Delightful dogfight as daring Napoli duels with determined Lazio

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Competition: Italy Serie A
Competition: Thu 22.April
Match begins: 18:45 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Diego Armando Maradona

Both teams are enjoying a good season so far and games like this could be decisive. Here's the preview for Napoli - Lazio!

Insights:
  • Napoli have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Lazio haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Napoli form and stats

32 points is a decent return from 15 Serie A games here at Stadio Diego Armando Maradona for Napoli. The data says 10 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses.

Before that match, a win away at Sampdoria.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Napoli have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found five games) they have won three times, drawn one and lost one.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Napoli as they are travelling to their away game against Torino in the Serie A. That match is four days after this one.

Napoli are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Stadio Diego Armando Maradona in their league games, having scored an impressive 38 goals in 15 matches. Napoli have conceded 15 in these home matches.

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Lazio form and stats

8 wins, 2 draws and 5 losses. That’s the product of Lazio playing as the away team in the Serie A this season. Impressively, the visitors are on a five-match winning run which they hope continue versus Napoli. Lazio has recorded two wins in a row in their away matches and hold legitimate hopes of a third one.

Preceding that game was the away victory against Hellas Verona with the score of 1-0.

A crazy, crazy match with lots of goals last time out for Lazio, as mentioned above. 8 goals in that one, will this match be as much fun?

Lazio are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is two wins, two draws and four defeats. From a total of eight matches.

A quick return to home after this game, as Lazio are hosting Milan in the Serie A only four days away.

Lazio has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 23 goals from 15 games. 21 goals have been conceded by Lazio in these games.

Head 2 Head

This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: Lazio - Napoli 2-0. Numbers for the last ten meetings between these two teams are: seven wins for Napoli, one draw and two wins for Lazio. Over 2,5 goals: six times; under 2,5 goals: four games.

Top Goalscorers

LazioC. Immobile
C. Immobile
16 goals
NapoliL. Insigne
L. Insigne
15 goals
NapoliH. Lozano Bahena
H. Lozano Bahena
9 goals

Napoli missing players

Lazio missing players

Napoli Lazio
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
31 15 4 Played P 4 15 30
19 10 2 Won W 1 8 18
3 2 1 Drew D 0 2 4
9 3 1 Lost L 3 5 8
66 38 7 Scored S 7 23 51
35 15 5 Conceded C 10 21 41
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
87% 93% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 87% 87%
58% 60% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 47% 57%
39% 47% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 33% 30%
23% 27% 25% Over 4.5 O 4.5 25% 13% 17%
52% 53% 75% BTTS BTTS 100% 53% 63%
39% 40% 25% Clean Sheets C S 0% 33% 30%
10% 7% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 13% 7%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2 2.1 2.8 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.3 2.7
3 2 1 Red cards R C 0 0 3
 
16.6 16.7 13.8 Shots (avg) S ( 13.5 14.4 13.6
5.8 6.4 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5.8 4.7 4.9
36% 40% 35% Goal Efficiency G E 30% 32% 35%
Key stats in Serie A this season:
  • Lazio haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • 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 at home.
  • 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 Inter 31 23 6 2 70 28 15 13 1 1 39 15 16 10 5 1 31 13 42 75
2 Milan 31 20 6 5 59 36 16 7 5 4 28 22 15 13 1 1 31 14 23 66
3 Atalanta 31 19 7 5 72 38 16 10 3 3 42 22 15 9 4 2 30 16 34 64
4 Juventus 31 18 8 5 61 28 16 12 2 2 34 12 15 6 6 3 27 16 33 62
5 Napoli 31 19 3 9 66 35 15 10 2 3 38 15 16 9 1 6 28 20 31 60
6 Lazio 30 18 4 8 51 41 15 10 2 3 28 20 15 8 2 5 23 21 10 58
7 Roma 31 16 6 9 55 47 16 11 3 2 34 17 15 5 3 7 21 30 8 54
8 Sassuolo 31 12 10 9 52 49 15 5 7 3 26 23 16 7 3 6 26 26 3 46
9 Hellas Verona 31 11 8 12 39 38 15 6 3 6 18 17 16 5 5 6 21 21 1 41
10 Sampdoria 31 11 6 14 42 46 16 7 2 7 25 24 15 4 4 7 17 22 -4 39
11 Bologna 31 10 7 14 43 47 15 7 3 5 28 23 16 3 4 9 15 24 -4 37
12 Udinese 31 9 9 13 34 41 15 5 3 7 12 14 16 4 6 6 22 27 -7 36
13 Genoa 31 7 11 13 33 46 15 4 6 5 21 22 16 3 5 8 12 24 -13 32
14 Spezia 31 8 8 15 41 59 15 4 5 6 20 25 16 4 3 9 21 34 -18 32
15 Torino 30 6 12 12 45 53 15 2 8 5 23 26 15 4 4 7 22 27 -8 30
16 Fiorentina 31 7 9 15 39 52 16 5 5 6 22 22 15 2 4 9 17 30 -13 30
17 Benevento 31 7 9 15 33 60 16 2 6 8 15 31 15 5 3 7 18 29 -27 30
18 Cagliari 31 6 7 18 35 54 16 4 3 9 19 29 15 2 4 9 16 25 -19 25
19 Parma 31 3 11 17 32 63 16 2 5 9 10 27 15 1 6 8 22 36 -31 20
20 Crotone 31 4 3 24 38 79 15 4 1 10 21 31 16 0 2 14 17 48 -41 15

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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.