Internazionale vs Empoli Preview

Internazionale vs Empoli

Competition – Serie A

Stadium – Stadio Giuseppe Meazza

Date: 26th May 2019

Kick-off time – 19:30 GMT

Inter Milan will be looking to secure a Champions League spot when they take on Empoli in this final game of the season, while the visitors will be looking avoid a defeat so they can avoid being relegated.

Inter Milan were thrashed 4-1 by Napoli in their last league game to move them to 4th position in the league table.

They are just 1 point above their city rivals Milan ahead of the final round of matches and are behind surprise team of the season Atalanta on goal difference.

Apart from their loss to Napoli in their last game, the home side haven’t been doing badly recently.  They were unbeaten in seven games before that defeat and had played the likes of Juventus, Roma and Atalanta in that run of games.

Fans now fancy them to get back to winning ways and if chosen to play, Mauro Icardi could take out his frustration of missing out on the Copa America on this poor Empoli side.

Empoli head into this final game of the season still unsure of safety.  They are currently just outside the relegation zone by a single point over Genoa.

Either side can survive the drop if they win their final game and the other falters.

Genoa play away at Fiorentina, so Empoli would be keen to upset odds and get a win here to guarantee safety.

Bookmakers have priced Inter Milan up as extremely strong odds-on favourites to come out on top in this game while Empoli are priced up as if they need a miracle to happen in order to come out on top.

The only saving grace for Empoli is that Fiorentina are favourites to beat Genoa which would mean Empoli stay up however leaving their fate in the hands of Fiorentina is not something they want to do.

Goal markets point to a lively game as over 2.5 goals is currently trading odds-on while Mauro Icardi is clear favourite to score the opening goal of the game.

Other fixtures taking place this week in Serie A:

October 26, 2024
Bologna 16:00 AC Milan
November 23, 2024
Verona 15:00 Inter Milan
AC Milan 18:00 Juventus
Parma 20:45 Atalanta
November 24, 2024
Genoa 12:30 Cagliari
Como 15:00 Fiorentina
Torino 15:00 Monza
SSC Napoli 18:00 Roma
Lazio 20:45 Bologna
November 25, 2024
Empoli 18:30 Udinese
Venezia 20:45 Lecce
November 29, 2024
Cagliari 20:45 Verona
November 30, 2024
Como 15:00 Monza
AC Milan 18:00 Empoli
Bologna 20:45 Venezia
December 1, 2024
Udinese 12:30 Genoa
Parma 15:00 Lazio
Torino 15:00 SSC Napoli
Fiorentina 18:00 Inter Milan
Lecce 20:45 Juventus

Serie A Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 SSC Napoli 12 8 2 2 19 9 +10 26
2 Atalanta 12 8 1 3 31 15 +16 25
3 Fiorentina 12 7 4 1 25 10 +15 25
4 Inter Milan 12 7 4 1 26 14 +12 25
5 Lazio 12 8 1 3 25 14 +11 25
6 Juventus 12 6 6 0 21 7 +14 24
7 AC Milan 11 5 3 3 20 14 +6 18
8 Bologna 11 4 6 1 15 13 +2 18
9 Udinese 12 5 1 6 15 18 -3 16
10 Empoli 12 3 6 3 9 10 -1 15
11 Torino 12 4 2 6 15 18 -3 14
12 Roma 12 3 4 5 14 17 -3 13
13 Parma 12 2 6 4 16 18 -2 12
14 Verona 12 4 0 8 17 27 -10 12
15 Como 12 2 4 6 13 23 -10 10
16 Cagliari 12 2 4 6 12 22 -10 10
17 Genoa 12 2 4 6 9 22 -13 10
18 Lecce 12 2 3 7 5 21 -16 9
19 Monza 12 1 5 6 10 15 -5 8
20 Venezia 12 2 2 8 11 21 -10 8

Serie A Results

November 10, 2024
Inter Milan 1 - 1 SSC Napoli
Monza 0 - 1 Lazio
Roma 2 - 3 Bologna
Fiorentina 3 - 1 Verona
Atalanta 2 - 1 Udinese
November 9, 2024
Juventus 2 - 0 Torino
Cagliari 3 - 3 AC Milan
Venezia 1 - 2 Parma
November 8, 2024
Lecce 1 - 1 Empoli
November 7, 2024
Genoa 1 - 1 Como
November 4, 2024
Lazio 2 - 1 Cagliari
Empoli 1 - 0 Como
Parma 0 - 1 Genoa
November 3, 2024
Inter Milan 1 - 0 Venezia
Verona 3 - 2 Roma
Torino 0 - 1 Fiorentina
SSC Napoli 0 - 3 Atalanta
November 2, 2024
Monza 0 - 1 AC Milan
Udinese 0 - 2 Juventus
Bologna 1 - 0 Lecce

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