Overview
Empoli's performance recently is relatively bad. In the last match, they lost to Juventus with a score of 1-4. This failure extended the triumph of coach Roberto D’Aversa in all arenas to 8 (lost 6, drew 2).
Before the 24th round, the Carlo Castellani team ranked 16th with only 1 point more than the relegation group.
Meanwhile, AC Milan has successfully defeated AS Roma 3-1 to go straight to the semi-finals of Coppa Italy. This is an essential victory to promote confidence in Rossoneri after an unusual series of achievements. Before an underestimated opponent is Empoli, the army of coach Sergio Conceicao has many opportunities to win all 3 points.
AC Milan currently owns quality public goods, leading with Christian Pulisic (12 goals), Reijnders (11 goals), Rafael Leao, Tammy Abraham (8 goals). Meanwhile, the player borrowed from Chelsea, Joao Felix, quickly asserted himself with a goal at the debut against Roma. Other rookies like Santiago Gimenez and Kyle Walker promise to help the San Siro team to have the second half of the successful season.
In terms of confrontation achievement, AC Milan completely outperformed Empoli. In the last 8 meetings, Rossoneri was unbeaten with 7 victories and 1 draw, and kept 4 matches clean. High likely, Conceicao's team will have an easy victory.
Human resource situation
Empoli has a long list of injuries with Ardian Ismajli, Ola Solbakken, Tyronne Ebuehi and Pietro Pellegri both sitting outside, while Youssef Maleh is suspended. However, German Pezzella has returned after the suspension and ready to play.
On the other side of the battle line, rookie Santiago Gimenez had to sit outside because of injury and will be absent in this match. Kyle Walker is also expected to kick, while Joao Felix may have to play from the bench.
Expected squad:
Empoli: Vazquez, Goglichidze, Pezzella, Mariancci, De Sciglio, Henderson, Zurkowski, Cacace, Gyasi, Esposito, Colombo.
AC Milan: Maignan, Hernandez, Pavlovic, Tomori, Walker, Fofana, Musah, Reijnders, Leao, Pulisic, Abraham.
Predicting ratio: Empoli 0-2 AC Milan
The match between Empoli and AC Milan took place at 0:00 am 9.2 (Vietnam time).
