Napoli 3-1 Roma: result and report
Serie A · Sunday 6 January 2013
Result
Napoli 3-1 Roma
Serie A · Sunday 6 January 2013, 19:45 UTC · half-time 1-0
Napoli 3-1 Roma: match report
Napoli beat Roma 3-1 in Serie A on Sunday 6 January 2013. It was 1-0 at half-time.
Edinson Cavani opened the scoring in the 4th minute. Napoli's goals came from Edinson Cavani (4'), Edinson Cavani (48'), Edinson Cavani (70') and Christian Maggio (90'). Roma scored through Pablo Osvaldo (72').
Discipline: Napoli received 3 yellow cards; Roma received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Napoli were 3rd on 37 points from 18 and Roma 6th on 32 points from 18. Napoli went on to finish that season 2nd with 77 points, and Roma 6th with 62.
Napoli lined up in a 3-4-1-2 and Roma in a 4-3-3.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Napoli wins, 4 draws and 4 for Roma.
Going into the match Napoli's last five read W-D-L-W-W and Roma's W-L-W-W-W.
Key events
- 4'Goal · Edinson Cavani
- 19'Yellow card · Miralem Pjanić
- 22'Yellow card · Hugo Campagnaro
- 25'Yellow card · Francesco Totti
- 32'Yellow card · Morgan De Sanctis
- 48'Goal · Edinson Cavani
- 70'Goal · Edinson Cavani
- 72'Goal · Pablo Osvaldo
- 75'Second yellow · Miralem Pjanić
- 90'Goal · Christian Maggio
- 90'Yellow card · Christian Maggio
Head-to-head
Team news
Napoli line-up (3-4-1-2)
Morgan De Sanctis, Miguel Britos, Christian Maggio, Hugo Campagnaro, Camilo Zúñiga, Alessandro Gamberini, Marek Hamšík, Valon Behrami, Gökhan Inler, Edinson Cavani, Goran Pandev
Roma line-up (4-3-3)
Mauro Goicoechea, Leandro Castán, Iván Piris, Nicolás Burdisso, Federico Balzaretti, Michael Bradley, Erik Lamela, Miralem Pjanić, Daniele De Rossi, Francesco Totti, Mattia Destro