Football guide: Roma vs Napoli - predictions and stats

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Competition: Italy Serie A
Competition: Sun 23.October
Match begins: 18:45 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Olimpico (72698 seats)

Fasten your seatbelt before the show! Today's starring roles are Roma and Napoli, 3 points is the objective and 1 1/2 hours the duration.

Insights:
  • Roma have the fewest conceded goals (2) at home in Serie A
  • Napoli have the most scored goals (25) in Serie A

This has all the signs of an appealing match with lots of spark and bustle as both teams are well recovered since they last saw competitive action. Get ready!

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Roma form and stats

Roma have played 4 Serie A games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 3-0-1 (wins-draws-losses).

It's back home for Roma, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Sampdoria away with the result 1-0. Pellegrini found the net in that victory. Midfielder Cristante was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.61 (out of ten) in that game. Cristante hit one key pass.

In the fixture before, 1-1 away to Real Betis (Europa League).

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Roma as they are travelling to their away game against HJK in the Europa League. That match is four days after this one.

Roma have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Stadio Olimpico with 6 goals in 4 league matches. Roma are not conceding a lot of goals here at Stadio Olimpico in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 2 from 4 matches.

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Napoli form and stats

4-1-0 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Napoli in their Serie A matches away. Napoli have been producing wins at home as well, producing a total of six victories in a row regardless of arena.

Lozano, Jesus and Osimhen scored in Napoli's previous match, the home game against Bologna that ended 3-2. Osimhen came off the bench to score the winning goal in the match against Bologna last time out, making the manager Spalletti feel like a tactical genius. Attacker Kvaratskhelia got a player rating of 8.12 in the game. "Man of the match" Kvaratskhelia served one assist, hit six key passes, dribled past the opponent 5 of 9 times and had 25 successful passes (of 31 total).

Before that one, the win at home against Ajax in the Champions League (4-2).

A quick return to home after this game, as Napoli are hosting Rangers in the Champions League only three days away.

Today's guests are confident travelers having scored 13 goals in 5 league games away this season.

Head 2 Head

Napoli have not lost in the last 5 matches (3-2-0) facing Roma.

Top Goalscorers

RomaP. Exequiel Dybala
P. Exequiel Dybala
5 goals
NapoliK. Kvaratskhelia
K. Kvaratskhelia
5 goals
RomaC. Smalling
C. Smalling
3 goals

Roma missing players

Napoli missing players

Roma Napoli
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
10 4 1 Played P 2 5 10
7 3 0 Won W 2 4 8
1 0 0 Drew D 0 1 2
2 1 1 Lost L 0 0 0
13 6 0 Scored S 4 13 25
9 2 1 Conceded C 2 5 9
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 80% 90%
60% 50% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 80% 80%
50% 50% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 80% 70%
10% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 40% 50%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 40% 30%
40% 25% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 80% 70%
40% 50% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 20% 30%
20% 25% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 20% 10%
 
5.3 7 5 Corners for (avg) C F 6 5 6.1
4.2 3.8 1 Corners against (avg) C A 7.5 5.2 4.7
1.5 0.5 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.5 1.6 1.2
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
15.6 20.8 21 Shots (avg) S ( 13.5 17.4 20.3
5.6 7.2 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5.5 6.2 6.8
23% 21% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 36% 42% 37%
 
12.2 9.8 4 Shots against (avg) S A 13.5 11.2 10.9
2.6 2 1 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.5 3.2 3.1
Key stats in Serie A this season:
  • Napoli have not yet lost a game.
  • Napoli have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Napoli have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Napoli have scored at least twice as many goals away as Roma have scored home.
  • Napoli have the most scored goals (13) away in Serie A
  • Napoli have the most scored goals (25) in Serie A
  • Napoli have the most scored goals in the first half (11) in Serie A
  • Napoli have the most scored goals in the second half (14) in Serie A
  • Napoli have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Napoli is in the best form (6-0-0) in Serie A
  • Roma have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Roma have the fewest conceded goals (2) at home in Serie A
  • Roma have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Roma 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 Napoli 10 8 2 0 25 9 5 4 1 0 12 4 5 4 1 0 13 5 16 26
2 Atalanta 10 7 3 0 16 6 5 3 2 0 8 4 5 4 1 0 8 2 10 24
3 Milan 10 7 2 1 20 10 5 4 0 1 12 6 5 3 2 0 8 4 10 23
4 Roma 10 7 1 2 13 9 4 3 0 1 6 2 6 4 1 1 7 7 4 22
5 Lazio 10 6 3 1 21 5 6 4 1 1 12 4 4 2 2 0 9 1 16 21
6 Udinese 10 6 3 1 19 10 5 3 2 0 10 3 5 3 1 1 9 7 9 21
7 Inter 10 6 0 4 18 14 5 4 0 1 10 3 5 2 0 3 8 11 4 18
8 Juventus 10 4 4 2 13 7 5 3 2 0 11 3 5 1 2 2 2 4 6 16
9 Sassuolo 10 3 3 4 12 12 5 2 1 2 8 5 5 1 2 2 4 7 0 12
10 Empoli 10 2 5 3 9 11 5 1 2 2 4 6 5 1 3 1 5 5 -2 11
11 Torino 10 3 2 5 8 12 5 1 2 2 2 3 5 2 0 3 6 9 -4 11
12 Salernitana 10 2 4 4 12 16 5 2 1 2 9 6 5 0 3 2 3 10 -4 10
13 Fiorentina 10 2 4 4 8 12 5 2 2 1 6 7 5 0 2 3 2 5 -4 10
14 Monza 10 3 1 6 9 15 5 2 0 3 5 6 5 1 1 3 4 9 -6 10
15 Spezia 10 2 3 5 9 19 5 2 3 0 9 7 5 0 0 5 0 12 -10 9
16 Lecce 10 1 5 4 9 12 5 0 4 1 5 6 5 1 1 3 4 6 -3 8
17 Bologna 10 1 4 5 10 17 5 1 3 1 5 5 5 0 1 4 5 12 -7 7
18 Hellas Verona 10 1 2 7 9 19 5 1 0 4 6 11 5 0 2 3 3 8 -10 5
19 Cremonese 10 0 4 6 9 21 4 0 1 3 2 10 6 0 3 3 7 11 -12 4
20 Sampdoria 10 0 3 7 5 18 6 0 2 4 2 9 4 0 1 3 3 9 -13 3

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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.