Empoli 0-1 Lazio: result and report
Serie A · Sunday 16 September 2018
Result
Empoli 0-1 Lazio
Serie A · Sunday 16 September 2018, 16:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Empoli 0-1 Lazio: match report
Empoli lost to Lazio 0-1 in Serie A on Sunday 16 September 2018. The half-time score was 0-0.
The only goal came from Marco Parolo of Lazio in the 47th minute.
Discipline: Empoli received 2 yellow cards; Lazio received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Empoli were 13th on 4 points from 3 and Lazio 17th on 3 points from 3. Empoli went on to finish that season 18th with 38 points, and Lazio 8th with 59.
Empoli lined up in a 4-3-2-1 and Lazio in a 3-5-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Luis Alberto of Lazio (7.8), level with Thomas Strakosha (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Empoli wins, 2 draws and 5 for Lazio.
Going into the match Empoli's last five read D-L-W and Lazio's W-L-L.
Key events
- 7'Yellow card · Matías Silvestre
- 34'Yellow card · Ismaël Bennacer
- 42'Yellow card · Marco Parolo
- 47'Goal · Marco Parolo
- 80'Yellow card · Riza Durmisi
- 87'Yellow card · Adam Marusic
Head-to-head
Team news
Empoli line-up (4-3-2-1)
Pietro Terracciano, Giovanni Di Lorenzo, Matías Silvestre, Jacob Rasmussen, Frédéric Veseli, Afriyie Acquah, Leonardo Capezzi, Ismaël Bennacer, Miha Zajc, Rade Krunic, Francesco Caputo
Lazio line-up (3-5-2)
Thomas Strakosha, Wallace, Francesco Acerbi, Ştefan Radu, Adam Marusic, Marco Parolo, Lucas Leiva, Sergej Milinkovic-Savic, Senad Lulić, Ciro Immobile, Luis Alberto