📏 Form Guide

Empoli

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Empoli will be wanting a better result here after the 2-0 Serie A loss in their previous game against Inter Milan.

In that match, Empoli had 41% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. At the other end, Inter Milan got 19 attempts at goal with 7 of them on target. Federico Dimarco (5') and Alexis Sánchez (81') scored for Inter Milan.

It has not been often in recent games that Empoli have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. The facts show that Empoli have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 games, leaking 8 goals in the process. That sort of trend isn’t assured to follow through into this match, however.

A look at their previous results shows us that Empoli:

• have not won against Torino in their previous 5 league games.
• haven’t won at home in the past 4 league matches. Their fans aren't happy.

Torino

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Torino will go into the match after a 1-0 Serie A win in the defeat of Monza in their previous match.

In that match, Torino managed 62% possession and 15 attempts at goal with 6 on target. The scorer for Torino was Antonio Sanabria (69'). For their opponents, Monza had 9 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target.

For 5 of the past six clashes involving Torino, a notably low volume of goals have been hit between them and opposing sides. The overall average number of goals per game within that spell works out to a meagre 2, with the number of goals averaged by Il Toro standing at 1.

Pre-game facts show that Torino:

• are undefeated by Empoli when they've played them away from home in the last 2 matches in the league.
• are unbeaten in their last 2 league matches away from home.

👥 Head to head

A look at their prior head to head clashes dating back to 19/05/2019 shows us that Empoli have won 1 of them and Torino 2, with the number of draws being 3.

A sum of 20 goals were scored between the two sides throughout the course of those matches, with 10 of them for Azzurri and 10 being from Il Toro. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 3.33.

The previous league game featuring these clubs was Serie A match day 16 on 16/12/2023 and the score finished Torino 1-0 Empoli.

In that match, Torino managed 53% possession and 10 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Duván Zapata (25').

For their opponents, Empoli got 7 attempts on goal with 2 on target.

The match was refereed by Livio Marinelli.

🗞️ Team News: Empoli

Tyronne Ebuehi (Cruciate ligament tear), Ardian Ismajli (unknown injury) and Etrit Berisha (Chest injury) won’t be playing for Empoli gaffer Davide Nicola.

We are thinking that Azzurri may well make use of the 3-4-2-1 system this time with Elia Caprile, Bartosz Bereszynski, S. Walukiewicz, Sebastiano Luperto, E. Quartsin Gyasi, Giuseppe Pezzella, Razvan Marin, Youssef Maleh, Szymon Zurkowski, Nicolo Cambiaghi and M'Baye Niang.

📰 Team News: Torino

Torino boss Ivan Jurić has to choose a team with limited availability. Koffi Djidji (muscular problems), Gvidas Gineitis (Knee injury), Ivan Ilić (Collateral ligament injury) and Perr Schuurs (Cruciate ligament injury) are those who can’t be considered.

From our viewpoint, Il Toro appear most likely to play in a 3-4-1-2 lineup, giving starts to V. Milinkovic-Savic, Adrien Tameze, A. Buongiorno, Ricardo Rodriguez, Raoul Bellanova, Valentino Lazaro, Samuele Ricci, Karol Linetty, Nikola Vlasic, Antonio Sanabria and Duvan Zapata.

🔮 Prediction

Here is a game where Empoli will do well to register a score against this Torino lineup who should manage to get a goal of their own in a winning performance.

We’re therefore predicting a hard-fought 0-1 victory for Torino at the end of the 90.

Should be interesting.

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Victor Martins, 18:05 06/04/2024