Both Empoli and Venezia were promoted to the top flight at the end of the last season, and were expected to struggle. The latter did do as anticipated, and have been on a losing run so far. However, Empoli have gained an upper hand with some good performances against some of the best teams in the Serie A, and definitely are the favorites for this weekend.
Right away after their promotion, Empoli were given some tough teams to start their new league campaign. Not only did they manage to score in each one of these fixtures, but they also managed to defeat Juventus – and that too on the road.
Going on, the team were the champions of Serie B in 2020-21, and had scored the most number of goals of all the teams in the competition.



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恩波利和威尼斯在上个赛季末都升入了顶级联赛，人们都认为他们会很挣扎。后者确实像预期的那样做了，而且到目前为止一直在输。然而，恩波利在与意甲顶级球队的比赛中取得了一些出色的表现，这无疑是本周末最受欢迎的球队。
在晋级之后，恩波利被安排了几支劲旅开始他们的新赛季。他们不仅在每一场比赛中都取得了进球，而且还击败了尤文图斯——而且是在客场。
此外，这支球队曾在2020-21赛季的乙级联赛中夺冠，并在所有球队中取得了最多的进球。