Empoli 1-0 Fiorentina: result and report

Serie A · Sunday 5 May 2019

Result

Empoli 1-0 Fiorentina

Serie A · Sunday 5 May 2019, 10:30 UTC · half-time 0-0

Empoli · Fiorentina · Serie A predictions

Empoli 1-0 Fiorentina: match report

Empoli beat Fiorentina 1-0 in Serie A on Sunday 5 May 2019. It was 0-0 at half-time.

The only goal came from Diego Farias of Empoli in the 54th minute.

Discipline: Empoli received 3 yellow cards; Fiorentina received 1 yellow card and 1 red card.

Going into the game Empoli were 18th on 29 points from 34 and Fiorentina 12th on 40 points from 34. Empoli went on to finish that season 18th with 38 points, and Fiorentina 14th with 41.

Empoli lined up in a 3-1-4-2 and Fiorentina in a 3-5-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Bartłomiej Drągowski of Empoli (10.0), ahead of Cristiano Biraghi (8.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Empoli wins, 2 draws and 6 for Fiorentina.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 23'Yellow card · Edimilson FernandesFiorentina
  • 24'Yellow card · M. PajačEmpoli
  • 54'Goal · Diego FariasEmpoli · 1-0
  • 65'Yellow card · Ismaël BennacerEmpoli
  • 79'Yellow card · Giovanni Di LorenzoEmpoli
  • 90+6'Red card · Jordan VeretoutFiorentina

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Empoli 2, draws 2, Fiorentina 6.

Team news

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

Bartłomiej Drągowski, Frédéric Veseli, Matías Silvestre, Dimitrios Nikolaou, Ismaël Bennacer, Giovanni Di Lorenzo, Hamed Traoré, Rade Krunic, Marko Pajac, Diego Farias, Francesco Caputo

Fiorentina line-up (3-5-2)

Alban Lafont, Nikola Milenković, Germán Pezzella, Vitor Hugo, Kevin Mirallas, Marco Benassi, Jordan Veretout, Edimilson Fernandes, Cristiano Biraghi, Giovanni Simeone, Luis Muriel