Serie A match prediction: Little separates Cremonese and Sampdoria in quality

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Competition: Italy Serie A
Competition: Mon 24.October
Match begins: 16:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Giovanni Zini (20034 seats)

Cremonese are unlocking their away locker room to Sampdoria for another highly important match after their 4-2 result against Modena.

Insights:
  • Cremonese have the most conceded goals (21) in Serie A
  • Sampdoria have the fewest scored goals (5) in Serie A

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Cremonese and Sampdoria.

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Cremonese form and stats

0 victories, 1 draw and 3 defeats. That’s what Cremonese have to build on here at Stadio Giovanni Zini in the Serie A. All in all it has been a very rough period for Cremonese who hasn’t won a league-game in their last ten attempts. days ago.

Cremonese's previous match was a Coppa Italia game also played at home, finishing 4-2 against Modena. The home team are looking to repeat that performance. Midfield player Buonaiuto got a match rating of 9.03 in that game, the max score being 10. Buonaiuto hit the woodwork two (!) times, served one assist, hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times and had 53 successful passes (of 62 total).

A 2-2 draw away in the Serie A before that, with Spezia the opponent.

This is expected to be a close game, with Cremonese perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Cremonese as a small favourite), we find 10 games. Cremonese has won 4 of these, drawn 5 and lost 1.

Cremonese have scored {2 league goals} here from 4 matches, not a lot. Defensively there's plenty of potential for improvement as Cremonese have allowed the opposition to score 10 goals here at Stadio Giovanni Zini.

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Sampdoria form and stats

0 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses. That’s the product of Sampdoria playing as the away team in the Serie A this season. Sampdoria are desperate to end a ten-game winless run.

Sampdoria delivered a 2-2 draw playing at home against Ascoli in their previous match; a Coppa Italia fixture. Midfielder Verre was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 8.04. Verre scored one goal and hit three key passes.

A loss against Roma was the result prior to that, in a Serie A home game.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 11 similar matches played by Sampdoria in our archives, and the results are: 3 wins for Sampdoria, 1 draw and 7 defeats.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Sampdoria as they have only managed to score 3 times from 4 away games in the league. Sampdoria have conceded 9 goals in these games. When Sampdoria is visiting a side on the bottom half, 2 of 3 matches have ended with three or more goals. These are matches against Bologna, Hellas Verona, Sampdoria, Lecce, Spezia and Monza.

Head 2 Head

Top Goalscorers

CremoneseD. Okereke
D. Okereke
2 goals
CremoneseC. Dessers
C. Dessers
2 goals
SampdoriaF. Đuričić
F. Đuričić
2 goals

Cremonese missing players

Sampdoria missing players

Cremonese Sampdoria
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
10 4 0 Played P 3 4 10
0 0 0 Won W 0 0 0
4 1 0 Drew D 1 1 3
6 3 0 Lost L 2 3 7
9 2 0 Scored S 3 3 5
21 10 0 Conceded C 5 9 18
90% 75% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 90%
80% 75% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 80%
60% 75% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 75% 50%
50% 50% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 25% 10%
20% 25% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
70% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 75% 50%
10% 25% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 10%
30% 50% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 25% 50%
 
5.3 4.5 0 Corners for (avg) C F 4.3 4 3.5
4.5 3.2 0 Corners against (avg) C A 4 4.5 4.2
1.9 1 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.3 3 3
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
14.5 14.2 0 Shots (avg) S ( 10.7 12.2 10.4
3.6 2.8 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.3 4.8 3
25% 18% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 23% 16% 17%
 
17.5 16.8 0 Shots against (avg) S A 11.3 11.5 11.7
6.9 6.8 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5 5.5 5.3
Key stats in Serie A this season:
  • All of Sampdoria's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Cremonese have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Cremonese have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Cremonese have the fewest points (1) at home in Serie A
  • Cremonese have the most conceded goals (21) in Serie A
  • Cremonese have the most conceded goals in the first half (12) in Serie A
  • Cremonese have the the worst goal difference (-8) at home in Serie A
  • Cremonese have yet to win a game.
  • Sampdoria have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Sampdoria have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Sampdoria have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Sampdoria have the fewest scored goals (5) in Serie A
  • Sampdoria have the fewest scored goals in the first half (2) in Serie A
  • Sampdoria have the the worst goal difference (-13) in Serie A
  • Sampdoria have yet to win a game.
  • Sampdoria haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Sampdoria is in the worst form (0-1-5)

  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 10 8 2 0 25 9 5 4 1 0 12 4 5 4 1 0 13 5 16 26
2 Atalanta 10 7 3 0 16 6 5 3 2 0 8 4 5 4 1 0 8 2 10 24
3 Milan 10 7 2 1 20 10 5 4 0 1 12 6 5 3 2 0 8 4 10 23
4 Roma 10 7 1 2 13 9 4 3 0 1 6 2 6 4 1 1 7 7 4 22
5 Lazio 10 6 3 1 21 5 6 4 1 1 12 4 4 2 2 0 9 1 16 21
6 Udinese 10 6 3 1 19 10 5 3 2 0 10 3 5 3 1 1 9 7 9 21
7 Inter 10 6 0 4 18 14 5 4 0 1 10 3 5 2 0 3 8 11 4 18
8 Juventus 10 4 4 2 13 7 5 3 2 0 11 3 5 1 2 2 2 4 6 16
9 Sassuolo 10 3 3 4 12 12 5 2 1 2 8 5 5 1 2 2 4 7 0 12
10 Empoli 10 2 5 3 9 11 5 1 2 2 4 6 5 1 3 1 5 5 -2 11
11 Torino 10 3 2 5 8 12 5 1 2 2 2 3 5 2 0 3 6 9 -4 11
12 Salernitana 10 2 4 4 12 16 5 2 1 2 9 6 5 0 3 2 3 10 -4 10
13 Fiorentina 10 2 4 4 8 12 5 2 2 1 6 7 5 0 2 3 2 5 -4 10
14 Monza 10 3 1 6 9 15 5 2 0 3 5 6 5 1 1 3 4 9 -6 10
15 Spezia 10 2 3 5 9 19 5 2 3 0 9 7 5 0 0 5 0 12 -10 9
16 Lecce 10 1 5 4 9 12 5 0 4 1 5 6 5 1 1 3 4 6 -3 8
17 Bologna 10 1 4 5 10 17 5 1 3 1 5 5 5 0 1 4 5 12 -7 7
18 Hellas Verona 10 1 2 7 9 19 5 1 0 4 6 11 5 0 2 3 3 8 -10 5
19 Cremonese 10 0 4 6 9 21 4 0 1 3 2 10 6 0 3 3 7 11 -12 4
20 Sampdoria 10 0 3 7 5 18 6 0 2 4 2 9 4 0 1 3 3 9 -13 3

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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.