Empoli 0-3 Sampdoria: result and report
Serie A · Sunday 19 September 2021
Result
Empoli 0-3 Sampdoria
Serie A · Sunday 19 September 2021, 10:30 UTC · half-time 0-1
Empoli 0-3 Sampdoria: match report
Empoli were beaten by Sampdoria 0-3 in Serie A on Sunday 19 September 2021. It was 0-1 at half-time.
Francesco Caputo opened the scoring in the 31st minute. Empoli did not score. Sampdoria scored through Francesco Caputo (31'), Francesco Caputo (52') and Antonio Candreva (70').
Discipline: Empoli received 2 yellow cards; Sampdoria received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Empoli were 12th on 3 points from 3 and Sampdoria 15th on 2 points from 3. Empoli went on to finish that season 14th with 41 points, and Sampdoria 15th with 36.
Empoli lined up in a 4-3-1-2 and Sampdoria in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Antonio Candreva of Sampdoria (9.5), ahead of Francesco Caputo (9.3).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Empoli win, 4 draws and 5 for Sampdoria.
Going into the match Empoli's last five read L-W-L and Sampdoria's D-D-L.
Key events
- 31'Goal · Francesco Caputo
- 52'Goal · Francesco Caputo
- 59'Yellow card · Szymon Zurkowski
- 70'Goal · Antonio Candreva
- 73'Yellow card · Kristoffer Askildsen
- 87'Yellow card · E. Torregrossa
- 90+4'Yellow card · Sebastiano Luperto
Head-to-head
Team news
Unavailable
- Manolo Gabbiadini
- Mohamed Ihattaren
- Ivan Saio
- Lorenzo Tonelli
- Riccardo Fiamozzi
- Ronaldo Vieira
- Valerio Verre
- Stefano Sensi
Empoli line-up (4-3-1-2)
Guglielmo Vicario, Petar Stojanović, Ardian Ismajli, Sebastiano Luperto, Riccardo Marchizza, Nicolas Haas, Samuele Ricci, Liam Henderson, Nedim Bajrami, Leonardo Mancuso, Patrick Cutrone
Sampdoria line-up (4-4-2)
Emil Audero, Bartosz Bereszyński, Maya Yoshida, Omar Colley, Tommaso Augello, Antonio Candreva, Morten Thorsby, Adrien Silva, Mikkel Damsgaard, Francesco Caputo, Fabio Quagliarella