Inter Milan vs Empoli Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Inter Milan

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Inter Milan will want to continue from where they left off last time out with a 0-3 Supercoppa triumph versus AC Milan.

For Inter Milan, goals were scored by Federico Dimarco (10'), Edin Džeko (21') and Lautaro Martínez (77').

Inter Milan have been on a persistent run of goalscoring form, netting in each and every one of their last 6 games.

They’ve hit an aggregate of 12 during that time and have conceded a total of 5.

Pre-game facts show that Inter Milan:

• have not lost a league tie with Empoli in their previous 14 games. A very long run.
• have not been beaten in their last 5 home league matches.

Empoli

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Empoli will go into the game following on from a 1-0 Serie A win over Sampdoria in their most recent fixture.

In that game, Empoli managed 50% possession and 16 shots on goal with 5 on target. The only player to score for Empoli was Tyronne Ebuehi (55'). Sampdoria had 16 attempts at goal with 7 of them on target.

Over the course of 5 of the previous six games featuring Empoli, a relatively low number of goals have been hit between them and opposing sides. The overall average goals scored per game during that spell comes to a meagre 2, with the average goals for Azzurri being 1.17. Nevertheless, we must now wait to see if that pattern shall be maintained in this game or not.

A look at their previous results shows us that Empoli:

• have not beaten Inter Milan when they have played them away from home in the previous 8 matches in the league. Not an away record to be proud of.
• are unbeaten in their last 2 away league matches.
• are without an away win for the past 5 league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

An inspection of their past head to head meetings stretching back to 12/02/2017 reveals that these fixtures have not been good ones for Empoli. They have not been able to get themselves any wins at all while Inter Milan have been too good for them, running out winners in 100% of those ties.

In all, 19 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 14 from Nerazzurri and 5 belonging to Azzurri. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.17.

The last league meeting featuring the two was Serie A match day 36 on 06/05/2022 which finished with the scoreline of Inter Milan 4-2 Empoli.

That time, Inter Milan had 65% possession and 37 attempts at goal with 10 on target. The goalscorers were Lautaro Martínez (45', 64') and Alexis Sánchez (94').

Empoli got 4 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. Andrea Pinamonti (5'), Kristjan Asllani (28') and Simone Romagnoli (40' Own goal) scored.

The match was refereed by Gianluca Manganiello.

📋 Team News: Inter Milan

Dalbert (Cruciate Ligament Injury), Samir Handanovic (Muscle Injury) and Marcelo Brozovic (Calf Injury) won’t be able to feature for Inter Milan boss Simone Inzaghi.

📰 Team News: Empoli

Empoli manager Paolo Zanetti has not got a full squad to pick from. Ardian Ismajli (Unknown Injury), Lorenzo Tonelli (Cruciate Ligament Injury), Alberto Grassi (Unknown Injury) and Mattia Destro (Calf Problems) miss out here. Razvan Marin will not be able to play in this game through being suspended.

🔮 Prediction

Looking at these two teams, we feel that Empoli must be fancied to find the net against this Inter Milan lineup, but it possibly won’t be enough to prevent defeat.

We can see a tight encounter finishing with a 2-1 win for Inter Milan at the end of the 90 minutes. Let’s just see how this one goes.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Victor Martins, 01:27 19/01/2023