Italy’s two poles faced discord as the two quintessential teams: Turin-based Juventus and Naples-based Napoli dueled to notch a 0-1 scoreboard. The two first-tier Champion League teams pitched a fierce battle for the Serie A title race at the Allianz Stadium on Sunday.
Pre-match analysis
Championing a 16-year league legacy, the two teams fought deadlocked battles in which about 3/5 of games brawled were won by Juventus scoring 85/182 fixtures while Napoli won 40. The rivalry engrossed as the 2011 season posed Juventus prevailing supremacy over Napoli. The feud further escalated with Juventus intrigued investment in the transfer of Napoli player Gonzalo Higuain to the Juventus team.
Match Record
The first half was aggressively competitive as the two teams left no stone unturned in battling. The gripping anticipation conceded the viewers as in the second half Napoli’s captain Giovanni Di Lorenzo and center fielder Victor Osimhen showcased headstrong shots.
Although Juventus right fielder Angle Di Maria cracked a striking shoot-out that unfortunately was later ruled out as a foul. Juventus Center fielder Dusan Vlahovic rapidly paced through the match but was eventually sidelined by Napoli’s ace scorers Raspadori and Eljif Elmas’ attack. Napoli’s captain Giovanni Di Lorenzo was entitled as the player of the match by pacing a clean game.
Squad members
Juventus
- Right wing
Danilo (captain), Mattia De Sciglio, Matias Soule, and Angel Di Maria
- Left wing
Alex Sandro, Federico Chiesa, and Samuel Illing Junior
- Goalkeepers
Carlo Pinsoglio, Mattia Perin, and Wojciech Szczesny
- Centre fielders
Leonardo Bonucci, Federico Gatti, Daniele Rugani, Dusan Vlahovic, Moise Kean, Arkadiusz Milik, and Kaio Jorge
- Midfielders
Mohammed Ihattaren, Filip Kostic, Juan Cuadrado, Fabio Miretti, Nicolo Fagioli, Paul Pogba, Adrien Rabiot, Enzo Barrenechea, Leandro Paredes, and Manuel Locatelli
Napoli
- Right wing
Giovanni Di Lorenzo (captain), Bartosz Bereszynski, Hirving Lozano, and Matteo Politano
- Left wing
Mathias Olivera, Mario Rui, Alessio Zerbin, and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia
- Goalkeepers
Alex Meret, Hubert Idasiak, Davide Marfella, and Pierluigi Gollini
- Centre fielders
Min-Jae Kim, Amir Rrahmani, Leo Ostigard, Juan Jesus, Victor Osimhen, Giovanni Simeone, and Giacomo Raspadori
- Midfielders
Gianluca Gaetano, Karim Zedadka, Tanguy Ndombele, Eljif Elmas, Frank Anguissa, Piotr Zielinski, Diego Demme, and Stanislav Lobotka
