Our prediction for this Serie A match:
Napoli
Match Time & Date:
09/01/2022
16:30
Prediction: 1-1
Sampdoria
After sharing the spoils with Juventus in the Serie A derby, Napoli will be aiming to return to winning ways when they host Sampdoria to their Stadio Diego Armando Maradona on Matchday 21. All Ounas, Koulibaly, and Anguissa are on international duty, while key attacker Victor Osimhen misses out with a broken cheekbone. Since all Meret, Malcuit, Mario Rui, and Lozano have been tested positive for coronavirus, we do not believe that there is a big value in betting on the home side.
La Samp, on the other hand, suffered a 2-1 loss to Cagliari in their first game of the year. The visitors are desperate to grab something from Sunday’s match, and given the number of absentees in the home team, we are tempted to put our money on draw. Candreva is banned for the visiting side, while both Falcone and Augello are quarantined. All Yoshida, Damsgaard, and Verre miss out with injuries.
Highlighted Player (Dries Mertens):
Dries Mertens is a Belgian football player born on the 6th of May 1987 in Leuven. Mertens started his football career in the youth of RSC Anderlecht and AA Gent. In season 2005/2006 he made his debut for the first team of AA Gent.
After playing for AGOVV, FC Utrecht and PSV Mertens got transferred to Napoli for approximately 9.5 million euro. Mertens made his debut for the Belgian national team in October 2010 and played over 40 games for the national team already. Mertens played during World Cup 2014 and EURO 2016 for Belgium.
Mertens is a right attacking midfielder, which can play as a forward as well. Mertens is known for being a very small fast player, which has the ability to get past several defenders and deliver a cross to his team mates. In his career Mertens didn’t win any big prizes yet. The biggest achievements of Mertens are winning the Dutch national cup with PSV in 2011/2012, the Coppa Italia and the Supercoppa in 2014 with Napoli.
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.
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