Benevento 0-2 Napoli: result and report
Serie A · Sunday 4 February 2018
Result
Benevento 0-2 Napoli
Serie A · Sunday 4 February 2018, 19:45 UTC · half-time 0-1
Benevento 0-2 Napoli: match report
Benevento were beaten by Napoli 0-2 in Serie A on Sunday 4 February 2018. It was 0-1 at half-time.
Dries Mertens opened the scoring in the 20th minute. Benevento did not score. Napoli scored through Dries Mertens (20') and Marek Hamsik (47').
Discipline: Benevento received 1 yellow card; Napoli received no yellow cards.
Going into the game Benevento were 20th on 7 points from 22 and Napoli 2nd on 57 points from 22. Benevento went on to finish that season 20th with 21 points, and Napoli 2nd with 91.
Benevento lined up in a 4-1-4-1 and Napoli in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Guilherme of Benevento (8.0), level with Juanmi Callejón (8.0).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Benevento wins, 0 draws and 1 for Napoli.
Going into the match Benevento's last five read L-L-W-W-L and Napoli's W-W-W-W-W.
Key events
- 20'Goal · Dries Mertens
- 47'Goal · Marek Hamsik
- 73'Yellow card · Berat Djimsiti
Head-to-head
Team news
Benevento line-up (4-1-4-1)
Christian Puggioni, Gaetano Letizia, Berat Djimsiti, Andrea Costa, Lorenzo Venuti, Marco D'Alessandro, Danilo Cataldi, Sandro, Filip Djuricic, Enrico Brignola, Guilherme
Napoli line-up (4-3-3)
Pepe Reina, Mário Rui, Elseid Hysaj, Kalidou Koulibaly, Raúl Albiol, Allan, Jorginho, Marek Hamšík, Juanmi Callejón, Dries Mertens, Lorenzo Insigne