Previous encounters
There have been 74 previous competitive matches between the two teams in Bologna, with a record of 33 wins for Bologna (the latest ending 3-2 in the 2018/19 Serie A season), 20 draws (the latest ending 1-1 in the 2024/25 Serie A season) and 21 wins for Napoli (the Azzurri’s latest win ended 2-0 in the 2021/22 Serie A season).
In recent years, the game between the two teams has always ended in a draw: 1-1 in the 2025/25 season, 0-0 in 2023/24 and 2-2 in 2022/23.
Napoli’s latest win dates back to 17 January 2022, with the match ending 2-0 for the Azzurri with two goals by Hirving Lozano. Bologna’s latest win was on 25 May 2019. The game ended 3-2, with two goals by Federico Santander and one by Blerim Dzemaili for Bologna, and one goal each by Faouzi Ghoulam and Dries Mertens for Napoli.
Bologna’s first ever single-group Serie A win, on matchday four of the first half of the season, was against Napoli on 27 October 1929. The game ended 3-1 for Bologna with goals by Angelo Pilati, Bruno Maini and Angelo Schiavio for the Rossoblu and one by Carlo Buscaglia for Napoli.
Match analysis
Santiago Castro scored his first brace in Serie A last Sunday in Parma: the 21-year-old Argentinian has now scored a total of 15 goals in 65 matches for Bologna after playing a total of 3,807 minutes so far, which translates into one goal every 254 minutes.
Napoli are the team who have scored the most in the first fifteen minutes of the second half: they’ve scored five goals between minutes 46 and 60 out of a total of 16 goals.
Napoli, along with Pisa, are the Serie A team who have been awarded the most penalties, namely three in 10 matchdays, but they’re also the ones who have conceded the most penalties, namely four.
Napoli are among the top three Serie A teams this season who have made the most points in the second halves of their matches compared to the results at half time: +7, tied with Juventus and Roma.
There have been four previous competitive encounters between Vincenzo Italiano and Antonio Conte, with a record of two draws and two wins for the Napoli coach.
There have been seven previous competitive encounters between Vincenzo Italiano and Napoli, with one win for Bologna’s current coach, 4 draws and two wins for the Azzurri.
In the game against Como, Vanja Milinkovic-Savic saved his eighth penalty since he started playing for Italian football clubs. Since the 2024/25 season, the goalkeeper has saved six out of the 11 penalties taken against him in Serie A.
The game will be overseen by Daniele Chiffi.
* Dati Kama.Sport
