Our prediction for this Serie B match:
Cremonese
Match Time & Date:
22/12/2024
17:15
Prediction: 2-1
Sampdoria
Cremonese and Sampdoria square off against each other at Stadio Giovanni Zini in the closing match of the Serie B round 18. I Grigiorossi are eager to stay in top four in the standings and they are surely capable of making life difficult for La Samp in front of home fans. As head coach Giovanni Stroppa has a full squad to choose from, home win should be considered.
Sampdoria, on the other hand, failed to impress in the Coppa Italia defeat to AS Roma and given their anything but good form in the Serie B, we are tempted to place our bets on Cremonese. Both Bereszynski and Romagnoli continue to miss out with injuries for the away team, while defender Alex Ferrari is a major doubt and will be assessed ahead of the kick-off. Defender Fabio Depaoli is widely expected to return to the starting XI.
Highlighted Team (Sampdoria):
Sampdoria is an Italian football club from Genoa which is currently playing in the highest Italian football division: the Serie A. The club colours of Sampdoria are blue and white and is known under the nickname Blucerchiati. Sampdoria host it’s home games in the Stadio Luigi Ferraris which is located in Genua. Interesting detail is that their biggest city rival Genoa is playing their home games in Stadio Luigi Ferraris as well.
In the past Sampdoria was playing in the Serie B and Serie A on and off. After the big successes in the end of the eighties the club became a stable team in the Serie A. Sampdoria managed to win the Scudetto once in 1991, the Coppa Italia 4 times in 1985, 1988, 1989 and 1994 and the Europe Cup II in 1990.
There are a lot of important players in football history that played for Sampdoria such as: Seedorf, Gullit, Mancini, Poli, Vieri, Zenga, Falcone, Karembeu, Vialli, Klinsmann and Veron.
