Parma, 28 August 2024 – Matchday 3 Serie A Enilive 2024/25 sees Parma facing Napoli. The match is scheduled for Saturday, 31 August, at 20:45 CEST at the Stadio San Paolo-Maradona in Naples. Here are the stats and historical records for the game:
- Napoli has kept a clean sheet in their last two Serie A encounters with Parma, both from the 2020/21 season under Gennaro Gattuso. They could achieve three consecutive shutouts against Parma for the first time in the competition.
- Out of the last 17 Serie A matches between the two teams, Napoli and Parma have drawn only once – a 2-2 on 10 May 2015, at the Tardini in Parma. Manolo Gabbiadini and Dries Mertens scored for Napoli, while Raffaele Palladino and Cristóbal Jorquera found the net for Parma.
- Parma has won four of their last nine Serie A away games at Napoli (with 5 losses), including a 2-1 victory on 14 December 2019, with goals from Dejan Kulusevski and Gervinho. Prior to that, they had only won once in the previous 10 away games against Napoli in the top flight (with 4 draws and 5 losses).
- After eight straight games without a win in Serie A (5 draws, 3 losses), Napoli secured a 3-0 victory against Bologna in their last league match. They haven’t won consecutive games in Serie A since February-March (against Sassuolo and Juventus) and haven’t recorded back-to-back wins with clean sheets since March 2023 (against Atalanta and Torino under Luciano Spalletti).
- Parma is unbeaten in their first two games of the season (a draw against Fiorentina and a win against AC Milan). They could avoid defeat in their first three Serie A matches of the season for the first time since 2003/04 when they had one draw and two wins under Cesare Prandelli.
- Parma (10) and Napoli (16) are among the four teams with the fewest crosses from open play so far in Serie A, along with Torino (12) and Juventus (15).
- Dennis Man has scored in each of the first two games of the season. Since the introduction of three points for a win (from 1994/95), only one Parma player has scored in each of the first three Serie A matches of a season: Adriano, in both 2002/03 and 2003/04.
