Udinese 0-3 Napoli: result and report

Serie A · Saturday 20 October 2018

Result

Udinese 0-3 Napoli

Serie A · Saturday 20 October 2018, 18:30 UTC · half-time 0-1

Udinese · Napoli · Serie A predictions

Udinese 0-3 Napoli: match report

Udinese were beaten by Napoli 0-3 in Serie A on Saturday 20 October 2018. It was 0-1 at half-time.

Fabián Ruiz opened the scoring in the 14th minute. Udinese did not score. Napoli scored through Fabián Ruiz (14'), Dries Mertens (82', penalty) and Marko Rog (85').

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

Going into the game Udinese were 15th on 8 points from 8 and Napoli 2nd on 18 points from 8. Udinese went on to finish that season 12th with 43 points, and Napoli 2nd with 79.

Udinese lined up in a 3-5-2 and Napoli in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Orestis Karnezis of Napoli (8.5), ahead of Dries Mertens (8.2).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Udinese wins, 2 draws and 6 for Napoli.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 14'Goal · Fabián RuizNapoli · 0-1
  • 15'Yellow card · Ignacio PussettoUdinese
  • 36'Yellow card · Arkadiusz MilikNapoli
  • 45'Yellow card · Raúl AlbiolNapoli
  • 56'Yellow card · AllanNapoli
  • 57'Yellow card · Jens Stryger LarsenUdinese
  • 59'Yellow card · Dries MertensNapoli
  • 79'Yellow card · N. OpokuUdinese
  • 82'Penalty goal · Dries MertensNapoli · 0-2
  • 85'Goal · Marko RogNapoli · 0-3

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Udinese 2, draws 2, Napoli 6.

Team news

Udinese line-up (3-5-2)

Simone Scuffet, William Troost-Ekong, Bram Nuytinck, Samir Caetano, Ignacio Pussetto, Seko Fofana, Valon Behrami, Rolando Mandragora, Jens Stryger, Rodrigo De Paul, Kevin Lasagna

Napoli line-up (4-4-2)

Orestis Karnezis, Kévin Malcuit, Raúl Albiol, Kalidou Koulibaly, Elseid Hysaj, Juanmi Callejón, Allan, Piotr Zielinski, Mike van Dijk, Dries Mertens, Arkadiusz Milik