Empoli 1-3 ChievoVerona: result and report

Serie A · Sunday 23 August 2015

Result

Empoli 1-3 ChievoVerona

Serie A · Sunday 23 August 2015, 18:45 UTC · half-time 1-0

Empoli · ChievoVerona · Serie A predictions

Empoli 1-3 ChievoVerona: match report

Empoli were beaten by ChievoVerona 1-3 in Serie A on Sunday 23 August 2015. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Riccardo Saponara opened the scoring in the 7th minute. Empoli's goal came from Riccardo Saponara (7'). ChievoVerona scored through Riccardo Meggiorini (55'), Valter Birsa (60') and A. Paloschi (63').

Discipline: Empoli received 1 yellow card; ChievoVerona received 3 yellow cards.

Empoli went on to finish that season 11th with 46 points, and ChievoVerona 9th with 50.

Empoli lined up in a 4-3-1-2 and ChievoVerona in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Valter Birsa of ChievoVerona (8.3), ahead of Piotr Zielinski (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Empoli wins, 4 draws and 0 for ChievoVerona.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 7'Goal · Riccardo SaponaraEmpoli · 1-0
  • 53'Yellow card · Riccardo MeggioriniChievoVerona
  • 53'Yellow card · Riccardo MeggioriniChievoVerona
  • 55'Goal · Riccardo MeggioriniChievoVerona · 1-1
  • 60'Goal · Valter BirsaChievoVerona · 1-2
  • 63'Goal · A. PaloschiChievoVerona · 1-3
  • 65'Yellow card · Riccardo SaponaraEmpoli
  • 77'Yellow card · Nicola RigoniChievoVerona

Head-to-head

6 meetings: Empoli 2, draws 4, ChievoVerona 0.

Team news

Empoli line-up (4-3-1-2)

Lukasz Skorupski, Marco Zambelli, Luca Martinelli, Federico Barba, Mário Rui, Piotr Zielinski, Assane Dioussé, Daniele Croce, R. Saponara, Manuel Pucciarelli, Massimo Maccarone

ChievoVerona line-up (4-4-2)

Albano Bizzarri, Nicolas Frey, Alessandro Gamberini, Boštjan Cesar, Massimo Gobbi, Valter Birsa, Ivan Radovanović, Përparim Hetemaj, Lucas Castro, Alberto Paloschi, Paul-José M'Poku Ebunge