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Napoli vs Internazionale

Competition – Serie A

Stadium – Stadio San Paolo

Date: 21st October 2017

Kick-off time – 19:45 GMT

This is the biggest game in the Italian Serie A this season so far and could be the turning point for the winner as these two teams and currently first and second in the league table.

Napoli remains the only team in Europe’s top five leagues that still has a 100% record this season and they look likely to prioritise winning the league over Champions League this season.

They won their last league game away at AS Roma 0-1 – a result that showed everyone that they are prepared to fight it out for the title.

They also earned a lot of praise for how they played Pep Guardiola’s team in the Champions League as a Dries Mertens penalty saved by Ederson stopped them from sharing the points in that game.

This game will be a major test and a win here would send the right signal to their fellow title challengers that they are ready to go all the way.

Napoli have won at Roma and Lazio already this season – two of the toughest grounds to win at.

Inter Milan will be banking of Mauro Icardi to continue his fine form in front of goal after his hat trick performance in the Milan derby last time out.  He has scored 9 goals already.

Inter have also scored in all of their fixtures so far and this game has the making of a thrilling encounter with both sides capable of outscoring the other.

Inter have lost three of the last 5 meetings between these sides.

Results of each team’s last 5 matches across all leagues and competitions

Napoli

LAST FIVE GAMES DATE COMPETITION
W AS Roma 0-1 Napoli Oct 14, 2017 Italian Serie A
W Napoli 3-0 Cagliari Oct 1, 2017 Italian Serie A
W Napoli 3-1 Feyenoord Rotterdam Sep 26, 2017 Champions League
W SPAL 2-3 Napoli Sep 23, 2017 Italian Serie A
W Lazio 1-4 Napoli Sep 20, 2017 Italian Serie A

Internazionale

LAST FIVE GAMES DATE COMPETITION
W Internazionale 3-2 AC Milan Oct 15, 2017 Italian Serie A
W Benevento 1-2 Internazionale Oct 1, 2017 Italian Serie A
W Internazionale 1-0 Genoa Sep 24, 2017 Italian Serie A
D Bologna 1-1 Internazionale Sep 19, 2017 Italian Serie A
W Crotone 0-2 Internazionale Sep 16, 2017 Italian Serie A

H2H

LAST FIVE GAMES DATE COMPETITION
Internazionale 0-1 Napoli Apr 30, 2017 Italian Serie A
Napoli 3-0 Internazionale Dec 2, 2016 Italian Serie A
Internazionale 2-0 Napoli Apr 16, 2016 Italian Serie A
Napoli 0-2 Internazionale Jan 19, 2016 Italian Coppa Italia
Napoli 2-1 Internazionale Nov 30, 2015 Italian Serie A


Other fixtures taking place this week in Serie A:

October 26, 2024
Bologna 16:00 AC Milan
November 23, 2024
Verona 15:00 Inter Milan
AC Milan 18:00 Juventus
Parma 20:45 Atalanta
November 24, 2024
Genoa 12:30 Cagliari
Como 15:00 Fiorentina
Torino 15:00 Monza
SSC Napoli 18:00 Roma
Lazio 20:45 Bologna
November 25, 2024
Empoli 18:30 Udinese
Venezia 20:45 Lecce
November 29, 2024
Cagliari 20:45 Verona
November 30, 2024
Como 15:00 Monza
AC Milan 18:00 Empoli
Bologna 20:45 Venezia
December 1, 2024
Udinese 12:30 Genoa
Parma 15:00 Lazio
Torino 15:00 SSC Napoli
Fiorentina 18:00 Inter Milan
Lecce 20:45 Juventus

Serie A Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 SSC Napoli 12 8 2 2 19 9 +10 26
2 Atalanta 12 8 1 3 31 15 +16 25
3 Fiorentina 12 7 4 1 25 10 +15 25
4 Inter Milan 12 7 4 1 26 14 +12 25
5 Lazio 12 8 1 3 25 14 +11 25
6 Juventus 12 6 6 0 21 7 +14 24
7 AC Milan 11 5 3 3 20 14 +6 18
8 Bologna 11 4 6 1 15 13 +2 18
9 Udinese 12 5 1 6 15 18 -3 16
10 Empoli 12 3 6 3 9 10 -1 15
11 Torino 12 4 2 6 15 18 -3 14
12 Roma 12 3 4 5 14 17 -3 13
13 Parma 12 2 6 4 16 18 -2 12
14 Verona 12 4 0 8 17 27 -10 12
15 Como 12 2 4 6 13 23 -10 10
16 Cagliari 12 2 4 6 12 22 -10 10
17 Genoa 12 2 4 6 9 22 -13 10
18 Lecce 12 2 3 7 5 21 -16 9
19 Monza 12 1 5 6 10 15 -5 8
20 Venezia 12 2 2 8 11 21 -10 8

Serie A Results

November 10, 2024
Inter Milan 1 - 1 SSC Napoli
Monza 0 - 1 Lazio
Roma 2 - 3 Bologna
Fiorentina 3 - 1 Verona
Atalanta 2 - 1 Udinese
November 9, 2024
Juventus 2 - 0 Torino
Cagliari 3 - 3 AC Milan
Venezia 1 - 2 Parma
November 8, 2024
Lecce 1 - 1 Empoli
November 7, 2024
Genoa 1 - 1 Como
November 4, 2024
Lazio 2 - 1 Cagliari
Empoli 1 - 0 Como
Parma 0 - 1 Genoa
November 3, 2024
Inter Milan 1 - 0 Venezia
Verona 3 - 2 Roma
Torino 0 - 1 Fiorentina
SSC Napoli 0 - 3 Atalanta
November 2, 2024
Monza 0 - 1 AC Milan
Udinese 0 - 2 Juventus
Bologna 1 - 0 Lecce

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