Empoli 1-3 Genoa: result and report
Serie A · Monday 28 January 2019
Result
Empoli 1-3 Genoa
Serie A · Monday 28 January 2019, 19:30 UTC · half-time 0-1
Empoli 1-3 Genoa: match report
Empoli lost to Genoa 1-3 in Serie A on Monday 28 January 2019. The half-time score was 0-1.
C. Kouamé opened the scoring in the 18th minute. Empoli's goal came from Giovanni Di Lorenzo (63'). Genoa scored through C. Kouamé (18'), Darko Lazović (70') and Antonio Sanabria (73').
Discipline: Empoli received 1 yellow card; Genoa received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Empoli were 17th on 17 points from 20 and Genoa 15th on 20 points from 20. Empoli went on to finish that season 18th with 38 points, and Genoa 17th with 38.
Empoli lined up in a 5-3-2 and Genoa in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Darko Lazović of Genoa (8.4), ahead of Domenico Criscito (7.7).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Empoli wins, 4 draws and 3 for Genoa.
Going into the match Empoli's last five read D-L-L-L-L and Genoa's L-D-L-W-L.
Key events
- 18'Goal · C. Kouamé
- 39'Yellow card · D. Bessa
- 57'Yellow card · Esteban Rolón
- 60'Yellow card · Jacob Rasmussen
- 63'Goal · Giovanni Di Lorenzo
- 70'Goal · Darko Lazović
- 73'Goal · Antonio Sanabria
Head-to-head
Team news
Empoli line-up (5-3-2)
Ivan Provedel, Giovanni Di Lorenzo, Frédéric Veseli, Matías Silvestre, Jacob Rasmussen, Manuel Pasqual, Rade Krunic, Ismaël Bennacer, Hamed Traoré, Miha Zajc, Francesco Caputo
Genoa line-up (4-3-3)
Ionuț Radu, Davide Biraschi, Cristian Romero, Ervin Zukanović, Domenico Criscito, Rômulo, Miguel Veloso, Esteban Rolón, Darko Lazović, Christian Kouamé, Daniel Bessa