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Genoa vs Empoli Preview: Team News & Prediction

by Alex Lawes · February 27 2025, 12:07
Genoa vs Empoli Preview: Team News & Prediction
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Patrick Vieira’s Genoa have been difficult to play and score against since his appointment as they now take on an Empoli side that have completely collapsed after a bright start.

Kick-off date/time: Sunday 2nd March, 2025: UK – 2:00pm / US ET – 9:00am / US PT – 6:00am

How to watch on TV: UK – Not televised / US – Select matches will be televised on CBS Sports so it is worth checking their schedule

How to watch online: UK – OneFootball / US – Paramount+

Genoa Team News: Several unavailable

Despite goal scoring issues, not aided by the continued injury absence of Vitinha, Mario Balotelli is not someone available for selection for non-footballing reasons. Midfield duo Milan Badelj and Morten Thorsby are also both sidelined.

Predicted XI (4-2-3-1): Leali; Sabelli, Bani, Johan Vasquez, Caricol; Masini, Frendrup; Zanoli, Miretti, Ekhator; Pinamonti

Unavailable: Badelj (Injured), Thorsby (Injured), Vitinha (Injured), Balotelli (Out of favour)

Questionable: 

Empoli Team News: A few issues

Empoli have a few injury doubts for this weekend such as long-term absentee Tyronne Ebuehi as well as Szymon Zurkowski and former Chelsea midfielder Tino Anjorin. They have a few confirmed absentees including striker Pietro Pellegri.

Predicted XI (3-1-4-2): Silvestri; Goglichidze, De Sciglio, Cacace; Grassi; Gyasi, Henderson, Maleh, Pezzella; Kouame, Esposito

Unavailable: Sazonov (Injured), Haas (Injured), Pellegri (Injured)

Questionable: Ismajli (Injured), Ebuehi (Injured), Viti (Injured), Fazzini (Injured), Zurkowski (Injured), Anjorin (Injured), Solbakken (Injured)

Genoa vs Empoli Prediction

Patrick Vieira, known for trying to play an attractive and attacking style of football, has massively improved Genoa, helping them to climb into the middle-of-the-table, by making them extremely solid and improving their defensive performances. They were beaten 1-0 by Internazionale at San Siro last weekend. They face an Empoli side that have collapsed into the bottom three and the relegation places in Serie A after a horrible few months but the Florence-based club did pull off a major upset in midweek, defeating Juventus via a penalty shootout in the quarter-finals of the Coppa Italia in Turin. Despite that shock win, a low-scoring Genoa win would still appear the likeliest outcome for this one.

Genoa vs Empoli Tip: Genoa to win & under 3.5 goals

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