Roma 0-2 Napoli: result and report
Serie A · Sunday 21 March 2021
Result
Roma 0-2 Napoli
Serie A · Sunday 21 March 2021, 19:45 UTC · half-time 0-2
Roma 0-2 Napoli: match report
Roma were beaten by Napoli 0-2 in Serie A on Sunday 21 March 2021. It was 0-2 at half-time.
Dries Mertens opened the scoring in the 27th minute. Roma did not score. Napoli scored through Dries Mertens (27') and Dries Mertens (34').
Discipline: Roma received 5 yellow cards; Napoli received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Roma were 6th on 50 points from 27 and Napoli 5th on 50 points from 26. Roma went on to finish that season 7th with 62 points, and Napoli 5th with 77.
Roma lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Napoli in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Dries Mertens of Napoli (8.6), ahead of David Ospina (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Roma wins, 1 draw and 5 for Napoli.
Going into the match Roma's last five read L-W-W-L-D and Napoli's W-W-D-W-L.
Key events
- 26'Yellow card · Roger Ibañez
- 27'Goal · Dries Mertens
- 34'Goal · Dries Mertens
- 45+1'Yellow card · Gianluca Mancini
- 47'Yellow card · Piotr Zielinski
- 59'Yellow card · Amadou Diawara
- 63'Yellow card · Federico Insúa
- 78'Yellow card · Kalidou Koulibaly
- 85'Yellow card · Gonzalo Villar
- 90+1'Yellow card · Victor Osimhen
Head-to-head
Team news
Unavailable
- Faouzi Ghoulam
- Amir Rrahmani
- Andrea Petagna
- Juan Jesus
- Chris Smalling
- Henrikh Mkhitaryan
- Sebastiano Luperto
- Jordan Veretout
- Stanislav Lobotka
Roma line-up (3-4-2-1)
Pau López, Gianluca Mancini, Bryan Cristante, Roger Ibañez, Rick Karsdorp, Lorenzo Pellegrini, Amadou Diawara, Leonardo Spinazzola, Pedro, Stephan El Shaarawy, Edin Džeko
Napoli line-up (4-2-3-1)
David Ospina, Elseid Hysaj, Nikola Maksimović, Kalidou Koulibaly, Mário Rui, Fabián Ruiz, Diego Demme, Matteo Politano, Piotr Zielinski, Lorenzo Insigne, Dries Mertens