Sassuolo vs Napoli

1 December 2021 · Serie A · 2021/22 · Referee Ivano Pezzuto

Full time 2 – 2

Half-time: 0–0

Gianluca Scamacca 71’
Gianmarco Ferrari 89’

Fabián 51’
Dries Mertens 59’

Match summary

The points were shared as Sassuolo and Napoli drew 2-2. It was goalless at half-time.

Fabián put Napoli ahead in the 51st minute, set up by Piotr Zielinski, Dries Mertens made it 0-2 in the 59th minute, set up by Piotr Zielinski, Gianluca Scamacca pulled one back to make it 1-2 in the 71st minute, set up by Georgios Kyriakopoulos, and Gianmarco Ferrari equalised with a header in the 89th minute, set up by Domenico Berardi.

Napoli had the better of the chances, with 0.92 expected goals (xG) from 9 shots to Sassuolo's 0.31 from 9.

Match stats

9 Shots 9

7 Shots on Target 4

5 Corners 4

4 Yellow Cards 2

0 Red Cards 0

0.31 xG 0.92

0.31 Non-penalty xG 0.92

4 Deep Completions 10

Key events

Sassuolo Napoli

Kick-off

Half-time0-0

51’

Fabián
Assist: Piotr Zielinski

0-1

59’

Dries Mertens
Assist: Piotr Zielinski

0-2

Gianluca Scamacca
Assist: Georgios Kyriakopoulos

1-2

71’

Gianmarco Ferrari
Assist: Domenico Berardi

2-2

89’

Full-time2-2

Bookings

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

Sassuolo

Rogerio
Domenico Berardi
Matheus Henrique
Gregoire Defrel

Napoli

Diego Demme
Matteo Politano

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.

Sassuolo 0.31 xGNapoli 0.92 xG Goal

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Shot map

Every shot and where it was taken from.

Napoli attacking Sassuolo 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
Andrea Consigli	GK	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Jeremy Toljan	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.02	1
Gianmarco Ferrari	DEF	90	1		2	0.11	0.00	0
Vlad Chiriches	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.01	1
Rogerio	DEF	62			0	0.00	0.03	1
Maxime Lopez	MID	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Davide Frattesi	MID	78			0	0.00	0.00	0
Hamed Junior Traore	MID	62			0	0.00	0.00	0
Domenico Berardi	FWD	90		1	3	0.04	0.10	2
Gianluca Scamacca	FWD	90	1		3	0.13	0.01	1
Giacomo Raspadori	FWD	89			1	0.03	0.03	1
Matheus Henrique	Sub	28			0	0.00	0.00	0
Georgios Kyriakopoulos	Sub	28		1	0	0.00	0.07	1
Abdou Harroui	Sub	12			0	0.00	0.00	0
Gregoire Defrel	Sub	1			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			0	0.00	0.13	1
Amir Rrahmani	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Kalidou Koulibaly	DEF	81			0	0.00	0.00	0
Mário Rui	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.14	2
Piotr Zielinski	MID	90		2	2	0.15	0.49	3
Stanislav Lobotka	MID	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Fabián	MID	67	1		3	0.22	0.00	0
Hirving Lozano	FWD	74			0	0.00	0.00	0
Dries Mertens	FWD	67	1		1	0.33	0.00	0
Lorenzo Insigne	FWD	47			2	0.14	0.00	0
Eljif Elmas	Sub	43			0	0.00	0.02	1
Andrea Petagna	Sub	23			0	0.00	0.08	1
Matteo Politano	Sub	23			1	0.08	0.00	0
Diego Demme	Sub	16			0	0.00	0.00	0
Juan Jesus	Sub	9			0	0.00	0.00	0

Starters first, then substitutes. xA is expected assists.

Before kick-off

Sassuolo win 23% Avg odds 4.11

Draw 25% Avg odds 3.82

Napoli win 52% Avg odds 1.85

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

Form going into the game

Sassuolo W L L D W

Napoli W W D L W

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Previous and next meeting

Previous meeting: Sassuolo 3-3 Napoli, 03 Mar 21 Next meeting: Napoli 6-1 Sassuolo, 30 Apr 22 All Sassuolo 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.