Empoli vs AS Roma Preview

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 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:

October 26, 2024
Bologna 16:00 AC Milan
December 1, 2024
Fiorentina 18:00 Inter Milan
December 23, 2024
Fiorentina 18:30 Udinese
Inter Milan 20:45 Como
December 28, 2024
Empoli 15:00 Genoa
Parma 15:00 Monza
Cagliari 18:00 Inter Milan
Lazio 20:45 Atalanta
December 29, 2024
Udinese 12:30 Torino
SSC Napoli 15:00 Venezia
Juventus 18:00 Fiorentina
AC Milan 20:45 Roma
December 30, 2024
Como 18:30 Lecce
Bologna 20:45 Verona
January 4, 2025
Venezia 15:00 Empoli
Fiorentina 18:00 SSC Napoli
Verona 20:45 Udinese

Serie A Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Atalanta 17 13 1 3 42 19 +23 40
2 SSC Napoli 17 12 2 3 26 12 +14 38
3 Inter Milan 15 10 4 1 40 15 +25 34
4 Lazio 17 11 1 5 32 24 +8 34
5 Fiorentina 15 9 4 2 28 11 +17 31
6 Juventus 17 7 10 0 28 13 +15 31
7 Bologna 16 7 7 2 23 18 +5 28
8 AC Milan 16 7 5 4 25 16 +9 26
9 Udinese 16 6 2 8 19 25 -6 20
10 Roma 17 5 4 8 23 23 +0 19
11 Empoli 17 4 7 6 16 19 -3 19
12 Torino 17 5 4 8 17 22 -5 19
13 Genoa 17 3 7 7 14 26 -12 16
14 Lecce 17 4 4 9 11 29 -18 16
15 Como 16 3 6 7 18 28 -10 15
16 Parma 17 3 6 8 23 33 -10 15
17 Verona 17 5 0 12 21 40 -19 15
18 Cagliari 17 3 5 9 16 28 -12 14
19 Venezia 17 3 4 10 17 30 -13 13
20 Monza 17 1 7 9 15 23 -8 10

Serie A Results

December 22, 2024
Monza 1 - 2 Juventus
Atalanta 3 - 2 Empoli
Venezia 2 - 1 Cagliari
Roma 5 - 0 Parma
December 21, 2024
Lecce 1 - 2 Lazio
Genoa 1 - 2 SSC Napoli
Torino 0 - 2 Bologna
December 20, 2024
Verona 0 - 1 AC Milan
December 16, 2024
Lazio 0 - 6 Inter Milan
December 15, 2024
AC Milan 0 - 0 Genoa
Como 2 - 0 Roma
Parma 2 - 3 Verona
Bologna 1 - 0 Fiorentina
Lecce 2 - 1 Monza
December 14, 2024
Juventus 2 - 2 Venezia
Udinese 1 - 3 SSC Napoli
Cagliari 0 - 1 Atalanta
December 13, 2024
Empoli 0 - 1 Torino
December 9, 2024
Monza 1 - 2 Udinese

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