Napoli vs Sassuolo Serie A Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
Sassuolo have won only one of their previous 14 Serie A games against Napoli, in August 2015; since then. five defeats and four draws for the Neroverdl.
Napoli are unbeaten at home against Sassuolo in Serie A (P7 W5 D2), keeping a clean sheet in three of those games, including each of the last two.
Sassuolo could go unbeaten in their first six Serie A games in a single campaign for only the second time in their history. after 2015/1 6. when they started the season against Napoli. Sassuolo are the only side against which Napoli have scored in every Serie A game (considering teams they have faced more than six times in the competition).
Sassuolo have scored four goals in their last two Serie A away games: only three sides have scored 4+ goals in three consecutive away matches in the Italian top-llight;Juventus (1950). AC Milan (1992) and AS Roma (2017). Sassuolo have scored more goals than any other side in Serie A this season in the last 30 minutes of play (12), twice the number of any other side (Napoli are second in this ranking with six goals).
Sassuolo (95) and Napoli (71) are two of the three sides with the most open play 10+ passing sequences in Serie A this season (Inter second with 86). Sassuolo midfielder Filip Djuricic has scored three goals in five Serie A appearances this campaign: only two less than the five he netted during the whole of 2019/20 (in 29 appearances).
Napoll forward Matteo Politano has scored two goals in Serie A 2020/21 despite only playing 123 minutes: only Sam Lammers has played fewer minutes (118) among players with 2+ goals in the competition this campaign. Sassuolo forward Francesco Caputo has found the back of the net in his last four top-flight appearances: in 391 games played across Serie A and Serie 8, he has never managed a longer such run.
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