Empoli vs Juventus Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Empoli

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Empoli will play in this game following on from a 1-1 Serie A drawn result vs Sampdoria.

In that game, Empoli managed 58% possession and 15 attempts on goal with 3 on target. The only player to score for Empoli was Roberto Piccoli (93'). Sampdoria got 13 shots on goal with 3 on target. Alessandro Zanoli (34') was the scorer for Sampdoria.

It’s been a rare occasion in recent times where Empoli haven’t conceded. In fact, Empoli have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 6 of their previous 6 matches, leaking 9 goals on the way.

Leading up to this clash, Empoli:

• haven't won against Juventus in their previous 2 matches in the league.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 2 home league matches.

Juventus

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Following on from a losing effort in their last game against Sevilla in Europa League action, Juventus and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that game, Juventus had 41% possession and 17 attempts on goal with 7 on target. The only player to score for Juventus was Dušan Vlahović (65'). On the other side, Sevilla had 28 shots on goal with 10 on target. Suso (71') and Erik Lamela (95') scored for Sevilla. The match was eventually decided in extra time and won by Sevilla.

Over the course of their last 6 outings, Juventus have bagged a tally of 9 goals. Juventus have also scored in every single one of those games. Over that period, they have seen 5 goals scored by their opponents. It will be interesting to find out if that trend can be sustained into this next match.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Juventus:

• are undefeated by Empoli when they've played them away from home in the last 9 league matches. What an away run they have had against them.
• are undefeated in their previous 2 league matches away from home.

↔️ Head to head

A glance at their most recent head to head meetings dating back to 25/02/2017 shows that Empoli have won 1 of these and Juventus 5, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 0.

A sum of 16 goals were shared by the two clubs throughout the course of those matches, with 4 of them for Azzurri and 12 belonging to Juve. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.67.

The previous league clash between these clubs was Serie A match day 11 on 21/10/2022 which ended up with the score at Juventus 4-0 Empoli.

In that game, Juventus managed 43% possession and 21 shots on goal with 7 of them on target. The scorers were Moise Kean (8'), Weston McKennie (56') and Adrien Rabiot (82', 94').

Empoli had 12 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target.

The referee was Michael Fabbri.

📰 Team News: Empoli

Koni De Winter (Sideband injury), Martín Satriano (Unknown Injury), Sebastian Walukiewicz (Unknown Injury), Petar Stojanovic (Unknown Injury) and Razvan Marin (Muscle Injury) are unavailable for Empoli manager Paolo Zanetti.

It’s our opinion that Azzurri should opt for a 4-2-3-1 system for this one, handing starts to Guglielmo Vicario, Tyronne Ebuehi, Ardian Ismajili, Sebastiano Luperto, Fabiano Parisi, Alberto Grassi, Jacopo Fazzini, Marko Pjaca, Liam Henderson, Nicolo Cambiaghi and Francesco Caputo.

ℹ️ Team News: Juventus

Juventus manager Massimiliano Allegri has some current player fitness concerns. Kaio Jorge (Fitness), Mattia De Sciglio (Cruciate Ligament Injury), Leonardo Bonucci (Tear in the abductor muscle), Paul Pogba (Hamstring Injury) and Nicolò Fagioli (Collarbone fracture) will miss out on this game. The suspended players who are serving a ban for this game are Juan Cuadrado and Danilo.

We reckon that Juve could decide to play in a 3-5-2 system, going with Wojciech Szczesny, Federico Gatti, Gleison Bremer, Daniele Rugani, Tommaso Barbieri, Fabio Miretti, Leandro Paredes, Adrien Rabiot, Filip Kostic, Arkadiusz Milik and Dusan Vlahovic.

⚡ Prediction

Our feeling is that Empoli will need things to go their way to score goals against this Juventus outfit who we think might score at least once to put them ahead.

We’re therefore predicting a hard-fought 0-1 win for Juventus at full-time.

Looking forward to this.

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Victor Martins, 00:45 18/05/2023