Empoli 0-1 Sampdoria: result and report
Serie A · Sunday 21 August 2016
Result
Empoli 0-1 Sampdoria
Serie A · Sunday 21 August 2016, 18:45 UTC · half-time 0-1
Empoli 0-1 Sampdoria: match report
Empoli were beaten by Sampdoria 0-1 in Serie A on Sunday 21 August 2016. It was 0-1 at half-time.
The only goal came from Luis Muriel of Sampdoria in the 37th minute.
Discipline: Empoli received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card; Sampdoria received 4 yellow cards.
Empoli went on to finish that season 18th with 32 points, and Sampdoria 11th with 48.
Empoli lined up in a 4-3-1-2 and Sampdoria in a 4-3-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Édgar Barreto of Sampdoria (8.0), ahead of Emiliano Viviano (7.7).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Empoli wins, 3 draws and 4 for Sampdoria.
Key events
- 37'Goal · Luis Muriel
- 61'Yellow card · Karol Linetty
- 68'Yellow card · Édgar Barreto
- 75'Yellow card · Daniel Pavlović
- 77'Yellow card · Marcel Büchel
- 84'Red card · Massimo Maccarone
- 85'Yellow card · Emiliano Viviano
- 86'Yellow card · Riccardo Saponara
Head-to-head
Team news
Empoli line-up (4-3-1-2)
Alberto Pelagotti, Vincent Laurini, Andrea Costa, Manuel Pasqual, Jorge Ribolzi, R. Saponara, Raffaele Maiello, Marcel Büchel, Andrés Tello, Massimo Maccarone, Manuel Pucciarelli
Sampdoria line-up (4-3-1-2)
Emiliano Viviano, Vasco Regini, Daniel Pavlović, Jacopo Sala, Matías Silvestre, Édgar Barreto, Ricardo Álvarez, Karol Linetty, Lucas Torreira, Luis Muriel, Fabio Quagliarella