Napoli 1-0 SPAL: result and report
Serie A · Saturday 22 December 2018
Result
Napoli 1-0 SPAL
Serie A · Saturday 22 December 2018, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Napoli 1-0 SPAL: match report
Napoli won against SPAL 1-0 in Serie A on Saturday 22 December 2018. It was 1-0 at half-time.
The only goal came from Raúl Albiol of Napoli in the 45th minute.
Discipline: Napoli received 2 yellow cards; SPAL received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Napoli were 2nd on 38 points from 16 and SPAL 15th on 16 points from 16. Napoli went on to finish that season 2nd with 79 points, and SPAL 13th with 42.
Napoli lined up in a 4-4-2 and SPAL in a 3-5-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Alex Meret of Napoli (8.5), ahead of Raúl Albiol (8.2).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Napoli wins, 0 draws and 0 for SPAL.
Going into the match Napoli's last five read W-W-W-D-W and SPAL's D-D-D-L-D.
Key events
- 38'Yellow card · Thiago Cionek
- 45+1'Goal · Raúl Albiol
- 46'Yellow card · Marek Hamsik
- 50'Yellow card · Jasmin Kurtic
- 61'Yellow card · Marko Rog
Head-to-head
Team news
Napoli line-up (4-4-2)
Alex Meret, Elseid Hysaj, Raúl Albiol, Kalidou Koulibaly, Faouzi Ghoulam, Juanmi Callejón, Marko Rog, Marek Hamšík, Piotr Zielinski, Dries Mertens, Lorenzo Insigne
SPAL line-up (3-5-2)
Alfred Gomis, Thiago Cionek, Johan Djourou, Kevin Bonifazi, Manuel Lazzari, Pasquale Schiattarella, Nova Arianto, Jasmin Kurtic, Mohamed Fares, Alberto Paloschi, Mirco Antenucci