Cagliari vs Napoli

3 January 2021 · Serie A · 2020/21 · Referee Gianluca Manganiello

Full time 1 – 4

Half-time: 0–1

João Pedro 60’

Piotr Zielinski 25’, 62’
Hirving Lozano 74’
Lorenzo Insigne 86’ (pen)

Match summary

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

In the first half, Piotr Zielinski put Napoli ahead in the 25th minute, set up by Andrea Petagna. In the second half, João Pedro equalised in the 60th minute, Zielinski put Napoli back in front in the 62nd minute, set up by Giovanni Di Lorenzo, Hirving Lozano made it 1-3 from a corner in the 74th minute, and Lorenzo Insigne made it 1-4 from the penalty spot in the 86th minute.

The chances backed that up: Napoli created 5.34 expected goals (xG) from 34 shots to Cagliari's 0.86 from 8. Cagliari had a player sent off.

Match stats

6 Shots 22

1 Shots on Target 12

3 Corners 8

4 Yellow Cards 1

1 Red Cards 0

0.86 xG 5.25

0.86 Non-penalty xG 4.49

3 Deep Completions 25

Key events

Cagliari Napoli

Kick-off

25’

Piotr Zielinski
Assist: Andrea Petagna

0-1

Half-time0-1

João Pedro

1-1

60’

62’

Piotr Zielinski
Assist: Giovanni Di Lorenzo

1-2

74’

Hirving Lozano

1-3

86’

Lorenzo Insigne
Penalty

1-4

Full-time1-4

Bookings

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

Cagliari

Charalampos Lykogiannis
Riccardo Sottil
Fabrizio Caligara

Napoli

Piotr Zielinski

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 0.86 xGNapoli 5.34 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	G	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Alessio Cragno	GK	90		0	0.00	0.00	0
Gabriele Zappa	DEF	90		0	0.00	0.04	1
Luca Ceppitelli	DEF	90		0	0.00	0.00	0
Sebastian Walukiewicz	DEF	90		0	0.00	0.00	0
Charalampos Lykogiannis	DEF	66		0	0.00	0.00	0
Razvan Marin	MID	90		0	0.00	0.00	0
Nahitan Nández	MID	90		0	0.00	0.00	0
Gastón Pereiro	MID	58		0	0.00	0.24	3
João Pedro	MID	84	1	3	0.63	0.00	0
Riccardo Sottil	MID	69		4	0.18	0.00	0
Giovanni Simeone	FWD	84		1	0.04	0.00	0
Matteo Tramoni	Sub	32		0	0.00	0.00	0
Alessandro Tripaldelli	Sub	21		0	0.00	0.00	0
Fabrizio Caligara	Sub	6		0	0.00	0.00	0
Leonardo Pavoletti	Sub	6		0	0.00	0.00	0

Player	Pos	Min	G	A	Sh	xG	xA	KP
David Ospina	GK	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Giovanni Di Lorenzo	DEF	90		1	1	0.03	1.24	4
Nikola Maksimovic	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Kostas Manolas	DEF	88			1	0.23	0.00	0
Mário Rui	DEF	88			2	0.11	0.02	1
Fabián	MID	90			4	0.18	0.14	3
Tiemoué Bakayoko	MID	88			1	0.08	0.09	1
Hirving Lozano	MID	90	1		7	2.38	0.13	2
Piotr Zielinski	MID	78	2		6	0.67	0.09	2
Lorenzo Insigne	MID	90	1		5	1.02	1.18	5
Andrea Petagna	FWD	78		1	5	0.36	0.18	3
Matteo Politano	Sub	12			2	0.27	0.12	2
Eljif Elmas	Sub	12			0	0.00	0.00	0
Faouzi Ghoulam	Sub	2			0	0.00	0.00	0
Stanislav Lobotka	Sub	2			0	0.00	0.00	0
Amir Rrahmani	Sub	2			0	0.00	0.00	0

Starters first, then substitutes. xA is expected assists.

Before kick-off

Cagliari win 14% Avg odds 6.57

Draw 21% Avg odds 4.59

Napoli win 65% Avg odds 1.47

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

Form going into the game

Cagliari D L D D L

Napoli W W L L D

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Previous and next meeting

Previous meeting: Cagliari 0-1 Napoli, 16 Feb 20 Next meeting: Napoli 1-1 Cagliari, 02 May 21 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.