Roma and Empoli are going to clash on Monday the 18th of September at 4:45 am in the 4th week of the Serie A. The match will take place in Roma at the Stadio Olimpico. The appointed referee is Juan Luca Sacchi.
Roma sits in the 18th position in the table with 1 points. It comes from a 1-2 loss against Milan in its last match in the Serie A. Until now, it has drawn once and lost twice.
Empoli sits in the 20th position in the standings with 0 points. It comes from a 0-2 loss against Juventus in its last match in the Serie A.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Roma
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-5-2 (3 times).
José Mario Felix dos Santos Mourinho is expected to play against Empoli with the following players: Rui Patrício, Diego Llorente, Evan Ndicka, Bryan Cristante, Nicola Zalewski, Edoardo Bove, Rasmus Kristensen and Romelu Lukaku.
In case that the above line up is confirmed, the resulting average age of Roma would be 26.88.
There are doubts about the presence of Gianluca Mancini, Houssem Aouar and Paulo Dybala.
José Mario Felix dos Santos Mourinho will probably not be able to employ Renato Sanches because of injury.
Marash Kumbulla , Chris Smalling, Lorenzo Pellegrini and Tammy Abraham will definitely miss the match.
Empoli
Empoli has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (2 times or 66.67%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (2 times) and 4-3-2-1 (once).
Paolo Zanetti is expected to play against Roma with the following players: Samuele Perisan, Giuseppe Pezzella, Sebastiano Luperto, Sebastian Walukiewicz, Bartosz Bereszyński, Alberto Grassi, Razvan Marin, Jacopo Fazzini, Nicolò Cambiaghi, Tommaso Baldanzi and Francesco Caputo.
Presuming that the above line up is confirmed, the average age of Empoli would be 26.09.
Paolo Zanetti will probably not be able to employ Daniel Maldini because of injury.
Elia Caprile will definitely miss the match.