Match Centre: Empoli vs Catanzaro
Player of the match Davide Buglio 7.4
GolVolt rating 2.5GolVolt rating
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The match in 30 seconds
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16 → 13
Empoli climb 3 places in the table. Catanzaro: 8 → 10.
Key stats
Why this rating
Four pillars, each measured against the same league over the last 12 months.
Few chances.
- Dramaweight 50% Red card at 44′.Some excitement, but no big twists. Drama: 5.1 out of 10
- Heroesweight 20% Shpendi scored the winner.Nobody stood out. Heroes: 0.9 out of 10
- Stakesweight 15% Not much was at stake yet. Stakes: 3.2 out of 10
- Quality of playweight 15% Few chances. Quality of play: 0.3 out of 10
Match ECG
A spike = a twist. The shading = how open the result still was.
GolVolt rating 2.5more watchable than 25% of Serie B matches
The GolVolt rating comes from four pillars — drama, heroes, stakes and quality of play — measured against this league's matches of the last 12 months (model nap-v2).
Similar matches
A similar story: twists, the finish, chances. Same league, last 12 months.
How the match went
1 goal9 cards1 VAR
Counts cover only events captured in the retained timeline.
Timeline
- 10' SubstitutionBettella for Cassandro
- 27' Nosa Edward Obaretinyellow card
- 31' Bogdan Popovyellow card
- 44' Bogdan Popovsecond yellow, sent off
- Half-time · 0:0
- 46' SubstitutionLovato for Obaretin
- 55' Davide Bettellayellow card
- 57' Penalty awarded
- 59' Goal: Stiven Shpendipenalty1:0
- 60' 2 substitutionsNuamah for Di ChiaraPandolfi for Pontisso
- 66' Nicolò Brighentiyellow card
- 66' Mirko Pigliacelliyellow card
- 70' Gerard Yepesyellow card
- 71' 2 substitutionsIlie for SaporitiPellegri for Shpendi
- 72' Andrea Fulignatiyellow card
- 77' 2 substitutionsAlesi for BrighentiLiberali for Buglio
- 86' 2 substitutionsCarboni for EliaHaas for Innocenti
- 90' Gabriele Alesiyellow card
- Full-time · 1:0
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Lineups and ratings
The highlighted rating is the player of the match.
Starting XIs · provider ratings
Empoli
Catanzaro
Goalkeepers
Defenders
Midfielders
Forwards
Came on
Bench
Empoli
- 1 Samuele Perisan GK —
- 12 Manuel Gasparini GK —
- 15 Joseph Ceesay DEF —
- 20 Matteo Lovato DEF on
- 28 Gabriele Indragoli DEF —
- 79 Franco Carboni DEF on
- 10 Rareș Ilie MID on
- 32 Nicolas Haas MID on
- 9 Pietro Pellegri ATT on
- 19 Marco Nasti ATT —
- 90 Ismaël Konaté ATT —
- 99 Flavio Bianchi ATT —
Catanzaro
- 1 Christian Marietta GK —
- 5 Ervin Bashi DEF —
- 18 Davide Bettella DEF on
- 10 Jacopo Petriccione MID —
- 28 Rémi Oudin MID —
- 7 Luca Pandolfi ATT on
- 8 Filippo Pittarello ATT —
- 14 Mattia Liberali ATT on
- 19 Patrick Nuamah ATT on
- 30 Gabriele Alesi ATT on
- 45 Nicolò Buso ATT —
- 77 Marco D'Alessandro ATT —
Match sheet
- Stadium
- Stadio Carlo Castellani, Empoli
Player ratings
Ratings from the data provider, scale 1–10.
- Player of the match · Catanzaro Davide Buglio
- 2. place · Empoli Duccio Degli Innocenti
- 3. place · Empoli Gabriele Guarino
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