Ninth in Serie A with seven points from five matches, seven scored and six conceded. A goal difference of plus one is the narrowest kind of margin and the table does not pretend otherwise: two wins, a draw and two defeats. Whatever else this season turns out to be, so far it is balanced on a bounce of the ball. Thirteen goals have gone in across the five league matches and the two columns almost cancel out. So do the results: nothing here has been settled by very much at all.
The month, in order. The twenty-second of August: two-nil away at Genoa. The thirtieth: one-two at home to Como, a defeat by a single goal. The thirteenth of September: one-nil over Bologna at the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona. And on the twentieth, four days ago: one-one away at Fiorentina in a match played at the Stadio Artemio Franchi.
Fiorentina are the through-line of the entire book. Five meetings in these records and the first four all won: three-nil away on the fourth of January 2025; two-one at the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona on the ninth of March 2025; three-one at the Stadio Artemio Franchi on the thirteenth of September 2025; two-one at home on the thirty-first of January 2026. Ten goals across those four meetings and three conceded. Then the fifth, four days ago: one-one at the Franchi, the first draw of the series. Napoli have scored in every one of those five meetings and conceded in all but the first.
The spring behind the season carried the rougher edges. One-nil at home to AC Milan on the sixth of April. One-one away at Parma six days later. Nil-two at home to Lazio on the eighteenth of April. Goalless away at Como on the second of May. Two-three at home to Bologna on the eleventh. One-nil at home over Udinese on the twenty-fourth of May.
Two other names repeat in the book. Bologna twice: two-three at home on the eleventh of May and one-nil at the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona on the thirteenth of September — four months apart and the scoreline turned over. Como twice: goalless away on the second of May and one-two at home on the thirtieth of August. And the two matches in these records played at the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona are both wins. Fourteen matches sit in these records in total going back to the fourth of January 2025: twenty scored, twelve conceded, and seven of the fourteen decided by a single goal. The competition list also names the UEFA Champions League and the Coppa Italia alongside Serie A — there are more calendars here than the table shows.
What the table makes plain: seven points and a plus-one goal difference, a season played on a knife's edge and never more than a goal from changing shape. What it cannot tell you is which afternoons the goals came in. That is what the rows are for, and between them the two sources say the same thing: nothing here has been decided by much.
Ninth, plus one, and Fiorentina in the book five times over. It has been that kind of month — fine margins and loud endings. Half of the fourteen matches in the rows were decided by a single goal. Twenty scored and twelve conceded: the whole book runs to thirty-two goals.
By the numbers — Serie A: 9th · 5 played · 2-1-2 · 7-6 · 7 pts · form WLLWD (oldest → newest). All data from ScoreCrowd's match records, retrieved 24 September 2026.