Napoli won the Serie A Week 6 game on Sunday 29 September 2024 at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium in Napoli, Italy. Napoli keeps up their winning streak, achieving their third straight clean sheet. Meanwhile, Monza is struggling, still searching for their first victory in the league this season. The victory gave Napoli the sole leadership reaching 13 points followed by Juventus with 12 points.

The outcome of the match between Napoli and Monza was determined in the first half. The Azzurri took the lead with a left-footed strike from Politano and quickly extended their advantage with Kvaratskhelia's close-range effort following a rebound from McTominay's shot. In the second half, Monza attempted to push forward and create opportunities, but they struggled to find the finishing touch in the final third, leaving Caprile with little to do. Towards the end, substitutes Neres and Raspadori nearly added to the scoreline.

✅ Stats before the game

Napoli have won by scoring exactly four goals in two of their four Serie A matches against Monza; however, they have drawn and lost in the remaining two, without finding the back of the net.

Monza have remained unbeaten in five of their seven away matches against Napoli between Serie A and B (2W, 3D), however the two defeats have come on the only two of these occasions in which the two teams faced each other at the home of the Neapolitans before October: 5-0 in the cadet tournament on 20 September 1964 and 4-0 in the top flight on 21 August 2022.

Napoli have obtained 10 points in the first five matchdays of this championship: with a win against Monza they would rise to 13, a milestone that in the first six games of the season they have reached or exceeded six times in the previous eight Serie A tournaments, more than any other team in the period.

Of the teams currently in Serie A, Monza are the ones who have been waiting for a win for the longest number of league rounds: 14 (D6, L8); the last non-promoted Lombard team to have recorded a longer streak of consecutive matches in the top flight without a win was Atalanta, in 1994 (16).

Napoli have won their first two home league games with Antonio Conte on the bench, who could become the sixth Italian coach to find success in each of the first three home games with the Neapolitans in Serie A, after Paolo Iodice (in 1939), Luis Vinicio (in 1973), Alberto Bigon (in 1989), Carlo Ancelotti (in 2018) and Luciano Spalletti (in 2021).

Monza have drawn in four of their last six league away games (L2), as many times as in the previous 17; in addition, after the 0-0 against Empoli and the 2-2 against Fiorentina, they could draw three away games in a row for the first time in Serie A.

Napoli is the team that has scored the most goals in the last 30 minutes of play in this Serie A: seven, out of nine total goals by the Neapolitans in the current tournament; on the other hand, only Como (4) has conceded more goals in the last 15 minutes than Monza (three, like Inter, Parma and Torino).

Khvicha Kvaratskhelia scored his first brace in Serie A in a match against Monza, on 21 August 2022, in his first game played in the competition at the Maradona. The Napoli winger is the player who has been involved in the most sequences of action that ended with a shot in the current tournament: 41, nine more than the second (Rafael Leão, 32).

Alessandro Buongiorno is the defender who has recorded the most minutes among those who have never been beaten in dribbling in Serie A since the beginning of February onwards: 1333 minutes since then for the current Napoli player, more than double compared to the second (Daniele Rugani, 527).

The next one will be Gianluca Caprari's 50th goal in Serie A; however, the Monza striker has not scored in 15 matches in the tournament (since 7 May 2023 against Torino), while the last of his three goals against Napoli in the competition dates back to 22 July 2020, with the Parma jersey.


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