CORNERFLICK
Possession
33%67%
What happened
Written from the recorded events — no interpretation added
Empoli beat Cremonese 1-0 in the Serie B.
S. Shpendi 21' scored for Empoli.
Empoli had 33% of the ball to Cremonese's 67%; the sides had 9 and 8 shots (5 and 2 on target).
There was one sending-off: J. Ceesay 59'.
Key stats
Shots
98
xG
0.960.31
Shots on Target
52
Corners
12
Pass Accuracy
82%91%
Match timeline
- 90+4’Yellow cardB. Popov
- 85’Yellow cardF. Bonazzoli
- 82’SubstitutionS. Luperto · On: Y. Rocchetti
- 77’SubstitutionG. Yepes · On: L. Deli
- 77’SubstitutionE. Biondini · On: L. Belardinelli
- 77’SubstitutionE. Saporiti · On: S. Romagnoli
- 65’SubstitutionM. De Luca · On: M. Nasti
- 65’SubstitutionS. Elia · On: T. Berti
- 63’SubstitutionS. Shpendi · On: K. Zedadka
Team stats comparison
EmpoliCremonese
- 33Possession67
- 9Shots8
- 5Shots on Target2
- 0.96xG0.31
- 1Corners2
- 2Offsides0
- 2Saves4
- 209Passes430
- 82Pass Accuracy91
- 11Fouls6
- 0Yellow Cards2
- 1Red Cards0
Match info
- Competition
- Serie B
- Referee
- Paride Tremolada, Italy
- Empoli coach
- Guido Pagliuca
- Cremonese coach
- Marco Giampaolo
Match record
- Competition
- Serie B
- Kick-off
- Match ID
cornerflick:match:empoli-vs-cremonese-serie-b-2026-08-22
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Lineups
Confirmed selections
Empoli3-4-2-1
Starting XI
- 12Jacopo SeghettiGK
- 8Luca MagninoDF
- 25Marco CurtoDF
- 33Cristian CauzDF
- 35Matteo EganMF
- 39Edoardo BiondiniMF
- 21Gerard YepesMF
- 15Joseph CeesayMF
- 10Edoardo SaporitiFW
- 20Filippo DistefanoFW
- 11Stiven ShpendiFW
Bench
- 22Federico Brancolini
- 1Samuele Perisan
- 29Lorenzo Tosto
- 31Samsondeen Babalola
- 6Simone Romagnoli
- 28Gabriele Indragoli
- 38Mattia Huqi
- 44Lapo Deli
- 98Karim Zedadka
- 57Luca Belardinelli
- 77Bogdan Popov
- 9Flavio Bianchi
Coach · Guido Pagliuca
- Empoli
- Cremonese
Cremonese4-2-3-1
Starting XI
- 1Andrea FulignatiGK
- 38Alessandro VogliaccoDF
- 15Matteo BianchettiDF
- 5Sebastiano LupertoDF
- 3Giuseppe PezzellaDF
- 16Fabio GerliMF
- 8Simone Lottici TessadriMF
- 18Michele CollocoloMF
- 90Federico BonazzoliMF
- 27Jari VandeputteMF
- 9Manuel De LucaFW
Bench
- 22Federico Agazzi
- 12Marco Festa
- 13Fellipe Jack
- 21Yuri Rocchetti
- 23Francesco Folino
- 71Salvatore Elia
- 14Tommaso Berti
- 25Dachi Lordkipanidze
- 19Marco Nasti
Coach · Marco Giampaolo
Serie B table
Full timeline
15 events
- 16’Yellow cardJ. Vandeputte
- 19’SubstitutionM. Collocolo · On: S. Elia
- 21’S. ShpendiEmpoli · assist C. Cauz1–0
- 45+2’Yellow cardM. Bianchetti
- 57’SubstitutionF. Di Stefano · On: B. Popov
- 59’Red cardJ. Ceesay
- 63’SubstitutionS. Shpendi · On: K. Zedadka
- 65’SubstitutionM. De Luca · On: M. Nasti
- 65’SubstitutionS. Elia · On: T. Berti
- 77’SubstitutionG. Yepes · On: L. Deli
- 77’SubstitutionE. Biondini · On: L. Belardinelli
- 77’SubstitutionE. Saporiti · On: S. Romagnoli
- 82’SubstitutionS. Luperto · On: Y. Rocchetti
- 85’Yellow cardF. Bonazzoli
- 90+4’Yellow cardB. Popov
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