Cagliari vs Napoli

15 September 2024 · Serie A · 2024/25 · Referee Federico La Penna

Full time 0 – 4

Half-time: 0–1

Giovanni Di Lorenzo 18’
Khvicha Kvaratskhelia 66’
Romelu Lukaku 70’
Alessandro Buongiorno 90+3’

Match summary

Napoli won comfortably, 4-0 away at Cagliari. Napoli led 1-0 at half-time.

In the first half, Giovanni Di Lorenzo put Napoli ahead in the 18th minute, set up by Romelu Lukaku. In the second half, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia made it 0-2 in the 66th minute, set up by Romelu Lukaku, Romelu Lukaku made it 0-3 in the 70th minute, set up by Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, and Alessandro Buongiorno made it 0-4 with a header in stoppage time, set up by David Neres.

The chances backed that up: Napoli created 1.43 expected goals (xG) from 13 shots to Cagliari's 0.88 from 19.

Match stats

16 Shots 12

3 Shots on Target 5

7 Corners 4

1 Yellow Cards 2

0 Red Cards 0

0.88 xG 1.43

0.88 Non-penalty xG 1.43

3 Deep Completions 8

Key events

Cagliari Napoli

Kick-off

18’

Giovanni Di Lorenzo
Assist: Romelu Lukaku

0-1

Half-time0-1

66’

Khvicha Kvaratskhelia
Assist: Romelu Lukaku

0-2

70’

Romelu Lukaku
Assist: Khvicha Kvaratskhelia

0-3

90+3’

Alessandro Buongiorno
Assist: David Neres

0-4

Full-time0-4

Bookings

Card times are not on file for this game, so they are listed without a minute.

Cagliari

Yerry Mina

Napoli

Stanislav Lobotka
Romelu Lukaku

How the chances added up

Running total of expected goals (xG) for each side through the match. xG rates each chance by how often similar shots are scored. A goal is marked where it was scored.

Cagliari 0.88 xGNapoli 1.43 xG Goal

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Shot map

Every shot and where it was taken from.

Napoli attacking Cagliari attacking

Size shows xG Goal On target Off target or blocked

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Player stats

Player	Pos	Min	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Simone Scuffet	GK	90	0	0.00	0.00	0
Yerry Mina	DEF	90	4	0.14	0.00	0
Gabriele Zappa	DEF	90	0	0.00	0.00	0
Sebastiano Luperto	DEF	90	1	0.04	0.00	0
Paulo Azzi	MID	68	2	0.09	0.04	1
Tommaso Augello	MID	90	0	0.00	0.11	2
Razvan Marin	MID	87	3	0.10	0.14	4
Alessandro Deiola	MID	55	0	0.00	0.00	0
Zito	MID	90	1	0.06	0.13	2
Gianluca Gaetano	MID	68	2	0.16	0.02	1
Roberto Piccoli	FWD	87	3	0.16	0.00	0
Ndary Adopo	Sub	35	0	0.00	0.00	0
Nadir Zortea	Sub	22	0	0.00	0.00	0
Kingstone Mutandwa	Sub	22	3	0.13	0.00	0
Antoine Makoumbou	Sub	3	0	0.00	0.00	0
Leonardo Pavoletti	Sub	3	0	0.00	0.02	1

Player	Pos	Min	G	A	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Alex Meret	GK	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Alessandro Buongiorno	DEF	90	1		1	0.13	0.00	0
Giovanni Di Lorenzo	DEF	90	1		2	0.08	0.00	0
Amir Rrahmani	DEF	90			2	0.17	0.00	0
Pasquale Mazzocchi	MID	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Leonardo Spinazzola	MID	73			0	0.00	0.00	0
Franck Zambo	MID	90			0	0.00	0.16	1
Stanislav Lobotka	MID	83			1	0.02	0.00	0
Matteo Politano	MID	90			2	0.10	0.15	2
Khvicha Kvaratskhelia	MID	83	1	1	3	0.28	0.64	3
Romelu Lukaku	FWD	83	1	2	2	0.64	0.25	3
Mathías Olivera	Sub	17			0	0.00	0.00	0
Giovanni Simeone	Sub	7			0	0.00	0.00	0
Scott McTominay	Sub	7			0	0.00	0.00	0
Billy Gilmour	Sub	7			0	0.00	0.00	0
David Neres	Sub	1		1	0	0.00	0.13	1

Starters first, then substitutes. xA is expected assists.

Before kick-off

Cagliari win 21% Avg odds 4.47

Draw 26% Avg odds 3.73

Napoli win 53% Avg odds 1.80

Chances implied by the average closing odds, with the bookmaker margin removed.

Form going into the game

Cagliari W L D D L

Napoli D D L W W

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Previous and next meeting

Previous meeting: Cagliari 1-1 Napoli, 25 Feb 24 Next meeting: Napoli 2-0 Cagliari, 23 May 25 All Cagliari vs Napoli meetings

Shots, expected goals and player data from Understat. Results and odds from football-data.co.uk. Referee data before 2025/26 from the Transfermarkt datasets project.