Match Report
54 points for Empoli (9th), 68 for Crotone (2nd): a 14-point gap. Against a league average of 1.26 goals per team per game, Empoli ran at 1.24 scored and 1.26 conceded, Crotone at 1.66 and 1.05.
Empoli had not won in 6 games. Recent form was uneven: 3/15 points for Empoli, 12/15 for Crotone.
The head-to-head ledger counts 14 games: 4 Empoli wins, 5 for Crotone, 5 draws, at 2.93 goals per meeting. Three-plus goals is the norm here, arriving in 64% of the meetings, and both sides scored in 79%.
Stadio Carlo Castellani in Empoli staged the fixture, a ground that holds 19,847. Empoli led 2-1 at the break, and the second half added 1 goal for the 3-1 full-time score.




