📏 Form Guide

Monza

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Monza are hoping to win again following the 1-2 Serie A victory against Udinese.

In that game, Monza had 40% possession and 5 attempts on goal with 2 on target. For Monza, the scorers were Gianluca Caprari (52') and Keita Baldé (90'). Udinese had 21 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. Lorenzo Lucca (75') was the scorer for Udinese.

Monza haven’t made the most of their chances in more recent games. Their sum of goals equals just 3 vs opposing sides over the course of their previous 6 matches. In those meetings, Monza have also seen the tally of goals against them come to 12. Such a pattern isn’t assured to be carried forward into this game, however.

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

• haven't beaten Empoli in their previous 2 league games.
• are without a home win in the past 7 matches in the league. Fans are getting restless.

Empoli

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Empoli will come into the meeting after a 2-1 Serie A win versus Parma in their previous match.

In that match, Empoli had 46% possession and 15 shots at goal with 4 on target. For Empoli, the scorers were Jacopo Fazzini (11') and Tino Anjorin (86'). On the other side, Parma got 3 attempts at goal with 1 on target. Milan Đurić (73') scored for Parma.

The stats tell the story, and Empoli have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 matches, with opponents netting 11 goals in all. In defence, Empoli just haven’t been too solid at all.

Coming into this contest, Empoli are without an away win for the past 10 league games. Very poor, indeed.

🤜🤛 Head to head

If we look at their past head to head meetings dating back to 06/02/2021, there is nothing to separate the two clubs with Monza winning 2 of those games, Empoli 2 and 2 being drawn in normal time.

11 goals were scored between the two sides throughout the course of those matches, with 5 for Brianzoli and 6 belonging to Azzurri. The average goals per game has been 1.83.

The last league meeting featuring these sides was Serie A match day 1 on 17/08/2024 when it finished Empoli 0-0 Monza.

On that occasion, Empoli had 39% possession and 11 attempts at goal with 2 on target.

For their opponents, Monza had 6 shots at goal with 1 on target.

The match was refereed by Michael Fabbri.

📰 Team News: Monza

Armando Izzo (Adductor injury), Luca Caldirola (unknown injury), Roberto Gagliardini (unknown injury), Silvere Ganvoula (unknown injury), Dany Mota (unknown injury) and Matteo Pessina (surgery) are unavailable for Monza manager Alessandro Nesta.

It’s our opinion that Brianzoli will probably use a 3-5-2 system for the game featuring Semuel Pizzignacco, Kacper Urbanski, Tomas Palacios, Andrea Carboni, Samuele Birindelli, Patrick Ciurria, Alessandro Bianco, J. Akpa-Akpro, G. Kyriakopoulos, Andrea Petagna and Gianluca Caprari.

📋 Team News: Empoli

Empoli boss Roberto D'Aversa has to currently contend with reduced team options. Nicolas Haas (Cruciate ligament injury), Christian Kouamé (Cruciate ligament tear), Saba Sazonov (Cruciate ligament surgery), Szymon Żurkowski (Knee problems) and Youssef Maleh (Collateral ligament injury) are names that won’t be on the team sheet.

From our viewpoint, Azzurri seem most likely to play in a 3-4-2-1 formation, starting the game with Devis Vasquez, Luca Marianucci, Ardian Ismajli, Mattia Viti, E. Quartsin Gyasi, Alberto Grassi, Liam Henderson, Giuseppe Pezzella, Jacopo Fazzini, Liberato Cacace and Sebastiano Esposito.

💡 Prediction

We feel that Monza will have to play well to breach the defence of this Empoli outfit who we think should manage to get a goal of their own in a winning performance.

We’re therefore anticipating a highly competitive game with a 0-1 victory for Empoli at the end of the match.

Peter Guest, 18:02 18/05/2025