Empoli vs Juventus Preview, Motta’s Hope Extends Bianconeri’s Dominance Over Tuscan Club

Jakarta, Todaysgist.com – Coach Thiago Motta is ambitious to extend Juventus’ dominance over Empoli in the continuation of the Italian Serie A League at the Castellani Stadium. Saturday (14/9/2024) night.

Motta is looking to pick up three points to extend his winning streak over Empoli to four. In the last five games between the two teams, Juventus have won three, drawn once and lost once against Empoli.

Despite playing as a guest at the Tuscan club, the desire to win the match is quite big considering Juventus’ record during Motta’s time in charge.

Juventus have been brilliant, scoring six goals without reply which has made them perched at the top of the early standings of the Italian League. Juventus have also not conceded a single goal and are trying to keep a clean sheet in four games in Serie A for the fifth time in the club’s history.

In the Italian League standings, Juventus is perched in second place with 7 points. The same as the temporary leader Inter Milan, and in second and third place, Torino and Udinese.

Juventus has the best shot conversion rate in the Italian top flight at 21%. In addition, Juventus’ pass success rate is the highest at 90%.

Seeing this, it is natural that Motta is so confident when visiting the Castellani Stadium this Saturday night.

Meanwhile, the hosts have arguably improved rapidly at the start of the 2024-2025 season. However, Empoli have a poor home record when hosting Juventus.

A total of five matches against Juventus, three of which were played at home. In those three matches, Empoli only won once with a striking score of 4-1 on May 23, 2023. The rest, the home team lost to Juventus. Precisely on February 27, 2022 lost 2-3 and on September 4, 2023 lost 0-2.

One thing that is certainly an important asset is that the team handled by coach Roberto D’Aversa is still undefeated to this day. Empoli surprisingly won over AS Roma 2-1 and drew with Monza and Bologna.

Juventus are almost certain to field Khephren Thuram and Timothy Weah. Both have recovered from injuries in time, while Nico Gonzalez is not certain to feature.

Thiago Motta is likely to field Teun Koopmeiners. The Dutchman has finally joined Juventus after a difficult transfer process.

New signing Sergio Conceicao is out with a muscle problem. Motta is expected to field several youngsters from the Juventus academy, such as Nicolo Savona and Samuel Mbangula. In Juventus’ front line, Dusan Vlahovic’s position is still unchangeable.

Empoli coach Roberto D’Aversa is still serving a touchline ban. The Tuscan club will rely on Ghanaian winger Emmanuel Gyasi.

Empoli will also be without Samuele Perisan, Szymon Zurkowski and Tyronne Ebuehi through injury, but Giuseppe Pezzella and Jacopo Fazzini have been declared fit.

New arrival Mattia De Sciglio is likely to make his debut against his former club.

Here are the predicted line-ups for both teams.

Empoli:
Vasquez, De Sciglio, Ismajli, Viti, Gyasi, Henderson, Grassi, Pezzella, Solbakken, Esposito, Colombo

Juventus:
Di Gregorio, Savona, Gatti, Bremer, Cabal, Locatelli, Fagioli Cambiaso, Koopmeiners, Yildiz, Vlahovic