Napoli 2-0 Empoli: result and report
Serie A · Tuesday 8 November 2022
Result
Napoli 2-0 Empoli
Serie A · Tuesday 8 November 2022, 17:30 UTC · half-time 0-0
Napoli 2-0 Empoli: match report
Napoli defeated Empoli 2-0 in Serie A on Tuesday 8 November 2022. It was 0-0 at half-time.
Hirving Lozano opened the scoring in the 69th minute. Napoli's goals came from Hirving Lozano (69', penalty) and Piotr Zielinski (88'). Empoli did not score.
Discipline: Napoli received 1 yellow card; Empoli received 6 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Napoli were 1st on 35 points from 13 and Empoli 14th on 14 points from 13. Napoli went on to finish that season 1st with 90 points, and Empoli 14th with 43.
Napoli lined up in a 4-3-3 and Empoli in a 4-3-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Hirving Lozano of Napoli (8.5), ahead of Mário Rui (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Napoli wins, 1 draw and 4 for Empoli.
Going into the match Napoli's last five read W-W-W-W-W and Empoli's W-L-L-W-D.
Key events
- 15'Yellow card · Filippo Bandinelli
- 22'Yellow card · Martín Satriano
- 39'Yellow card · Sebastiano Luperto
- 57'Yellow card · L. Østigård
- 61'Yellow card · Fabiano Parisi
- 69'Penalty goal · Hirving Lozano
- 74'Second yellow · Sebastiano Luperto
- 88'Goal · Piotr Zielinski
- 89'Yellow card · Liam Henderson
- 89'Yellow card · Liam Henderson
Head-to-head
Team news
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Napoli line-up (4-3-3)
Alex Meret, Giovanni Di Lorenzo, Leo Østigård, Min-jae Kim, Mário Rui, Frank Anguissa, Stanislav Lobotka, Tanguy Ndombélé, Matteo Politano, Victor Osimhen, Giacomo Raspadori
Empoli line-up (4-3-2-1)
Guglielmo Vicario, Petar Stojanović, Ardian Ismajli, Sebastiano Luperto, Fabiano Parisi, Nicolas Haas, Răzvan Marin, Filippo Bandinelli, Tommaso Baldanzi, Martín Satriano, Nedim Bajrami