Genoa 3-2 Napoli: result and report
Serie A · Sunday 5 October 2008
Result
Genoa 3-2 Napoli
Serie A · Sunday 5 October 2008, 13:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Genoa 3-2 Napoli: match report
Genoa won against Napoli 3-2 in Serie A on Sunday 5 October 2008. It was 1-1 at half-time.
Ezequiel Lavezzi opened the scoring in the 1st minute. Genoa's goals came from Sokratis Papastathopoulos (44'), Raffaele Palladino (51') and Diego Milito (73'). Napoli scored through Ezequiel Lavezzi (1') and Germán Denis (75').
Discipline: Genoa received 2 yellow cards and 2 red cards; Napoli received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Genoa were 13th on 6 points from 5 and Napoli 3rd on 11 points from 5. Genoa went on to finish that season 4th with 68 points, and Napoli 12th with 46.
Genoa lined up in a 4-3-3 and Napoli in a 3-5-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Genoa wins, 0 draws and 0 for Napoli.
Going into the match Genoa's last five read L-W-L-W-L and Napoli's W-W-D-W-D.
Key events
- 1'Goal · Ezequiel Lavezzi
- 41'Yellow card · Christian Maggio
- 42'Yellow card · Fabiano Santacroce
- 42'Yellow card · Giuseppe Sculli
- 44'Goal · Sokratis Papastathopoulos
- 51'Goal · Raffaele Palladino
- 56'Red card · Marco Rossi
- 73'Goal · Diego Milito
- 75'Goal · Germán Denis
- 77'Yellow card · Marek Hamsik
- 83'Yellow card · Sokratis Papastathopoulos
- 90+1'Second yellow · Sokratis Papastathopoulos
Head-to-head
Team news
Genoa expected line-up (4-3-3)
Rubinho, Domenico Criscito, Fabiano Lima, Cesare Bovo, Alessandro Lucarelli, Omar Milanetto, Julío de León Dailey, Marco Rossi, Marco Borriello, Abdoulay Konko
Napoli line-up (3-5-2)
Matteo Gianello, Salvatore Aronica, Fabiano Santacroce, Leandro Rinaudo, Marek Hamšík, Walter Gargano, Daniele Mannini, Ezequiel Lavezzi, Germán Denis, Michele Pazienza, Christian Maggio