Serie A

Torino vs Empoli will bring Saturday’s to an end

Torino will aim to stretch their unbeaten run to four games, Empoli will try to move away from third from bottom.

Serie A Enilive matchday 29 matches on Saturday will come to an end at the Olimpico Grande Torino, at 20:45 CET.

Torino will want to maintain their good form with a win: the Granata have only lost once, on 14 February against Bologna, in their last eleven games and have gained seven points in their last three games after beating AC Milan and Monza and drawing against Parma.

It’s a different story for Empoli who have gained three points in their last 13 matches. They have not won since 8 December and currently sit in 18th place. A change of pace is urgently needed to climb out of the quicksand.

HEAD TO HEAD

Empoli have only won two of their last 11 meetings against Torino in the League (D5 L4): 4-1 on 19th May 2019 and 3-2 on 6th April 2024 (in the 2nd leg of last Serie A). Torino have been unbeaten in their all last five home matches against Empoli in Serie A (W2 D3) after they having lost four of their first seven such games with this side in the competition (W2 D1). After the 1-0 win of the last 13th December, Torino could win two games in a row against Empoli for the first time in Serie A: the Toscani are the team against whom the Granata played more times without ever recording two successes in a row in the competition (25).

DID YOU KNOW?

Empoli are the current Serie A team who are waiting win for the most matches in the League (13 – D3 L10); the Toscani only two times have recorded a longest winless streak in a top-flight campaign in their history: between December 1998 and March 1999 (15) and between December 2021 and April 2022 (16). Torino have been unbeaten in 10 of their last 11 League games (W3 L7) and they found the net in all the most recent nine ones; furthermore, the last time the Granata scored at least one net for more matches in a row in a single Serie A campaign back to the period between January-May 2017 (streak of 14 ones with Sinisa Mihajlovic as manager). Empoli have scored 18 away goals in Serie A this season and just five ones in home matches: the +13 goal difference is the 2nd highest so far in a single campaign in the tournament history – after Udinese in 2020/21 (+14), +13 also for Scudetto’s Milan in 2021/22. Empoli are the team who recorded the most pressed sequences in 2025 in Serie A: 137; to the other hand, Torino are the worst one in this rank, with just 86.

PLAYERS

Ché Adams scored eight goals in Serie A this season and he is one net far from his seasonal goal record in the Big-5 European League (nine in 2020/21 with Southampton). Eljif Elmas scored three goals in his first four appearances with Torino in the current League season – he could become the first Granata player to find the net in at least four of his first five Serie A matches in the three points per win era. Sebastiano Esposito scored seven of his eight goals in away matches in Serie A this season: only one player in Empoli’s history has been able to score more nets far from home in a single top-flight campaign, Francesco Tavano in 2005/06 (eight, while Antonio Di Natale stopped at seven in 2002/03).

DISCIPLINE

Suspended: none Cautioned: Coco (Torino); Cacace, Gyasi (Empoli)

REFEREE

CHIFFI (BERTI – MOKHTAR) IV: SCATENA, VAR: MARINI, AVAR: DI BELLO

UPCOMING MATCHES IN SERIE A

Lazio-Torino (Monday 31 March 20.45 CET) Como-Empoli (Saturday 29 March, 15.00 CET) (Photo Getty Images)