Napoli 2-0 Novara: result and report

Serie A · Saturday 21 April 2012

Result

Napoli 2-0 Novara

Serie A · Saturday 21 April 2012, 18:45 UTC · half-time 2-0

Napoli · Novara · Serie A predictions

Napoli 2-0 Novara: match report

Napoli beat Novara 2-0 in Serie A on Saturday 21 April 2012. It was 2-0 at half-time.

Edinson Cavani opened the scoring in the 21st minute. Napoli's goals came from Edinson Cavani (21') and Paolo Cannavaro (37'). Novara did not score.

Discipline: Napoli received 1 yellow card; Novara received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Napoli were 6th on 48 points from 32 and Novara 19th on 25 points from 32. Napoli went on to finish that season 5th with 61 points, and Novara 19th with 32.

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

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Napoli wins, 1 draw and 0 for Novara.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 21'Goal · Edinson CavaniNapoli · 1-0
  • 37'Goal · Paolo CannavaroNapoli · 2-0
  • 45'Yellow card · M. MorganellaNovara
  • 67'Yellow card · Hugo CampagnaroNapoli

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Napoli 0, draws 1, Novara 0.

Team news

Napoli line-up (3-4-3)

Morgan De Sanctis, Salvatore Aronica, Hugo Campagnaro, Camilo Zúñiga, Paolo Cannavaro, Marek Hamšík, Blerim Džemaili, Walter Gargano, Gökhan Inler, Edinson Cavani, Christian Maggio

Novara line-up (5-3-2)

Alberto Fontana, Giuseppe Gemiti, Andrea Lisuzzo, Michel Morganella, Mikkel Rygaard Jensen, Filippo Porcari, Ivan Radovanović, Giuseppe Mascara, Andrea Caracciolo, Massimo Paci, Matteo Centurioni