Head-to-Head: Ascoli vs Empoli

Ascoli vs Empoli is a compact Serie B matchup in which Empoli’s broader edge has been challenged by Ascoli’s wins in 2020 and 2021. Ascoli won 1-0 on 13 July 2020 and 2-0 on 1 May 2021, with a 1-1 draw between them on 30 December 2020. Empoli’s earlier wins remain part of the picture, leaving future meetings to test whether Ascoli’s resistance can become control.

Past matches, Ascoli vs Empoli

1 May 2021 Regular Season - 35

Ascoli

2 - 0

Empoli

Stadio Cino e Lillo Del Duca
30 December 2020 Regular Season - 16

Empoli

1 - 1

Ascoli

Stadio Carlo Castellani
13 July 2020 Regular Season - 34

Ascoli

1 - 0

Empoli

Stadio Cino e Lillo Del Duca
7 December 2019 Regular Season - 15

Empoli

2 - 1

Ascoli

Stadio Carlo Castellani
10 February 2018 Regular Season - 25

Ascoli

1 - 2

Empoli

Match center

Ascoli

2 - 0

1 May 2021

Empoli

Starting eleven

Substitutes Ascoli

26
F
27
M
93
F
3
D
15
D
45
G
4
D
11
M
94
F
10
F
17
M
72
M

Empoli Substitutes

F
9
M
32
M
4
F
10
D
20
D
31
D
42
M
30
D
65
G
22
M
28
M
47

Match events

45'

90'

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⚽

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39'
⚽

F. Dionisi Normal Goal (Asst: F. Caligara)
45'

Szymon Żurkowski Yellow Card
56'

M. Olivieri Ryder Matos
56'

N. Haas F. Bandinelli
58'

Stefano Sabelli Yellow Card
60'
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R. Bajić Normal Goal (Asst: R. Pucino)
65'

G. Crociata S. Żurkowski
65'

S. Moreo A. La Mantia
73'

S. Bidaoui F. Dionisi
74'

M. Eramo F. Caligara
75'

Riccardo Brosco Yellow Card
77'

R. Fiamozzi S. Sabelli
79'

S. Simeri R. Bajić
79'

T. D'Orazio O. Kragl
83'

Tasos Avlonitis Yellow Card
88'

Marcel Büchel Yellow Card
88'

Stefano Moreo Yellow Card

Stats for this game

Matchup Ascoli VS Empoli

A lead that changed shape

Empoli supplied the clearest early direction, winning 3-0 in Empoli on 16 September 2017 and 2-1 at Ascoli on 10 February 2018. Those results show an advantage across both settings, but they do not explain every later meeting. The balance became more contested when Empoli won 2-1 at home on 7 December 2019, a scoreline that left Ascoli within reach rather than shut out.

Ascoli’s replies

Ascoli answered in the following encounters. They beat Empoli 1-0 at home on 13 July 2020, and the return in Empoli on 30 December 2020 finished 1-1. Ascoli then won 2-0 at home on 1 May 2021. The sequence gives Empoli the broader reference point while showing Ascoli capable of changing the outcome through tight margins and a clean home result. Venue has mattered in the examples, but it has not created a permanent rule.

A question of repeatability

Future meetings will test whether Ascoli can turn those responses into sustained control, or whether Empoli can reassert the advantage shown in the earlier scorelines. The interest lies in that tension between established edge and credible resistance.