Sports mole previews on Sunday serie a clash between Empoli and Lazio, including predictions, team news and possible alignments.
With one side fighting for a finish among the first four and the other by removing for survival, Lazio will meet Scald at Stadio Castellani on Sunday.
Despite difficulties in consistency, the Rome Club has not given up reaching the Champions League, while its hosts threatened by relegation have won a Serie A match in December.
Correspondence overview
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Discussing two goals in the depths of the second half of Monday’s home match against Parma, Lazio relied on an old hand to get them out of trouble at Stadio Olimpico, where PedroLate childbirth saved the day.
The former Star of Spain has now scored seven goals as a substitute in Serie a this season – in the best European leagues, only Atletico Madrid Alexander Sorho (Nine) has managed more – and another late intervention by the Evergreen, 37, snatched a point.
However, biancocelesti won only one of their last 10 home games, while a formerly promising campaign begins to fade – they are now outside The first four of ItalyAfter also recently leaving the Europa League.
During the first half of the season, Lazio recorded an average of 1.84 points per match, but this has since fallen to 1.67 – and their target rate increased from 1.74 to 1.60.
Due to their misfortunes in Rome, Marco BaroniThe men have actually accumulated more points on the road this quarter, recently winning their last two outside games – against Atalanta BC and Genoa.
Thus, after having prevailed during their last five trips to Castellani, scoring 10 goals and keeping three clean sheets, they can expect to win again and keep the continental dreams alive.
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Beaten 2-1 in the capital earlier this season – when none other than Pedro marked the winner of the 84th minute of their hosts – Empoli’s last victory over Lazio dates back to November 2015.
More perfectly, Azzurri’s last victory against anyone who came towards the end of last year, since when they were in free fall towards Serie B.
Soon After Losing The Club’s First-Ever Coppa Italia Semi-final, Last Week’s Derby Dell’arno Defeat To Fiorentina Made 19 Top-Flight Games Without A Win, Which Reprresnts The Tuscan Team’s Worst Run in Serie A-A 2-1 Loss to their Local Rivals Also inside The fall zone.
With only four games to reproduce the dramatic escape from last year, Roberto D’AVERSAThe side still has colleagues Monza, Parma and Hellas Verona to play, so taking anything in European hopes Lazio would be a bonus.
Empoli drags only Lecce in 17th place by two points, so salvation is certainly not beyond them, but a lamentable league record of a victory and seven goals scored on the lawn at home suggests that they will be difficult to beat the biancocelesti.
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Team news
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Although Reda Belahiyane returns to the fold after a ban on a match, Marco Baroni is still in injured defensive duo Nuno Tavares And Patrical This weekend.
In the absence of tavares, which accumulated eight assists in the first half of the season, Luca Pellegrini Should continue on the back left – the latter has established three of the last five goals of the Lazio League with a cross.
It remains to be seen if Super -Sub Pedro – whose goal divided these teams in October – can make their way in the departure XI, when it aims to mark again and equal a better personal series, a count of nine strikes in one season.
Be sure to start front for visitors, Taty Castellanos Owes the spearhead of a featured attack also Boulaye Dia (11 objective involvement) and the captain Magnati Zaccagni (14).
Meanwhile, the Empoli front line is generally directed by Sebastiano Esposito And Jacopo Fazzini – The latter has marked in his last two championship appearances – But Roberto d’Aveyea has selection problems to be resolved in the midfield.
Luca Lucianucci And Tino Advonation could unite his forces in the host’s machine room, due to the absence of a suspended pair Alberto Grassi And Liam Henderson.
While Release the cocoon is now back from a ban, and Tyrononne Ebuehi hopes to be adopted in good shape, the Azzurri are always without Youssef Maleh,, Szymon Zurkowski,, Nicolas Haas,, SABA SAZONOV,, Pietro Pellegri And Christian Kouame by injury.
Empoli possible starting lineage:
Vazquez; Goglichidze, Ismajli, viti; Gyasi, Marianucci, Anjorin, Pezzella; Fazzini, breaker; Esposito
LAZIO Possible starting possible:
Mandas; Marusic, Gigot, Romagnoli, Pellegrini; Rovella, Guandouzi; Isaksen, dia, zaccagni; Castellanos
We say: Empoli 0-3 Lazio
Although the local team is desperately short of confidence, their visitors will be fully focused on taking up maximum points of what is an essential game if they want to withdraw in the first four of Serie A.
Even if the game remains tight in its last stages, Lazio has scored more goals in the last 15 minutes (20) than anyone – in the meantime, Empoli conceded the most (16) during the same period.
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