Sampdoria favourites for feisty fight facing Genoa

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Competition: Italy Serie A
Competition: Sun 01.November
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Comunale Luigi Ferraris (36599 seats)

The Serie A league table might not tell the truth so early on, but it's the best truth we have so far. Sampdoria and Genoa are placed 7th and 16th respectively.

It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Coppa Italia.

This is a match between teams from the same area, a local derby. The community is buzzing.

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Sampdoria form and stats

Only two Serie A home games for Sampdoria so far, yet both highs and lows with 1 win, 0 draws and 1 defeat.

A nice win for Sampdoria last time playing, versus Salernitana. That was also a home game and the match ended 1-0 with A. La Gumina scoring for the victors. A strong away win before that one, visiting Atalanta and winning 3-1.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Sampdoria handle that role? We have found five games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are four wins, zero draws and one defeat.

Early season league goal statistics from Sampdoria's 2 home games: 5 goals, 3 conceded.

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Genoa form and stats

The Serie A season is young and Genoa, who have the fewest scored goals (4) in Serie A, have only just started going through their travel schedule, with 2 away games done and still no victory. 1 draw and 1 defeat so far.

Genoa are looking to quickly end their 285 minutes long goal drought in the Serie A.

Genoa won their last game, 2-1 versus Catanzaro played at home. The game before that, in the Serie A, was lost at home, a 0-2 defeat against Inter.

Genoa are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is zero wins, two draws and one defeat. From a total of three matches.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Torino in just three days.

As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Genoa has managed 0 goals and let in 6 from 2 matches.

Head 2 Head

As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's six Sampdoria victories, two draws and two Genoa wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, six matches with two goals or less.

Sampdoria missing players

Genoa missing players

Sampdoria Genoa
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
5 2 0 Played P 1 2 4
3 1 0 Won W 0 0 1
0 0 0 Drew D 1 1 1
2 1 0 Lost L 0 1 2
10 5 0 Scored S 0 0 4
8 3 0 Conceded C 0 6 9
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 50% 75%
100% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 50% 75%
100% 100% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 50% 50%
40% 50% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 50% 50%
20% 50% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 50% 50%
60% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 25%
20% 50% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 50% 25%
20% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 100% 75%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.6 2.5 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 4 3 2.8
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
58 19 0 Total Shots T S 8 15 32
24 11 0 Shots on Target S O 2 3 9
42% 45% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 44%
Key stats in Serie A this season:
  • Genoa has the fewest scored goals (0) away in Serie A
  • Genoa has the fewest scored goals (4) in Serie A
Sampdoria Last season Genoa
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
38 19   Played P   19 38
12 6   Won W   3 10
6 4   Drew D   8 9
20 9   Lost L   8 19
48 25   Scored S   23 47
65 30   Conceded C   42 73
89% 84%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   89% 92%
79% 74%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   89% 84%
63% 68%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   84% 79%
29% 26%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   53% 42%
21% 21%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   16% 13%
61% 58%   BTTS BTTS   63% 63%
24% 32%   Clean Sheets C S   16% 18%
26% 26%   Failed to Score F T   32% 26%
 
0 0   Corners for (avg) C F   0 0
0 0   Corners against (avg) C A   0 0
2.9 2.8   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2.8 2.8
7 2   Red cards R C   6 10
 
562 328   Total Shots T S   213 439
176 103   Shots on Target S O   78 157
27% 24%   Goal Efficiency G E   29% 30%

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Milan 5 4 1 0 12 4 3 2 1 0 8 3 2 2 0 0 4 1 8 13
2 Napoli 5 4 0 1 14 5 2 2 0 0 10 1 3 2 0 1 4 4 9 11
3 Sassuolo 5 3 2 0 16 9 3 1 2 0 8 5 2 2 0 0 8 4 7 11
4 Inter 5 3 1 1 13 8 2 1 0 1 5 5 3 2 1 0 8 3 5 10
5 Juventus 5 2 3 0 10 4 3 2 1 0 7 1 2 0 2 0 3 3 6 9
6 Atalanta 5 3 0 2 15 12 2 1 0 1 6 5 3 2 0 1 9 7 3 9
7 Sampdoria 5 3 0 2 10 8 2 1 0 1 5 3 3 2 0 1 5 5 2 9
8 Hellas Verona 5 2 2 1 5 2 3 2 1 0 4 0 2 0 1 1 1 2 3 8
9 Roma 5 2 2 1 11 10 2 1 1 0 7 4 3 1 1 1 4 6 1 8
10 Fiorentina 5 2 1 2 10 10 3 2 0 1 5 4 2 0 1 1 5 6 0 7
11 Cagliari 5 2 1 2 10 12 2 1 0 1 4 4 3 1 1 1 6 8 -2 7
12 Lazio 5 2 1 2 6 9 3 1 1 1 4 6 2 1 0 1 2 3 -3 7
13 Benevento 5 2 0 3 9 14 3 1 0 2 4 7 2 1 0 1 5 7 -5 6
14 Spezia 5 1 2 2 7 11 2 0 1 1 3 6 3 1 1 1 4 5 -4 5
15 Parma 5 1 1 3 6 11 3 1 1 1 3 4 2 0 0 2 3 7 -5 4
16 Genoa 4 1 1 2 4 9 2 1 0 1 4 3 2 0 1 1 0 6 -5 4
17 Bologna 5 1 0 4 8 10 2 1 0 1 7 5 3 0 0 3 1 5 -2 3
18 Udinese 5 1 0 4 5 9 3 1 0 2 3 5 2 0 0 2 2 4 -4 3
19 Torino 4 0 1 3 7 11 2 0 0 2 4 7 2 0 1 1 3 4 -4 1
20 Crotone 5 0 1 4 5 15 2 0 1 1 1 3 3 0 0 3 4 12 -10 1

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Read more about Serie A

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.