Juventus and Empoli will face off on Saturday the 27th of January at 6:00 pm in the 22nd week of the Serie A. The match is going to be staged in Torino at the Allianz Stadium. The chosen referee is Livio Marinelli.
Juventus sits in the 1st place in the standings with 52 points. It comes from a 0-3 win against Lecce in its last match in the Serie A. Thus far, it has won 16 times, draw 4 times, and lost once.
Juventus won the last 5 consecutive matches. The last time it lost was on the 23rd of September against Sassuolo and the score was 4-2.
Empoli occupies the 19th place in the standings with 16 points. It comes from a 3-0 win against Monza in its last match in the Serie A. So far, it has won 4 times, draw 4 times, and lost 13 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Juventus
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-5-2 (21 times).
Massimiliano Allegri is expected to play against Empoli with the following players: Wojciech Szczesny, Danilo, Bremer, Federico Gatti, Filip Kostić, Manuel Locatelli, Weston McKennie, Fabio Miretti, Andrea Cambiaso, Arkadiusz Milik and Dušan Vlahović.
Granting that the above line up is confirmed, the resulting average age of Juventus would be 27.55.
Massimiliano Allegri will probably not be able to employ Mattia De Sciglio because of injury.
Paul Pogba, Adrien Rabiot, Federico Chiesa and Moise Kean will definitely miss the match.
Massimiliano Allegri will not be able to have the presence of Nicolò Fagioli who is suspended.
Empoli
Empoli has mostly adopted the 4-3-3 line-up during the season (9 times or 42.86%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (9 times), 4-3-1-2 (4 times), 4-3-2-1 (4 times), 4-2-3-1 (3 times) and 3-5-2 (once).
Davide Nicola is expected to play against Juventus with the following players: Elia Caprile, Sebastian Walukiewicz, Sebastiano Luperto, Ardian Ismajli , Emmanuel Gyasi, Alberto Grassi, Răzvan Marin, Szymon Zurkowski, Bartosz Bereszyński, Alberto Cerri and Nicolò Cambiaghi.
Suppose that the above line up is confirmed, the estimate average age of Empoli would be 27.36.
Davide Nicola will probably not be able to employ Giuseppe Pezzella and Viktor Kovalenko because of injury.
Tyronne Ebuehi, Simone Bastoni, Francesco Caputo and Mattia Destro will definitely miss the match.
