Scott McTominay opened the scoring and Napoli finished the job with a second from Amir Rrahmani as Napoli beat Pisa 2-0, the pair of goals arriving from an outside-the-box strike and a corner header.
McTominay snapped the deadlock with a right-footed shot from outside the box into the bottom right corner after a pass from Rasmus Højlund, and Rrahmani converted a header from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner after an Eljif Elmas corner put the ball on his head.
The scoreline reflected a match of fine margins. Napoli goalkeeper Alex Meret turned away a right-footed effort by Filip Stojilkovic for Pisa, while Pisa’s keeper Adrian Semper had earlier beaten away a right-footed shot from Eljif Elmas that flashed for the top right corner.
The result matters in clear, immediate ways: Pisa arrived on a seven-game losing streak in Serie A and had managed 25 league goals in the 2025/26 season before this match; Napoli arrived with notable attacking variety, already boasting 19 different goal-scoring players in 2025/26 and a record of recovering 13 points from losing positions.
Those figures explain why the victory will be taken seriously in Naples. McTominay’s strike added to Napoli’s unbeaten list of scorers this season and Rrahmani’s second, supplied by Elmas from a corner, emphasised the team’s ability to profit from set pieces as well as open play.
Context underlines the surprise for Pisa. The two clubs have a long, inconsistent history in Pisa: there have been 12 competitive matches in that city between the sides, split evenly into four wins each and four draws, and Napoli’s most recent victory in Pisa before this fixture dated back to the 2005/06 Serie C1 season. Earlier moments include Pisa beating Napoli 2-0 in the 1982/83 Serie A season and a 1-1 draw on 17 February 1991 in Tuscany.
The match also sharpened an awkward contrast for Pisa. The preview noted the club were all but certain to go down to Serie B after one season in the top flight, and the losing run heading into this game did nothing to ease that narrative. At the same time, Pisa had conceded the most second-half goals in the division in 2025/26, a vulnerability that helps explain how tight matches still tilt away from them.
Tension in the game came from small details that belie the clean 2-0 score. Napoli have repeatedly shown they can claw points back from losing positions across the season — 13 points recovered is a concrete measure of that resilience — yet in Pisa the wins came only after goalkeeping interventions and set-piece execution. That gap between Napoli’s statistical depth and the match’s narrow margins is where the season’s next chapters will be written.
For Pisa the immediate picture is grim: the seven-match skid and the club’s aggregate season numbers leave little room for optimism. For Napoli, McTominay’s and Rrahmani’s goals are the latest proof of a broad scoring roster and the sort of results that keep alive the club’s stated chance to qualify for the Champions League for the tenth time in its history, a prospect mentioned in pre-match coverage.
Back on the pitch, McTominay walked off having added another distinct strike to Napoli’s list of scorers; off it, the consequence is clearer — Napoli’s depth has produced the kind of small, repeated advantages that decide long campaigns, while Pisa’s slide looks increasingly terminal. Fans and pundits alike, from the shores of Tuscany to followers of smaller clubs such as Como Fc, will watch how both narratives finish the season.
