Empoli 1-1 Novara: result and report

Serie B · Saturday 28 April 2018

Result

Empoli 1-1 Novara

Serie B · Saturday 28 April 2018, 13:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

Empoli · Novara · Serie B predictions

Empoli 1-1 Novara: match report

Empoli drew with Novara 1-1 in Serie B on Saturday 28 April 2018. The half-time score was 1-1.

Francesco Caputo opened the scoring in the 36th minute. Empoli's goal came from Francesco Caputo (36'). Novara scored through George Puscas (45+4').

Discipline: Empoli received 1 yellow card; Novara received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Empoli were 1st on 76 points from 37 and Novara 16th on 40 points from 37. Empoli went on to finish that season 1st with 85 points, and Novara 20th with 44.

Empoli lined up in a 4-3-1-2 and Novara in a 4-4-2.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Empoli wins, 5 draws and 1 for Novara.

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

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 24'Yellow card · Francesco CaputoEmpoli
  • 36'Goal · Francesco CaputoEmpoli · 1-0
  • 42'Yellow card · D. SciaudoneNovara
  • 45+4'Goal · George PuscasNovara · 1-1

Head-to-head

9 meetings: Empoli 3, draws 5, Novara 1.

Team news

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

Gabriel, Domenico Maietta, Frédéric Veseli, Sebastiano Luperto, Giovanni Di Lorenzo, Miha Zajc, Rade Krunic, Ismaël Bennacer, Michele Castagnetti, Alfredo Donnarumma, Francesco Caputo

Novara line-up (4-4-2)

Lorenzo Montipò, Magnus Troest, Marco Chiosa, Moustapha Seck, Lorenzo Dickmann, Marco Calderoni, Petar Golubovic, Daniele Sciaudone, Andrea Orlandi, Marco Moscati, G. Pușcaș