Empoli and Cagliari will face off on Sunday the 3rd of March at 3:00 pm in the 27th week of the Serie A. The match is going to be played in Empoli at the Stadio Carlo Castellani. The encounter will be officiated by Antonio Rapuano.
Empoli is in the 13th place in the standings with 25 points. It comes from a 2-3 win against Sassuolo in its last match in the Serie A. So far, it has won 6 times, draw 7 times, and lost 13 times.
Cagliari sits in the 19th place in the league with 20 points. It comes from a 1-1 draw against Napoli in its last match in the Serie A. Thus far, it has won 4 times, draw 8 times, and lost 14 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 (9 times or 34.62%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (9 times), 3-4-2-1 (4 times), 4-3-1-2 (4 times), 4-3-2-1 (4 times), 4-2-3-1 (3 times) and 3-5-2 (2 times).
Davide Nicola is expected to play against Cagliari with the following players: Elia Caprile, Sebastian Walukiewicz, Sebastiano Luperto, Ardian Ismajli , Liberato Cacace, Răzvan Marin, Youssef Maleh, Emmanuel Gyasi, Viktor Kovalenko, Nicolò Cambiaghi and Alberto Cerri.
If the line up is confirmed, the average age of Empoli would be 26.45.
Davide Nicola will probably not be able to employ Tyronne Ebuehi, Jacopo Fazzini, Alberto Grassi and Szymon Zurkowski because of injury.
Francesco Caputo will definitely miss the match.
Cagliari
Cagliari has mostly adopted the 4-3-1-2 line-up during the season (6 times or 23.08%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-1-2 (6 times), 4-3-2-1 (5 times), 3-5-2 (5 times), 4-4-2 (2 times), 3-4-2-1 (2 times), 3-5-1-1 (once), 4-4-1-1 (once), 3-4-1-2 (once), 4-1-3-2 (once), 4-2-3-1 (once) and 3-4-3 (once).
Claudio Ranieri is expected to play against Empoli with the following players: Simone Scuffet, Tommaso Augello, Alberto Dossena, Yerry Mina, Nahitan Nández, Alessandro Deiola, Antoine Makoumbou, Zito Luvumbo, Gianluca Gaetano and Gianluca Lapadula.
Suppose that the line up is confirmed as above, the average age of Cagliari would be 27.80.
There are doubts about the presence of Jakub Jankto.
Claudio Ranieri will probably not be able to employ Velizar-Iliya Iliev because of injury.
Pantelis Hatzidiakos, Marco Mancosu, Ibrahim Sulemana, Leonardo Pavoletti and Andrea Petagna will definitely miss the match.