Empoli vs AS Roma
Competition – Serie A
Stadium – Carlo Castellani
Date: 12th September 2022
Kick-off time – 19:45 GMT
Jose Mourinho’s AS Roma side will look to get back to winning ways this Monday when they travel to the Stadio Carlo Castellani to face Paolo Zanetti’s Empoli in the sixth round of the 2022/23 Serie A season.
The hosts are still looking for their first win of the season after five rounds of games having lost their opening game of the season followed by consecutive draws.
Their last outing was a 2-2 draw at Salernitana last Monday meaning that they come into this tie with four points and in 15th place.
The last time they failed to win any of their opening five league matches was back in 2014/15 a season when they finished in 15th place. And so, it might not be time to panic yet as they still have enough time to turn their season around.
However, with just two league wins since the turn of the year (D12, L10), it may be too risky if Zanetti does not begin to look for a solution to what seems like a trouble that is deep-rooted and might not be going away soon.
To make matters worse for the coach, his side are struggling badly at home as they have just one win from their last 12 league games here. He will hope he can inspire his side to a better performance at home as he works to improve on last season’s 14th-place finish.
Meanwhile, AS Roma will look to avoid three straight losses in all competitions when they travel to Empoli on Monday night.
Jose Mourinho’s men were beaten for the first time in the league this season last week when they succumbed to a 4-0 loss to Udinese away from home last time out. That loss was the first ever Serie A contest to see Mourinho defeated by 4+ goals and it was followed by a 2-1 loss to Ludogorets in the UEFA Europa League last Thursday.
As a result ‘I Giallorossi’ come into this loss on the back of consecutive defeats for the first time since early January. With the trip to Empoli representing their third consecutive away league game, they are in danger of recording four away games without a win having lost two and drawn one of their last three trips away from home.
And so they will be desperate to win this game to avoid dropping further down in the title race and considering that they have won each of their last five games against Empoli, they will come into this tie confident of recording a win.
This game gets underway at 19:45 BST.
Other fixtures taking place this week in Serie A:
May 19, 2024
Sassuolo
11:30
Cagliari
Udinese
14:00
Empoli
Monza
14:00
Frosinone
Inter Milan
17:00
Lazio
Roma
19:45
Genoa
May 20, 2024
Salernitana
17:30
Verona
Bologna
19:45
Juventus
May 26, 2024
Juventus
01:00
Monza
SSC Napoli
01:00
Lecce
AC Milan
01:00
Salernitana
Lazio
01:00
Sassuolo
Empoli
01:00
Roma
Verona
01:00
Inter Milan
Genoa
01:00
Bologna
Frosinone
01:00
Udinese
Cagliari
01:00
Fiorentina
Atalanta
01:00
Torino
June 2, 2024
Atalanta
17:00
Fiorentina
Serie A Table
#
Team
MP
W
D
L
F
A
G
P
1
Inter Milan
36
29
5
2
86
19
+67
92
2
AC Milan
37
22
8
7
73
46
+27
74
3
Bologna
36
18
13
5
51
27
+24
67
4
Juventus
36
18
13
5
49
28
+21
67
5
Atalanta
36
20
6
10
67
39
+28
66
6
Roma
36
17
9
10
63
44
+19
60
7
Lazio
36
18
5
13
47
37
+10
59
8
Fiorentina
36
15
9
12
55
42
+13
54
9
Torino
37
13
14
10
36
33
+3
53
10
SSC Napoli
37
13
13
11
55
48
+7
52
11
Genoa
36
11
13
12
43
44
-1
46
12
Monza
36
11
12
13
39
48
-9
45
13
Lecce
37
8
13
16
32
54
-22
37
14
Verona
36
8
10
18
34
48
-14
34
15
Udinese
36
5
18
13
35
52
-17
33
16
Cagliari
36
7
12
17
38
65
-27
33
17
Frosinone
36
7
11
18
43
68
-25
32
18
Empoli
36
8
8
20
26
52
-26
32
19
Sassuolo
36
7
8
21
42
72
-30
29
20
Salernitana
36
2
10
24
28
76
-48
16
Serie A Results
May 18, 2024
Torino
3 - 1
AC Milan
Lecce
0 - 2
Atalanta
May 17, 2024
Fiorentina
2 - 2
SSC Napoli
May 13, 2024
Fiorentina
2 - 1
Monza
Lecce
0 - 2
Udinese
May 12, 2024
Atalanta
2 - 1
Roma
Juventus
1 - 1
Salernitana
Genoa
2 - 1
Sassuolo
Verona
1 - 2
Torino
Lazio
2 - 0
Empoli
May 11, 2024
AC Milan
5 - 1
Cagliari
SSC Napoli
0 - 2
Bologna
May 10, 2024
Frosinone
0 - 5
Inter Milan
May 6, 2024
Udinese
1 - 1
SSC Napoli
Salernitana
1 - 2
Atalanta
May 5, 2024
Roma
1 - 1
Juventus
AC Milan
3 - 3
Genoa
Verona
2 - 1
Fiorentina
Empoli
0 - 0
Frosinone
Cagliari
1 - 1
Lecce