A important match in Serie A as both sides are fighting for the top league positions. With Napoli in 1st position and Lazio located at 6th, this is almost guaranteed to be an exciting duel. Read on to learn more!
- Napoli have the fewest conceded goals (7) in Serie A
- Lazio have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
It's no vacation for neither Napoli nor Lazio as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Napoli form and stats
This stadium, Stadio Diego Armando Maradona, has been a fortress for Napoli in the Serie A so far this season with the win-draw-loss statistic 5-1-0.
Napoli faced defeat in their previous match, away at Spartak Moskva (1-2). Midfielder Piotr Zieliński was the best player on the team with a rating of 8.03 (out of ten) in that game. Zieliński hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 3 of 3 times and had 70 successful passes (of 83 total).
Prior to that, an away loss at Inter in the Serie A.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 seven games) they have won five times, drawn one and lost one.
The manager L. Spalletti will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Sassuolo in only three days.
Napoli have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Stadio Diego Armando Maradona with 11 goals in 6 league matches. Defensively Napoli have been outstanding, conceding less than half a goal on average per home game in the league (2 in 6 games). For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Lazio form and stats
There's been little loot from Lazio's travels as they have only collected 5 points from 6 away games in the Serie A. Lazio only have 1 win to counter their 3 defeats and 2 draws.
Lazio play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 3-0 victory visiting Lokomotiv Moskva. The attacker Ciro Immobile got a match rating of 8.2 in that game. Immobile scored two goals and dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times.
A loss against Juventus was the result prior to that, in a Serie A home game.Lazio are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is one win, three draws and four defeats. From a total of eight matches.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Udinese in just four days.
Lazio find the net regularly in their away games. 7 goals from 6 away fixtures in the league. The Lazio manager M. Sarri has some worries about the defense as 13 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's eight Napoli victories, zero draws and two Lazio wins. Over/under statistics; seven of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  C. Immobile 10 goals |   V. Osimhen 5 goals |  L. Insigne 4 goals |
Napoli missing players
Lazio missing players
| Napoli | Lazio | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 6 | 0 | Played | P | 2 | 6 | 13 |
| 10 | 5 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 26 | 11 | 0 | Scored | S | 2 | 7 | 25 |
| 7 | 2 | 0 | Conceded | C | 4 | 13 | 21 |
| 92% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 77% | 83% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 92% |
| 54% | 33% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 67% | 69% |
| 23% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 50% | 54% |
| 8% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 17% | 23% |
| 38% | 33% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 67% | 62% |
| 62% | 67% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 15% |
| 8% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 33% | 23% |
| 4.4 | 5.2 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 1.5 | 3 | 3.9 |
| 3.8 | 2.5 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.5 | 4.7 | 4 |
| 1.8 | 1.7 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.5 | 3 | 2.4 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 14.8 | 16.3 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.5 | 7.5 | 11.3 |
| 5.3 | 4.8 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 3.8 | 4.8 |
| 38% | 38% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 22% | 30% | 40% |
| 10 | 8.5 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 18.5 | 16.2 | 13 |
| 2.8 | 2.3 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3 | 3.5 | 3.4 |
- All of Lazio's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Lazio have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Lazio have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Lazio haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Napoli have not yet lost a game at home.
- 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 (2) at home in Serie A
- Napoli have the fewest conceded goals (7) in Serie A
- Napoli have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (2) 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 (+19) in Serie A
- 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 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 26 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 5 | 19 | 32 |
| 2 | Milan | 13 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 29 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 11 | 14 | 32 |
| 3 | Inter | 13 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 32 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 9 | 17 | 28 |
| 4 | Atalanta | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 27 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 6 | 10 | 25 |
| 5 | Roma | 13 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 23 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 11 | 8 | 22 |
| 6 | Lazio | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 25 | 21 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 4 | 21 |
| 7 | Fiorentina | 13 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 20 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 21 |
| 8 | Juventus | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 21 |
| 9 | Hellas Verona | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 27 | 22 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 18 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 5 | 19 |
| 10 | Bologna | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 19 | 24 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 15 | -5 | 18 |
| 11 | Torino | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 17 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 17 |
| 12 | Empoli | 13 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 19 | 25 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 18 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 7 | -6 | 16 |
| 13 | Sassuolo | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 19 | 20 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 12 | -1 | 15 |
| 14 | Venezia | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 19 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 12 | -7 | 15 |
| 15 | Udinese | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 16 | 20 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | -4 | 14 |
| 16 | Sampdoria | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 17 | 25 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 9 | -8 | 12 |
| 17 | Spezia | 13 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 15 | 31 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 23 | -16 | 11 |
| 18 | Genoa | 13 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 17 | 26 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 15 | -9 | 9 |
| 19 | Cagliari | 13 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 15 | 28 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 15 | -13 | 7 |
| 20 | Salernitana | 13 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 10 | 28 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 14 | -18 | 7 |