Empoli vs Lecce

11 January 2025 · Serie A · 2024/25 · Referee Daniele Chiffi

Full time 1 – 3

Half-time: 0–2

Liberato Cacace 47’

Tete Morente 6’
Nikola Krstovic 11’, 90+1’

Match summary

Lecce took a 3-1 win at Empoli. Lecce led 2-0 at half-time.

In the first half, Tete Morente put Lecce ahead in the 6th minute, set up by Santiago Pierotti and Nikola Krstovic made it 0-2 in the 11th minute, set up by Tete Morente. In the second half, Liberato Cacace pulled one back to make it 1-2 with a header in the 47th minute, set up by Emmanuel Gyasi and Krstovic made it 1-3 in stoppage time, set up by Patrick Dorgu.

Empoli can feel hard done by, creating 2.32 expected goals (xG) from 15 shots to Lecce's 1.58 from 14.

Match stats

15 Shots 14

5 Shots on Target 6

9 Corners 2

0 Yellow Cards 3

0 Red Cards 0

2.32 xG 1.58

2.32 Non-penalty xG 1.58

5 Deep Completions 7

Key events

Empoli Lecce

Kick-off

6’

Tete Morente
Assist: Santiago Pierotti

0-1

11’

Nikola Krstovic
Assist: Tete Morente

0-2

Half-time0-2

Liberato Cacace
Assist: Emmanuel Gyasi1-2

47’

90+1’

Nikola Krstovic
Assist: Patrick Dorgu

1-3

Full-time1-3

Bookings

Card times are not on file for this game, so they are listed without a minute.

Lecce

Balthazar Pierret
Nikola Krstovic
Tete Morente

How the chances added up

Running total of expected goals (xG) for each side through the match. xG rates each chance by how often similar shots are scored. A goal is marked where it was scored.

Empoli 2.32 xGLecce 1.58 xG Goal

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Shot map

Every shot and where it was taken from.

Lecce attacking Empoli attacking

Size shows xG Goal On target Off target or blocked

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Player stats

Player	Pos	Min	G	A	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Jacopo Seghetti	GK	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Saba Goglichidze	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Mattia Viti	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Ardian Ismajli	DEF	20			0	0.00	0.00	0
Emmanuel Gyasi	MID	90		1	0	0.00	0.91	1
Giuseppe Pezzella	MID	83			0	0.00	0.48	1
Alberto Grassi	MID	83			1	0.34	0.00	0
Youssef Maleh	MID	78			0	0.00	0.04	1
Sebastiano Esposito	MID	90			3	0.14	0.52	3
Liberato Cacace	MID	90	1		3	1.48	0.10	2
Lorenzo Colombo	FWD	90			5	0.26	0.03	1
Mattia De Sciglio	Sub	70			1	0.04	0.00	0
Jacopo Fazzini	Sub	12			1	0.03	0.00	0
Junior Sambia	Sub	7			1	0.03	0.03	1
Liam Henderson	Sub	7			0	0.00	0.00	0

Player	Pos	Min	G	A	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Wladimiro Falcone	GK	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Frederic Guilbert	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.11	1
Gaby Jean	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Federico Baschirotto	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Patrick Dorgu	DEF	90		1	1	0.11	0.30	5
Lassana Coulibaly	MID	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Balthazar Pierret	MID	85			0	0.00	0.00	0
Thórir Helgason	MID	55			1	0.27	0.11	1
Santiago Pierotti	FWD	71		1	1	0.06	0.28	1
Nikola Krstovic	FWD	90	2		8	0.80	0.27	1
Tete Morente	FWD	85	1	1	3	0.35	0.17	2
Mohamed Kaba	Sub	35			0	0.00	0.00	0
Kevin Bonifazi	Sub	19			0	0.00	0.00	0
Jesper Karlsson	Sub	5			0	0.00	0.00	0
Ylber Ramadani	Sub	5			0	0.00	0.00	0

Starters first, then substitutes. xA is expected assists.

Before kick-off

Empoli win 46% Avg odds 2.05

Draw 31% Avg odds 3.11

Lecce win 23% Avg odds 4.20

Chances implied by the average closing odds, with the bookmaker margin removed.

Form going into the game

Empoli W L L L D

Lecce L W L L D

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Previous and next meeting

Previous meeting: Lecce 1-1 Empoli, 08 Nov 24 All Empoli vs Lecce meetings

Shots, expected goals and player data from Understat. Results and odds from football-data.co.uk. Referee data before 2025/26 from the Transfermarkt datasets project.

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