Serie A match preview: Sampdoria believed to be the weaker party when Juventus pays a visit

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Competition: Italy Serie A
Date: Wed 18.December
Match begins: 17:55 (UTC)
Venue: Luigi Ferraris (36599 seats)

Struggling Sampdoria will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Juventus in the upcoming league round. It's 16th vs 2nd and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Sampdoria form and stats

When playing at home in the Serie A, Sampdoria have managed 2 wins, 3 draws and suffered 3 defeats from 8 games.

A good away victory last time out for Sampdoria, who won 1-0 against Genoa (placed 19th). Preceding that match was the home game against Parma that was lost 0-1.

Sampdoria have scored 5 league goals here from 8 matches, not a lot. 9 goals have been conceded.

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Juventus form and stats

Juventus have an excellent away record in the Serie A so far with 5-2-1 from 8 games.

Juventus won their last game, 3-1 versus Udinese played at home. Preceding that game was the away Champions League victory against Bayer Leverkusen with the score of 2-0.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Lazio in just four days.

Juventus find the net in their away games, although not all the time. 11 goals from 8 away fixtures in the league. It's not easy to score on Juventus as they have only conceded 7 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's 2 Sampdoria victories, 1 draw and 7 Juventus wins. 6 of these games ended with three goals or more, 4 matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

JuventusCristiano Ronaldo
Cristiano Ronaldo
9 goals
SampdoriaM. Gabbiadini
M. Gabbiadini
4 goals
JuventusP. Dybala
P. Dybala
4 goals

Sampdoria missing players

Juventus missing players

Sampdoria Juventus
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
16 8 4 Played P 2 8 16
4 2 0 Won W 1 5 12
3 3 2 Drew D 1 2 3
9 3 2 Lost L 0 1 1
13 5 1 Scored S 3 11 29
25 9 6 Conceded C 2 7 16
88% 75% 50% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 88% 94%
62% 50% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 62% 75%
44% 38% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 50% 62%
19% 12% 25% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 25% 31%
12% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 6%
44% 38% 25% BTTS BTTS 100% 62% 69%
31% 38% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 38% 31%
38% 50% 75% Failed to Score F T 0% 12% 6%
 
5 5.9 5 Corners For (avg) C F 8.5 5.1 6.2
6.2 5.9 7.5 Corners Against (avg) C A 3.5 6.5 5.4
2.6 2.5 2.2 Yellow Cards (avg) Y C 2 2.6 2.3
2 0 0 Red Cards R C 0 1 2
 
226 144 58 Total Shots T S 41 126 298
67 44 15 Shots on Target S O 9 41 106
19% 11% 7% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 27% 27%
Key stats in Serie A this season:
  • Juventus have scored more than double the goals of Sampdoria.
  • Juventus have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Sampdoria has the fewest scored goals in the first half (2)

  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 16 12 3 1 32 14 8 5 2 1 13 6 8 7 1 0 19 8 18 39
2 Juventus 16 12 3 1 29 16 8 7 1 0 18 9 8 5 2 1 11 7 13 39
3 Lazio 16 11 3 2 38 16 8 6 2 0 24 7 8 5 1 2 14 9 22 36
4 Roma 16 9 5 2 29 16 8 5 2 1 18 11 8 4 3 1 11 5 13 32
5 Cagliari 16 8 5 3 32 21 9 5 1 3 20 14 7 3 4 0 12 7 11 29
6 Atalanta 16 8 4 4 38 25 7 3 1 3 18 14 9 5 3 1 20 11 13 28
7 Parma 16 7 3 6 23 19 8 4 0 4 12 9 8 3 3 2 11 10 4 24
8 Napoli 16 5 6 5 25 21 8 3 2 3 10 8 8 2 4 2 15 13 4 21
9 Torino 16 6 3 7 21 24 8 3 2 3 8 10 8 3 1 4 13 14 -3 21
10 Milan 16 6 3 7 16 19 8 2 3 3 7 10 8 4 0 4 9 9 -3 21
11 Bologna 16 5 4 7 24 27 8 3 2 3 13 13 8 2 2 4 11 14 -3 19
12 Hellas Verona 16 5 4 7 17 20 9 3 3 3 10 10 7 2 1 4 7 10 -3 19
13 Fiorentina 16 4 5 7 20 24 8 2 3 3 9 10 8 2 2 4 11 14 -4 17
14 Sassuolo 15 4 4 7 26 27 8 3 1 4 18 16 7 1 3 3 8 11 -1 16
15 Lecce 16 3 6 7 20 32 7 0 4 3 8 13 9 3 2 4 12 19 -12 15
16 Sampdoria 16 4 3 9 13 25 8 2 3 3 5 9 8 2 0 6 8 16 -12 15
17 Udinese 16 4 3 9 11 27 8 3 2 3 5 9 8 1 1 6 6 18 -16 15
18 Brescia 15 4 1 10 14 26 7 1 1 5 8 15 8 3 0 5 6 11 -12 13
19 Genoa 16 2 5 9 17 31 8 2 1 5 8 11 8 0 4 4 9 20 -14 11
20 SPAL 16 2 3 11 10 25 8 2 2 4 8 11 8 0 1 7 2 14 -15 9

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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.