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Italian Soccer Serie A
% Ball Possession NAPOLI and % Ball Possession BOLOGNA
Napoli 3 – 2 Bologna 
45′ Juan Jesus 41′ Joshua Zirkzee
49′ Hirving Lozano 51′ Musa Barrow
69′ Victor Osimhen
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Serie A Standing BEFORE the game
Bologna, 17th position with 7 points and a negative goal difference of -6
Napoli, 1st position with 23 points and a positive goal difference of +15
Napoli keep the first position after winning the Serie A Week 10 game against Bologna on Sunday 16 October 2022 at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium in Napoli, Italy. Napoli reached ten consecutive victories. The decisive goal arrives in the 69th minute, with Victor Osimhen sealing the victory. Napoli struggled but took home the three points against a solid Bologna. Napoli have won all the last four Serie A matches against Bologna (obtaining three clean sheets in the partial), after the Emilians had collected two wins and a draw in the previous three.
Bologna opened the score in the 41st minute. Joshua Zirkzee defeated Napoli goalkeeper Alex Meret with a left-footed shot to the center. The assist is by Andrea Cambiaso.
Photo via twitter.com/BolognaFC1909en
Napoli equalized for the 1-1 in the 45th minute. Juan Jesus defeated Bologna goalkeeper with a right-footed shot to the bottom left corner following a corner conceded by Lewis Ferguson.
Napoli took the lead for the 2-1 in the 49th minute. Forward Hirving Lozano scored with a right-footed shot from the right side of the six-yard box to the bottom left corner.
Bologna equalized for the 2-2 in the 51st minute. Musa Barrow scored with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner. The assist is by Andrea Cambiaso.
Photo via twitter.com/BolognaFC1909en
Napoli leading again in the 69th minute. Forward Victor Osimhem scored with a left-footed shot to the top right corner. The assist is by Khvicha Kvaratskhelia.
✅ Stats before the game. In the last nine matches of Napoli at home against Bologna in Serie A there have been seven wins from Campania and only two from Emilia – the draw did not occur from 1-1 on 16 January 2012 (Acquafresca and then Cavani scored on a penalty). Only Milan (64) have collected more points than Napoli (63) since the beginning of 2022 in Serie A: the Campania region boasts the best attack in this calendar year with 61 goals scored (average of 2.18 per match). In the last 13 Serie A matches, Napoli have collected 11 wins and two draws, scoring 35 goals: considering this set, the blue team is the best team in the league both for points won (35 out of 39) and goals scored. It was since 2015/16 (six points in that case) that Bologna had not collected so few points (seven currently) in the first nine games of a Serie A championship and since 2013/14 that they had not won only in one of the first nine. Thiago Motta remained undefeated in both games as a manager at Napoli in Serie A: a 0-0 draw with Genoa in November 2019 and a 1-0 win with Spezia in December 2021 – notably two of his only four clean sheets. obtained away at the helm of top league teams, they arrived against the Azzurri.
👉 Lineup NAPOLI (4-3-3): Meret – Di Lorenzo, Kim, Jesus, Mario Rui – Ndombele, Lobotka, Zielinski – Politano, Raspadori, Kvaratskhelia.
👉 Lineup BOLOGNA (4-2-3-1): Skorupski – Posch, Lucumi, Bonifazi, Cambiaso – Medel, Ferguson – Aebischer, Dominguez, Barrow – Zirkzee.
Photo via twitter.com/SerieA_EN
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🇮🇹 Referee Francesco Cosso from the section of Reggio Calabria will be assisted by Edoardo Raspolini from the section of Livorno and Salvatore Affatato from the section of Vco. The Fourth Official will be Giovanni Ayroldi from the section of Molfetta. The VAR will be Paolo Valeri from the section of Roma 2. The AVAR will be Eugenio Abbattista from the section of Molfetta.
Photo via twitter.com/en_sscnapoli
Photo via twitter.com/Bolognafc1909
Photo via twitter.com/Bolognafc1909
Photo via twitter.com/Bolognafc1909
2022 – 2023 Italian Serie A Week 10
Napoli 3 – 2 Bologna
Sunday 16 October 2022
Diego Armando Maradona Stadium
Napoli, Italy
18:00
Referee: COSSO
Assistants: RASPOLLINI – AFFATATO
Fourth Official: AYROLDI
VAR: VALERI
AVAR: ABBATTISTA
Goals: 41′ Joshua Zirkzee (B) , 45′ Juan Jesus (N), 49′ Hirving Lozano (N), 51′ Musa Barrow (B), 69′ Victor Osimhen (N)
Official lineups – formations – tabellino:
Lineup NAPOLI (4-3-3): Meret – Di Lorenzo, Kim, Jesus, Mario Rui – Ndombele, Lobotka, Zielinski – Politano, Raspadori, Kvaratskhelia.
Subs: Elmas, Marfella, Zerbin, Simeone, Gaetano, Sirigu, Osimhen, Ostigard, Olivera, Lozano, Zedadka, Demme, Zanoli.
Coach: Luciano Spalletti
Lineup BOLOGNA (4-2-3-1): Skorupski – Posch, Lucumi, Bonifazi, Cambiaso – Medel, Ferguson – Aebischer, Dominguez, Barrow – Zirkzee.
Subs: Raimondo, Sansone, Sosa, Raffaelli, Soumaoro, Bardi, De Silvestri, Moro, Soriano, Lykogiannis, Orsolini.
Coach: Thiago Motta
