Empoli and Milan are going to face on Sunday the 7th of January at 12:30 pm in the 19th week of the Serie A. The match will take place in Empoli at the Stadio Carlo Castellani. The appointed referee is Federico La Penna.
Empoli sits in the 19th place in the table with 13 points. It comes from a 0-0 draw against Cagliari in its last match in the Serie A. To date, it has won 3 times, draw 4 times, and lost 11 times.
Milan is in the 3rd place in the table with 36 points. It comes from a 1-0 win against Sassuolo in its last match in the Serie A. Thus far, 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, Alberto Grassi, Youssef Maleh, Răzvan Marin, Daniel Maldini, Nicolò Cambiaghi and Francesco Caputo.
Assuming that the line up is confirmed as above, the resulting average age of Empoli would be 27.18.
Bartosz Bereszyński, Giuseppe Pezzella, Simone Bastoni, Jacopo Fazzini and Viktor Kovalenko 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: Mike Maignan, Alessandro Florenzi, T. Hernández, S. Kjær, Davide Calabria, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Yacine Adli, Tijjani Reijnders, Rafael Leão, Christian Pulišić and Olivier Giroud.
If the line up is confirmed as above, the resulting average age of Milan would be 29.00.
Stefano Pioli will probably not be able to employ Yunus Musah because of injury.
Marco Sportiello, Mattia Caldara, Pierre Kalulu, Marco Pellegrino, Tommaso Pobega, Malick Thiaw, Fikayo Tomori, Ismael Bennacer, Samuel Chukwueze, Rade Krunić and Noah Okafor will definitely miss the match.
