Napoli vs AC Milan

25 August 2018 · Serie A · 2018/19 · Referee Paolo Valeri

Full time 3 – 2

Half-time: 0–1

Piotr Zielinski 53’, 67’
Dries Mertens 80’

Giacomo Bonaventura 15’
Davide Calabria 49’

Match summary

Napoli came back from 2 goals down to win 3-2 at home to AC Milan. AC Milan led 1-0 at half-time.

In the first half, Giacomo Bonaventura put AC Milan ahead in the 15th minute, set up by Fabio Borini. In the second half, Davide Calabria made it 0-2 in the 49th minute, set up by Suso, Piotr Zielinski pulled one back to make it 1-2 in the 53rd minute, set up by José Callejón, Zielinski equalised from a corner in the 67th minute, and Dries Mertens won it in the 80th minute, set up by Allan.

The chances backed that up: Napoli created 2.04 expected goals (xG) from 24 shots to AC Milan's 0.52 from 8.

Match stats

21 Shots 6

13 Shots on Target 4

5 Corners 1

2 Yellow Cards 2

0 Red Cards 0

2.04 xG 0.52

2.04 Non-penalty xG 0.52

11 Deep Completions 7

Key events

Napoli AC Milan

Kick-off

15’

Giacomo Bonaventura
Assist: Fabio Borini

0-1

Half-time0-1

49’

Davide Calabria
Assist: Suso

0-2

Piotr Zielinski
Assist: José Callejón

1-2

53’

Piotr Zielinski

2-2

67’

Dries Mertens
Assist: Allan

3-2

80’

Full-time3-2

Bookings

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

Napoli

Kalidou Koulibaly
Lorenzo Insigne

AC Milan

Ricardo Rodríguez
Suso

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.

Napoli 2.04 xGAC Milan 0.52 xG Goal

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Shot map

Every shot and where it was taken from.

AC Milan attacking Napoli attacking

Size shows xG Goal On target Off target or blocked

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Player stats

Player	Pos	Min	G	A	Sh	xG	xA	KP
David Ospina	GK	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Elseid Hysaj	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Kalidou Koulibaly	DEF	90			1	0.02	0.07	1
Raúl Albiol	DEF	90			1	0.03	0.00	0
Mário Rui	DEF	76			0	0.00	0.02	1
Allan	MID	90		1	4	0.20	0.84	5
Piotr Zielinski	MID	75	2		4	0.20	0.00	0
Marek Hamsik	MID	66			1	0.01	0.00	0
José Callejón	FWD	90		1	2	0.11	0.44	7
Arkadiusz Milik	FWD	90			2	0.06	0.03	1
Lorenzo Insigne	FWD	90			5	0.52	0.25	5
Dries Mertens	Sub	24	1		4	0.88	0.32	1
Amadou Diawara	Sub	15			0	0.00	0.00	0
Sebastiano Luperto	Sub	14			0	0.00	0.00	0

Player	Pos	Min	G	A	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Gianluigi Donnarumma	GK	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Davide Calabria	DEF	90	1		1	0.08	0.00	0
Mateo Musacchio	DEF	90			1	0.15	0.00	0
Alessio Romagnoli	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Ricardo Rodríguez	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Franck Kessié	MID	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Giacomo Bonaventura	MID	84	1		1	0.06	0.18	3
Lucas Biglia	MID	61			0	0.00	0.00	0
Suso	FWD	90		1	0	0.00	0.14	2
Gonzalo Higuaín	FWD	90			2	0.14	0.00	0
Fabio Borini	FWD	74		1	2	0.08	0.06	1
Tiemoué Bakayoko	Sub	29			1	0.02	0.00	0
Diego Laxalt	Sub	16			0	0.00	0.09	1
Patrick Cutrone	Sub	6			0	0.00	0.00	0

Starters first, then substitutes. xA is expected assists.

Before kick-off

Napoli win 59% Bet365 odds 1.61

Draw 24% Bet365 odds 4.00

AC Milan win 17% Bet365 odds 5.50

Chances implied by the Bet365 odds, with the bookmaker margin removed.

Form going into the game

Napoli W

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Previous and next meeting

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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.