Genoa 0-0 Empoli: result and report
Serie A · Sunday 16 October 2016
Result
Genoa 0-0 Empoli
Serie A · Sunday 16 October 2016, 13:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Genoa 0-0 Empoli: match report
Genoa drew with Empoli 0-0 in Serie A on Sunday 16 October 2016. The half-time score was 0-0.
Neither side found the net.
Discipline: Genoa received 1 yellow card and 1 red card; Empoli received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Genoa were 9th on 11 points from 6 and Empoli 19th on 4 points from 7. Genoa went on to finish that season 16th with 36 points, and Empoli 18th with 32.
Genoa lined up in a 3-4-3 and Empoli in a 4-3-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Tomás Rincón of Genoa (8.2), ahead of Nicolás Burdisso (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Genoa win, 3 draws and 2 for Empoli.
Going into the match Genoa's last five read W-D-D-L-W and Empoli's L-L-L-D-W.
Key events
- 7'Yellow card · Darko Lazović
- 34'Second yellow · Darko Lazović
- 40'Yellow card · Rade Krunic
- 49'Yellow card · Giuseppe Bellusci
- 60'Yellow card · Riccardo Saponara
- 90+2'Yellow card · Andrés Tello
Head-to-head
Team news
Genoa line-up (3-4-3)
Mattia Perin, Armando Izzo, Nicolás Burdisso, Lucas Orbán, Darko Lazović, Miguel Veloso, Tomás Rincón, Diego Laxalt, Edenilson, Giovanni Simeone, Luca Rigoni
Empoli line-up (4-3-1-2)
Lukasz Skorupski, Giuseppe Bellusci, Frédéric Veseli, Andrea Costa, Manuel Pasqual, José Mauri, R. Saponara, Rade Krunic, Marcel Büchel, Alberto Gilardino, Manuel Pucciarelli