The Napoli Courier
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
A brace, and David Neres takes the afternoon — 8.32
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. David Neres provided it, and the 8.32 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Romelu Lukaku, 33, rolls back the years — 8.72
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.72 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market30 Nov 2026
Napoli may not be able to give David Neres what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. David Neres wants continental football; whether Napoli can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Scott McTominay falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match28 Nov 2026
David Neres sends Napoli past Udinese
It finished 3‑1, and it was David Neres’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Napoli.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Matteo Politano runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Napoli
Mathías Olivera was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Napoli keep their word to Stanislav Lobotka
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Squad30 Nov 2026
André-Franck Zambo Anguissa has to sit this one out
A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. Napoli lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.
In brief
- Loan watch 7 goals on loan for Giovane
- Player ratings Cyril Ngonge changes it off the bench
- Loan watch Francisco Baridó has made Novara’s shirt his own