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Sampdoria

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Sampdoria will be hoping to return to winning ways here after a 3-2 Serie B losing effort in their last game against Salernitana.

In that game, Sampdoria had 41% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 4 on target. For Sampdoria, the scorers were Gennaro Tutino (4') and Massimo Coda (21'). For their opponents, Salernitana had 24 shots on goal with 8 of them on target. Simeon Nwankwo (1'), Diego Valencia (60') and Jayden Braaf (85') scored for Salernitana.

It’s been seldom in recent games where Sampdoria have shown defensive steel. The reality is that Sampdoria have been scored against in 6 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 10 goals during that time. That kind of pattern might not be carried forward into this next game, though.

Coming into this fixture, Sampdoria are unbeaten in the league by AS Bari in their previous 6 matches.

AS Bari

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In their previous game, AS Bari drew 1-1 in the Serie B tie with Sassuolo.

In that match, AS Bari managed 57% possession and 26 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for AS Bari was Kevin Lasagna (93'). Sassuolo had 8 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. Kristian Thorstvedt (19') scored for Sassuolo.

In their last six clashes, AS Bari have amassed a tally of 8 goals. AS Bari have also managed to score on each one of those occasions. Over that period, they have had 8 goals go against them.

Going into this encounter, AS Bari have not won away from home in their last 14 league matches. What a horror away run it has been.

👥 Head to head

An inspection of their past head to head results stretching back to 05/12/2010 reveals that these encounters have been pretty painful for AS Bari. They have not been able to come away with any wins at all while Sampdoria have dominated them, getting wins in 67% of those ties.

In all, 11 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 9 from i Blucerchiati and 2 netted by Galletti. That is an average goals per game value of 1.83.

The last league meeting between these clubs was Serie B match day 30 on 16/03/2024 which ended up with the score at AS Bari 0-1 Sampdoria.

That day, AS Bari managed 52% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target.

Sampdoria got 11 shots at goal with 4 on target. Pajtim Kasami (87') was the scorer.

The referee was Daniele Perenzoni.

📋 Team News: Sampdoria

There is just the lone fitness concern for the Sampdoria manager Andrea Pirlo to be concerned about from an otherwise complete squad. Estanis Pedrola (Hamstring muscle injury) won’t play.

We are thinking that i Blucerchiati will possibly kick off with a 3-5-2 formation for this one, beginning the first half with Paolo Vismara, Bartosz Bereszynski, Simone Romagnoli, Davide Veroli, Fabio Depaoli, Melle Meulensteen, Leonardo Benedetti, Alessandro Bellemo, Nikolas Ioannou, Massimo Coda and Gennaro Tutino.

📋 Team News: AS Bari

We believe Galletti appear most likely to make use of a 3-4-2-1 lineup, starting the game with Boris Radunovic, Raffaele Pucino, Francesco Vicari, Mattia Maita, Andrea Oliveri, Valerio Mantovani, Ahmad Benali, Mehdi Dorval, Kevin Lasagna, Lorenzo Sgarbi and Andrija Novakovich.

⚡ Prediction

We believe that AS Bari will do well to hit the back of the net against this Sampdoria outfit who we reckon will score & stay on top.

We’re therefore anticipating a hard-fought contest, finishing with a 1-0 win for Sampdoria at the end of this game.

There should be little in it.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Victor Martins, 15:05 31/08/2024