Verona vs Napoli

24 January 2021 · Serie A · 2020/21 · Referee Michael Fabbri

Full time 3 – 1

Half-time: 1–1

Federico Dimarco 34’
Antonin Barak 62’
Mattia Zaccagni 79’

Hirving Lozano 1’

Match summary

Verona came from behind to win 3-1 at home to Napoli. It was 1-1 at half-time.

In the first half, Hirving Lozano put Napoli ahead in the first minute, set up by Diego Demme and Federico Dimarco equalised in the 34th minute, set up by Marco Faraoni. In the second half, Antonin Barak put Verona in front in the 62nd minute, set up by Mattia Zaccagni and Mattia Zaccagni made it 3-1 with a header in the 79th minute, set up by Darko Lazovic.

The chances backed that up: Verona created 2.35 expected goals (xG) from 14 shots to Napoli's 0.90 from 12.

Match stats

15 Shots 12

7 Shots on Target 4

3 Corners 3

2 Yellow Cards 3

0 Red Cards 0

2.35 xG 0.90

2.35 Non-penalty xG 0.90

4 Deep Completions 9

Key events

Verona Napoli

Kick-off

1’

Hirving Lozano
Assist: Diego Demme

0-1

Federico Dimarco
Assist: Marco Faraoni

1-1

34’

Half-time1-1

Antonin Barak
Assist: Mattia Zaccagni

2-1

62’

Mattia Zaccagni
Assist: Darko Lazovic

3-1

79’

Full-time3-1

Bookings

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

Verona

Mattia Zaccagni
Giangiacomo Magnani

Napoli

Giovanni Di Lorenzo
Kalidou Koulibaly
Diego Demme

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.

Verona 2.35 xGNapoli 0.90 xG Goal

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Shot map

Every shot and where it was taken from.

Napoli attacking Verona 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
Marco Silvestri	GK	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Pawel Dawidowicz	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.05	2
Koray Günter	DEF	78			0	0.00	0.00	0
Federico Dimarco	DEF	58	1		1	0.43	0.00	0
Marco Faraoni	MID	90		1	2	0.11	0.43	1
Darko Lazovic	MID	90		1	2	0.59	0.64	2
Adrien Tameze	MID	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Ivan Ilic	MID	90			2	0.07	0.02	1
Antonin Barak	MID	90	1		3	0.33	0.10	1
Mattia Zaccagni	MID	85	1	1	2	0.64	0.38	2
Nikola Kalinic	FWD	58			1	0.10	0.09	1
Giangiacomo Magnani	Sub	32			0	0.00	0.00	0
Samuel Di Carmine	Sub	32			1	0.08	0.01	1
Matteo Lovato	Sub	12			0	0.00	0.00	0
Daniel Bessa	Sub	5			0	0.00	0.00	0

Player	Pos	Min	G	A	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Alex Meret	GK	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Giovanni Di Lorenzo	DEF	90			1	0.07	0.00	0
Kalidou Koulibaly	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.05	1
Nikola Maksimovic	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.09	2
Elseid Hysaj	DEF	90			1	0.03	0.14	1
Tiemoué Bakayoko	MID	85			0	0.00	0.00	0
Diego Demme	MID	67		1	2	0.23	0.29	1
Hirving Lozano	MID	90	1		3	0.36	0.02	1
Piotr Zielinski	MID	85			0	0.00	0.00	0
Lorenzo Insigne	MID	62			3	0.05	0.07	1
Andrea Petagna	FWD	67			0	0.00	0.21	3
Dries Mertens	Sub	28			1	0.10	0.00	0
Matteo Politano	Sub	23			1	0.06	0.00	0
Victor Osimhen	Sub	23			0	0.00	0.00	0
Eljif Elmas	Sub	5			0	0.00	0.03	1
Stanislav Lobotka	Sub	5			0	0.00	0.00	0

Starters first, then substitutes. xA is expected assists.

Before kick-off

Verona win 23% Avg odds 4.13

Draw 27% Avg odds 3.54

Napoli win 50% Avg odds 1.91

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

Form going into the game

Verona L W D W L

Napoli D W L W W

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Previous and next meeting

Previous meeting: Verona 0-2 Napoli, 23 Jun 20 Next meeting: Napoli 1-1 Verona, 23 May 21 All Verona 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.