Match guide: Atalanta expected to win when Sampdoria pay a visit

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Competition: Italy Serie A
Competition: Sat 28.January
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: Gewiss Stadium (26393 seats)

Atalanta look forward to meeting Sampdoria with belief in landing all three points. Will they? Open our match guide!

Insights:
  • Atalanta have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Sampdoria have the fewest scored goals (8) in Serie A

Atalanta and Sampdoria should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Atalanta form and stats

4-2-3 (win-draw-lost) are the Serie A numbers at home for Atalanta so far this season.

Atalanta shared the glory with Juventus in their last match, an away game that ended all square 3-3. As you can tell by the result above, the goals flowed freely in the previous game and the stadium rocked. Could there be another goal fest today? Lookman has scored in three games in a row. Ace! The forward Lookman bettered all teammates in that match and was awarded a match rating of 9.12 out of 10. Lookman scored two goals, served one assist, hit three key passes, dribled past the opponent 2 of 4 times and had 26 successful passes (of 30 total).

A home win before that, as expected. The team were solid favourites against Spezia and won 5-2. Atalanta are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found 11 matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won 7, drew 4 and lost 0.

Betting people might want to know that 9 of the latest 11 league matches from these players have had at least one goal from each team.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Atalanta as they are travelling to their away game against Inter in the Coppa Italia. That match is three days after this one.

Atalanta can score goals in their home matches. After 9 league matches they have found the net 19 times. It's worth mentioning that 11 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. On the other hand, Atalanta have conceded 13 goals. It's worth mentioning that 7 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Sampdoria form and stats

There's been little loot from Sampdoria's travels as they have only collected 7 points from 9 away games in the Serie A. Sampdoria only have 2 wins to counter their 6 defeats and 1 draw. It's a growing despair in Sampdoria as they have recorded three consecutive losses.

Sampdoria have been frustrated by their lack of goals lately, as they haven't scored in the league since they found the net 332 minutes ago. Augello was the goal scorer.

Sampdoria's previous game was their home loss versus Udinese (0-1).

A 0-1 defeat away at Empoli before that.

You'll want to know how Sampdoria managed when outsiders such as today. Our database found 7 similar matches resulting in 0 away wins, 0 draws and 7 home wins.

Low-scoring game? 9 of this side's latest 11 league rounds have had two or less goals.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Sampdoria as they have only managed to score 6 times from 9 away games in the league. As for defending, Sampdoria rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 16 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

The 4 latest games featuring these sides have all finished as Atalanta victories. Will history repeat itself?

The two sides encountered each other earlier on this match year: Sampdoria - Atalanta 0-2.

Top Goalscorers

AtalantaA. Lookman
A. Lookman
11 goals
AtalantaT. Koopmeiners
T. Koopmeiners
6 goals
AtalantaR. Højlund
R. Højlund
4 goals

Atalanta missing players

Sampdoria missing players

Atalanta Sampdoria
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
19 9 3 Played P 1 9 19
10 4 2 Won W 0 2 2
5 2 1 Drew D 0 1 3
4 3 0 Lost L 1 6 14
37 19 11 Scored S 0 6 8
23 13 4 Conceded C 3 16 32
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 95%
84% 89% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 78% 74%
53% 56% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 56% 37%
32% 33% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 11% 5%
16% 22% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
63% 78% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 44% 32%
32% 11% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 11% 11%
5% 11% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 44% 63%
 
4 4.2 3.7 Corners for (avg) C F 3 3 3.5
4.4 3.9 2.7 Corners against (avg) C A 3 4.7 4.3
2.7 2.3 1.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 6 3.8 3.2
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
13.1 14.1 16.3 Shots (avg) S ( 7 11.3 10.2
4.8 5.3 8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 4.4 2.9
40% 40% 46% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 15% 14%
 
12.4 11.7 8.3 Shots against (avg) S A 18 14 13
3.8 4.2 2.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6 4.7 4.6
Key stats in Serie A this season:
  • Atalanta have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Atalanta have scored more than double the goals of Sampdoria.
  • Atalanta haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Sampdoria have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Sampdoria have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Sampdoria have the fewest scored goals (8) in Serie A
  • Sampdoria have the the worst goal difference (-24) in Serie A
  • Sampdoria haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Napoli 19 16 2 1 46 14 9 8 1 0 26 7 10 8 1 1 20 7 32 50
2 Milan 18 11 5 2 35 20 9 7 1 1 22 11 9 4 4 1 13 9 15 38
3 Inter 18 12 1 5 38 24 9 8 0 1 21 4 9 4 1 4 17 20 14 37
4 Roma 19 11 4 4 25 16 9 5 1 3 10 5 10 6 3 1 15 11 9 37
5 Atalanta 19 10 5 4 37 23 9 4 2 3 19 13 10 6 3 1 18 10 14 35
6 Lazio 18 10 4 4 31 15 9 5 2 2 16 9 9 5 2 2 15 6 16 34
7 Udinese 19 7 7 5 27 21 9 3 4 2 14 9 10 4 3 3 13 12 6 28
8 Torino 19 7 5 7 19 20 9 3 3 3 7 6 10 4 2 4 12 14 -1 26
9 Juventus 19 11 5 3 30 15 10 7 3 0 24 6 9 4 2 3 6 9 15 23
10 Fiorentina 19 6 5 8 21 25 10 4 3 3 14 15 9 2 2 5 7 10 -4 23
11 Monza 19 6 4 9 23 28 10 4 2 4 14 11 9 2 2 5 9 17 -5 22
12 Bologna 18 6 4 8 23 29 9 4 3 2 13 8 9 2 1 6 10 21 -6 22
13 Empoli 18 5 7 6 16 22 9 4 2 3 8 8 9 1 5 3 8 14 -6 22
14 Lecce 19 4 8 7 18 22 9 2 5 2 11 11 10 2 3 5 7 11 -4 20
15 Spezia 19 4 6 9 17 30 10 2 6 2 13 14 9 2 0 7 4 16 -13 18
16 Salernitana 19 4 6 9 23 37 10 3 3 4 14 13 9 1 3 5 9 24 -14 18
17 Sassuolo 19 4 5 10 18 29 9 3 2 4 12 11 10 1 3 6 6 18 -11 17
18 Hellas Verona 19 3 3 13 17 31 10 3 0 7 12 17 9 0 3 6 5 14 -14 12
19 Sampdoria 19 2 3 14 8 32 10 0 2 8 2 16 9 2 1 6 6 16 -24 9
20 Cremonese 18 0 7 11 13 32 9 0 3 6 4 15 9 0 4 5 9 17 -19 7

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Serie A is the division at the top of the Italian football league system and regarded as one of the top leagues of the world. 20 teams play each other home and away to create a final league table after 380 fixtures. The winners are titled “Campione d’Italia” (Champion of Italy), often referred to as the scudetto.