Serie A preview: Can Sampdoria edge out victory against Venezia?

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Competition: Italy Serie A
Competition: Sun 19.December
Match begins: 17:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Comunale Luigi Ferraris (36599 seats)

Keep working on their own game plan or look more at the opposition? Both Sampdoria and Venezia need to try something more fresh than earlier this season. Read more!

Insights:
  • Sampdoria have the most conceded goals in the first half (20) in Serie A
  • Venezia have the fewest scored goals in the second half (8) in Serie A

The hosts Sampdoria saw competitive action as recent as three days ago, playing in the Coppa Italia. Thankfully the previous game, versus Torino, was also a home game here at Stadio Comunale Luigi Ferraris. The away team is better rested.

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Sampdoria form and stats

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. When Sampdoria hosts teams that live in the bottom of the table (like Genoa, Cagliari, Sampdoria, Spezia, Udinese and Salernitana), they have won 1 of 2 matches!

Sampdoria's last game was hosting Torino (placed 13th) and winning 2-1. Verre, a striker, was the best performer for the side in that match, receiving a rating of 7.6 (out of 10). Verre scored one goal, hit three key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times.

A strong away win before that one, visiting Genoa and winning 3-1.

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

Sampdoria are traveling soon after this match as the Serie A match at Roma awaits in three days.

Sampdoria has scored 13 league goals at home this season, in 9 matches. Goals are flowing in at the wrong end for Sampdoria with 20 goals conceded in these matches.

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Venezia form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Venezia so far with only 8 points returning home. The records show 2-2-5 (win-draw-lose).

Venezia had fun at their own home (Stadio Comunale Luigi Ferraris) last time out, beating Ternana 3-1. Heymans, Črnigoj and Forte scored. Sigurðsson got a match rating of 7.64 in that game, top player of the team. Sigurðsson hit three key passes.

Preceding that match was the 1-1 draw at home vs Juventus.

We have checked recent matches where Venezia have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 13 games were three victories, nine draws and one defeat.

A new game in only three days for Venezia, the Serie A home match versus Lazio. Busy days.

The visitors have scored 5 goals from 9 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. Venezia struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 16 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

Top Goalscorers

SampdoriaA. Candreva
A. Candreva
6 goals
VeneziaM. Aramu
M. Aramu
5 goals
SampdoriaF. Caputo
F. Caputo
4 goals

Sampdoria missing players

Venezia missing players

Sampdoria Venezia
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
17 9 2 Played P 3 9 17
5 2 1 Won W 0 2 4
3 2 1 Drew D 2 2 4
9 5 0 Lost L 1 5 9
25 13 5 Scored S 1 5 16
33 20 4 Conceded C 4 16 30
94% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 89% 94%
88% 89% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 78% 82%
82% 89% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 44% 47%
59% 67% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 22% 24%
12% 11% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 12%
65% 78% 100% BTTS BTTS 33% 33% 53%
18% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 33% 22% 18%
24% 22% 0% Failed to Score F T 67% 56% 35%
 
5 4.8 3 Corners for (avg) C F 3.3 2.7 2.8
5.5 4.6 8 Corners against (avg) C A 7 6.8 7
3.1 3.6 3.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.7 3.4 3
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 2
 
11.7 11.7 10 Shots (avg) S ( 9 8.7 9
4.1 4.1 3.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 3.4 3.6
36% 35% 71% Goal Efficiency G E 11% 16% 26%
 
14.4 13.4 17.5 Shots against (avg) S A 16.7 17.2 17.2
5.4 6 7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6 6.1 5.9
Key stats in Serie A this season:
  • Sampdoria have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
  • Sampdoria have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Sampdoria have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Venezia have scored away.
  • Sampdoria have the fewest matches under the total-line (2) in Serie A
  • Sampdoria have the most conceded goals in the first half (20) in Serie A
  • Sampdoria haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Venezia have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
  • Venezia have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Venezia have the fewest scored goals in the second half (8) in Serie A

  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 Roma 17 9 1 7 26 19 9 6 1 2 12 7 8 3 0 5 14 12 7 28
7 Juventus 17 8 4 5 23 17 8 4 1 3 9 7 9 4 3 2 14 10 6 28
8 Empoli 17 8 2 7 27 29 9 3 1 5 14 20 8 5 1 2 13 9 -2 26
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 17 3 3 11 17 38 8 2 2 4 9 11 9 1 1 7 8 27 -21 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

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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.