Juventus 3-1 Napoli: result and report
Serie A · Saturday 29 September 2018
Result
Juventus 3-1 Napoli
Serie A · Saturday 29 September 2018, 16:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Juventus 3-1 Napoli: match report
Juventus beat Napoli 3-1 in Serie A on Saturday 29 September 2018. It was 1-1 at half-time.
Dries Mertens opened the scoring in the 10th minute. Juventus's goals came from Mario Mandžukić (26'), Mario Mandžukić (49') and Leonardo Bonucci (76'). Napoli scored through Dries Mertens (10').
Discipline: Juventus received 3 yellow cards; Napoli received 4 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Juventus were 1st on 18 points from 6 and Napoli 2nd on 15 points from 6. Juventus went on to finish that season 1st with 90 points, and Napoli 2nd with 79.
Juventus lined up in a 4-3-1-2 and Napoli in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Mario Mandžukić of Juventus (9.0), ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo (8.7).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Juventus wins, 1 draw and 3 for Napoli.
Going into the match Juventus's last five read W-W-W-W-W and Napoli's W-W-W-L-W.
Key events
- 10'Goal · Dries Mertens
- 24'Yellow card · Mário Rui
- 26'Goal · Mario Mandžukić
- 40'Yellow card · Kalidou Koulibaly
- 49'Goal · Mario Mandžukić
- 55'Yellow card · Elseid Hysaj
- 58'Second yellow · Mário Rui
- 60'Yellow card · Leonardo Bonucci
- 60'Yellow card · Lorenzo Insigne
- 69'Yellow card · João Cancelo
- 76'Goal · Leonardo Bonucci
- 85'Yellow card · Alex Sandro
Head-to-head
Team news
Juventus line-up (4-3-1-2)
Wojciech Szczesny, João Cancelo, Leonardo Bonucci, Giorgio Chiellini, Alex Sandro, Emre Can, Miralem Pjanić, Blaise Matuidi, Paulo Dybala, Mario Mandžukić, Cristiano Ronaldo
Napoli line-up (4-4-2)
David Ospina, Elseid Hysaj, Raúl Albiol, Kalidou Koulibaly, Mário Rui, Juanmi Callejón, Allan, Marek Hamšík, Piotr Zielinski, Lorenzo Insigne, Dries Mertens