SSC Napoli 3-3 AS Roma: Serie A Match Report, 24 October 2026

Our preview of this match was written on 18 October 2026 but only went live on 1 November, after the final whistle. Its pick is reviewed below as it was written, and it is left out of our win rate and bankroll.

Roma arrived in Naples having conceded three league goals all season, none of them away from home, and conceded three more in one evening. SSC Napoli 3-3 AS Roma was 1-0 to Napoli at the interval; the second half produced five goals, three of them Roma's.

Roma started the evening third on 17 points from seven matches, unbeaten, with 16 scored; Napoli were tenth on ten, with three defeats already, the latest a 1-0 loss at promoted Venezia a week earlier. Last season the two had finished second and third, three points apart.

Napoli scored the only goal of the first half, and at that point the match looked like its history: each of the four previous meetings on record had ended level or by a single goal, and none had produced more than four. This one produced six, the most of the five. What happened after the break is less certain than the totals. Five goals arrived in an order the record does not give, so there is no knowing whether Roma ever led or Napoli ever went two up. The one sure thing is that Roma came from behind at least once to take a point.

Roma are still unbeaten after eight, on 18 points, but the defensive record that made them the form side has changed shape. Six conceded in eight matches is close to last season's rate, when 31 in 38 gave them the second-best defensive record in Serie A, rather than the near-shutout of the first seven matches. That is a return towards normal for a good defence, not a collapse, and one evening should not be read as more.

Napoli have 11 points from eight. The rate that brought them 76 points last season would have them on 16 by now, so they are five short of their own standard. Against Roma, though, the run holds: five meetings on record, two Napoli wins and three draws, no defeat. Three goals and a point against an unbeaten side, a week after losing at Venezia, is a better result than tenth place suggests, but it is still a draw at home.

Our preview's call was Double Chance X2 (Draw or AS Roma) at 1.50.

The argument was Roma's defence: three conceded in seven, none on the road, against a Napoli attack that had scored more than once in only three of seven. That part did not survive the evening. Roma conceded three, and the match finished level, which the selection covered for a different reason: the preview wanted the draw in because it expected a cautious, low-scoring game, not a six-goal one. Its own losing scenario, Napoli scoring the single goal this fixture tends to turn on, was the score at half-time. A case built on Roma keeping Napoli quiet, in a match where Napoli scored three, was not a good read whatever the selection's terms.

Verdict: not counted. The pick would have won, but the preview only went live after kick-off.