AC Milan 3-0 Empoli: result and report
Serie A · Friday 22 February 2019
Result
AC Milan 3-0 Empoli
Serie A · Friday 22 February 2019, 19:30 UTC · half-time 0-0
AC Milan 3-0 Empoli: match report
AC Milan beat Empoli 3-0 in Serie A on Friday 22 February 2019. It was 0-0 at half-time.
Krzysztof Piatek opened the scoring in the 49th minute. AC Milan's goals came from Krzysztof Piatek (49'), F. Kessie (51') and Samu Castillejo (67'). Empoli did not score.
Discipline: AC Milan received 1 yellow card; Empoli received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game AC Milan were 4th on 42 points from 24 and Empoli 17th on 21 points from 24. AC Milan went on to finish that season 5th with 68 points, and Empoli 18th with 38.
AC Milan lined up in a 4-3-3 and Empoli in a 3-5-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Samu Castillejo of AC Milan (9.1), ahead of Alessio Romagnoli (8.2).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 AC Milan wins, 4 draws and 2 for Empoli.
Going into the match AC Milan's last five read W-W-D-D-W and Empoli's W-L-D-L-D.
Key events
- 49'Goal · Krzysztof Piatek
- 51'Goal · F. Kessie
- 55'Yellow card · Giovanni Di Lorenzo
- 67'Goal · Samu Castillejo
- 71'Yellow card · Hakan Calhanoglu
Head-to-head
Team news
AC Milan line-up (4-3-3)
Gianluigi Donnarumma, Andrea Conti, Mateo Musacchio, Alessio Romagnoli, Ricardo Rodríguez, Franck Kessié, Tiemoué Bakayoko, Lucas Paquetá, Samu Castillejo, Krzysztof Piatek, Hakan Çalhanoğlu
Empoli line-up (3-5-2)
Bartłomiej Drągowski, Frédéric Veseli, Matías Silvestre, Cristian Dell'Orco, Giovanni Di Lorenzo, Afriyie Acquah, Ismaël Bennacer, Rade Krunic, Manuel Pasqual, Diego Farias, Francesco Caputo