Napoli vs Bologna

Match summary

Napoli won 1-0 at home to Bologna. It was goalless at half-time.

Stanislav Lobotka put Napoli ahead in the 66th minute, set up by Costantino Favasuli.

The chances backed that up: Napoli created 2.25 expected goals (xG) from 15 shots to Bologna's 0.17 from 5.

Napoli claimed a narrow 1-0 victory over Bologna in Serie A matchday four after dominating the proceedings across the pitch. The home side controlled fifty-eight percent of possession and dictated the territory, registering one hundred and twenty-seven attacks compared to sixty-seven by their opponents. Napoli accumulated fourteen shots with three on target, contrasted with five shots and two on target for Bologna. The hosts earned ten corners to zero, completed five hundred and fifty-one passes at a ninety percent accuracy rate, and generated an expected goals total of 2.25 against 0.17 for Bologna, while committing fifteen fouls without receiving a single card.

The match remained goalless at half-time following a first half that included an eighth-minute VAR review and a thirty-first-minute yellow card shown to Mikel Amondarain of Bologna for a foul. Following multiple substitutions at the start of the second half and a double change for Bologna in the fifty-eighth minute, the decisive breakthrough arrived in the sixty-sixth minute when Stanislav Lobotka scored with a right-foot shot to put Napoli ahead 1-0. Further substitutions followed for both teams, including Mathías Olivera departing for Kevin De Bruyne due to injury in the eighty-eighth minute, before the match concluded with the score unchanged.