Napoli 2-1 Fiorentina: result and report
Serie A · Sunday 18 October 2015
Result
Napoli 2-1 Fiorentina
Serie A · Sunday 18 October 2015, 13:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Napoli 2-1 Fiorentina: match report
Napoli defeated Fiorentina 2-1 in Serie A on Sunday 18 October 2015. It was 0-0 at half-time.
Lorenzo Insigne opened the scoring in the 46th minute. Napoli's goals came from Lorenzo Insigne (46') and Gonzalo Higuaín (75'). Fiorentina scored through Nikola Kalinic (73').
Discipline: Napoli received 3 yellow cards; Fiorentina received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Napoli were 6th on 12 points from 7 and Fiorentina 1st on 18 points from 7. Napoli went on to finish that season 2nd with 82 points, and Fiorentina 5th with 64.
Napoli lined up in a 4-3-3 and Fiorentina in a 3-4-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Lorenzo Insigne of Napoli (8.1), ahead of Nikola Kalinić (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Napoli wins, 4 draws and 1 for Fiorentina.
Going into the match Napoli's last five read W-W-D-W-D and Fiorentina's W-W-W-W-W.
Key events
- 24'Yellow card · Milan Badelj
- 29'Yellow card · Jorginho
- 45+1'Yellow card · Davide Astori
- 46'Goal · Lorenzo Insigne
- 63'Yellow card · Kalidou Koulibaly
- 66'Yellow card · Facundo Roncaglia
- 73'Goal · Nikola Kalinic
- 75'Goal · Gonzalo Higuaín
- 86'Yellow card · Gonzalo Rodríguez
- 90+3'Yellow card · Omar El Kaddouri
Head-to-head
Team news
Napoli line-up (4-3-3)
Pepe Reina, Elseid Hysaj, Kalidou Koulibaly, Faouzi Ghoulam, Raúl Albiol, Allan, Jorginho, Marek Hamšík, Juanmi Callejón, Gonzalo Higuaín, Lorenzo Insigne
Fiorentina line-up (3-4-2-1)
Ciprian Tătărușanu, Gonzalo Rodríguez, Nenad Tomovic, Davide Astori, M. Badelj, Matías Vecino, Jakub Błaszczykowski, Marcos Alonso, Nikola Kalinić, Federico Bernardeschi, Borja Valero