Fiorentina 2-1 Empoli: result and report

Serie A · Saturday 22 April 2006

Result

Fiorentina 2-1 Empoli

Serie A · Saturday 22 April 2006, 13:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

Fiorentina · Empoli · Serie A predictions

Fiorentina 2-1 Empoli: match report

Fiorentina beat Empoli 2-1 in Serie A on Saturday 22 April 2006. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Manuel Pasqual opened the scoring in the 43rd minute. Fiorentina's goals came from Manuel Pasqual (43') and Luis Jiménez (58'). Empoli scored through Christian Rigano (65').

Discipline: Fiorentina received 1 yellow card; Empoli received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Fiorentina were 4th on 65 points from 34 and Empoli 11th on 39 points from 34. Fiorentina went on to finish that season 4th with 74 points, and Empoli 11th with 45.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Fiorentina wins, 1 draw and 0 for Empoli.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 18'Yellow card · Luca ToniFiorentina
  • 43'Goal · Manuel PasqualFiorentina · 1-0
  • 58'Goal · Luis JiménezFiorentina · 2-0
  • 60'Yellow card · Christian RiganoEmpoli
  • 65'Goal · Christian RiganoEmpoli · 2-1
  • 74'Yellow card · N. AscoliEmpoli

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Fiorentina 0, draws 1, Empoli 0.

Team news

Fiorentina line-up

Per Billeskov Krøldrup, Alessandro Gamberini, Tomás Ujfalusi, Manuel Pasqual, Stefano Fiore, Riccardo Montolivo, Luis Jiménez, Lars Jørgensen, Luca Toni, Bogdan Lobonț, Cristian Brocchi

Empoli line-up

Daniele Balli, Andrea Coda, Andrea Raggi, Francesco Pratali, Sergio Almirón, Antonio Busce, Fabrizio Ficini, Ighli Vannucchi, Francesco Tavano, Christian Rigano, Nicola Ascoli