📝 Matchday 5 ratings: Pulisic, Camarda shine 👑, Tudor, Napoli flop 👎 | OneFootball

The 5th round of Serie A has ended and brought with it several changes in the standings: from Milan's victory over Napoli to yet another misstep by Fiorentina, passing through another useful result from Cremonese.

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Let's see the ratings from 10 to 0 of our usual report card.

10) Pulisic's performance

Christian Pulisic once again dominated the match, Saelemaekers' goal is an invention of the American and the 2-0 goal against Napoli consecrate a perfect start to the season: 4 goals and 2 assists in 5 Serie A matches (to which add the double in the Coppa Italia).

Doing without him seems impossible today, can Leao's return and Nkunku's adaptation take his place? It seems difficult, because Pulisic is the MVP of Serie A in these first 5 matches.

9) The goals of Pio Esposito + Camarda and... Sarri is back?

We hope to remember this end of September 2025 weekend as the opening of an era: the first goals in Serie A of Pio Esposito (2005) and Francesco Camarda (2008) have opened an account that - fingers crossed - is as long as possible.

Lazio instead overwhelms Genoa on Monday evening with a 3-0 that puts the derby defeat behind: the entire trident scores and Sarri gets the second clean sheet of his Serie A season. The chase is long and the next one with Torino is another opportunity.

8) The courage of Pisa and Sassuolo

Pisa put Fiorentina in great difficulty, also scoring a beautiful goal with Meister (then canceled for handball) and being denied a dubious penalty for a hand touch. Gilardino's team shot 11 times and risked conceding a goal but certainly did not hide: the standings are still complex but improvements seem to be there.

Sassuolo instead redeemed itself after two consecutive defeats and showed all its offensive potential, especially in the 1st half against Udinese. Grosso's team still has a lot to improve in defense, also because it hardly gives up the attack: after all, with Berardi, Laurienté and Pinamonti it would be too costly a sin.

7) The confirmation of Kamaldeen

The man who can stand out from the chorus and invent a play on the outside Atalanta has it anyway, despite Lookman still has to return to the field. Because Kamaldeen Sulemana has made clear the reason for his price: about 20 million. The goal (beautiful) against Juve as well as that against Lecce are clear signals to Serie A, Kamaldeen is there.

6) The rotations of Gasp

The men change, also in an attempt to recover the "thorny cases", and Gasp's Roma gets another victory that puts it at the top of Serie A. Dovbyk's goal will be fundamental to recover an important player and the umpteenth clean sheet reminds us of Svilar's abilities, while the defensive performance is to be recorded: if Gift Orban had converted a glaring opportunity the end of the game would have been different.

5) Como's expulsions

In a day where Cremonese (rating 8) also stops Como on 1-1, Como's expulsions are insufficient. The punch and the reaction kick by Jesus Rodriguez in a delicate moment of the match are naive - to use an understatement - and have compromised the match of the Larians. Even Fabregas' behavior at the end of the game was not perfect: expelled for a few too many words to Di Bello.

4) Tudor's choices

In attack Tudor rewarded Adzic by giving him a starting shirt but, besides a few hints, he was the one who lost the ball that triggered Atalanta's goal. Individual errors aside, Juve struggled to be dangerous after the first 30 minutes, coming back into vogue only after De Roon's expulsion.

Openda did not give the expected answers as a first striker, as well as Vlahovic when he was lined up from the start, in addition to David now on the bench. Yildiz now seems an increasingly indispensable factor: is Juve becoming "dependent" on his bursts?

3) Udinese's instability and Zaniolo's performance

After a great start Udinese suffered two consecutive defeats, taking 3 goals both against Milan and Sassuolo: really too much thinking about Runjaic's defensive roster. The offensive sterility of the first half is worrying and the goal came mainly thanks to a mistake by Muric.

It is necessary to recover Buksa, Bayo and wait for Iker Bravo's return from the U20 World Cup, because Zaniolo was not able to make an impact. The numbers clearly show it: only 1vs1 won out of 7 attempted and only 4 touches in the opponent's area.

2) Fiorentina's game

Pioli's Fiorentina is still looking for its identity: for the third game in a row the attacking partner alongside Kean has changed (Dzeko, then Piccoli and now Gudmundsson in the last three). Kean himself was not very precise and remained dry despite the 5 shots attempted, getting annoyed at the end and also taking a yellow card.

Fiorentina needs to change gear because 3 points in 5 games are too few: there is still time to find the square but the Viola square is already starting to rumble.

1) The championship of Torino and Genoa

After the victory against Pisa, Baroni's Torino also disappoints in the 2-1 against Parma. As already happened on other occasions, the granata shoot several times on goal but then concede in defense: 10 goals taken in 5 games and only 2 goals scored. In total, however, the shots suffered were "only" 2, that is the penalty and Pellegrino's header. The attack then remains imprecise, it is necessary that Vlasic and his teammates produce more.

Terrible start also for Genoa who is in second last place with 2 points: the 3-0 against Lazio was the worst test of the championship in the approach, despite the Grifone tried to recover with several shots in the finals of both halves.

0) Napoli's start and KDB's skit

Napoli started very badly against Milan: 2 goals taken in 31 minutes and 6 shots conceded, of which 3 on target. Milan's tactic has sniffed out Napoli's forced exits to free the men on the three-quarters and on the outside: an idea that worked on the counterattack, because Milan's block remains and will remain tendentially low. However, Conte was not able to scratch it.

In the second half the changes did not please part of the public and especially Kevin De Bruyne, very upset about the substitution in a key moment of the match. Frustration or contestation towards Conte's choice? We know that KDB has no problem talking on par with the coaches, and Guardiola knows it well.

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