UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 2018/19 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Stadio San Paolo - Naples Wednesday 28 November 2018 21.00CET (21.00 local time) SSC Napoli Group C - Matchday 5 FK Crvena zvezda Last updated 13/08/2019 23:56CET UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OFFICIAL SPONSORS Previous meetings 2 Match background 5 Squad list 8 Head coach 10 Match officials 11 Fixtures and results 12 Match-by-match lineups 16 Competition facts 19 Team facts 20 Legend 22 1 SSC Napoli - FK Crvena zvezda Wednesday 28 November 2018 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stadio San Paolo, Naples Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 18/09/2018 GS FK Crvena zvezda - SSC Napoli 0-0 Belgrade Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA SSC Napoli 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 FK Crvena zvezda 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 SSC Napoli - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-0 30/09/1981 R1 FK Radnicki Niš - SSC Napoli Nis agg: 2-2 ag Damiani 70 (P), 16/09/1981 R1 SSC Napoli - FK Radnicki Niš 2-2 Naples Musella 87; Stoiljkovic 72, Aleksic 80 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers QF (Rep4 Jarbas 23; Samardžić 03/04/1963 SSC Napoli - OFK Beograd 1-3 (Rep) Marseille ) 19, 83, Popov 53 Jarbas 12, Fanello 56, 3-1 20/03/1963 QF SSC Napoli - OFK Beograd Naples Mariani 65; Samardžić agg: 3-3 ag 43 Samardžić 78, Popov 06/02/1963 QF OFK Beograd - SSC Napoli 2-0 Belgrade 88 FK Crvena zvezda - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FK Crvena zvezda - US Sassuolo 1-1 25/08/2016 PO Belgrade Katai 54; Berardi 28 Calcio agg: 1-4 US Sassuolo Calcio - FK Crvena Berardi 17, Politano 18/08/2016 PO 3-0 Reggio Emilia zvezda 41, Defrel 69 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-2 Djokić 80; F. Inzaghi 22/08/2006 QR3 FK Crvena zvezda - AC Milan Belgrade agg: 1-3 29, Seedorf 78 09/08/2006 QR3 AC Milan - FK Crvena zvezda 1-0 Milan F. Inzaghi 22 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Žigić 37, 86, Purović 01/12/2005 GS FK Crvena zvezda - AS Roma 3-1 Belgrade 77; Nonda 23 2 SSC Napoli - FK Crvena zvezda Wednesday 28 November 2018 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stadio San Paolo, Naples UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-1 Bošković 69; Chiesa 14/11/2002 R2 FK Crvena zvezda - SS Lazio Belgrade agg: 1-2 77 31/10/2002 R2 SS Lazio - FK Crvena zvezda 1-0 Rome Fiore 10 AC Chievo Verona - FK Crvena 0-2 Gvozdenović 70, D. 03/10/2002 R1 Verona zvezda agg: 0-2 Milovanović 86 FK Crvena zvezda - AC Chievo 19/09/2002 R1 0-0 Belgrade Verona European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Mihajlović 11; FK Crvena zvezda - UC Katanec 33, 01/04/1992 R3 (GS) 1-3 Sofia Sampdoria Vasilijevic 41 (og), Mancini 75 UC Sampdoria - FK Crvena 27/11/1991 R3 (GS) 2-0 Genoa Mancini 7, Vialli 73 zvezda European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-1 (Rep) Stojković 39; Van 10/11/1988 R2 (Rep) FK Crvena zvezda - AC Milan Belgrade (aet, 2-4 pens) Basten 35 26/10/1988 R2 AC Milan - FK Crvena zvezda 1-1 Milan Virdis 48; Stojković 47 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Djurovski 16 (P), FK Crvena zvezda - Hellas 2-3 Djurovski 58; 28/09/1983 R1 Belgrade Verona FC agg: 2-4 Sacchetti 34, Galderisi 64, 82 Hellas Verona FC - FK Crvena 14/09/1983 R1 1-0 Verona Fanna 36 (P) zvezda European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FK Crvena zvezda - FC 0-1 18/03/1981 QF Belgrade Muraro 13 Internazionale Milano agg: 1-2 FC Internazionale Milano - FK 04/03/1981 QF 1-1 Milan Caso 45+2; Repčić 75 Crvena zvezda European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers ACF Fiorentina - FK Crvena 0-0 18/04/1957 SF Florence zvezda agg: 1-0 FK Crvena zvezda - ACF 03/04/1957 SF 0-1 Belgrade Prini 88 Fiorentina 3 SSC Napoli - FK Crvena zvezda Wednesday 28 November 2018 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stadio San Paolo, Naples Home Away Final Neutral Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA SSC Napoli 2 1 1 0 3 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 6 1 3 2 6 8 FK Crvena zvezda 10 1 5 4 9 1 3 5 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 20 2 8 10 14 24 4 SSC Napoli - FK Crvena zvezda Wednesday 28 November 2018 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stadio San Paolo, Naples Match background Napoli will be looking for a win that would put them in a strong position in Group C – and could secure a place in the knockout round – as they welcome a Crvena zvezda side who are buoyed by their first UEFA Champions League victory. • The Italian side – who shared a goalless draw in Serbia in their opening fixture – have six points, level with Liverpool and one ahead of Paris Saint-Germain with Crvena zvzeda still in contention on four points. • That means Napoli will be through if they win and Paris do not beat Liverpool in the other matchday four game; Crvena zvezda will be unable to finish in the top two if they lose. Form guide Napoli • Having been held 0-0 at Crvena zvezda, a 90th-minute Lorenzo Insigne goal earned Napoli a 1-0 win against last season's finalists Liverpool in their first home game on matchday two. Insigne was also on target in a 2-2 draw at Paris and scored for the third successive UEFA Champions League match to earn a 1-1 draw against the French club last time out. • Napoli are unbeaten in this season's competition, but have won only three of their last ten UEFA Champions League matches (D3 L4) – all those victories coming at the Stadio San Paolo. • Serie A runners-up in 2017/18, Napoli are in the group stage for the fifth time – all in the last eight seasons. They reached the round of 16 in 2011/12 and 2016/17. • The Italian club finished third in their section last season – winning two of their three home matches and losing the other – and went on to the UEFA Europa League round of 32, where they lost to RB Leipzig. • The Serie A side have lost two of their last five home European matches. However, they have suffered only four losses in their last 28 European home fixtures (W17 D7). • The draw against Paris means Napoli have won only three of their last eight home games in the UEFA Champions League, group stage to final; they have lost three in that sequence. • The Naples outfit have won only one of their six matches against Serbian opposition (D3 L2) – a 3-1 home victory against OFK Beograd in the 1962/63 European Cup Winners' Cup quarter-final second leg, although they went on to lose the replay by the same score. Crvena zvezda • Crvena zvezda's first game in the UEFA Champions League proper was the goalless draw at home to Napoli on matchday one, but they were beaten 6-1 at Paris in their second fixture, equalling their biggest margin of defeat in European competition. Another heavy defeat followed at Liverpool (0-4) before two Milan Pavkov goals secured a first group victory, 2-0 at the expense of last season's runners-up. It was the first victory by a Serbian club in the UEFA Champions League proper – at the 16th attempt. • Before matchday two, Crvena zvezda had lost only once in 14 European games; despite losing at Paris and Liverpool, they have still only suffered three defeats in their last 17 (W6 D8). • The Belgrade club have won two of their six European away games this season, and have lost only three of their last ten (W3 D4) – in Paris, Liverpool and 1-0 at CSKA Moskva in last season's UEFA Europa League round of 32 second leg to lose by the same aggregate scoreline. They had conceded only four goals in eight away fixtures before shipping ten in total on matchdays two and three. • Champions of Serbia in 2017/18, Crvena zvezda came through four qualifying rounds to reach the group stage – the first time they had successfully negotiated the UEFA Champions League preliminaries at the seventh attempt. • Crvena zvezda kicked off this season in the first qualifying round, where they got the better of Latvia's Spartaks Jūrmala 2-0 on aggregate. Lithuania's Sūduva were beaten 5-0 over two legs in the second qualifying round, before extra time secured a 2-1 away win at Slovakia's Spartak Trnava in the third qualifying round second leg to complete a 3-2 aggregate victory. They came from 2-0 down to draw at Salzburg in the play-off second leg, going through on away goals after a 2-2 aggregate draw.