Napoli missing players

Juventus missing players

Total First Half Second Half
Napoli Juventus
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
2 1 0 Played P 1 1 2
2 1 0 Won W 0 0 0
0 0 0 Drew D 1 1 1
0 0 0 Lost L 0 0 1
4 2 0 Scored S 2 2 2
1 0 0 Conceded C 2 2 3
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
100% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 50%
50% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 100% 50%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 100% 50%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
50% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 100% 50%
50% 100% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 50%
 
3.5 2 0 Corners for (avg) C F 3 3 5.5
3 2 0 Corners against (avg) C A 3 3 6
2 1 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 3 2.5
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
13.5 13 0 Shots (avg) S ( 11 11 14.5
6 4 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 4 4.5
33% 50% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 50% 22%
Napoli Last season Juventus
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
38 19   Played P   19 38
24 12   Won W   9 23
5 4   Drew D   7 9
9 3   Lost L   3 6
86 50   Scored S   37 77
41 20   Conceded C   20 38
100% 100%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   100% 100%
89% 95%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   89% 92%
55% 58%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   53% 61%
39% 47%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   47% 39%
26% 32%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   11% 11%
55% 63%   BTTS BTTS   74% 63%
37% 32%   Clean Sheets C S   11% 21%
8% 5%   Failed to Score F T   16% 16%
 
5.8 5.9   Corners for (avg) C F   5.5 5.8
3.8 3.6   Corners against (avg) C A   4.3 4.3
2 2.1   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   1.9 2.1
3 2   Red cards R C   3 6
 
16.9 16.6   Shots (avg) S (   14.1 15.6
6 6.5   Shots on Target (avg) S O   5.2 5.6
38% 41%   Goal Efficiency G E   38% 36%

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Lazio 2 2 0 0 9 2 1 1 0 0 6 1 1 1 0 0 3 1 7 6
2 Inter 2 2 0 0 7 1 1 1 0 0 4 0 1 1 0 0 3 1 6 6
3 Roma 2 2 0 0 7 1 1 1 0 0 3 1 1 1 0 0 4 0 6 6
4 Milan 2 2 0 0 5 1 1 1 0 0 4 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 4 6
5 Napoli 2 2 0 0 4 1 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 3 6
6 Udinese 2 1 1 0 5 2 2 1 1 0 5 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 4
7 Bologna 2 1 1 0 3 2 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 4
8 Sassuolo 2 1 1 0 3 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 4
9 Atalanta 2 1 1 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 4
10 Fiorentina 2 1 0 1 3 4 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 1 1 3 -1 3
11 Empoli 2 1 0 1 2 3 1 0 0 1 1 3 1 1 0 0 1 0 -1 3
12 Juventus 2 0 1 1 2 3 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 2 2 -1 1
13 Sampdoria 2 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 -1 1
14 Cagliari 2 0 1 1 3 6 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 0 0 1 1 4 -3 1
15 Spezia 2 0 1 1 3 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 3 8 -5 1
16 Torino 2 0 0 2 2 4 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 -2 0
17 Hellas Verona 2 0 0 2 3 6 2 0 0 2 3 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0
18 Salernitana 2 0 0 2 2 7 1 0 0 1 0 4 1 0 0 1 2 3 -5 0
19 Genoa 2 0 0 2 1 6 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 4 -5 0
20 Venezia 2 0 0 2 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 5 -5 0
Last season Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Inter 38 28 7 3 89 35 19 17 1 1 53 18 19 11 6 2 36 17 54 91
2 Milan 38 24 7 7 74 41 19 8 6 5 31 24 19 16 1 2 43 17 33 79
3 Atalanta 38 23 9 6 90 47 19 12 3 4 49 24 19 11 6 2 41 23 43 78
4 Juventus 38 23 9 6 77 38 19 14 2 3 40 18 19 9 7 3 37 20 39 78
5 Napoli 38 24 5 9 86 41 19 12 4 3 50 20 19 12 1 6 36 21 45 77
6 Lazio 38 21 5 12 61 55 19 13 3 3 36 23 19 8 2 9 25 32 6 68
7 Roma 38 18 8 12 68 58 19 13 4 2 42 18 19 5 4 10 26 40 10 62
8 Sassuolo 38 17 11 10 64 56 19 7 8 4 31 27 19 10 3 6 33 29 8 62
9 Sampdoria 38 15 7 16 52 54 19 9 3 7 32 26 19 6 4 9 20 28 -2 52
10 Hellas Verona 38 11 12 15 46 48 19 6 6 7 23 23 19 5 6 8 23 25 -2 45
11 Genoa 38 10 12 16 47 58 19 5 7 7 29 30 19 5 5 9 18 28 -11 42
12 Bologna 38 10 11 17 51 65 19 7 5 7 33 33 19 3 6 10 18 32 -14 41
13 Fiorentina 38 9 13 16 47 59 19 6 6 7 25 25 19 3 7 9 22 34 -12 40
14 Udinese 38 10 10 18 42 58 19 5 4 10 14 19 19 5 6 8 28 39 -16 40
15 Spezia 38 9 12 17 52 72 19 5 7 7 28 33 19 4 5 10 24 39 -20 39
16 Cagliari 38 9 10 19 43 59 19 5 4 10 22 32 19 4 6 9 21 27 -16 37
17 Torino 38 7 16 15 50 69 19 3 9 7 25 36 19 4 7 8 25 33 -19 37
18 Benevento 38 7 12 19 40 75 19 2 7 10 19 39 19 5 5 9 21 36 -35 33
19 Crotone 38 6 5 27 45 92 19 5 2 12 23 35 19 1 3 15 22 57 -47 23
20 Parma 38 3 11 24 39 83 19 2 5 12 16 39 19 1 6 12 23 44 -44 20

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Table
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Lazio 2 2 0 0 9 2 1 1 0 0 6 1 1 1 0 0 3 1 7 6
2 Inter 2 2 0 0 7 1 1 1 0 0 4 0 1 1 0 0 3 1 6 6
3 Roma 2 2 0 0 7 1 1 1 0 0 3 1 1 1 0 0 4 0 6 6
4 Milan 2 2 0 0 5 1 1 1 0 0 4 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 4 6
5 Napoli 2 2 0 0 4 1 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 3 6
6 Udinese 2 1 1 0 5 2 2 1 1 0 5 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 4
7 Bologna 2 1 1 0 3 2 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 4
8 Sassuolo 2 1 1 0 3 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 4
9 Atalanta 2 1 1 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 4
10 Fiorentina 2 1 0 1 3 4 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 1 1 3 -1 3
11 Empoli 2 1 0 1 2 3 1 0 0 1 1 3 1 1 0 0 1 0 -1 3
12 Juventus 2 0 1 1 2 3 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 2 2 -1 1
13 Sampdoria 2 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 -1 1
14 Cagliari 2 0 1 1 3 6 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 0 0 1 1 4 -3 1
15 Spezia 2 0 1 1 3 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 3 8 -5 1
16 Torino 2 0 0 2 2 4 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 -2 0
17 Hellas Verona 2 0 0 2 3 6 2 0 0 2 3 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0
18 Salernitana 2 0 0 2 2 7 1 0 0 1 0 4 1 0 0 1 2 3 -5 0
19 Genoa 2 0 0 2 1 6 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 4 -5 0
20 Venezia 2 0 0 2 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 5 -5 0

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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.