Serie A preview: Can Sassuolo edge out victory against Empoli?

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Competition: Italy Serie A
Competition: Sun 31.October
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: MAPEI Stadium - Città del Tricolore (21584 seats)

Numbers, patterns, recent fixtures, form details, H2H stats, lineups and a lot more: Get all you want to know on Sassuolo - Empoli!

Insights:
  • Empoli haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

It's no vacation for neither Sassuolo nor Empoli as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

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Sassuolo form and stats

2-1-2 (win-draw-lost) are the Serie A numbers at home for Sassuolo so far this season.

A strong away win for Sassuolo against Juventus the last match, as Maxime López and Davide Frattesi were on target. Some amazing scenes last match, when Maxime López scored the winning goal five minutes into stoppage time. Midfield player Domenico Berardi got a match rating of 8.01 in that game, the max score being 10. Berardi served one assist, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 2 of 3 times.

Previous to that game, a home match hosting Venezia in a game that was won 3-1.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Sassuolo handle that role? We have found six games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are two wins, one draw and three defeats.

Sassuolo are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 5 goals in 5 games. From these home matches, Sassuolo have conceded only 4 goals.

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Empoli form and stats

3 wins, 0 draws and 1 loss. That’s the product of Empoli playing as the away team in the Serie A this season.

Empoli's previous game was their home loss versus Inter (0-2). It is possibly a bad omen for Empoli that their goalie Guglielmo Vicario pulled off seven saves in the Inter fixture, but still couldn't save them from a beating. Goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario got the top player rating of the team with 8.0/10. Vicario stopped the opponent with seven saves.

Before that one, a nice away victory 4-2 at Salernitana.

We have checked recent matches where Empoli have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those six games were two victories, two draws and two defeats.

Empoli are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 7 times in 4 away games so far. 4 goals have been conceded by Empoli in these games.

Head 2 Head

Numbers for the previous ten meetings between these two sides are: six wins for Sassuolo, one draw and three wins for Empoli. Over 2,5 goals: eight times; under 2,5 goals: two games.

Top Goalscorers

SassuoloD. Berardi
D. Berardi
4 goals
EmpoliA. Pinamonti
A. Pinamonti
3 goals
SassuoloF. Đuričić
F. Đuričić
2 goals

Sassuolo missing players

Empoli missing players

Sassuolo Empoli
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
10 5 1 Played P 1 4 10
4 2 0 Won W 1 3 4
2 1 0 Drew D 0 0 0
4 2 1 Lost L 0 1 6
14 5 0 Scored S 1 7 14
13 4 1 Conceded C 0 4 20
90% 80% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
70% 40% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 75% 90%
70% 40% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 25% 60%
30% 20% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 25% 40%
10% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 25% 30%
70% 40% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 25% 50%
20% 40% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 50% 20%
20% 40% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 25% 30%
 
4.9 5.8 6 Corners for (avg) C F 9 4.8 5.2
5.5 5.8 3 Corners against (avg) C A 8 6.8 6
2.4 2 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.5 2.2
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
14.4 14.6 11 Shots (avg) S ( 5 11.5 14.1
5.2 5.2 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 4.2 4.6
27% 19% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 41% 30%
Key stats in Serie A this season:
  • Empoli 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 Napoli 10 9 1 0 22 3 5 5 0 0 10 1 5 4 1 0 12 2 19 28
2 Milan 10 9 1 0 23 9 5 5 0 0 12 3 5 4 1 0 11 6 14 28
3 Inter 10 6 3 1 26 12 4 2 2 0 13 4 6 4 1 1 13 8 14 21
4 Roma 10 6 1 3 18 10 5 4 1 0 8 2 5 2 0 3 10 8 8 19
5 Atalanta 10 5 3 2 18 12 5 1 2 2 6 7 5 4 1 0 12 5 6 18
6 Lazio 10 5 2 3 20 17 5 4 1 0 15 6 5 1 1 3 5 11 3 17
7 Juventus 10 4 3 3 14 13 5 2 1 2 6 6 5 2 2 1 8 7 1 15
8 Fiorentina 10 5 0 5 13 13 4 2 0 2 7 6 6 3 0 3 6 7 0 15
9 Sassuolo 10 4 2 4 14 13 5 2 1 2 5 4 5 2 1 2 9 9 1 14
10 Hellas Verona 10 3 3 4 22 19 5 3 0 2 14 9 5 0 3 2 8 10 3 12
11 Empoli 10 4 0 6 14 20 6 1 0 5 7 16 4 3 0 1 7 4 -6 12
12 Bologna 10 3 3 4 15 22 5 3 1 1 11 8 5 0 2 3 4 14 -7 12
13 Torino 10 3 2 5 12 11 5 2 1 2 9 6 5 1 1 3 3 5 1 11
14 Udinese 10 2 5 3 12 14 6 1 3 2 7 9 4 1 2 1 5 5 -2 11
15 Sampdoria 10 2 3 5 14 20 6 1 2 3 8 14 4 1 1 2 6 6 -6 9
16 Venezia 10 2 2 6 8 17 4 1 1 2 4 5 6 1 1 4 4 12 -9 8
17 Spezia 10 2 2 6 12 23 5 1 1 3 6 8 5 1 1 3 6 15 -11 8
18 Genoa 10 1 4 5 15 22 4 0 2 2 7 9 6 1 2 3 8 13 -7 7
19 Salernitana 10 2 1 7 10 22 5 1 1 3 5 11 5 1 0 4 5 11 -12 7
20 Cagliari 10 1 3 6 12 22 6 1 2 3 9 11 4 0 1 3 3 11 -10 6

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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.