Empoli 3-2 Napoli: result and report
Serie A · Sunday 24 April 2022
Result
Empoli 3-2 Napoli
Serie A · Sunday 24 April 2022, 13:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
Empoli 3-2 Napoli: match report
Empoli won against Napoli 3-2 in Serie A on Sunday 24 April 2022. It was 0-1 at half-time.
Dries Mertens opened the scoring in the 44th minute. Empoli's goals came from Liam Henderson (80'), Andrea Pinamonti (83') and Andrea Pinamonti (87'). Napoli scored through Dries Mertens (44') and Lorenzo Insigne (53').
Discipline: Empoli received 4 yellow cards; Napoli received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Empoli were 14th on 34 points from 33 and Napoli 3rd on 67 points from 33. Empoli went on to finish that season 14th with 41 points, and Napoli 3rd with 79.
Empoli lined up in a 4-3-1-2 and Napoli in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Hirving Lozano of Napoli (8.9), ahead of Andrea Pinamonti (8.4).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Empoli wins, 1 draw and 5 for Napoli.
Going into the match Empoli's last five read L-D-L-D-L and Napoli's D-L-W-W-W.
Key events
- 4'Yellow card · Filippo Bandinelli
- 22'Yellow card · Alessandro Zanoli
- 44'Goal · Dries Mertens
- 53'Goal · Lorenzo Insigne
- 72'Yellow card · Mattia Viti
- 80'Goal · Liam Henderson
- 81'Yellow card · Petar Stojanovic
- 83'Goal · Andrea Pinamonti
- 87'Goal · Andrea Pinamonti
- 89'Yellow card · Andrea Pinamonti
Head-to-head
Team news
Unavailable
- Riccardo Marchizza
- Giovanni Di Lorenzo
- Lorenzo Tonelli
- Nicolas Haas
- Emmanuel Ekong
- Stanislav Lobotka
- Eljif Elmas
- Faouzi Ghoulam
- Moussa Mané
Empoli line-up (4-3-1-2)
Guglielmo Vicario, Petar Stojanović, Mattia Viti, Sebastiano Luperto, Fabiano Parisi, Szymon Żurkowski, Kristjan Asllani, Filippo Bandinelli, Valerio Verre, Patrick Cutrone, Andrea Pinamonti
Napoli line-up (4-2-3-1)
Alex Meret, Alessandro Zanoli, Amir Rrahmani, Juan Jesus, Mário Rui, Frank Anguissa, Fabián Ruiz, Hirving Lozano, Dries Mertens, Lorenzo Insigne, Victor Osimhen