Empoli 4-1 Torino: result and report
Serie A · Sunday 19 May 2019
Result
Empoli 4-1 Torino
Serie A · Sunday 19 May 2019, 13:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Empoli 4-1 Torino: match report
Empoli beat Torino 4-1 in Serie A on Sunday 19 May 2019. It was 1-0 at half-time.
Afriyie Acquah opened the scoring in the 27th minute. Empoli's goals came from Afriyie Acquah (27'), Matteo Brighi (65'), Giovanni Di Lorenzo (70') and Francesco Caputo (88'). Torino scored through Iago Falque (56').
Discipline: Empoli received 1 yellow card; Torino received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Empoli were 18th on 35 points from 36 and Torino 7th on 60 points from 36. Empoli went on to finish that season 18th with 38 points, and Torino 7th with 63.
Empoli lined up in a 3-1-4-2 and Torino in a 3-4-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Afriyie Acquah of Empoli (7.8), level with Marko Pajac (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Empoli wins, 5 draws and 1 for Torino.
Going into the match Empoli's last five read W-W-L-L-D and Torino's W-D-W-W-D.
Key events
- 27'Goal · Afriyie Acquah
- 56'Goal · Iago Falque
- 65'Goal · Matteo Brighi
- 70'Goal · Giovanni Di Lorenzo
- 71'Yellow card · Diego Farias
- 84'Yellow card · Álex Berenguer
- 88'Goal · Francesco Caputo
Head-to-head
Team news
Empoli line-up (3-1-4-2)
Bartłomiej Drągowski, Domenico Maietta, Matías Silvestre, Cristian Dell'Orco, Ismaël Bennacer, Giovanni Di Lorenzo, Afriyie Acquah, Hamed Traoré, Marko Pajac, Diego Farias, Francesco Caputo
Torino line-up (3-4-2-1)
Salvatore Sirigu, Armando Izzo, Nicolas N'Koulou, Emiliano Moretti, Lorenzo De Silvestri, Tomás Rincón, Soualiho Meïté, Ola Aina, Daniele Baselli, Álex Berenguer, Andrea Belotti