Seven facts and figures after Roma's win over Napoli

See some of the key facts and figures after Roma's win over Napoli at the Stadio San Paolo...

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Not only did Edin Dzeko’s brace against Napoli on Saturday send him top of the Serie A goalscoring charts, but it also saw him join a select club of Giallorossi players to have scored two goals against the Partenopei over the course of their Roma careers.

Dzeko is in good company: Fulvio Bernardini, Alejandro Scopelli, Franco Scaramelli, Danilo Michelini, Oliviero Mascheroni, Otello Subinaghi, Aristide Coscia, Vittorio Dagianti, Bruno Pesaola, Torbjorn Jonsson, Renato Cappellini II, Pierino Prati, Agostino Di Bartolomei, Francesco Graziani, Paulo Roberto Falcao, Bruno Conti, Giuseppe Giannini, Rudi Voeller, Thomas Haessler, Gabriel Omar Batistuta, Simone Perrotta, Mirko Vucinic, Pablo Daniel Osvaldo, Fabio Simplicio, Marquinho and Gervinho are the others players with two goals against Napoli.

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Saturday’s match confirmed October as a traditionally high-scoring month for games between Roma and Napoli. Two of the highest-scoring clashes between the two sides have taken place in October. On 5 October 1997, Zdenek Zeman’s Giallorossi side served up a tennis score at the Olimpico, beating Napoli 6-2.

Just over 10 years later, Luciano Spalletti’s Roma were held to a thrilling 4-4 draw by the Partenopei, once again at the Olimpico. That match was unique in that only season-ticket holders were allowed to attend, due to security issues. Roma’s biggest-ever win over Napoli was an 8-0 mauling on 29 March 1959. And though Saturday’s 3-1 win was no eight-goal thrashing, four goals is still pretty good going for any football match.

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Luciano Spalletti has never lost to Napoli in either of his spells as Roma manager. The Giallorossi boss has taken on the Partenopei eight times in all competitions, racking up six wins and two draws for 19 goals scored and seven conceded. Even more impressive is the fact that Spalletti has won every match he’s ever managed at the Stadio San Paolo as Roma coach.

Spalletti has only seen his team concede one goal – Kalidou Koulibaly’s header on Saturday – in his four wins so far: a 3-0 triumph in the Coppa Italia in 2005 plus three Serie A victories, in 2008 (2-0), 2009 (3-0) and 2016 (3-1).

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The 3-1 win on Saturday was Roma’s first victory at the San Paolo in five years. The Giallorossi’s last win in Naples came under the stewardship of Luis Enrique in December 2011, as Erik Lamela, Pablo Osvaldo and Fabio Simplicio got the goals in a 3-1 victory. Saturday saw the Giallorossi get back to winning ways at the San Paolo with another 3-1 win, courtesy of Dzeko’s brace and a Mohamed Salah goal. It was Roma’s 18th win in 72 attempts away to Napoli.

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Gerson Santos made his league debut for Roma on Saturday, coming off the bench to replace Diego Perotti in the 91st minute. The Brazilian midfielder played his first competitive match for the Giallorossi away at Viktoria Plzen in the Europa League on 15 September.

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Francesco Totti and Daniele De Rossi have now made 999 Serie A appearances between them. Totti is on 605, with Daniele making his 394th against Napoli.

It means that the two could bring up the big 1000 on what promises to be an historic Sunday at the Stadio Olimpico, with the club’s Hall of Fame inductees between 2014 and 2016 set to be paraded on the pitch before kick-off. Proceedings get underway at the stadium at 19:00 CEST, with Carlo Verdone narrating.

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Roma hadn’t won a match on 15 October since 2000, when they beat Lecce 4-0 in Week 2 of a season that would culminate in the club’s third Scudetto crown. Fabio Cappello’s Giallorossi side got the three points courtesy of a Gabriel Batistuta brace, a goal from Damiano Tommasi and a Francesco Totti penalty. It was Batistuta’s first two Serie A goals as a Roma player.