Fiorentina vs Napoli — Serie A result and pre-match forecast, Sunday, 20 September 2026

Serie A·Sunday, 20 September 2026

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Metis pre-match forecast

Market-anchored distribution

Frozen as published · 2.1 h before kick-off. Never re-computed after the match.

Fiorentina

29%

Draw

28%

result

Napoli

43%

top pick

Final score

1–1

Top pick missed

Metis gave the draw 28.3% before kick-off, and its most likely result was a Napoli win. Expected goals 1.19–1.45 against 1–1 actual.

Forecast against the result

Over 2.5 goals49%2 scored
Both teams score54%yes
Fiorentina clean sheet23%no
Napoli clean sheet31%no
Fiorentina score 2+33%no
Napoli score 2+43%no

How this forecast scored

Ranked probability score0.1333
1X2 Brier score0.7811
Probability on the result28.3%

Both scores are losses: lower is better, 0 is a forecast that put all of its probability on what happened. A single fixture says nothing on its own — the league's running record is on its league page, and the model is measured against the Pinnacle opening price in the methodology.

Most likely scores before kick-off: 1–1 (13.5%), 0–1 (9.6%), 1–2 (9.3%). It finished 1–1 — one of them.

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Fiorentina

24 AugAvs AS Roma0–4L
29 AugHvs Frosinone0–3L
5 SeptHvs Torino1–2L
11 SeptAvs Venezia4–2W
20 SeptHvs Napoli1–1D

Napoli

22 AugAvs Genoa2–0W
30 AugHvs Como1–2L
5 SeptAvs Inter2–3L
13 SeptHvs Bologna1–0W
20 SeptAvs Fiorentina1–1D

Head to head

No previous meetings in the Metis results archive for this competition.

Model context

StatFiorentina
(Home · 5 matches)
Napoli
(Away · 6 matches)
BTTS rate80.0%50.0%
Over 2.5 rate80.0%33.3%
Clean sheet0.0%16.7%
Avg goals3.202.83

Home stats use Fiorentina's home record; away stats use Napoli's away record this season. These are completed-match rates over the samples shown above, not model probabilities — early in a season a handful of matches produces 0% and 100% readings.