Our prediction for this Serie A match:
Stadio Luigi Ferraris will host Sunday’s relegation six-pointer between Sampdoria and Cremonese. La Samp failed to spoil Roma’s party at Stadio Olimpico (0-3), with the team remaining in the relegation zone, but it seems as if they will not have a better chance than this to get back on course. Jeison Murillo is banned for the match, while both Abdelhamid Sabiri and Emil Audero are out of contention through injuries.
I Grigiorossi, on the other hand, suffered a 3-1 loss to Atalanta at the weekend, meaning that they are low on confidence ahead of the trip to Genoa. Since Dejan Stankovic’s troops outplayed Verona 3-1 in their last home fixture, we do not believe that the visitors are capable of grabbing something from the match. Both Alex Ferrari and Vlad Chiriches are out of contention with injuries, while there are no suspended players in the visiting team.
Highlighted Player (Omar Colley):
Omar Colley is a football player from Gambia who plays for Sampdoria as a defender. Colley is a product of Wallidan’s youth school and he made 15 appearances for the first team as well. In 2012 he joined Real de Banjul and it has to be noted that he scored one goal in 17 league games for the club.
At the end of the season (2013) he decided to move to Finland, signing a deal with KuPS. Despite trialing with several 2. Bundesliga sides, he joined Djurgardens of Sweden in August, 2014. After making 44 league appearances for the Swedish outfit, he moved to Genk in the summer of 2016.
Omar Colley represented Gambia at the 2009 African U17 Championship and he certainly helped his national team win the tournament. The defender who was born in Banjul on 24 October, 1992, made his debut for the first team in 2012. Omar Colley has a contract with Genk which expires on 30 June, 2019.
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.