Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Sampdoria & Torino face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Coppa Italia. All the pre-match information is available here!
It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Serie A.
Sampdoria form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the Coppa Italia for Sampdoria, as the manager D'Aversa led his troops to eliminate Alessandria, and reach the 2nd Round. Last season their Coppa Italia adventure ended in the 4th round.Sampdoria's struggle is real here at Stadio Comunale Luigi Ferraris with only 8 points collected from 9 Serie A games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 2-2-5.
Sampdoria are returning here after visiting Genoa in a Serie A game and winning with a 3-1 scoreline. Gabbiadini and Caputo scored the goal(s). The striker Manolo Gabbiadini bested all others in that match and received a match rating of 7.85 out of 10. Gabbiadini scored one goal and hit one key pass.
Ahead of that match, Sampdoria lost 1-3 at home to Lazio.The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Sampdoria have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found nine matches with the results: Won three, drawn three and lost three.
Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the Serie A game versus Venezia in only three days. This game is also played here at Stadio Comunale Luigi Ferraris.
Sampdoria are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 13 goals in 9 games. Goals are flowing in at the wrong end for Sampdoria with 20 goals conceded in these matches.
Torino form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Cremonese in order to reach 2nd round of Coppa Italia. They also participated in Coppa Italia last season. This ended in the 8th finals.The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Torino so far with only 5 points returning home. The records show 1-2-5 (win-draw-lose).
Torino won their last game, 2-1 versus Bologna played at home. Saša Lukić got a match rating of 8.75 in that game, top player of the team. Lukić served one assist, hit four key passes, dribled past the opponent 3 of 3 times and had 50 successful passes (of 59 total).
Before that, Torino travelled to Cagliari and returned home with a draw after the Serie A game finished 1-1.So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Torino playing away and similar expectations, we found eight relevant matches. Results were three Torino wins, two draws and three defeats.
A quick return to home after this game, as Torino are hosting Hellas Verona in the Serie A only three days away.
Goals are few and far between in Torino's away league games. Only 4 goals from 8 travels. Torino have conceded 8 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Sampdoria-Torino H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Sampdoria three wins, Torino three wins, four draws. six of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  A. Candreva 6 goals |  F. Caputo 4 goals |  M. Gabbiadini 3 goals |
Sampdoria missing players
Torino missing players
| Sampdoria | Torino | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 15 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 11 | 7 | Won | W | 1 | 6 | ||
| 4 | 3 | Drew | D | 3 | 8 | ||
| 10 | 5 | Lost | L | 8 | 11 | ||
| 41 | 27 | Scored | S | 6 | 25 | ||
| 43 | 25 | Conceded | C | 15 | 33 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 88% | ||
| 84% | 87% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 42% | 60% | ||
| 76% | 80% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 25% | 44% | ||
| 56% | 60% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 8% | 20% | ||
| 16% | 13% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 12% | ||
| 60% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 42% | 48% | ||
| 28% | 20% | Clean Sheets | C S | 17% | 24% | ||
| 16% | 13% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 40% | ||
| 5 | 4.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.6 | 4.2 | ||
| 5.2 | 4.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.5 | 4 | ||
| 2.5 | 2.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.1 | 2.3 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 12.4 | 12.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.5 | 12.4 | ||
| 4.4 | 4.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.5 | 3.5 | ||
| 36% | 38% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 20% | 28% | ||
| 13.4 | 12.6 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9.4 | 9.8 | ||
| 4.9 | 5.1 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 3.6 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Inter | 17 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 43 | 15 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 24 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 9 | 28 | 40 |
| 2 | Milan | 17 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 36 | 19 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 12 | 17 | 39 |
| 3 | Atalanta | 17 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 37 | 20 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 9 | 17 | 37 |
| 4 | Napoli | 17 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 34 | 13 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 7 | 21 | 36 |
| 5 | Fiorentina | 17 | 10 | 0 | 7 | 31 | 22 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 21 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 12 | 9 | 30 |
| 6 | Juventus | 17 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 23 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 6 | 28 |
| 7 | Empoli | 17 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 27 | 29 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 20 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 9 | -2 | 26 |
| 8 | Roma | 16 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 24 | 19 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 14 | 12 | 5 | 25 |
| 9 | Lazio | 17 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 33 | 32 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 20 | 1 | 25 |
| 10 | Bologna | 17 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 24 | 29 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 17 | -5 | 24 |
| 11 | Hellas Verona | 17 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 33 | 30 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 19 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 17 | 3 | 23 |
| 12 | Sassuolo | 17 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 28 | 26 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 15 | 2 | 23 |
| 13 | Torino | 17 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 22 | 18 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 22 |
| 14 | Sampdoria | 17 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 25 | 33 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 20 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 13 | -8 | 18 |
| 15 | Udinese | 17 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 22 | 28 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 16 | -6 | 17 |
| 16 | Venezia | 17 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 16 | 30 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 16 | -14 | 16 |
| 17 | Spezia | 16 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 17 | 36 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 25 | -19 | 12 |
| 18 | Genoa | 17 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 18 | 34 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 17 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 17 | -16 | 10 |
| 19 | Cagliari | 17 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 17 | 34 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 15 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 19 | -17 | 10 |
| 20 | Salernitana | 17 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 37 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 16 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 21 | -26 | 8 |