About Match
In the standings it is Empoli 10th on 6 points, Sampdoria 20th on 1 — separated by 5. Scoring rates set the scale: Empoli 0.75 scored and 1 conceded per game, Sampdoria 0.75 and 2, with the league averaging 1.3. A win here leaves Empoli on 9 points and up to 3rd, other results permitting.
Sampdoria have lost three in a row. Empoli have banked 7 of the last 15 points on offer; Sampdoria, 1.
19 previous meetings sit in the GioScore records — Empoli 3, draws 6, Sampdoria 10, at 2.11 goals per meeting. Whoever hosts gains little here: home teams have taken just 37% of the wins in this fixture. Only 26% of the meetings produced more than two goals.
Stadio Carlo Castellani in Empoli, capacity 16,284, hosts the game.