Napoli 2-0 Rijeka: result and report
Europa League · Thursday 26 November 2020
Result
Napoli 2-0 Rijeka
Europa League · Thursday 26 November 2020, 20:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Napoli 2-0 Rijeka: match report
Napoli defeated Rijeka 2-0 in the Europa League on Thursday 26 November 2020. The half-time score was 1-0.
Matteo Politano opened the scoring in the 41st minute. Napoli's goals came from Matteo Politano (41') and Hirving Lozano (75'). Rijeka did not score.
Discipline: Napoli received no yellow cards; Rijeka received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Napoli were 41st on 6 points from 3 and Rijeka 70th on 4 points from 5. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.
Napoli lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Rijeka in a 5-4-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Faouzi Ghoulam of Napoli (8.5), ahead of Diego Demme (8.3).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Napoli win, 0 draws and 0 for Rijeka.
Going into the match Napoli's last five read W-W-L and Rijeka's L-L-L-W-D.
Key events
- 41'Goal · Matteo Politano
- 74'Yellow card · A. Anastasio
- 75'Goal · Hirving Lozano
Head-to-head
Team news
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Napoli line-up (4-2-3-1)
Alex Meret, Giovanni Di Lorenzo, Nikola Maksimović, Kalidou Koulibaly, Faouzi Ghoulam, Tiemoué Bakayoko, Diego Demme, Matteo Politano, Piotr Zielinski, Eljif Elmas, Andrea Petagna
Rijeka line-up (5-4-1)
Ivan Nevistic, Ivan Tomecak, Darko Velkovski, Nino Galović, Hrvoje Smolcic, Armando Anastasio, Robert Muric, Adam Gnezda Cerin, Stjepan Loncar, Daniel Stefulj, Franko Andrijašević