Napoli 1-1 Roma: result and report

Serie A · Sunday 28 October 2018

Result

Napoli 1-1 Roma

Serie A · Sunday 28 October 2018, 19:30 UTC · half-time 0-1

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Napoli 1-1 Roma: match report

Napoli drew with Roma 1-1 in Serie A on Sunday 28 October 2018. The half-time score was 0-1.

Federico Insúa opened the scoring in the 14th minute. Napoli's goal came from Dries Mertens (90'). Roma scored through Federico Insúa (14').

Discipline: Napoli received no yellow cards; Roma received 5 yellow cards.

Going into the game Napoli were 2nd on 21 points from 9 and Roma 9th on 14 points from 9. Napoli went on to finish that season 2nd with 79 points, and Roma 6th with 66.

Napoli lined up in a 4-4-2 and Roma in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Juanmi Callejón of Napoli (8.6), ahead of Raúl Albiol (8.0).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Napoli wins, 1 draw and 5 for Roma.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 14'Goal · Federico InsúaRoma · 0-1
  • 55'Yellow card · Edin DzekoRoma
  • 58'Yellow card · S. NzonziRoma
  • 68'Yellow card · K. ManolasRoma
  • 80'Yellow card · Robin OlsenRoma
  • 80'Yellow card · Lorenzo PellegriniRoma
  • 90'Goal · Dries MertensNapoli · 1-1

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Napoli 4, draws 1, Roma 5.

Team news

Napoli line-up (4-4-2)

David Ospina, Elseid Hysaj, Raúl Albiol, Kalidou Koulibaly, Mário Rui, Juanmi Callejón, Allan, Marek Hamšík, Fabián Ruiz, Lorenzo Insigne, Arkadiusz Milik

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

Robin Olsen, José Faria, Konstantinos Manolas, Juan Jesus, Aleksandar Kolarov, Daniele De Rossi, Steven Nzonzi, Cengiz Ünder, Lorenzo Pellegrini, Stephan El Shaarawy, Edin Džeko