Empoli vs Napoli

24 April 2022 · Serie A · 2021/22 · Referee Livio Marinelli

Full time 3 – 2

Half-time: 0–1

Liam Henderson 80’
Andrea Pinamonti 83’, 87’

Dries Mertens 44’
Lorenzo Insigne 53’

Match summary

Empoli came back from 2 goals down to win 3-2 at home to Napoli, with a late winner. Napoli led 1-0 at half-time.

In the first half, Dries Mertens put Napoli ahead in the 44th minute, set up by Hirving Lozano. In the second half, Lorenzo Insigne made it 0-2 in the 53rd minute, set up by Franck Zambo, Liam Henderson pulled one back to make it 1-2 in the 80th minute, Andrea Pinamonti equalised in the 83rd minute, and Pinamonti won it in the 87th minute, set up by Nedim Bajrami.

The chances backed that up: Empoli created 1.80 expected goals (xG) from 17 shots to Napoli's 1.31 from 16.

Match stats

17 Shots 16

7 Shots on Target 2

10 Corners 7

4 Yellow Cards 1

0 Red Cards 0

1.80 xG 1.31

1.80 Non-penalty xG 1.31

8 Deep Completions 12

Key events

Empoli Napoli

Kick-off

44’

Dries Mertens
Assist: Hirving Lozano

0-1

Half-time0-1

53’

Lorenzo Insigne
Assist: Franck Zambo

0-2

Liam Henderson1-2

80’

Andrea Pinamonti2-2

83’

Andrea Pinamonti
Assist: Nedim Bajrami3-2

87’

Full-time3-2

Bookings

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

Empoli

Petar Stojanovic
Mattia Viti
Filippo Bandinelli
Andrea Pinamonti

Napoli

Alessandro Zanoli

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 1.80 xGNapoli 1.31 xG Goal

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Shot map

Every shot and where it was taken from.

Napoli 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
Guglielmo Vicario	GK	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Petar Stojanovic	DEF	90			1	0.07	0.11	2
Mattia Viti	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Sebastiano Luperto	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.04	1
Fabiano Parisi	DEF	62			0	0.00	0.00	0
Szymon Zurkowski	MID	90			2	0.05	0.00	0
Kristjan Asllani	MID	71			1	0.05	0.50	1
Filippo Bandinelli	MID	62			2	0.06	0.03	2
Valerio Verre	MID	67			3	0.12	0.05	1
Andrea Pinamonti	FWD	90	2		4	1.17	0.14	3
Patrick Cutrone	FWD	67			1	0.06	0.11	2
Liberato Cacace	Sub	28			0	0.00	0.02	1
Liam Henderson	Sub	28	1		1	0.11	0.00	0
Federico Di Francesco	Sub	23			0	0.00	0.00	0
Nedim Bajrami	Sub	23		1	2	0.11	0.11	1
Leo Stulac	Sub	19			0	0.00	0.00	0

Player	Pos	Min	G	A	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Alex Meret	GK	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Alessandro Zanoli	DEF	47			0	0.00	0.00	0
Juan Jesus	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Amir Rrahmani	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Mário Rui	DEF	90			1	0.03	0.00	0
Franck Zambo	MID	90		1	1	0.04	0.39	2
Fabián	MID	90			2	0.10	0.03	1
Hirving Lozano	MID	69		1	1	0.08	0.35	5
Dries Mertens	MID	78	1		1	0.08	0.38	5
Lorenzo Insigne	MID	86	1		4	0.50	0.14	2
Victor Osimhen	FWD	90			6	0.48	0.00	0
Kevin Malcuit	Sub	43			0	0.00	0.00	0
Piotr Zielinski	Sub	21			0	0.00	0.03	1
Matteo Politano	Sub	12			0	0.00	0.00	0
Adam Ounas	Sub	4			0	0.00	0.00	0

Starters first, then substitutes. xA is expected assists.

Before kick-off

Empoli win 20% Avg odds 4.77

Draw 23% Avg odds 4.23

Napoli win 57% Avg odds 1.67

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

Form going into the game

Empoli L D L D L

Napoli W W W L D

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Previous and next meeting

Previous meeting: Napoli 0-1 Empoli, 12 Dec 21 Next meeting: Napoli 2-0 Empoli, 08 Nov 22 All Empoli vs Napoli 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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