Parma, 29 January 2021 – Next up for the Crociati is Napoli vs. Parma: Let’s take a look at the statistics and trivia surrounding this match.
HEAD TO HEAD
This will be the 38th meeting between Napoli and Parma, with the current records showing 16 wins for the Azzurri, 14 for the Emilians and seven draws. Parma have won two of their last three matches against the Campanians in Serie A (losing the most recent fixture), including the match which saw the debut of Gennaro Gattuso as Napoli manager (2-1 in December 2019). Napoli and Parma have drawn just one of their last 16 encounters in Serie A (2-2 in May 2015), with nine Azzurri wins and six Gialloblù wins in that timeframe. Napoli have kept a clean sheet on four out the last seven matches played against Parma in Serie A (including the return fixture this season), as many as they had picked up in their previous 30 matches against the Crociati.
CURRENT FORM
Napoli have won three of their last five home games (1D, 1L), scoring an average of 2.8 goals per game, and could record back-to-back home clean sheets for the first time since February 2019, with Carlo Ancelotti at the helm. Napoli (10) and Bayern Munich (11) are the only two teams throughout Europe’s top five leagues that have reached double figures this season for goals scored from distance; moreover, no team in Serie A has conceded fewer goals from outside the box than the Neapolitans (one). Napoli are one of two teams (together with Inter) to boast two players with at least nine goals scored in this league season: Lorenzo Insigne (nine) and Hirving Lozano (nine). Napoli have the best defensive record in the opening quarter of an hour (one goal conceded) and in first halves in general (six) so far this season. No team this season has conceded fewer goals than Napoli from dead balls (four), while Parma have conceded double this amount (eight).
PLAYER STATS
Luigi Sepe made his Serie A debut for Napoli in January 2009, going on to collect only one additional appearance in the Azzurri jersey, in the 2017/18 season. Gervinho decided the Napoli vs. Parma match last season in the 93rd minute, scoring the winning goal to seal a 2-1 win for the Crociati. The next match will be the 50th appearance for Hernani in the Italian top flight. Jasmin Kurtic scored a goal in his penultimate match played against Napoli, in the colours of SPAL (October 2019), after not scoring in his previous nine matches against the Neapolitans.
