PREMATCH
Atalanta – Empoli is valid for matchday number 34 of the 2023/2024 Serie A championship.
The match is scheduled for April 28th at 6:00 pm at the Gewiss Stadium in Bergamo.
Referee of Atalanta – Empoli will be Michael Fabbri. Instead, Daniele Doveri will be at VAR.
Atalanta is currently 6th in the table with 55 points (result of 16 wins, 7 draws and 10 defeats); Empoli, on the other hand, is 15th in the standings with 32 points (the result of 8 wins, 8 draws and 18 defeats).
Atalanta scored 59 goals and conceded 37; Empoli scored 26 goals and conceded 48.
The first leg Empoli – Atalanta was played on 30 October 2023 and ended 0-3.
At home, Atalanta scored 32 points (10 wins, 2 draws and 3 defeats). Away from home, Empoli have scored 15 points (4 wins, 3 draws and 9 defeats).
In the last 3 games Atalanta faced Cagliari, Verona and Monza, obtaining 4 points thanks to 1 win, 1 draw and 1 defeat.
In the last 3 games, Empoli faced Torino, Lecce and Napoli, obtaining 6 points thanks to 2 wins, 0 draws and 1 defeat.
Atalanta met Monza in their last match, winning 1-2, while Empoli met Napoli, winning 1-0.
The best scorer of the team coached by Gian Piero Gasperini is Teun Koopmeiners with 11 goals while the best scorer of the team coached by Davide Nicola is M’Baye Niang with 4 goals.
Atalanta and Empoli have faced each other 23 times in the league. In previous matches Atalanta won 11 times, Empoli won 4 times while there were 8 draws.
Atalanta-Empoli x-ray: historical data, trends and curiosities
- Atalanta have won six of their nine Serie A matches against Empoli with Gian Piero Gasperini on the bench (1D, 2L), one more success than they had achieved in all their previous 14 matches against this opponent in the competition (7N , 2P).
- Empoli have remained unbeaten in four of their last six away games against Atalanta in Serie A (1W, 3D), although they lost the most recent one, 2-1 on 17 March 2023 (goals from de Roon and Højlund for the from Bergamo, Ebuehi for the Tuscans).
- Atalanta have found success in the last three Serie A matches against Empoli and, among the teams currently in the competition, only against Monza do they have a longer open streak of consecutive victories (four).
- Empoli have won two of their last three league matches (both against opponents on the left side of the table, 1P), after having recorded a run of four consecutive defeats; Furthermore, after the success against Napoli, the Tuscans can win two matches in a row in Serie A for the first time since May 2023.
- Atalanta have not found success in their last two home league games (1D, 1L), after a series of seven consecutive home victories in Serie A; the last time in which the Dea played three domestic matches in a row without obtaining the three points in the competition dates back to the period between October and November 2022 (three knockouts on that occasion).
- Empoli’s last three away matches in Serie A have ended in goalless defeat for the Tuscan team: the last time the Azzurri recorded four consecutive away defeats in the competition without finding the goal was between February and April 2017, with Giovanni Martusciello on the bench.
- Although Atalanta have won seven of their last nine matches against opponents on the right side of the table at the start of the day in Serie A, they have failed to find success in two of their most recent three: a 2-1 defeat against Cagliari and a 2-2 draw against Hellas Verona.
- Empoli is the team that has scored the fewest goals in the middle half hour of the match in this Serie A (just three goals scored between 31′ and 60′) – in the same interval of play Atalanta has a good number of them 22, fewer only than Inter (32) and Milan (28).
- Empoli are Gianluca Scamacca’s favorite opponents in Serie A: four goals in three matches in the competition; Furthermore, with a goal he can become the first Italian Atalanta player to score double figures in a season in the top division since Simone Tiribocchi in 2009/10 (11).
- Emmanuel Gyasi has found the net in two of his last three appearances in Serie A against Atalanta (both with the Spezia shirt) and in general against no opponent has he hit the target more times in the competition (also twice against Cagliari, Sassuolo and Parma).
These are the statistics of the two teams in the matches played to date in the championship:
| Atalanta | Empoli | |
|---|---|---|
| Games played | 32 | 33 |
| Number of games won | 16 | 8 |
| Number of games lost | 10 | 18 |
| Number of games drawn | 6 | 7 |
| Total goals scored | 59 | 26 |
| Total goals conceded | 37 | 48 |
| Average goals conceded per match | 1.2 | 1.5 |
| Ball possession percentage | 50.4 | 43.9 |
| Total number of steps | 15111 | 12076 |
| Total number of successful passes | 12340 | 9493 |
| Number of shots on target per match | 172 | 104 |
| Percentage of shots on goal | 51.7 | 41.6 |
| Total number of crosses | 609 | 582 |
| Average number of successful crosses | 187 | 139 |
| Duels per game won | 1601 | 1598 |
| Duels per game lost | 1592 | 1680 |
| Corners conceded | 133 | 203 |
| Corners earned | 178 | 156 |
| Number of free kicks in favour | 307 | 441 |
| Number of punishments awarded | 403 | 444 |
| Total tackle | 533 | 534 |
| Tackle success rate | 60.0 | 60.7 |
| Total offsides | 51 | 67 |
| Total number of yellow cards | 66 | 73 |
| Total number of red cards | 1 | 0 |
The complete Serie A standings.
Where to see Atalanta-Empoli
Atalanta-Empoli can be followed live on Virgilio Sport starting from 3pm (half an hour before) on 28 April.
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