Match summary
Empoli won 1-0 away at Napoli. It was goalless at half-time.
Patrick Cutrone put Empoli ahead with a header in the 70th minute.
Napoli can feel hard done by, creating 1.63 expected goals (xG) from 30 shots to Empoli's 0.64 from 12.
Napoli
vs
Empoli
12 December 2021 · Serie A · 2021/22 · Referee Livio Marinelli
Full time
0
–
1
Half-time: 0–0
- Patrick Cutrone 70’
Match stats
Napoli
Empoli
30
Shots
12
6
Shots on Target
5
10
Corners
3
0
Yellow Cards
1
0
Red Cards
0
1.62
xG
0.64
1.62
Non-penalty xG
0.64
14
Deep Completions
4
Key events
Napoli
Empoli
Kick-off
Half-time0-0
70’
Patrick Cutrone0-1 (Empoli)
Full-time0-1
Bookings
Card times are not on file for this game, so they are listed without a minute.
Empoli
- Szymon Zurkowski
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.
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Shot map
Every shot and where it was taken from.
Empoli attacking
Napoli attacking
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Player stats
| Player | Pos | Min | G | A | Sh | xG | xA | KP | Cards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| David Ospina | GK | 90 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | |||
| Giovanni Di Lorenzo | DEF | 90 | 1 | 0.03 | 0.11 | 1 | |||
| Juan Jesus | DEF | 90 | 1 | 0.12 | 0.10 | 1 | |||
| Amir Rrahmani | DEF | 90 | 2 | 0.16 | 0.00 | 0 | |||
| Mário Rui | DEF | 90 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.12 | 2 | |||
| Diego Demme | MID | 65 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 1 | |||
| Piotr Zielinski | MID | 21 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | |||
| Hirving Lozano | MID | 65 | 2 | 0.15 | 0.07 | 2 | |||
| Adam Ounas | MID | 90 | 5 | 0.20 | 0.41 | 7 | |||
| Eljif Elmas | MID | 89 | 3 | 0.09 | 0.04 | 1 | |||
| Dries Mertens | FWD | 65 | 3 | 0.20 | 0.03 | 1 | |||
| Lorenzo Insigne | Sub | 69 | 7 | 0.38 | 0.12 | 3 | |||
| Franck Zambo | Sub | 25 | 1 | 0.10 | 0.02 | 1 | |||
| Andrea Petagna | Sub | 25 | 2 | 0.13 | 0.00 | 0 | |||
| Matteo Politano | Sub | 25 | 3 | 0.06 | 0.12 | 1 | |||
| Kevin Malcuit | Sub | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 |
| Player | Pos | Min | G | A | Sh | xG | xA | KP | Cards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guglielmo Vicario | GK | 90 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | |||
| Petar Stojanovic | DEF | 90 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.35 | 3 | |||
| Ardian Ismajli | DEF | 90 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 1 | |||
| Sebastiano Luperto | DEF | 84 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | |||
| Fabiano Parisi | DEF | 90 | 1 | 0.06 | 0.00 | 0 | |||
| Szymon Zurkowski | MID | 81 | 1 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 1 | |||
| Leo Stulac | MID | 66 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | |||
| Liam Henderson | MID | 65 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.09 | 2 | |||
| Nedim Bajrami | MID | 66 | 3 | 0.10 | 0.08 | 2 | |||
| Andrea Pinamonti | FWD | 90 | 2 | 0.04 | 0.02 | 1 | |||
| Patrick Cutrone | FWD | 90 | 1 | 4 | 0.41 | 0.03 | 1 | ||
| Nicolas Haas | Sub | 25 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | |||
| Federico Di Francesco | Sub | 24 | 1 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0 | |||
| Samuele Ricci | Sub | 24 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | |||
| Filippo Bandinelli | Sub | 9 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | |||
| Mattia Viti | Sub | 6 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 |
Starters first, then substitutes. xA is expected assists.
Before kick-off
Napoli win
69%
Avg odds 1.40
Draw
19%
Avg odds 5.13
Empoli win
12%
Avg odds 7.63
Chances implied by the average closing odds, with the bookmaker margin removed.
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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.