Empoli 0-2 Roma: result and report
Serie A · Saturday 6 October 2018
Result
Empoli 0-2 Roma
Serie A · Saturday 6 October 2018, 18:30 UTC · half-time 0-1
Empoli 0-2 Roma: match report
Empoli lost to Roma 0-2 in Serie A on Saturday 6 October 2018. The half-time score was 0-1.
S. Nzonzi opened the scoring in the 36th minute. Empoli did not score. Roma scored through S. Nzonzi (36') and Edin Dzeko (85').
Discipline: Empoli received 2 yellow cards; Roma received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Empoli were 18th on 5 points from 7 and Roma 10th on 11 points from 7. Empoli went on to finish that season 18th with 38 points, and Roma 6th with 66.
Empoli lined up in a 4-3-2-1 and Roma in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Robin Olsen of Roma (8.1), ahead of Konstantinos Manolas (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Empoli win, 3 draws and 6 for Roma.
Going into the match Empoli's last five read L-D-L-L-D and Roma's W-W-L-D-L.
Key events
- 35'Yellow card · Ismaël Bennacer
- 36'Goal · S. Nzonzi
- 49'Yellow card · Luca Pellegrini
- 58'Missed penalty · Francesco Caputo
- 83'Yellow card · Matías Silvestre
- 85'Goal · Edin Dzeko
Head-to-head
Team news
Empoli line-up (4-3-2-1)
Pietro Terracciano, Giovanni Di Lorenzo, Matías Silvestre, Domenico Maietta, Frédéric Veseli, Afriyie Acquah, Leonardo Capezzi, Ismaël Bennacer, Miha Zajc, Rade Krunic, Francesco Caputo
Roma line-up (4-2-3-1)
Robin Olsen, José Faria, Konstantinos Manolas, Federico Fazio, Luca Pellegrini, Steven Nzonzi, Daniele De Rossi, Cengiz Ünder, Lorenzo Pellegrini, Stephan El Shaarawy, Edin Džeko