📊 Form Guide

Sampdoria

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Sampdoria will be hoping for a better result after a 2-0 Serie B defeat last time out to Spezia.

In that game, Sampdoria had 43% possession and 9 shots on goal with 3 on target. Spezia had 15 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. Gianluca Lapadula (65', 74') scored for Spezia.

It has been seldom in recent times where Sampdoria have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. The facts show that Sampdoria have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 matches, giving up 9 goals in the process. Regardless, we must now wait to see whether the trend will be replicated here in this match.

Their past results show that Sampdoria:

• have not lost a league tie with Cittadella in their previous 2 games.
• haven’t won at home in the past 3 league matches.

Cittadella

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Previously, Cittadella drew 0-0 in the Serie B tie with Carrarese.

In that match, Cittadella managed 41% possession and 7 shots at goal with 1 of them on target. Carrarese got 7 attempts at goal with 1 of them on target.

Throughout their six latest matches, Alessandro Dal Canto's Cittadella have had reason to celebrate scoring a total of 5 times - earning them a goals scored per game average of 0.83.

Their previous form shows that Cittadella:

• have not been beaten by Sampdoria in games played away from home for the previous 2 league matches.
• are undefeated in their last 2 league matches away from home.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A glance at their prior head-to-head clashes dating back to 14/04/2002 shows that Sampdoria have won 2 of these & Cittadella 1, with the tally of drawn games being 3.

A combined sum of 11 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 6 of them for i Blucerchiati and 5 being from Granata. That’s an average goals per game figure of 1.83.

The previous league match featuring these sides was Serie B match day 11 on 30/10/2024 which finished with the scoreline of Cittadella 0-0 Sampdoria.

On that occasion, Cittadella managed 44% possession and 7 attempts at goal with 1 of them on target.

Sampdoria had 6 shots on goal with 1 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Alberto Santoro.

🗞️ Team News: Sampdoria

Simone Romagnoli (Achilles tendon surgery), Samuele Perisan (muscular problems), Nikolas Ioannou (Calf muscle tear), Alessandro Bellemo (Ankle problems) and Gennaro Tutino (Broken ankle) are not available for Sampdoria manager Leonardo Semplici.

In our view, i Blucerchiati may well kick off with a 4-4-2 formation for this game, handing starts to Alessio Cragno, Lorenzo Venuti, Marco Curto, Giorgio Altare, Pietro Beruatto, Ronaldo Vieira, Matteo Ricci, Leonardo Benedetti, Fabio Depaoli, Massimo Coda and Giuseppe Sibilli.

🗞️ Team News: Cittadella

We are inclined to think that Granata appear most likely to elect for a 4-4-2 formation using Elhan Kastrati, Alessandro Salvi, Luca Pandolfi, Elio Capradossi, Alessio Vita, Simone Tronchin, Lorenzo Carissoni, Nicola Pavan, Orji Okwonkwo, Edoardo Masciangelo and Riccardo Palmieri.

💭 Prediction

We’re thinking that Sampdoria will, in all likelihood, dominate on the ball and be rewarded with decent chances.

At the other end, Cittadella won’t find it easy getting goals but we do think it’s quite likely that they will be scoring.

Accordingly, we see a decent 3-1 victory for Sampdoria come full-time.

Peter Guest, 15:12 12/04/2025