Saturday, February 28, 2009
All About Juventus-Napoli
Juventus-Napoli: Act 3. After the match in the first round of the Serie A and that in the Coppa Italia, the bianconeri and the partenopei will meet once again on Saturday at the Olimpico. Once again the match will be in the evening just like in the two previous cases. The match is valid for the 7th match day of the second round.
Juventus.com is bringing you some interesting information to follow the match better.
NAPOLI AWAY
Napoli only managed to win 8 points away from home when compared to the 27 won in their stadium. A rather surprising outcome when one considers that in the first 5 matches away from the San Paolo the partenopei had obtained 2 victories (against Bologna and Lazio), two draws (against Roma and Udinese) and only one defeat with an end result of 3-2 against Genoa.
The negative series is 7 matches long in which Lavezzi and friends did not manage to obtain a single point. In six of the matches the defeat was minimal with the goal difference only being bigger in the match against Atalanta (3-1 in favour of the nerazzurri).
HOW THEY’VE BEEN DOING
In the ninth match day of the championship Napoli was leading the table together with Udiense. The leap to the top had been possible thanks to 3 consecutive wins with the first being against Juventus. The defeat against Milan at the San Siro at the very end of the match was the start to a see-saw period with the azzurri still managing to end 2008 in fifth position, only two points away from the position valid for access to the Champions League preliminaries.
With the beginning of the new year there came also the beginning of a negative period, with exception of the 3 points obtained against Catania. Reja’s team did not manage to win again in the following matches registering 2 draws and 5 defeats which see them 8 points away from the UEFA zone.
JUVENTUS-NAPOLI IN FEBRUARY
Statistics with regards to matches played between the two teams in Turin during the month of February are in favour of the bianconeri, this with the exception of the first encounter back in 1941 when Juventus and Napoli shared the spoils in 0-0 draw. The following occasions saw the home team have the better. The largest score was registered in 1974 when Juventus won 4-1 thanks two goals each by Fabio Capello and Pietro Anastasi.
There are then to 1-0 victories in two seasons during which Juventus won the championship: the first thanks to a goal scored by Roberto Boninsegna three minutes after kick-off in 1978 and the second had Fabrizio Ravanelli as protagonist in 1995 complete with the masked man celebration.
Finally there is the 3-0 victory on the 11th of February 2001 with Napoli already resigned to relegation. The scorers that day were Darko Kovacevic, Filippo Inzaghi and Alessandro Del Piero who scored an easy goal after goalkeeper Fontana dropped the ball in what was a bad mistake.
UNGRATEFUL HEART
1974-75: Juventus-Napoli is played 6 days from the end of the championship with the bianconeri at the top of the table and the campani two points behind. The match is decisive for the final victory of the championship.
After the goals by Causio and Juliano, a former Napoli forward, the Brazilian José Altafini is the man to score in the final 2 minutes of the match. The Napoli supporters nick-named their former idol “core n’grato” (ungrateful heart) not able to forgive him such an important exploit.
Curiosuly enough, in the following championship, it is once a former Napoli player – and who will return to Napoli later on – to equalise after the advantage score by Savoldi: the goal by Oscar Damiani paved the road to success for Juventus and again it was scored during injury time thanks to Sergio Gori.
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