The home boss Sarri ready encourage Lazio triumph vs Empoli

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Competition: Italy Serie A
Competition: Thu 06.January
Match begins: 13:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Olimpico (72698 seats)

Lazio are prepared for a new test after their 3-1 versus Venezia last time. Empoli are coming to town!

Insights:
  • Lazio have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Empoli haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

This could be an engaging fixture with lots of spark and bustle as both squads are well refreshed since they last saw competitive action. Game on!

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Lazio form and stats

Lazio have performed here at Stadio Olimpico this season with 6 wins from 9 Serie A matches. Some points have been lost, as they have drawn 2 games and lost 1.

A strong away win for Lazio against Venezia the last match, as Pedro, Acerbi and Alberto were on target. Acerbi was "man of the match" with a rating of 7.54 out of 10. The defender Acerbi scored one goal and won 3 of 4 duels.

Ahead of that match, Lazio won a home game hosting Genoa (3-1).

There will be little rest for Lazio after this match as they are travelling to Inter for a Serie A game in only three days.

Lazio are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Stadio Olimpico in their league games, having scored an impressive 25 goals in 9 matches. Lazio have conceded 13 in these home matches. It's worth mentioning that 7 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Empoli form and stats

5-2-2 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Empoli in their Serie A matches away.

Empoli's previous game was their home loss versus Milan (2-4). As you can tell from the result, the match against Milan was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 6 goals, will the fun continue today? Bajrami got a match rating of 7.63 in that game, top player of the team. Bajrami scored one goal, hit the woodwork once, hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 3 of 4 times and had 30 successful passes (of 37 total).

A 1-1 draw at Spezia's stadium before that.

After this away game Empoli return home for a Serie A game against Sassuolo. That game is only three sleeps after this.

Empoli are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 14 times in 9 away games so far. Empoli have conceded 10 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

The former head-to-head game ended Empoli - Lazio 1-3, earlier this season. Lazio-Empoli H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Lazio seven wins, Empoli three wins, zero draws. four of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

LazioC. Immobile
C. Immobile
13 goals
LazioP. Rodríguez Ledesma
P. Rodríguez Ledesma
7 goals
EmpoliA. Pinamonti
A. Pinamonti
7 goals

Lazio missing players

Empoli missing players

Lazio Empoli
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
19 9 1 Played P 3 9 19
9 6 1 Won W 1 5 8
4 2 0 Drew D 1 2 3
6 1 0 Lost L 1 2 8
39 25 1 Scored S 5 14 30
34 13 0 Conceded C 5 10 34
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
95% 89% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 78% 89%
79% 78% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 44% 68%
63% 67% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 22% 42%
21% 33% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 11% 21%
68% 67% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 56% 68%
11% 22% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 33% 16%
21% 11% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 11% 16%
 
3.6 4.8 3 Corners for (avg) C F 6.7 5.2 5.6
4 3.3 6 Corners against (avg) C A 2 5.1 5.2
2.4 1.8 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.7 2.3 2.1
4 2 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
10.3 14.1 5 Shots (avg) S ( 15.3 14.2 15.2
4.5 5.7 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5.3 4.8 4.6
45% 49% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 31% 33% 34%
 
12.1 9.8 9 Shots against (avg) S A 15.7 16.4 16.5
3.5 3.3 1 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.3 4.6 5.8
Key stats in Serie A this season:
  • Empoli haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Lazio have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Lazio haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Inter 19 14 4 1 49 15 9 7 2 0 25 6 10 7 2 1 24 9 34 46
2 Milan 19 13 3 3 40 22 9 6 1 2 16 8 10 7 2 1 24 14 18 42
3 Napoli 19 12 3 4 35 14 10 6 1 3 17 7 9 6 2 1 18 7 21 39
4 Atalanta 19 11 5 3 38 24 9 3 3 3 18 15 10 8 2 0 20 9 14 38
5 Juventus 19 10 4 5 27 17 9 5 1 3 11 7 10 5 3 2 16 10 10 34
6 Roma 19 10 2 7 31 21 10 6 2 2 13 8 9 4 0 5 18 13 10 32
7 Fiorentina 19 10 2 7 34 25 9 6 1 2 23 12 10 4 1 5 11 13 9 32
8 Lazio 19 9 4 6 39 34 9 6 2 1 25 13 10 3 2 5 14 21 5 31
9 Empoli 19 8 3 8 30 34 10 3 1 6 16 24 9 5 2 2 14 10 -4 27
10 Bologna 19 8 3 8 27 31 10 5 1 4 16 14 9 3 2 4 11 17 -4 27
11 Torino 19 7 4 8 23 19 10 6 2 2 19 10 9 1 2 6 4 9 4 25
12 Hellas Verona 19 6 6 7 34 32 10 5 2 3 20 14 9 1 4 4 14 18 2 24
13 Sassuolo 19 6 6 7 30 31 10 3 3 4 12 14 9 3 3 3 18 17 -1 24
14 Udinese 18 4 8 6 26 28 9 2 5 2 11 12 9 2 3 4 15 16 -2 20
15 Sampdoria 19 5 5 9 27 35 10 2 3 5 14 21 9 3 2 4 13 14 -8 20
16 Venezia 19 4 5 10 18 34 9 2 2 5 12 17 10 2 3 5 6 17 -16 17
17 Spezia 19 4 4 11 19 39 9 2 3 4 10 12 10 2 1 7 9 27 -20 16
18 Genoa 19 1 8 10 19 37 9 0 4 5 8 17 10 1 4 5 11 20 -18 11
19 Cagliari 19 1 7 11 17 40 10 1 4 5 12 19 9 0 3 6 5 21 -23 10
20 Salernitana 18 2 2 14 11 42 9 1 1 7 5 21 9 1 1 7 6 21 -31 8

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Serie A is the division at the top of the Italian football league system and regarded as one of the top leagues of the world. 20 teams play each other home and away to create a final league table after 380 fixtures. The winners are titled “Campione d’Italia” (Champion of Italy), often referred to as the scudetto.