Juventus 3-1 Napoli: result and report

Serie A · Saturday 29 September 2018

Result

Juventus 3-1 Napoli

Serie A · Saturday 29 September 2018, 16:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

Juventus · Napoli · Serie A predictions

Juventus 3-1 Napoli: match report

Juventus beat Napoli 3-1 in Serie A on Saturday 29 September 2018. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Dries Mertens opened the scoring in the 10th minute. Juventus's goals came from Mario Mandžukić (26'), Mario Mandžukić (49') and Leonardo Bonucci (76'). Napoli scored through Dries Mertens (10').

Discipline: Juventus received 3 yellow cards; Napoli received 4 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Juventus were 1st on 18 points from 6 and Napoli 2nd on 15 points from 6. Juventus went on to finish that season 1st with 90 points, and Napoli 2nd with 79.

Juventus lined up in a 4-3-1-2 and Napoli in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Mario Mandžukić of Juventus (9.0), ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo (8.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Juventus wins, 1 draw and 3 for Napoli.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 10'Goal · Dries MertensNapoli · 0-1
  • 24'Yellow card · Mário RuiNapoli
  • 26'Goal · Mario MandžukićJuventus · 1-1
  • 40'Yellow card · Kalidou KoulibalyNapoli
  • 49'Goal · Mario MandžukićJuventus · 2-1
  • 55'Yellow card · Elseid HysajNapoli
  • 58'Second yellow · Mário RuiNapoli
  • 60'Yellow card · Leonardo BonucciJuventus
  • 60'Yellow card · Lorenzo InsigneNapoli
  • 69'Yellow card · João CanceloJuventus
  • 76'Goal · Leonardo BonucciJuventus · 3-1
  • 85'Yellow card · Alex SandroJuventus

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Juventus 6, draws 1, Napoli 3.

Team news

Juventus line-up (4-3-1-2)

Wojciech Szczesny, João Cancelo, Leonardo Bonucci, Giorgio Chiellini, Alex Sandro, Emre Can, Miralem Pjanić, Blaise Matuidi, Paulo Dybala, Mario Mandžukić, Cristiano Ronaldo

Napoli line-up (4-4-2)

David Ospina, Elseid Hysaj, Raúl Albiol, Kalidou Koulibaly, Mário Rui, Juanmi Callejón, Allan, Marek Hamšík, Piotr Zielinski, Lorenzo Insigne, Dries Mertens