AC Monza 1-4 SSC Napoli: Serie A Match Report, 28 October 2026

Last season's runners-up came to Monza tenth, on 11 points from eight games. AC Monza 1-4 SSC Napoli was level at 1-1 at half-time and entirely Napoli's after it, three goals to none in the second half. That split is all that can be said about how it happened; there are no scorers or goal times to add.

Napoli's start had been uneven for a club that finished second on 76 points: three wins, two draws and three defeats, goal difference +3. Their four away games had brought one win, on the opening day at Genoa, and the latest had ended 1-0 to Venezia. Four goals here is the most they have scored in a league game this season.

Monza, promoted last summer and so absent from last season's table, were 15th on 7 points with a goal difference of -3: two wins, a draw and five defeats. They had scored in all eight games, and both wins had come at home, 2-1 against Sassuolo and 4-0 against Cagliari. The trouble was at the other end, with 18 conceded before this and 22 after it.

Napoli had won the two most recent league meetings, 2-0 at home and 1-0 here, without conceding. Monza did score against them this time, in the first half, and that was as far as it went. The fixture came during the late-October lull in which nothing new appeared on this site, so it was never previewed and carries no pick.

Napoli move to 14 points from nine games and a goal difference of +6, and the gap over Monza grows from four points to seven. At last season's rate of two points a game they would have 18 by now. Four short is not a crisis after nine games, but it is a gap, and this was only their second away win of the season. Both goal columns are running hotter than in the season they finished second: 17 scored and 11 conceded in nine, where 58 and 36 came across 38 games.

Monza stay on 7 points from nine, with the goal difference down to -6. The two games in which they have conceded four were against last season's top two, Inter on the opening day and Napoli here, and both ended by the same three-goal margin. At home they have now won two and lost two. Scoring in every league game is a real asset for a promoted side, but conceding 22 in nine, more than two a game, outweighs it so far, and nine games are too few to say whether it will keep doing so.