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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:

March 17, 2024
Atalanta 19:00 Fiorentina
April 28, 2024
Inter Milan 11:30 Torino
Bologna 14:00 Udinese
Atalanta 17:00 Empoli
SSC Napoli 17:00 Roma
Fiorentina 19:45 Sassuolo
April 29, 2024
Genoa 19:45 Cagliari
May 3, 2024
Torino 19:45 Bologna
May 4, 2024
Monza 17:00 Lazio
Sassuolo 19:45 Inter Milan
May 5, 2024
Cagliari 11:30 Lecce
Verona 14:00 Fiorentina
Empoli 14:00 Frosinone
AC Milan 17:00 Genoa
Roma 19:45 Juventus
May 6, 2024
Salernitana 17:00 Atalanta
Udinese 19:45 SSC Napoli

Serie A Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Inter Milan 33 27 5 1 79 18 +61 86
2 AC Milan 34 21 7 6 64 39 +25 70
3 Juventus 34 18 11 5 47 26 +21 65
4 Bologna 33 17 11 5 48 26 +22 62
5 Roma 33 17 7 9 59 39 +20 58
6 Lazio 34 17 4 13 43 35 +8 55
7 Atalanta 32 16 6 10 59 37 +22 54
8 SSC Napoli 33 13 10 10 50 41 +9 49
9 Fiorentina 32 13 8 11 45 36 +9 47
10 Torino 33 11 13 9 31 29 +2 46
11 Monza 34 11 11 12 36 44 -8 44
12 Genoa 33 9 12 12 35 40 -5 39
13 Lecce 34 8 12 14 31 49 -18 36
14 Cagliari 33 7 11 15 36 56 -20 32
15 Empoli 33 8 7 18 26 48 -22 31
16 Frosinone 34 7 10 17 43 63 -20 31
17 Verona 34 7 10 17 31 45 -14 31
18 Udinese 33 4 16 13 31 50 -19 28
19 Sassuolo 33 6 8 19 39 65 -26 26
20 Salernitana 34 2 9 23 26 73 -47 15

Serie A Results

April 27, 2024
Lazio 1 - 0 Verona
Juventus 0 - 0 AC Milan
Lecce 1 - 1 Monza
April 26, 2024
Frosinone 3 - 0 Salernitana
April 25, 2024
Udinese 1 - 2 Roma
April 22, 2024
AC Milan 1 - 2 Inter Milan
Roma 1 - 3 Bologna
April 21, 2024
Monza 1 - 2 Atalanta
Salernitana 0 - 2 Fiorentina
Torino 0 - 0 Frosinone
Sassuolo 0 - 3 Lecce
April 20, 2024
Verona 1 - 0 Udinese
Empoli 1 - 0 SSC Napoli
April 19, 2024
Cagliari 2 - 2 Juventus
Genoa 0 - 1 Lazio
April 15, 2024
Atalanta 2 - 2 Verona
Fiorentina 1 - 1 Genoa
April 14, 2024
Inter Milan 2 - 2 Cagliari
Sassuolo 3 - 3 AC Milan
SSC Napoli 2 - 2 Frosinone

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