Empoli 1-0 Novara: result and report

Serie B · Saturday 17 May 2014

Result

Empoli 1-0 Novara

Serie B · Saturday 17 May 2014, 13:00 UTC · half-time 2-1

Empoli · Novara · Serie B predictions

Empoli 1-0 Novara: match report

Empoli won against Novara 1-0 in Serie B on Saturday 17 May 2014. It was 2-1 at half-time.

Marco Rigoni opened the scoring in the 20th minute. Empoli's goals came from Francesco Tavano (38'), Francesco Tavano (45+1') and Levan Mchedlidze (79'). Novara scored through Marco Rigoni (20').

Discipline: Empoli received 2 yellow cards; Novara received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Empoli were 3rd on 63 points from 39 and Novara 19th on 43 points from 39. Empoli went on to finish that season 5th with 70 points, and Novara 19th with 45.

Empoli lined up in a 4-3-1-2 and Novara in a 4-3-3.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Empoli wins, 2 draws and 1 for Novara.

Going into the match Empoli's last five read L-W-W-W-L and Novara's W-L-D-D-W.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 20'Goal · Marco RigoniNovara · 0-1
  • 38'Goal · Francesco TavanoEmpoli · 1-1
  • 45+1'Goal · Francesco TavanoEmpoli · 2-1
  • 61'Yellow card · Petar GolubovićNovara
  • 62'Yellow card · Mirko EramoEmpoli
  • 73'Yellow card · Francesco VicariNovara
  • 79'Goal · Levan MchedlidzeEmpoli · 3-1
  • 80'Yellow card · Levan MchedlidzeEmpoli

Head-to-head

5 meetings: Empoli 2, draws 2, Novara 1.

Team news

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

Davide Bassi, Vincent Laurini, Daniele Rugani, Lorenzo Tonelli, Mário Rui, Nova Arianto, Franco Signorelli, Daniele Croce, Massimo Maccarone, Francesco Tavano, Mike van Dijk

Novara line-up (4-3-3)

Tomáš Košický, Ioannis-Konstantinos Potouridis, Francesco Vicari, Valerio Nava, Paolo Faragò, Marco Rigoni, Simone Pesce, Gaël Genevier, Pablo González, Flavio Lazzari, Jacopo Manconi