Genoa 3-2 Napoli: result and report

Serie A · Sunday 5 October 2008

Result

Genoa 3-2 Napoli

Serie A · Sunday 5 October 2008, 13:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

Genoa · Napoli · Serie A predictions

Genoa 3-2 Napoli: match report

Genoa won against Napoli 3-2 in Serie A on Sunday 5 October 2008. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Ezequiel Lavezzi opened the scoring in the 1st minute. Genoa's goals came from Sokratis Papastathopoulos (44'), Raffaele Palladino (51') and Diego Milito (73'). Napoli scored through Ezequiel Lavezzi (1') and Germán Denis (75').

Discipline: Genoa received 2 yellow cards and 2 red cards; Napoli received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Genoa were 13th on 6 points from 5 and Napoli 3rd on 11 points from 5. Genoa went on to finish that season 4th with 68 points, and Napoli 12th with 46.

Genoa lined up in a 4-3-3 and Napoli in a 3-5-2.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Genoa wins, 0 draws and 0 for Napoli.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 1'Goal · Ezequiel LavezziNapoli · 0-1
  • 41'Yellow card · Christian MaggioNapoli
  • 42'Yellow card · Fabiano SantacroceNapoli
  • 42'Yellow card · Giuseppe SculliGenoa
  • 44'Goal · Sokratis PapastathopoulosGenoa · 1-1
  • 51'Goal · Raffaele PalladinoGenoa · 2-1
  • 56'Red card · Marco RossiGenoa
  • 73'Goal · Diego MilitoGenoa · 3-1
  • 75'Goal · Germán DenisNapoli · 3-2
  • 77'Yellow card · Marek HamsikNapoli
  • 83'Yellow card · Sokratis PapastathopoulosGenoa
  • 90+1'Second yellow · Sokratis PapastathopoulosGenoa

Head-to-head

2 meetings: Genoa 2, draws 0, Napoli 0.

Team news

Genoa expected line-up (4-3-3)

Rubinho, Domenico Criscito, Fabiano Lima, Cesare Bovo, Alessandro Lucarelli, Omar Milanetto, Julío de León Dailey, Marco Rossi, Marco Borriello, Abdoulay Konko

Napoli line-up (3-5-2)

Matteo Gianello, Salvatore Aronica, Fabiano Santacroce, Leandro Rinaudo, Marek Hamšík, Walter Gargano, Daniele Mannini, Ezequiel Lavezzi, Germán Denis, Michele Pazienza, Christian Maggio