Napoli 3-1 ChievoVerona: result and report
Serie A · Saturday 5 March 2016
Result
Napoli 3-1 ChievoVerona
Serie A · Saturday 5 March 2016, 19:45 UTC · half-time 2-1
Napoli 3-1 ChievoVerona: match report
Napoli beat ChievoVerona 3-1 in Serie A on Saturday 5 March 2016. The half-time score was 2-1.
Nicola Rigoni opened the scoring in the 2nd minute. Napoli's goals came from Gonzalo Higuaín (6'), Vlad Chiriches (38') and José Callejón (70'). ChievoVerona scored through Nicola Rigoni (2').
Discipline: Napoli received no yellow cards; ChievoVerona received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Napoli were 2nd on 58 points from 27 and ChievoVerona 10th on 34 points from 27. Napoli went on to finish that season 2nd with 82 points, and ChievoVerona 9th with 50.
Napoli lined up in a 4-3-3 and ChievoVerona in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Faouzi Ghoulam of Napoli (8.9), ahead of Marek Hamšík (8.6).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Napoli wins, 1 draw and 4 for ChievoVerona.
Going into the match Napoli's last five read D-D-L-W-W and ChievoVerona's W-L-D-W-L.
Key events
- 2'Goal · Nicola Rigoni
- 6'Goal · Gonzalo Higuaín
- 11'Yellow card · Lucas Castro
- 38'Goal · Vlad Chiriches
- 58'Yellow card · Boštjan Cesar
- 70'Goal · José Callejón
- 82'Yellow card · Riccardo Meggiorini
- 82'Yellow card · Riccardo Meggiorini
Head-to-head
Team news
Napoli line-up (4-3-3)
Pepe Reina, Elseid Hysaj, Vlad Chiricheș, Kalidou Koulibaly, Faouzi Ghoulam, David López, Jorginho, Marek Hamšík, Juanmi Callejón, Gonzalo Higuaín, Lorenzo Insigne
ChievoVerona line-up (4-3-3)
Albano Bizzarri, Nicolas Frey, Dario Dainelli, Boštjan Cesar, Fabrizio Cacciatore, Lucas Castro, Ivan Radovanović, Nicola Rigoni, Valter Birsa, Sergio Pellissier, Paul-José M'Poku Ebunge