Home advantage could prove decisive in Torino - Empoli battle

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Competition: Italy Serie A
Competition: Sun 09.October
Match begins: 10:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino (27994 seats)

Torino have succeeded in 1 home victories up until now, Empoli have won 1 away. Who improves their records after this meeting?

Insights:
  • Empoli have scored at least twice as many goals away as Torino have scored home.

This promises to be an action-packed match with lots of fun and bustle as both sides are well revitalized since they last ran out on the pitch. Let's get started!

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Torino form and stats

1-1-1 (win-draw-lost) are the Serie A numbers at home for Torino so far this season. Torino has three losses from their three previous games and the tension is increasing in the dressing room for both the manager Juric and the players.

In their previous game, the manager Juric led his Torino to a defeat away at Napoli. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino. Sanabria, who plays in attack, was the best performer for the team in that match, collecting a rating of 7.71 (out of 10). Sanabria scored one goal and hit one key pass.

Preceding that match was a defeat to Sassuolo (0-1).

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Torino handle that role? We have found 8 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 3 wins, 4 draws and 1 defeat.

Torino have scored 1 goal here in 3 league matches, a depressing statistic. Torino have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 1 goal.

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Empoli form and stats

1 win, 2 draws and 1 loss. That’s the product of Empoli playing as the away team in the Serie A this season.

The manager Zanetti was unhappy after their last game, played at their home ground Stadio Carlo Castellani. Empoli suffered a 1-3 loss to Milan (placed 4th).

Ahead of that match was the victory versus Bologna at their stadium, the result 1-0.

Empoli are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 2 wins, 3 draws and 1 defeat. From a total of 6 matches.

It's early days yet, but Empoli has scored 4 and conceded 4 goals from their travels in the league so far (4 games).

Head 2 Head

As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's two Torino victories, four draws and four Empoli wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less. The matches between these teams have sometimes been a bit rough, having seen 5 sending-offs from the last ten encounters.

Top Goalscorers

TorinoN. Vlašić
N. Vlašić
3 goals
TorinoA. Sanabria Ayala
A. Sanabria Ayala
2 goals
EmpoliF. Bandinelli
F. Bandinelli
2 goals

Torino missing players

Empoli missing players

Torino Empoli
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
8 3 0 Played P 2 4 8
3 1 0 Won W 0 1 1
1 1 0 Drew D 1 2 4
4 1 0 Lost L 1 1 3
7 1 0 Scored S 1 4 7
10 1 0 Conceded C 2 4 10
88% 67% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 88%
50% 0% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 50% 62%
50% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 25% 38%
25% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 25% 25%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
50% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 50% 50% 62%
25% 67% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 25% 25%
38% 67% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 25% 25%
 
4.4 4.7 0 Corners for (avg) C F 4.5 6 5.2
4.1 3.7 0 Corners against (avg) C A 4.5 5 6.6
2.2 2 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.5 2 1.9
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 2
 
10.2 8 0 Shots (avg) S ( 14 13 13.5
3.9 2.7 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 4.8 4.1
23% 12% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 12% 21% 21%
 
11.6 5.3 0 Shots against (avg) S A 13 15.2 15.2
4 2 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.5 4.5 4.5
Key stats in Serie A this season:
  • Empoli have scored at least twice as many goals away as Torino have scored home.
  • Empoli haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  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 8 6 2 0 18 6 4 3 1 0 9 2 4 3 1 0 9 4 12 20
2 Atalanta 8 6 2 0 12 3 4 2 2 0 6 3 4 4 0 0 6 0 9 20
3 Lazio 8 5 2 1 17 5 5 4 0 1 12 4 3 1 2 0 5 1 12 17
4 Milan 8 5 2 1 16 9 4 3 0 1 10 6 4 2 2 0 6 3 7 17
5 Udinese 7 5 1 1 15 7 4 3 1 0 8 1 3 2 0 1 7 6 8 16
6 Roma 8 5 1 2 10 8 3 2 0 1 4 1 5 3 1 1 6 7 2 16
7 Juventus 8 3 4 1 12 5 5 3 2 0 11 3 3 0 2 1 1 2 7 13
8 Sassuolo 8 3 3 2 10 8 4 2 1 1 7 3 4 1 2 1 3 5 2 12
9 Inter 8 4 0 4 14 13 4 3 0 1 8 3 4 1 0 3 6 10 1 12
10 Torino 8 3 1 4 7 10 3 1 1 1 1 1 5 2 0 3 6 9 -3 10
11 Fiorentina 8 2 3 3 7 7 4 2 2 0 6 3 4 0 1 3 1 4 0 9
12 Spezia 8 2 2 4 7 15 4 2 2 0 7 5 4 0 0 4 0 10 -8 8
13 Lecce 8 1 4 3 7 9 4 0 3 1 4 5 4 1 1 2 3 4 -2 7
14 Salernitana 8 1 4 3 10 13 4 1 1 2 7 5 4 0 3 1 3 8 -3 7
15 Empoli 8 1 4 3 7 10 4 0 2 2 3 6 4 1 2 1 4 4 -3 7
16 Monza 8 2 1 5 7 14 4 1 0 3 3 6 4 1 1 2 4 8 -7 7
17 Bologna 8 1 3 4 7 13 4 1 2 1 4 4 4 0 1 3 3 9 -6 6
18 Hellas Verona 7 1 2 4 6 13 3 1 0 2 4 7 4 0 2 2 2 6 -7 5
19 Cremonese 8 0 3 5 6 15 3 0 1 2 1 6 5 0 2 3 5 9 -9 3
20 Sampdoria 8 0 2 6 4 16 5 0 2 3 2 8 3 0 0 3 2 8 -12 2

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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.