Here's every piece of data you must be aware of, and a little bit more, going into the Spezia - Empoli game!
- Spezia have the most conceded goals (38) in Serie A
- Empoli haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
Spezia's stadium, Stadio Alberto Picco, has a artifical turf surface. Empoli have grass on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Empoli when playing on artifical turf; 1 win, 0 draws and 3 losses from four matches. They have scored 5 goals in these games and conceded 6.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Spezia and Empoli.
Spezia form and stats
The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Serie A this season. Spezia have only managed 2 wins, 2 draws and 4 losses from their games here at Stadio Alberto Picco.
Spezia's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 0-2 versus Lecce. Agudelo (midfield was the top team player in that game with a rating of 8.03/10. Agudelo hit one key pass.
A Serie A defeat was the result before that one, 0-2 away at Roma.The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Spezia have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found nine matches with the results: Won one, drawn six and lost two.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Spezia as they are travelling to their away game against Napoli in the Serie A. That match is three days after this one.
Spezia has scored 9 league goals at home this season, in 8 matches. On the other hand, Spezia have conceded 11 goals.
Empoli form and stats
The away team have been very comfortable on their travels so far, racking up 5 wins, 1 draw and only 2 losses in the Serie A.
Two travels in a row for Empoli, whose manager Andreazzoli could celebrate last time after the Coppa Italia win against Hellas Verona. As you can tell from the result, the match against Hellas Verona was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 7 goals, will the fun continue today? Attacker Mantia got a player rating of 8.5 in the game. "Man of the match" Mantia scored one goal, served one assist and hit one key pass.
Preceding that game was the away Serie A victory against Napoli with the score of 1-0.So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Empoli playing away and similar expectations, we found 13 relevant matches. Results were six Empoli wins, four draws and three defeats.
After this away game Empoli return home for a Serie A game against Milan. That game is only three sleeps after this.
Empoli are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 13 times in 8 away games so far. Empoli have conceded 9 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last nine matches): Spezia two wins, five draws and Empoli two victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  A. Pinamonti 6 goals |   E. Gyasi 3 goals |  D. Verde 3 goals |
Spezia missing players
Empoli missing players
| Spezia | Empoli | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 17 | 8 | 4 | Played | P | 2 | 8 | 17 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 2 | 5 | 8 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 11 | 4 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| 17 | 9 | 5 | Scored | S | 6 | 13 | 27 |
| 38 | 11 | 6 | Conceded | C | 2 | 9 | 29 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 82% | 62% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 75% | 88% |
| 65% | 50% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 50% | 71% |
| 35% | 25% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 25% | 41% |
| 18% | 12% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 12% | 18% |
| 59% | 62% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 50% | 65% |
| 6% | 12% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 38% | 18% |
| 35% | 25% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 12% | 18% |
| 4.4 | 3.9 | 3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2.5 | 5.2 | 5.6 |
| 5.2 | 5.4 | 7.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7 | 5.4 | 5.4 |
| 2.1 | 2.4 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2.4 | 2.1 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11.1 | 12.4 | 10.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 14.5 | 13 | 14.6 |
| 3.8 | 3.8 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.5 | 4.6 | 4.5 |
| 27% | 30% | 31% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 55% | 35% | 35% |
| 16.8 | 15.9 | 18.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13.5 | 17.4 | 16.9 |
| 6.4 | 4.9 | 5.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4 | 4.9 | 6 |
- Empoli haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Spezia have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Spezia have the most conceded goals (38) in Serie A
- Spezia have the most conceded goals in the second half (22) in Serie A
- Spezia 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 | 17 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 43 | 15 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 24 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 9 | 28 | 40 |
| 2 | Milan | 17 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 36 | 19 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 12 | 17 | 39 |
| 3 | Atalanta | 17 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 37 | 20 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 9 | 17 | 37 |
| 4 | Napoli | 17 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 34 | 13 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 7 | 21 | 36 |
| 5 | Fiorentina | 17 | 10 | 0 | 7 | 31 | 22 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 21 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 12 | 9 | 30 |
| 6 | Roma | 17 | 9 | 1 | 7 | 26 | 19 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 14 | 12 | 7 | 28 |
| 7 | Juventus | 17 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 23 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 6 | 28 |
| 8 | Empoli | 17 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 27 | 29 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 20 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 9 | -2 | 26 |
| 9 | Lazio | 17 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 33 | 32 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 20 | 1 | 25 |
| 10 | Bologna | 17 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 24 | 29 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 17 | -5 | 24 |
| 11 | Hellas Verona | 17 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 33 | 30 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 19 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 17 | 3 | 23 |
| 12 | Sassuolo | 17 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 28 | 26 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 15 | 2 | 23 |
| 13 | Torino | 17 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 22 | 18 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 22 |
| 14 | Sampdoria | 17 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 25 | 33 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 20 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 13 | -8 | 18 |
| 15 | Udinese | 17 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 22 | 28 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 16 | -6 | 17 |
| 16 | Venezia | 17 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 16 | 30 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 16 | -14 | 16 |
| 17 | Spezia | 17 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 17 | 38 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 27 | -21 | 12 |
| 18 | Genoa | 17 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 18 | 34 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 17 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 17 | -16 | 10 |
| 19 | Cagliari | 17 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 17 | 34 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 15 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 19 | -17 | 10 |
| 20 | Salernitana | 17 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 37 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 16 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 21 | -26 | 8 |