Serie A · ITA · Round 17

Empoli
2 - 4 Full time
Sampdoria

Stadio Carlo Castellani

Lineups

Empoli3-5-2
IP1Provedel
FV5Veseli
MS26Silvestre
JR32↓72'Rasmussen
GD2Di Lorenzo
HT8Traorè
IB10Bennacer
AA18↓84'Acquah
MP23âš½Pasqual
AL20La Gumina
FC11âš½Caputo
EA1Audero
JS7Sala
LT26Tonelli
JA3Andersen
NM29Murru
DP10Praet
AE6Ekdal
KL16↓86'Linetty
GR11⚽↓65'Ramirez
FQ27âš½Quagliarella
GD92↓85'Defrel
Sampdoria4-3-1-2

Empoli substitutes

6 Miha Zajc 5.8 ↑72'
48 Salih Ucan ↑84'
9 Alejandro Rodriguez
99 Andrea Fulignati
22 Domenico Maietta
27 Joel Untersee
28 Leonardo Capezzi
7 Levan Mchedlidze
13 Luca Antonelli
4 Matteo Brighi
21 Pietro Terracciano
66 Samuel Mraz

Coach: Giuseppe Iachini

Sampdoria substitutes

5 Riccardo Saponara 6.8 ↑65'
17 Gianluca Caprari ⚽×2↑85'
14 Jakub Jankto ↑86'
25 Alex Ferrari
99 Dawid Kownacki
95 Gabriele Rolando
22 Junior Tavares
18 Maxime Leverbe
15 Omar Colley
33 Rafael
4 Ronaldo Vieira
72 Vid Belec

Coach: Marco Giampaolo

Match events

11'Manuel Pasqual (penalty) 1 - 0âš½
18'Joachim Andersen
33'Afriyie Acquah
34'Francesco Caputo
41'Gaston Ramirez assist: Gregoire Defrel 1 - 1âš½
Second half
65'↑ Riccardo Saponara ↓ Gaston Ramirez⇄
69'Fabio Quagliarella assist: Nicola Murru 1 - 2âš½
71'Fabio Quagliarella
72'↑ Miha Zajc ↓ Jacob Rasmussen⇄
76'Francesco Caputo assist: Hamed Traorè 2 - 2⚽
82'Albin Ekdal
84'↑ Salih Ucan ↓ Afriyie Acquah⇄
85'↑ Gianluca Caprari ↓ Gregoire Defrel⇄
85'Antonino La Gumina
86'↑ Jakub Jankto ↓ Karol Linetty⇄
87'Gianluca Caprari assist: Riccardo Saponara 2 - 3âš½
88'Gianluca Caprari
90+1'Gianluca Caprari assist: Nicola Murru 2 - 4âš½

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Match details

CompetitionSerie A
Kick-off (UTC)Saturday, 22 December 2018, 14:00 UTC — shown in your local time at the top of this page
StatusFinished

Line-ups, match events and the head-to-head record for this fixture are shown on this page where the data feed publishes them.

Head to head

4Empoli wins5Draws6Sampdoria wins

15 past meetings on record. Biggest Empoli win: Sampdoria 2–0 Empoli (2022). Biggest Sampdoria win: Empoli 0–3 Sampdoria (2021).

15 May 2023Sampdoria 1 - 1 EmpoliSerie A
16 Jan 2023Empoli 1 - 0 SampdoriaSerie A
19 Feb 2022Sampdoria 2 - 0 EmpoliSerie A
19 Sep 2021Empoli 0 - 3 SampdoriaSerie A
12 May 2019Sampdoria 1 - 2 EmpoliSerie A
15 Jan 2017Sampdoria 0 - 0 EmpoliSerie A
21 Aug 2016Empoli 0 - 1 SampdoriaSerie A
12 Mar 2016Empoli 1 - 1 SampdoriaSerie A
29 Oct 2015Sampdoria 1 - 1 EmpoliSerie A
24 May 2015Empoli 1 - 1 SampdoriaSerie A
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11 Jan 2015Sampdoria 1 - 0 EmpoliSerie A
6 Mar 2012Sampdoria 1 - 0 EmpoliSerie B
12 Sep 2011Empoli 1 - 3 SampdoriaSerie B
20 Aug 2011Empoli 2 - 1 SampdoriaCoppa Italia
12 Sep 1999Empoli 1 - 0 SampdoriaSerie B