Roma 2-0 Empoli: result and report
Serie A · Saturday 4 February 2023
Result
Roma 2-0 Empoli
Serie A · Saturday 4 February 2023, 17:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
Roma 2-0 Empoli: match report
Roma beat Empoli 2-0 in Serie A on Saturday 4 February 2023. The half-time score was 2-0.
Roger Ibañez opened the scoring in the 2nd minute. Roma's goals came from Roger Ibañez (2') and Tammy Abraham (6'). Empoli did not score.
Discipline: Roma received 3 yellow cards; Empoli received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Roma were 7th on 37 points from 20 and Empoli 11th on 26 points from 20. Roma went on to finish that season 7th with 63 points, and Empoli 14th with 43.
Roma lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Empoli in a 4-3-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Paulo Dybala of Roma (8.8), ahead of Roger Ibañez (8.6).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 8 Roma wins, 2 draws and 0 for Empoli.
Going into the match Roma's last five read L-W-W-D-W and Empoli's D-W-W-D-D.
Key events
- 2'Goal · Roger Ibañez
- 6'Goal · Tammy Abraham
- 10'Yellow card · Nicola Zalewski
- 11'Yellow card · José Mourinho
- 77'Yellow card · E. Bove
- 80'Yellow card · Liam Henderson
Head-to-head
Team news
Roma line-up (3-4-2-1)
Rui Patrício, Gianluca Mancini, Chris Smalling, Roger Ibañez, Nicola Zalewski, Bryan Cristante, Nemanja Matić, Stephan El Shaarawy, Paulo Dybala, Lorenzo Pellegrini, Tammy Abraham
Empoli line-up (4-3-1-2)
Guglielmo Vicario, Tyronne Ebuehi, Koni De Winter, Sebastiano Luperto, Fabiano Parisi, Jean-Daniel Akpa Akpro, Răzvan Marin, Filippo Bandinelli, Tommaso Baldanzi, Martín Satriano, Francesco Caputo