From Flying Kiwis.
Standard recent areas here with Empoli losing and Liberato Cacace only playing off the bench. At least he did get on a little earlier this time, chucked out there on 66’ with the Azzurri down by a goal against Lazio. They got a header on target from one of his corner kicks... but then they conceded again right at the end to go down 2-0.
Standard recent areas here with Empoli losing and Liberato Cacace only playing off the bench. At least he did get on a little earlier this time, chucked out there on 66’ with the Azzurri down by a goal against Lazio. They got a header on target from one of his corner kicks... but then they conceded again right at the end to go down 2-0.
Worse still is that Udinese won 2-0 away to Lecce which means that Empoli have dropped into the relegation zone with two rounds remaining. They play Udinese next so they could immediately solve that conundrum... or they could further doom themselves. There are four teams within two points of them on the table so even a draw there might lift them up, but they host Roma in the final week so it’d be way more efficient if they could just win that game comfortably and then see some other fortunate results elsewhere. Sweaty times.
Doesn’t help that they keep picking Giuseppe Pezzella ahead of Cacace when they’ve secretly been a way more effective team with LC on the pitch...
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Cacace – 1822 mins | 17 starts | 1.03 Pts/Gm | -9 GD | -0.25 xG Diff/90
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Pezzella – 995 mins | 13 starts | 0.78 Pts/Gm | -13 GD | -1.16 xG Diff/90
Empoli have scored a mere three goals in the almost 1000 minutes that Pezzella has been out there for. Three (3) goals... as an entire team. That’d be bad for an individual forward let alone the whole lot of them. Can’t blame a left-back for all of that but they’ve scored 20 times in the 1822 minutes that Cacace’s played. Two games remain with which to save themselves. We’re in need-a-hero territory now.
Up Next: An absolutely enormous season-defining game between Udinese and Empoli at 1am on Monday (NZT)