Sassuolo has been improving on a weekly basis since October and is deservedly moving up the rankings in Serie A.

Their most recent win over collapsing Juventus (1-2 on the road) is one of the defining moments for their new manager Dionisi, a showcase example of how well he is doing things with the squad at hand. Sassuolo had a slow start to the campaign and their current position (just 10th in the table) is an echo of the issues they experienced in opening rounds of September. Now with Euro’20 champion Berardi back to full fitness and loaned striker Scamacca finally starting to live up to the hype and expectations around his figure (he had impressed a lot a few years ago with the Italian U21 side) - Sassuolo feels hard to stop for any opponent, let alone Empoli.

Visitors have one of the weakest backlines in the competition both in terms of organisation and overall quality level. They've done well to compensate for it via good offensive contribution from the likes of Cutrone, Bajrami and Pinamonti, however, this is not the way forward in the long-term perspective. Games are won by attack, but titles are won by defense as they say in football. With Empoli you get a sense they’re bound to move closer to the relegation zone in no-time.

Short Empoli squad is given more problems with the suspension of centre-mid Ricci, central defender and captain Romagnoli has been out injured since mid-October. This will be the team's 3rd game without their skipper.

I find the given odds really appealing and expect Sassuolo to get a confident win today.

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萨索洛自10月以来每周都在进步，在意甲联赛中排名上升是理所当然的。

他们最近战胜了正在崩溃的尤文图斯(客场1-2)，这对他们的新教练迪奥尼西来说是一个决定性的时刻，这是一个展示他如何处理手头的球队的例子。萨索洛开局缓慢，目前的排名(仅排在第十位)与他们在9月首轮比赛中遭遇的问题相呼应。现在欧元的20个冠军贝拉尔迪的乳白色回完整的健身和租借前锋Scamacca终于开始履行宣传和期望在他图(他的印象很多几年前与意大利U21端)——Sassuolo感觉很难停止对任何对手,更不用说恩波利。

客队在组织和整体素质方面都是比赛中最弱的后防线之一。他们通过卡托尼、巴杰拉米和皮纳蒙蒂等人的进攻贡献做出了很好的弥补，然而，从长远来看，这并不是前进的方向。比赛靠进攻取胜，但正如足球中所说的那样，冠军是靠防守赢得的。对于恩波利，你可以感觉到他们一定会在短时间内接近降级区。

由于中后卫里奇的停赛，恩波利的阵容变得更加紧张，而队长和中后卫罗马诺利从十月中旬就因伤缺阵。这将是球队第三场没有队长的比赛。

我发现给定的指数真的很吸引人，希望萨索洛今天能自信取胜。