📏 Form Guide

Empoli

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Empoli will be hoping to return to winning ways here following the 0-1 Serie A defeat last time out to Lazio.

In that match, Empoli had 37% possession and 7 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. Lazio had 9 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. Boulaye Dia (1') scored for Lazio.

It’s been a rare occasion in recent times that Empoli have kept a clean sheet. The facts show that Empoli have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 games, leaking 10 goals during that time.

Analysis of their past results shows that Empoli:

• have not been beaten in the league by Parma in their last 2 games.
• are winless against Parma in their previous 3 league games.
• have not won at home in their last 11 league games. Such a poor run.

Parma

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After being beaten in their last game against Como in Serie A action, Parma and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that match, Parma managed 39% possession and 13 shots at goal with 3 on target. On the other side, Como got 13 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. Strefezza (79') scored for Como.

Cristian Chivu's Parma have found the back of the net 5 times throughout their latest six matches. The aggregate of goals that have been scored against them during those same matches equals 5.

Their past results show that Parma:

• have not registered a win against Empoli when having played them away from home in the previous 3 league games.
• are unbeaten in their previous 4 league matches away from home.
• have not won away from home in their last 11 league matches. What a terrible run of away results.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A look at their past head-to-head clashes stretching back to 19/04/2015 shows that Empoli have won 2 of these games & Parma 1, with the number of drawn games standing at 3.

An aggregate of 20 goals were produced between them during those clashes, with 12 of them from Azzurri and 8 coming from I Crociati. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.33.

The last league meeting between the two was Serie A match day 9 on 27/10/2024 which finished with the scoreline of Parma 1-1 Empoli.

That day, Parma managed 60% possession and 16 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. The goals were scored by Woyo Coulibaly (35' Own goal) and Gabriel Charpentier (80').

Empoli had 5 attempts at goal with 1 on target.

The match was refereed by Federico La Penna.

📰 Team News: Empoli

Christian Kouamé (Cruciate ligament tear), Nicolas Haas (Cruciate ligament injury), Pietro Pellegri (Cruciate ligament tear), Saba Sazonov (Cruciate ligament surgery), Szymon Żurkowski (Knee problems) and Youssef Maleh (Collateral ligament injury) will not be taking part for Empoli gaffer Roberto D'Aversa.

It seems likely that Azzurri may well opt for a 3-4-2-1 system with Devis Vasquez, Saba Goglichidze, Ardian Ismajli, Mattia Viti, E. Quartsin Gyasi, Alberto Grassi, Liam Henderson, Giuseppe Pezzella, Ola Solbakken, Jacopo Fazzini and Sebastiano Esposito.

ℹ️ Team News: Parma

Parma boss Cristian Chivu has a number of players out of action. Nahuel Estévez (Hamstring strain), Matteo Cancellieri (Thigh problems), Adrián Bernabé (Hamstring injury), Yordan Osorio (Herniated disc), Alessandro Vogliacco (Hamstring injury), Valentin Mihăilă (muscular problems), Mateusz Kowalski (Cruciate ligament tear) and Gabriel Charpentier (Achilles tendon rupture) can’t be considered.

We’re of the thinking that I Crociati seem most likely to utilise a 3-5-2 lineup, starting Zion Suzuki, Enrico Del Prato, Giovanni Leoni, Lautaro Valenti, Antoine Hainaut, Hernani, Mandela Keita, Simon Sohm, Emanuele Valeri, Ange-Yoan Bonny and Mateo Pellegrino.

🧠 Prediction

Looking at these two teams, we feel that Parma will really need to work well to put one past this Empoli lineup who we think might well manage to get a goal of their own in a winning performance.

We therefore fancy a hard-fought 1-0 victory for Empoli at the end of this game.

Should be an interesting one.

Renata Leite, 18:07 10/05/2025