Cagliari 0-5 Napoli: result and report

Serie A · Sunday 11 December 2016

Result

Cagliari 0-5 Napoli

Serie A · Sunday 11 December 2016, 11:30 UTC · half-time 0-2

Cagliari · Napoli · Serie A predictions

Cagliari 0-5 Napoli: match report

Cagliari lost to Napoli 0-5 in Serie A on Sunday 11 December 2016. The half-time score was 0-2.

Dries Mertens opened the scoring in the 34th minute. Cagliari did not score. Napoli scored through Dries Mertens (34'), Marek Hamsik (45'), Piotr Zielinski (51'), Dries Mertens (69') and Dries Mertens (72').

Discipline: Cagliari received 4 yellow cards; Napoli received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Cagliari were 13th on 20 points from 15 and Napoli 5th on 28 points from 15. Cagliari went on to finish that season 12th with 47 points, and Napoli 3rd with 86.

Cagliari lined up in a 4-3-1-2 and Napoli in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Marek Hamšík of Napoli (9.5), ahead of Dries Mertens (9.4).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Cagliari wins, 3 draws and 7 for Napoli.

Going into the match Cagliari's last five read D-W-L-L-W and Napoli's W-D-W-D-L.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 20'Yellow card · Mauricio IslaCagliari
  • 34'Goal · Dries MertensNapoli · 0-1
  • 36'Yellow card · Nicolò BarellaCagliari
  • 39'Yellow card · Kalidou KoulibalyNapoli
  • 45'Goal · Marek HamsikNapoli · 0-2
  • 51'Goal · Piotr ZielinskiNapoli · 0-3
  • 62'Yellow card · Elseid HysajNapoli
  • 66'Yellow card · Simone PadoinCagliari
  • 69'Goal · Dries MertensNapoli · 0-4
  • 72'Goal · Dries MertensNapoli · 0-5
  • 74'Yellow card · D. DessenaCagliari
  • 74'Yellow card · Marek HamsikNapoli

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Cagliari 0, draws 3, Napoli 7.

Team news

Cagliari line-up (4-3-1-2)

Marco Storari, Bruno Alves, Mauricio Isla, Fabio Pisacane, Luca Ceppitelli, Daniele Dessena, Nicolò Barella, Simone Padoin, Panagiotis Tachtsidis, Marco Borriello, Marco Sau

Napoli line-up (4-3-3)

Pepe Reina, Elseid Hysaj, Ivan Strinić, Vlad Chiricheș, Kalidou Koulibaly, Jorginho, Marek Hamšík, Piotr Zielinski, Juanmi Callejón, Dries Mertens, Lorenzo Insigne