Genoa 1-2 Napoli: result and report
Serie A · Wednesday 8 July 2020
Result
Genoa 1-2 Napoli
Serie A · Wednesday 8 July 2020, 17:30 UTC · half-time 0-1
Genoa 1-2 Napoli: match report
Genoa were beaten by Napoli 1-2 in Serie A on Wednesday 8 July 2020. It was 0-1 at half-time.
Dries Mertens opened the scoring in the 45th minute. Genoa's goal came from Edoardo Goldaniga (49'). Napoli scored through Dries Mertens (45+1') and Hirving Lozano (66').
Discipline: Genoa received 1 yellow card; Napoli received no yellow cards.
Going into the game Genoa were 18th on 27 points from 30 and Napoli 7th on 48 points from 30. Genoa went on to finish that season 17th with 39 points, and Napoli 7th with 62.
Genoa lined up in a 3-5-2 and Napoli in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Mattia Perin of Genoa (8.3), ahead of Fabián Ruiz (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Genoa wins, 5 draws and 5 for Napoli.
Going into the match Genoa's last five read D-L-D-L-W and Napoli's W-L-W-W-W.
Key events
- 45+1'Goal · Dries Mertens
- 49'Goal · Edoardo Goldaniga
- 66'Goal · Hirving Lozano
- 71'Yellow card · Edoardo Goldaniga
Head-to-head
Team news
Unavailable
- Fernando Llorente
- Domenico Criscito
- Ivan Radovanović
- Sinan Gümüş
- Cristian Romero
- Stefano Sturaro
- Jawad El Yamiq
- Lorenzo Tonelli
Genoa line-up (3-5-2)
Mattia Perin, Edoardo Goldaniga, Cristián Zapata, Andrea Masiello, Davide Biraschi, Francesco Cassata, Lasse Schöne, Valon Behrami, Antonio Barreca, Andrea Pinamonti, Antonio Sanabria
Napoli line-up (4-3-3)
Alex Meret, Elseid Hysaj, Konstantinos Manolas, Nikola Maksimović, Mário Rui, Fabián Ruiz, Stanislav Lobotka, Eljif Elmas, Matteo Politano, Dries Mertens, Lorenzo Insigne