At 1:00 a.m. Beijing time on February 27, the 27th round of the 2021-22 Serie A season will usher in a focus battle: Juventus, a traditional giant in Serie A, will face promoted Mannpoli away.
Speaking of Empoli, Juventus was certainly angry. In the second round of the opening round of the Serie A this season, as the biggest favorite to win the Serie A (at that time, it was hotter than the defending champion Inter Milan, who changed the coach and changed the general), but lost to Empoli 0:1 at home, since then the Serie A has lost 2 consecutive games, the first 4 rounds of 2 draws and 2 losses without 1 win, not only early to fight for the championship off the chain, and even approaching the relegation zone.
Is Empoli awesome? Non also! It was only at that time that Juve "tiger fell to Pingyang".
Open the club's honor book, only 3 Serie B champions will be available, and the number of times they will play serie A is countless. This season, empoli started serie A with a 3-1 home defeat to Lazio, who upset the powerful Juventus away in the second round.
Of course, Empoli was able to beat Juventus away from home, and there was also a big fluke component, when Juventus had just lost the top scorer C Ronaldo, and he was not very comfortable for a while. Empoli defeated Juventus and did not start a "dark horse" journey. At present, 31 points have accumulated 31 points in 26 games, 8 wins, 7 draws and 11 losses, and can only rank 12th in the Serie A table, but this is already a good result for a promotion team and a small club. 9 points above 18th in the relegation zone (1 round of the minor round), it can be said that there is basically no relegation pressure.
Empoli has not won 6 draws and 4 defeats in the last 10 matches in all competitions, and the recent record can be described as quite sluggish.
Juventus have been unbeaten in 5 wins and 5 draws in their last 10 matches in all competitions, and 2 draws in serie A in the last 2 rounds, and it is still a little early to say that the end of the season is stable in the top four (Champions League qualification).
In the current Serie A standings, AC Milan ranks first with 56 points from 26 games, Inter Milan ranks second with 54 points from 25 games, Napoli ranks third with 54 points from 26 games, Juventus ranks fourth with 47 points in 26 games, Ranked fifth with 44 points in 25 games, Juve atyanta only leads by 3 points in most rounds, and has 1 less goal difference, and the fourth position is not stable, and it should take advantage of the opponent's lack of strength to get enough points.
Empoli and Juventus have met in the last 10 times, Empoli is in the ascendant with 1 win, 1 draw and 8 losses, the only win is the 1:0 away win over Juventus in the second round of this season, and before that, Empoli had lost 8 consecutive games against Juventus in Serie A.
This time again, Juventus will definitely want revenge, of course, more importantly, to win the next game to ensure their fourth ranking, Juve have the desire to win, but also the strength to win.