Venezia 1-1 Empoli: result and report

Serie A · Saturday 4 January 2025

Result

Venezia 1-1 Empoli

Serie A · Saturday 4 January 2025, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

Venezia · Empoli · Serie A predictions

Venezia 1-1 Empoli: match report

Venezia drew with Empoli 1-1 in Serie A on Saturday 4 January 2025. The half-time score was 1-1.

Joel Pohjanpalo opened the scoring in the 5th minute. Venezia's goal came from Joel Pohjanpalo (5'). Empoli scored through Sebastiano Esposito (32').

Discipline: Venezia received 1 yellow card; Empoli received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Venezia were 19th on 13 points from 18 and Empoli 12th on 19 points from 18. Venezia went on to finish that season 19th with 29 points, and Empoli 18th with 31.

Venezia lined up in a 3-5-2 and Empoli in a 3-1-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Sebastiano Esposito of Empoli (8.2), ahead of Giorgio Altare (7.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Venezia win, 1 draw and 0 for Empoli.

Going into the match Venezia's last five read L-W-D-D-L and Empoli's L-L-L-W-L.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 5'Goal · Joel PohjanpaloVenezia · 1-0
  • 32'Goal · Sebastiano EspositoEmpoli · 1-1
  • 39'Yellow card · Marin ŠverkoVenezia
  • 56'Yellow card · Mattia VitiEmpoli
  • 62'Yellow card · Sebastiano EspositoEmpoli

Head-to-head

2 meetings: Venezia 1, draws 1, Empoli 0.

Team news

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Venezia line-up (3-5-2)

Filip Stanković, Giorgio Altare, Jay Idzes, Marin Šverko, Francesco Zampano, Gianluca Busio, Hans Nicolussi Caviglia, Mikael Egill Ellertsson, Franco Carboni, Gaetano Oristanio, Joel Pohjanpalo

Empoli line-up (3-1-4-2)

Devis Vásquez, Saba Goglichidze, Ardian Ismajli, Mattia Viti, Alberto Grassi, Emmanuel Gyasi, Tino Anjorin, Youssef Maleh, Giuseppe Pezzella, Lorenzo Colombo, Sebastiano Esposito