Empoli and Milan will face on Sunday the 7th of January at 12:30 pm in the 19th week of the Serie A. The match is going to take place in Empoli at the Stadio Carlo Castellani. The chosen referee is Federico La Penna.
Empoli sits in the 19th place in the league with 13 points. It comes from a 0-0 draw against Cagliari in its last match in the Serie A. Up to now, it has won 3 times, draw 4 times, and lost 11 times.
Milan is in the 3rd position in the league with 36 points. It comes from a 1-0 win against Sassuolo in its last match in the Serie A. To date, it has won 11 times, draw 3 times, and lost 4 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Empoli
Empoli has mostly adopted the 4-3-3 line-up during the season (8 times or 44.44%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (8 times), 4-3-1-2 (4 times), 4-3-2-1 (4 times) and 4-2-3-1 (2 times).
Aurelio Andreazzoli is expected to play against Milan with the following players: Elia Caprile, Sebastiano Luperto, Sebastian Walukiewicz, Ardian Ismajli, Tyronne Ebuehi, Viktor Kovalenko, Alberto Grassi, Youssef Maleh, Daniel Maldini, Nicolò Cambiaghi and Francesco Caputo.
Assuming that the above line up is confirmed, the average age of Empoli would be 27.18.
Aurelio Andreazzoli will probably not be able to employ Bartosz Bereszyński and Jacopo Fazzini because of injury.
Giuseppe Pezzella and Simone Bastoni will definitely miss the match.
Aurelio Andreazzoli will not be able to have the presence of Liberato Cacace who is suspended.
Milan
Milan has mostly adopted the 4-3-3 line-up during the season (11 times or 61.11%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (11 times), 4-2-3-1 (5 times), 4-4-2 (once) and 3-4-3 (once).
Stefano Pioli is expected to play against Empoli with the following players: M. Maignan, A. Florenzi, S. Kjær, T. Hernández, D. Calabria, R. Loftus-Cheek, Y. Adli, T. Reijnders, C. Pulišić, Rafael Leão and O. Giroud.
Presuming that this will be the line-up, the resulting average age of Milan would be 29.00.
Stefano Pioli will probably not be able to employ M. Sportiello, M. Pellegrino and Y. Musah because of injury.
M. Caldara, P. Kalulu, T. Pobega, M. Thiaw, F. Tomori, I. Bennacer, S. Chukwueze and N. Okafor will definitely miss the match.
