Crotone vs Sampdoria
2016/17 Italian Serie A.
Date: Sunday, 27 November 2016
Kick-Off: 14:00 UK,
Venue: Stadio Ezio Scida (Crotone).
Sampdoria will hope to take inspiration from their impressive showing last round as they take on relegation candidates Crotone on Sunday.
The Blucheriati pulled off a notable comeback against Sassuolo that surely their fans are still talking about this week. For most of the game, it looked like the Neroverdi would end their own miserable run with a 2-0 win. Within six minutes, however, the tie had been turned on its head thanks to a late, late brace from Luis Muriel and a solitary effort from veteran striker Fabio Quagliarella.
All of this transpired starting from the 84th minute, and it was just the result that Sampdoria needed. Next up will be another struggling side – Crotone. The Squali have had a miserable time in their debut season in the top flight, and just like Frosinone appeared last term only to go right back down, the same appears to be in store for Crotone.
Despite earning a historic first-ever win against Chievo, they have since slipped to back to back defeats against Inter and Torino. More disconcerting is the fact that they failed to score in either of those games. In addition, their shocking defensive collapses will be highly discouraging. In both games, they had held their shape quite well, playing – as expected – pretty much everyone behind the ball to try to grind out a point only to see their hard work come undone once their opponents find a breakthrough.
And once the floodgates open, it’s all over for Crotone. Still, they may take heart here. Sampdoria have been quite poor on the road and the home pitch advantage may be able to help the struggling Squali grind out some kind of fair result.
Crotone vs Sampdoria Prediction: match facts
Crotone have had very poor play in Series A and are facing relegation, They have managed just a putry 5 points from 13 matches with 1 win vs 10 losses and 2 draws. Sampdoria are 11th with 18 points from 13 matches, They have won 5 vs 5 losses and 3 draws. They come into this game winners of 3 with a draw and a loss while Sampdoria are on the opposite side with 3 losses, a lone win and a draw. Sampdoria’s last game was a 2-1 win over Genoa and Crotone last game was a 2-1 loss to Napoli.
Crotone vs Sampdoria Prediction: h2h
These two teams have met 6 times with both teams winning twice and 2 draws. The last time they met ended in a 1-0 Crotone win 2012 when Samporia ended up with 10 men after a red card.
Crotone vs Sampdoria Prediction: betting tips
These two teams have not met in the last 4 years which means that they do not know each other very well. Which means we have to more or less put more weight in the current season and if we take a keener look at that we can see that even though Crotone have had poor form overall they have been improving a bit in their last five games. Their lone win 2-0 over number 10 Chievo followed up with a 1-1 draw over Fiorentina and 2-1 loss to Napoli came in the last 3 weeks. Sampdoria on the other hand have a win over Inter, Sassuolo and Genoa in the last 3, sandwiched over a 4-1 loss to league leaders Juventus.
Overall Crotone have 1 win vs 4 losses and a draw at home while Sampdoria have 1 win vs 4 losses and 2 draws on the road.
This all bodes to this being a tough affair but we expect Sampdoria to win this game and pile on the misery for crotone.
Crotone vs Sampdoria: Head-to-head statistics
Sampdoria have a record of W7-D6-L7 in their last 20 away games against teams below them in the table.
Crotone have failed to win 12 out of their last 13 Serie A games.
Sampdoria have failed to win their last six away games.
There have been under 2.5 goals in the last four meetings between Sampdoria and Crotone (across all comps).
This will be their first ever meeting, however, in Serie A.
Sampdoria have scored – and have been scored on – in all but one out of their last eight games.
