Our prediction for this Serie B match:
Sampdoria and Ascoli go head to head at Stadio Comunale Luigi Ferraris in the closing match of the Serie B round 29. La Samp did well to bounce back from a 2-1 loss to Cremonese, with the team beating FeralpiSalo at the weekend, but Andrea Pirlo’s troops need to keep on improving their game if they are to make it to the playoffs. A man to watch in the home team will be Manuel De Luca, who scored a brace in the last league match, while both Nicola Murru and Alex Ferrari remain in the recovery room.
Il Picchio, on the other hand, are desperate to escape the relegation zone, but given Sampdoria’s fine display in the triumph over FeralpiSalo, we believe that there is a big value in betting on the home side. To make things even worse for the visiting team, both Emiliano Viviano and Francesco Di Tacchio are banned for the match.
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.