Napoli — Arsenal FC 0:1, 9 September: match result

match finished UEFA Champions League · Matchday 1 Wednesday 9 September · 19:00 UTC

Napoli 30th · 0 pts L

0 : 1 1st half 0:0

Arsenal FC 11th · 3 pts W

Stadio Diego Armando Maradona · referee G. Nyberg

Match predictionBold

Arsenal FC to avoid defeat and under 4.5 goals

82% · Arsenal FC sit 19 places higher in the table

Prediction landed. We predicted “Arsenal FC to avoid defeat and under 4.5 goals”, and the match finished 0:1.

the market is chosen by our model: not always the obvious one, but a likely one

our forecast this is how the model saw the match before kick-off

Napoli 14% draw 22% Arsenal FC 64%

The model was right

The most likely outcome was Arsenal FC win, and the match finished 0:1. Fans backed Arsenal FC win — they got it right.

fans 69 votes

Napoli 10% draw 15% Arsenal FC 75%

Voting closed at kick-off

Match events

full timeline

B. Gilmour 42'

V. Milinkovic-Savic for A. Meret 46'

C. Favasuli for M. Politano 58'

A. Vergara for Alisson Santos 58'

C. Tzolis for E. Eze 66'

Bruno Guimaraes for M. Merino 66'

K. Havertz for V. Gyokeres 73'

N. Madueke for B. Saka 73'

M. Odegaard assist: C. Tzolis 0-1 75'

David Neres for R. Hojlund 76'

L. Lucca for S. Lobotka 77'

M. Zubimendi for B. White 82'

L. Lucca 85'

M. Odegaard 90+1'

Line-ups

starting eleven and bench

Napoli 4-3-3 · Massimiliano Allegri 4-2-3-1 · Mikel Arteta Arsenal FC

Alex Meret  
Giovanni Di Lorenzo  13 Amir Rrahmani  16 Rafa Marín  17 Mathías Olivera  
Kevin De Bruyne  6 Billy Gilmour  68 Stanislav Lobotka  
Matteo Politano  19 Rasmus Højlund  27 Alisson Santos  

Viktor Gyökeres  
Bukayo Saka  8 Martin Ødegaard  10 Eberechi Eze  
Declan Rice  23 Mikel Merino  
Ben White  15 Ezri Konsa  6 Gabriel Magalhães  5 Piero Hincapié  
David Raya  

Napoli bench

26Antonio Vergara
5Benoît Badiashile
2Costantino Favasuli
7David Neres
37Leonardo Spinazzola
20Lorenzo Lucca
14Nikita Contini
31Sam Beukema
32Vanja Milinković-Savić

Arsenal FC bench

39Bruno Guimarães
17Christos Tzolis
30Illan Meslier
29Kai Havertz
13Kepa Arrizabalaga
89Marli Salmon
36Martín Zubimendi
56Max Dowman
49Myles Lewis-Skelly
20Noni Madueke
33Riccardo Calafiori

Match stats

20 metrics for the full match

42%Possession58%

5Shots26

3Shots on target8

0Shots off target11

2Blocked shots7

2Shots inside box15

3Shots outside box11

65Attacks128

18Dangerous attacks109

0Corners6

1Offsides1

12Fouls11

2Yellow cards1

6Saves3

445Passes608

384Accurate passes558

12Free kicks14

7Throw-ins11

12Goal kicks4

0Penalties0

Napoli

Arsenal FCThe source gives no per-half split — only totals for the match

How the match went

text generated from our data

Napoli and Arsenal FC met on matchday 1 of the UEFA Champions League on 9 September at Stadio Diego Armando Maradona. Final score — 0:1.

Napoli sit 30th on 0 points after 1 match (0 wins, 0 draws, 1 loss). Arsenal FC sit 11th on 3 points after 1 match (1 win, 0 draws, 0 losses).

Season form

all competitions of the season

Napoli last five Arsenal FC

L form W

1 Matches 1

0 — 0 — 1 Wins — draws — defeats 1 — 0 — 0

0 — 1 Scored — conceded 1 — 0

0 Points per game 3

0 Goals scored per game 1

0 Clean sheets 1

1 Failed to score 0

winless in 1 Current streak unbeaten in 1

Napoli at home: 1 match, 0 wins, 0 draws, 1 loss, goals 0—1, 0 points per match.

Arsenal FC away: 1 match, 1 win, 0 draws, 0 losses, goals 1—0, 3 points per match.

League table

after the match

#	Team	P	W	D	L	Goals	Pts
10	Real Madrid	1	1	0	0	2—1	3
11	Arsenal FC	1	1	0	0	1—0	3
12	AEK Athens	1	1	0	0	1—0	3
…
29	Atlético de Madrid	1	0	0	1	1—2	0
30	Napoli	1	0	0	1	0—1	0
31	LASK	1	0	0	1	0—1	0

Full UEFA Champions League table