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Empoli vs. Genoa opens matchday 18
Serie A

Empoli vs. Genoa opens matchday 18

Empoli and Genoa ring in the last matchday of 2024 at the Castellani Computer Gross Arena

Matchday 18 of the Serie A Enilive starts with a battle between Empoli and Genoa. The hosts arrive off the back of two consecutive defeats to Torino and Napoli and will want to win to close out the year and avoid risking slipping back into the danger zone. The Rossoblu will want to get back to winning ways after the home defeat to Napoli, the Grifone’s first with Patrick Viera in the dugout, which ended a run of six good results.

HEAD TO HEAD

Among the teams they have faced more than 10 times in Serie A, Empoli are one of the two against which Genoa have drawn the highest percentage of matches: 57% (eight draws in 14 matches, level with Lucchese) – four wins for the Grifone and two wins for the Tuscans. Genoa are unbeaten in their last nine matches against Empoli in Serie A (W4 D5), drawing each of the last four; the Grifone could draw more consecutive games against a single opponent in the competition for the first time since the period between 1983 and 1990 against Fiorentina (five in that case). Empoli have won only one of their seven home matches against Genoa in Serie A (D4 L2): 2-0 on 24th October 2015 with goals netted bt Krunic and Zielinski under Marco Giampaolo.

DID YOU KNOW?

Empoli are unbeaten in the last match of the calendar year in Serie A in both 2023 (0-0 draw against Cagliari) and 2022 (2-0 win against Cremonese), after having lost each of previous five. Considering the last match of the calendar year in Serie A, Genoa have won only one of their last 15 games (D5 L9): 2-1 against Spezia on 23rd December 2020. Considering only the 1st half of games, Empoli would be 5th in the standing with 27 points in Serie A this season, behind Atalanta, Inter, Lazio and Juventus; in the 2nd halve of play, however, the Tuscans would be in joint-bottom place with 13 points, level with Venezia.

PLAYERS

At the age of 17 years and 172 days, on 21st December 2019, Sebastiano Esposito scored his first goal in Serie A against Genoa for Inter, becoming the second youngest scorer in the history of the Nerazzurri in the competition, after Mario Corso (17 years and 97 days in 1958 against Bologna). Andrea Pinamonti's best season in terms of goals scored in Serie A arrived for Empoli: 13 goals in 2021/22. He has scored two goals against the Tuscans in the top-flight, both in the two most recent matches of last season for Sassuolo.

DISCIPLINE

Suspended: none Cautioned: Pezzella, Grassi (Empoli), Martin e De Winter (Genoa)

REFEREE

RAPUANO (PERETTI – DI GIOIA) IV: FERRIERI CAPUTI, VAR: PATERNA, AVAR: GUIDA

UPCOMING MATCHES IN SERIE A

Venezia-Empoli (Saturday 4 January, 15:00 CET) Lecce-Genoa (Sunday 5 January, 15.00 CET) (Photo LaPresse)