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Empoli vs Carrarese brings together a limited Serie B history with no settled hierarchy. A 2-2 draw, a three-goal Carrarese win and a narrow Empoli success away from home give the pairing sharply different scorelines. The balance remains open because each club has found a distinct way to take control. Future meetings should clarify whether one of those approaches can become repeatable or whether variation will remain the defining feature.
Match center
Starting eleven
Substitutes Carrarese
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21F
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23M
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70F
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32F
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12G
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8M
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5D
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28M
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66M
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30G
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20D
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7M
Empoli Substitutes
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M
57
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M
23
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D
36
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D
40
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M
5
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M
44
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F
20
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D
28
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G
1
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F
77
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D
6
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M
98
Match events
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45'Filippo Di Stefano Joseph Ceesay
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51'Luca Magnino Yellow Card
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60'Jacopo Martini Luka Topalovic
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61'Bogdan Popov Steven Shpendi
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61'Filippo Bandinelli edoardo biondini
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71'Niccolò Belloni Gabriele parlanti
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71'Mattia Finotto Moustapha Cisse
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72'Matthias Braunöder Nicolas Schiavi
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74'⚽Bogdan Popov Normal Goal (Asst: Luca Magnino)
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78'Karim Zedadka matteo egan
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78'Nicolo Cudrig Fabio Andrea
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82'Duccio Degli Innocenti Edoardo Saporiti
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87'Filippo Di Stefano Yellow Card
Stats for this game
Matchup Empoli VS Carrarese
Results refuse a fixed order
The available evidence offers sharply different results rather than a stable order. Empoli and Carrarese drew 2-2 on 28 September 2025, giving both attacks a route into the game. Carrarese then produced the widest margin, winning 3-0 at home on 23 January 2026. Empoli answered at the same ground on 5 September 2026, taking a 1-0 victory and preventing the earlier result from becoming a dependable venue pattern.
A balance still open to change
Those split outcomes leave neither club with a persuasive claim to control this matchup. More importantly, the evidence varies in shape: a shared four-goal game, a decisive home success and a narrow away win. That makes efficiency and response more useful themes than any assumed hierarchy. The enduring question is whether one side can reproduce its best result when the setting changes, or whether the pairing will continue to resist a single script. Further meetings can deepen the picture, but the existing scores already make caution more accurate than declaring a favourite.