Napoli 5-3 Torino: result and report
Serie A · Sunday 18 December 2016
Result
Napoli 5-3 Torino
Serie A · Sunday 18 December 2016, 14:00 UTC · half-time 3-0
Napoli 5-3 Torino: match report
Napoli defeated Torino 5-3 in Serie A on Sunday 18 December 2016. It was 3-0 at half-time.
Dries Mertens opened the scoring in the 13th minute. Napoli's goals came from Dries Mertens (13'), Dries Mertens (18', penalty), Dries Mertens (22'), Vlad Chiriches (70') and Dries Mertens (80'). Torino scored through Andrea Belotti (58'), Luca Rossettini (76') and Iago Falque (84', penalty).
Discipline: Napoli received no yellow cards; Torino received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Napoli were 4th on 31 points from 16 and Torino 9th on 25 points from 16. Napoli went on to finish that season 3rd with 86 points, and Torino 9th with 53.
Napoli lined up in a 4-3-3 and Torino in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Dries Mertens of Napoli (10.0), ahead of Juanmi Callejón (9.2).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Napoli wins, 1 draw and 3 for Torino.
Key events
- 13'Goal · Dries Mertens
- 18'Penalty goal · Dries Mertens
- 22'Goal · Dries Mertens
- 34'Yellow card · Luca Rossettini
- 58'Goal · Andrea Belotti
- 60'Yellow card · Emiliano Moretti
- 70'Goal · Vlad Chiriches
- 72'Yellow card · Saša Lukić
- 76'Goal · Luca Rossettini
- 80'Goal · Dries Mertens
- 84'Penalty goal · Iago Falque
Head-to-head
Team news
Napoli line-up (4-3-3)
Pepe Reina, Elseid Hysaj, Vlad Chiricheș, Faouzi Ghoulam, Raúl Albiol, Jorginho, Marek Hamšík, Piotr Zielinski, Juanmi Callejón, Dries Mertens, Lorenzo Insigne
Torino line-up (4-3-3)
Joe Hart, Luca Rossettini, Antonio Barreca, Emiliano Moretti, Lorenzo De Silvestri, Daniele Baselli, Marco Benassi, Nova Arianto, Davide Zappacosta, Andrea Belotti, Adem Ljajic