10 facts and figures from Roma v Empoli

1. Edin Dzeko has scored 23 league goals this season. He’s only done better once before in his career: back in 2008-09 when he hit 26 for Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga.

2. Sixteen of the Bosnian’s goals have come in home games: no player in the top-five leagues in Europe has performed better in front of his own crowd so far.

3. In all competitions, Dzeko is actually on 33 goals for the season: 18 with his right, 13 with his left and two headers.

4. Roma have found the net for 13 matches in a row in Serie A.

5. Across this spell of games, Luciano Spalletti’s players are averaging 2.3 goals per match.

6. The Giallorossi have won seven of their last eight Serie A fixtures, losing at home to Napoli the only exception.

7. Roma have totalled 43 efforts on goal in both matches this season against Empoli.

8. Mohamed Salah got his eighth assist of the season yesterday evening, trailing only Jose Callejon and Felipe Anderson in 2016-17 (both on nine).

9. Leandro Paredes played the most balls (89) and recovered possession most often (ten times) out of both teams in the contest.

10. Roma were better than Empoli in a range of statistics yesterday evening: possession (55.3% v 44.7%), shots on goal (20 v 12), interceptions (13 v 9), corners (14 v 4) and total number of passes (486 v 399).