Empoli 3-2 Pro Vercelli: result and report
Serie B · Saturday 14 April 2018
Result
Empoli 3-2 Pro Vercelli
Serie B · Saturday 14 April 2018, 13:00 UTC · half-time 2-1
Empoli 3-2 Pro Vercelli: match report
Empoli defeated Pro Vercelli 3-2 in Serie B on Saturday 14 April 2018. The half-time score was 2-1.
A. Bifulco opened the scoring in the 8th minute. Empoli's goals came from Francesco Caputo (10'), Miha Zajc (33') and Sebastiano Luperto (47'). Pro Vercelli scored through A. Bifulco (8') and Luca Castiglia (56').
Discipline: Empoli received 2 yellow cards; Pro Vercelli received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Empoli were 1st on 67 points from 34 and Pro Vercelli 21st on 31 points from 34. Empoli went on to finish that season 1st with 85 points, and Pro Vercelli 21st with 40.
Empoli lined up in a 4-3-3 and Pro Vercelli in a 3-5-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Empoli wins, 0 draws and 1 for Pro Vercelli.
Going into the match Empoli's last five read D-W-W-W-W and Pro Vercelli's D-L-L-D-L.
Key events
- 8'Goal · A. Bifulco
- 10'Goal · Francesco Caputo
- 24'Yellow card · Paolo Ghiglione
- 33'Goal · Miha Zajc
- 39'Yellow card · Fran Martinez Nion
- 47'Goal · Sebastiano Luperto
- 56'Goal · Luca Castiglia
- 66'Yellow card · Michele Castagnetti
- 87'Yellow card · Giuseppe Vives
Head-to-head
Team news
Empoli line-up (4-3-3)
Gabriel, Frédéric Veseli, Sebastiano Luperto, Manuel Pasqual, Giovanni Di Lorenzo, Miha Zajc, Rade Krunic, Ismaël Bennacer, Michele Castagnetti, Alessandro Piu, Francesco Caputo
Pro Vercelli line-up (3-5-2)
Mirko Pigliacelli, Filippo Berra, Carlo Mammarella, Raffaele Alcibiade, Simone Gozzi, Umberto Germano, Giuseppe Vives, Luca Castiglia, Alfredo Bifulco, Paolo Ghiglione, Filip Raičević