Empoli vs Salernitana Betting Odds, Tips, Predictions, Preview 8th May 2023
Empoli enjoy home advantage, when visitors Salernitana swing by this coming Monday for a clash in the Serie A. The former will be looking to make that home advantage count.
Too many draws recently have halted Salernitana in their progress. However, their upcoming clash with Empoli could be a decent opportunity to get another win under their belt this season.
Empoli have a hard time getting on the scoreboard these days, as they managed a poorly seven goals in their previous ten matches. That is an average of 0.7 goals per game, in which they conceded 14 goals, or 1.4 goals per game. Furthermore, they fought their way to two clean sheets in this run.
Salernitana travel to their next away match on Monday having performed a tolerable average of 1.6 goals in ten matches. They scored a total of 16 goals, whilst shipping ten goals against. An average of one goals against a game. They hung on to three clean sheets in this streak.
Supporters will be hoping to see a similarly thrilling encounter, as it turned out to be the last time Empoli played against Salernitana. It finished 2-2 in a great match between the pair.
Empoli vs Salernitana Prediction
Empoli Form
Empoli suffered a couple of disappointments in their last three matches, as they were run over by Inter in a 0-3 defeat. Sassuolo also proved too hard to handle, as they won 2-1, before Empoli were able to strike back last time out in a 3-1 win against Bologna. In their last six Serie A home matches, Empoli have two wins, while they've drawn one and lost three. They scored six and conceded nine goals.
Salernitana Form
Salernitana are unbeaten in their previous three matches, winning 3-0 against Sassuolo, before sharing the points in a 1-1 draw with SSC Napoli. Another draw followed, this time 3-3 against Fiorentina. Salernitana didn't manage a single away win in their last six Serie A matches, but managed five draws, while suffering one defeats. They conceded five and scored four goals themselves.
Salernitana and Empoli seem to find it tough getting their defensively lines in order, as they both concede too many goals. We hope the trend continues on Monday, as we aim for both teams to score.
Empoli won 12 points from their last eight encounters with teams from the bottom six, like their upcoming opponent. They won three, scored eight and let in six goals. Salernitana earned four wins and 16 points from their past ten matches against teams placed in the bottom six of the Serie A table. They scored 15 and allowed ten goals against on their way. Empoli show off a record of eight wins, 11 draws and 14 defeats in the Serie A this season. Salernitana are looking at seven wins, 14 draws and 12 defeats in the Serie A.
Empoli vs Salernitana Stats
- In the last 10 Empoli matches the sum of goals was under 3.5
- In 13 of the last 15 Empoli home matches the sum of goals was under 3.5
- Empoli have not won 12 of the last 13 matches
- Empoli have lost 7 of the last 9 matches while scoring less than 1.5 goals
- Empoli have lost 3 of the last 4 home matches without scoring a goal
- Salernitana have not lost the last 10 matches in a row
- Salernitana have not won 16 of the last 18 away matches
- In 13 of the last 15 Salernitana matches the sum of goals was under 3.5
- In 7 of the last 8 matches Salernitana played, both teams scored
- Salernitana have conceded in 15 of the last 16 away matches
Empoli vs Salernitana Squads
Empoli Squad
Paolo Zanetti will choose the starting lineup for the upcoming game against Salernitana from the players listed below (the information in the brackets refers to goals scored and matches played in the Serie A this season):
Guglielmo Vicario (0/26), Jacopo Seghetti (0/0), Lovro Stubljar (0/0), Samir Ujkani (0/0), Samuele Perisan (0/7), Ardian Ismajili (0/22), Fabiano Parisi (2/30), Gabriele Guarino (0/0), Koni De Winter (0/14), Liberato Cacace (0/10), Lorenzo Tonelli (0/0), Nicolo Cambiaghi (5/23), Petar Stojanovic (0/23), Samuele Angori (0/0), Sebastian Walukiewicz (0/8), Sebastiano Luperto (1/31), Tyronne Ebuehi (2/22), Alberto Grassi (0/20), Duccio Degli Innocenti (0/0), Filippo Bandinelli (2/32), Jacopo Fazzini (0/18), Jean-Daniel Akpa-Akpro (1/19), Liam Henderson (0/20), Nicolas Haas (1/21), Razvan Marin (2/31), Tommaso Baldanzi (4/24), Emanuel Vignato (1/12), Francesco Caputo (3/33), Marko Pjaca (0/14), Martin Satriano (2/29), Mattia Destro (1/13), Roberto Piccoli (0/16).
Salernitana Squad
This is the full squad of players that the Salernitana head coach Sousa will select from for his starting XI:
Guillermo Ochoa (0/16), Luigi Sepe (0/17), Vincenzo Fiorillo (0/0), Domagoj Bradaric (0/28), Dylan Bronn (0/22), Federico Fazio (1/14), Flavius Daniliuc (0/23), Junior Sambia (0/19), Lorenzo Pirola (2/21), Matteo Lovato (0/14), Norbert Gyomber (0/25), Pasquale Mazzocchi (2/22), William Troost-Ekong (0/6), Antonio Candreva (4/31), Antonio Iervolino (0/0), Domen Crnigoj (0/7), Emil Bohinen (0/19), Giulio Maggiore (0/14), Grigoris Kastanos (1/23), Lassana Coulibaly (3/30), Tonny Vilhena (4/29), Boulaye Dia (15/30), Diego Valencia (0/12), Erik Botheim (1/23), Federico Bonazzoli (2/24), Hans Nicolussi Caviglia (1/9), Krzysztof Piatek (3/28).
Empoli vs Salernitana Team News
Empoli could have as few as two players on the injured and absent list for their next assignment on Monday.
Mattia Destro and Lorenzo Tonelli are missing from the squad, Empoli will field against Salernitanaon Monday.
Salernitana face a list of three absentees from the squad ahead of their next match this coming Monday against Empoli.
Salernitana need to do without Luigi Sepe, Giulio Maggiore and Pasquale Mazzocchi, who are not fit enough to travel to Stadio Carlo Castellani.
Empoli vs Salernitana Lineups
Empoli vs Salernitana H2H
It was an enormously entertaining 2-2 match, when these two sides last played each other. A similar feast of goals would go down well this coming Monday. Empoli picked up five wins in their previous ten matches against Salernitana, while the latter claimed two wins in these, with the remaining finishing a draw. The bookies best betting odds on a draw at full-time are at 21/10.
Empoli vs Salernitana Results
Both teams found the back of the net three times in the last three matches between Empoli and Salernitana.
Empoli vs Salernitana Betting Tips
Nicolo Cambiaghi found the back of the net two times in the previous six Serie A games for Empoli, who won't mind him striking again on Monday. Punters will also be looking for Boulaye Dia to keep his current streak of five goals in his last six Serie A games going for Salernitana.
In their last 10 matches at Stadio Carlo Castellani across all tournaments Empoli won four times, drew two and lost four times. Salernitana claimed one wins, five draw and four defeats in their last 10 games away. Empoli won only two of their previous 10 league outings, while Salernitana two wins in their previous 10.
In the last three encounters between Empoli and Salernitana over 2.5 goals came out two times, as Empoli averaged 2.33 goals a game. Salernitana scored an average of 1.67 goals in these, while both teams scored three times. Over 2.5 goals happened in five of Empoli’s last ten matches across all tournaments. They scored an average of 0.7 goals along the way. Over 2.5 goals happened in four of the last ten outings for Salernitana, who managed to score 1.6 times in those matches.
