Lazio and Empoli will face off on Thursday the 6th of January at 2:30 pm in the 20th week of the Serie A. The match is going to be staged in Roma at the Stadio Olimpico. The appointed referee is Antonio Giua.
Lazio is in the 8th position in the league with 31 points. It comes from a 1-3 win against Venezia in its last match in the Serie A. Until now, it has won 9 times, draw 4 times, and lost 6 times.
Empoli sits in the 9th position in the league with 27 points. It comes from a 2-4 loss against Milan in its last match in the Serie A. As of now, it has won 8 times, draw 3 times, and lost 8 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Lazio
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (19 times).
Maurizio Sarri is expected to play against Empoli with the following players: T. Strakosha, A. Marušić, L. Ramos Marchi, Ş. Radu, D. Cataldi, S. Milinković-Savić, L. Romero Alconchel, D. Anderson and P. Rodríguez Ledesma.
Assuming that the line up is confirmed as above, the estimate average age of Lazio would be 29.44.
There are doubts about the presence of E. Hysaj and C. Immobile.
Maurizio Sarri will probably not be able to employ F. Acerbi, T. Bašić and M. Zaccagni because of injury.
J. Akpa Akpro will definitely miss the match.
Empoli
Empoli has mostly adopted the 4-3-1-2 line-up most used during the season (17 times or 89.47%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-1-2 (17 times), 4-3-3 (once) and 4-1-3-2 (once).
Aurelio Andreazzoli is expected to play against Lazio with the following players: G. Vicario, F. Parisi, S. Romagnoli, S. Luperto, P. Stojanović, S. Żurkowski, S. Ricci, L. Henderson, N. Bajrami, A. Pinamonti and F. Di Francesco.
Presuming that the line up is confirmed as above, the estimate average age of Empoli would be 25.36.
N. Haas and E. Ekong will definitely miss the match.
