Napoli 1–0 Sassuolo
- Lobotka 7'
17 January 2026
The match in data
Napoli got the better of Sassuolo, 1–0, on 17 January 2026, on matchday 21 of the 2025-26 Serie A.
Player of the match: Jay Idzes (Sassuolo), rated 72, thanks above all to 8 final-third passes and 3 interceptions. Idzes produced 1.2 times as much as a defender typically does, at 0.3 times the cost.
For Napoli, the highest-rated player was Stanislav Lobotka, with 66.
Jay Idzes
Sassuolo · 90'
Produced 1.20× and cost 0.28× their position's average
- 8 final-third passes 1.6×
- 3 interceptions 3.0×
- 56 passes 1.2×
- 7 misplaced passes 1.1×
Match ratings
Everyone who played, sorted by rating. No rating: goalkeepers and anyone who played under 20 minutes.
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stanislav Lobotka | Midfielder | 90 | 66 |
| Leonardo Spinazzola | Defender | 90 | 58 |
| Noa Lang | Forward | 33 | 56 |
| Alessandro Buongiorno | Defender | 23 | 56 |
| Scott McTominay | Midfielder | 90 | 51 |
| Juan Jesus | Defender | 90 | 43 |
| Eljif Elmas | Midfielder | 56 | 43 |
| Sam Beukema | Defender | 57 | 41 |
| Giovanni Di Lorenzo | Defender | 90 | 40 |
| Matteo Politano | Forward | 34 | 40 |
| Amir Rrahmani | Defender | 67 | 38 |
| Rasmus Højlund | Forward | 90 | 37 |
| Antonio Vergara | Midfielder | 62 | 33 |
| Pasquale Mazzocchi | Defender | 28 | 20 |
| Vanja Milinković-Savić | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jay Idzes ★ | Defender | 90 | 72 |
| Nemanja Matic | Midfielder | 90 | 64 |
| Armand Laurienté | Forward | 90 | 60 |
| Tarik Muharemović | Defender | 90 | 57 |
| Sebastian Walukiewicz | Defender | 90 | 52 |
| Josh Doig | Defender | 81 | 52 |
| Edoardo Iannoni | Midfielder | 36 | 52 |
| Luca Lipani | Midfielder | 89 | 48 |
| Andrea Pinamonti | Forward | 89 | 37 |
| Alieu Fadera | Forward | 81 | 33 |
| Aster Vranckx | Midfielder | 54 | 25 |
| Arijanet Murić | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Laurs Skjellerup | Forward | 9 | no rating |
| Woyo Coulibaly | Defender | 9 | no rating |
| Luca Moro | Forward | 1 | no rating |
| Walid Cheddira | Forward | 1 | no rating |
How is the rating calculated?
The rating measures a single match: what the player produced against what they cost, compared with the average for their position in that league and season, and adjusted by position (a 70 for a forward is as hard to get as a 70 for a defender). A normal match is around 50, 70 is already very good and only one in a hundred goes above 80. It is not the NVP, which ranks the whole season.