Udinese and Empoli will face on Wednesday the 4th of January at 8:45 pm in the 16th week of the Serie A. The match will be played in Udine at the Dacia Arena. The referee will be Marco Serra.
Udinese is in the 8th position in the table with 24 points. It comes from a 3-2 loss against Napoli in its last match in the Serie A. Until now, it has won 6 times, draw 6 times, and lost 3 times.
Empoli is in the 13th place in the standings with 17 points. It comes from a 2-0 win against Cremonese in its last match in the Serie A. Until now, it has won 4 times, draw 5 times, and lost 6 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Udinese
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-5-2 (15 times).
Andrea Sottil is expected to play against Empoli with the following players: M. Silvestri, N. Pérez, Rodrigo Becão, J. Bijol, I. Udogie, S. Lovric, T. Arslan, Walace, R. Pereyra, I. Success and Beto.
Assuming that the line up is confirmed, the average age of Udinese would be 27.00.
Andrea Sottil will probably not be able to employ M. Jajalo and G. Deulofeu Lázaro because of injury.
A. Masina will definitely miss the match.
Empoli
Empoli has mostly adopted the 4-3-1-2 line-up most used during the season (14 times or 93.33%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-1-2 (14 times) and 4-3-3 (once).
Paolo Zanetti is expected to play against Udinese with the following players: G. Vicario, F. Parisi, A. Ismajli, P. Stojanović, S. Luperto, J. Akpa Akpro, R. Marin, F. Bandinelli, T. Baldanzi, N. Bajrami and M. Satriano.
Presuming that the line up is confirmed, the resulting average age of Empoli would be 25.82.
L. Tonelli and M. Destro will definitely miss the match.
