Empoli 1-0 Sassuolo: result and report
Serie A · Sunday 4 October 2015
Result
Empoli 1-0 Sassuolo
Serie A · Sunday 4 October 2015, 10:30 UTC · half-time 0-0
Empoli 1-0 Sassuolo: match report
Empoli won against Sassuolo 1-0 in Serie A on Sunday 4 October 2015. It was 0-0 at half-time.
The only goal came from Massimo Maccarone of Empoli in the 88th minute.
Discipline: Empoli received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card; Sassuolo received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Empoli were 19th on 4 points from 6 and Sassuolo 5th on 12 points from 6. Empoli went on to finish that season 11th with 46 points, and Sassuolo 6th with 61.
Empoli lined up in a 4-3-1-2 and Sassuolo in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Mário Rui of Empoli (8.5), ahead of Massimo Maccarone (8.0).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Empoli win, 0 draws and 1 for Sassuolo.
Going into the match Empoli's last five read L-L-W-D-L and Sassuolo's D-W-D-D-W.
Key events
- 16'Yellow card · Piotr Zielinski
- 17'Yellow card · Emanuele Terranova
- 26'Yellow card · Lorenzo Tonelli
- 35'Yellow card · Federico Peluso
- 72'Yellow card · Š. Vrsaljko
- 88'Goal · Massimo Maccarone
- 90'Second yellow · Piotr Zielinski
- 90+2'Yellow card · Rade Krunic
Head-to-head
Team news
Empoli line-up (4-3-1-2)
Lukasz Skorupski, Vincent Laurini, Andrea Costa, Mário Rui, Lorenzo Tonelli, Assane Dioussé, Piotr Zielinski, Rade Krunic, Marcel Büchel, Massimo Maccarone, Manuel Pucciarelli
Sassuolo line-up (4-3-3)
Andrea Consigli, Šime Vrsaljko, Federico Peluso, Marek Brzozowski, Paolo Cannavaro, Francesco Magnanelli, Simone Missiroli, Alfred Duncan, Matteo Politano, Antonio Floro Flores, Grégoire Defrel