Genoa vs Sampdoria Match Analysis and Prediction

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Genoa will be looking to escape from the relegation zone when they take on Sampdoria in the 17^th match of the Italian Serie A this Friday. Stadio Luigi Ferraris is set to host this epic encounter on 10^th December 2021 at 22:45 EAT.

Things are not going so well for the home team this season where they are currently placed 19^th in the table, having picked up just 10 points from their opening 16 league matches. Genoa is winless in 13 league games and has lost three of four games under Andriy Shevchenko without scoring a single goal.

The Red and Blues will be hoping to make amends following 2-0 Serie A loss to Juventus in their previous game. In that game, Genoa managed 30% possession with zero shots. Juventus had 27 shots 12 of them on target and goals scored by Juan Cuadrado (9′) and Paulo Dybala (82′) scored for Juventus.

Sampdoria has finished 9^th in Serie A in two of the last three seasons and they have been present at this level since 2012, but they had a disappointing start to the 2021-22 campaign which sees them 15^th spot with 15 points in the table.

Sampdoria will be hoping to turn things around here coming of 1-3 Serie A defeat to Lazio in their last match. In that encounter, Sampdoria had 48% possession, 16 shots with four of them on target and a late goal scored by Manolo Gabbiadini (89′). Lazio got only six shots with five of them on target and goals by Sergej Milinković-Savić (7′) and Ciro Immobile (17′, 37′).

Fewer than 2.5 goals have been scored in four of Genoa’s last six outings and the hosts have failed to score in five of those six games. Sampdoria have only scored more than two goals in one of their last six matches. Therefore, we shouldn’t expect plenty of goals in this match.

Genoa vs Sampdoria head to head

Since 1993 these two teams have met 39 times, Out of the 39 meetings, Sampdoria has 15 wins, Genoa 13 wins and 11 matches ended in ties.

Genoa1-1Sampdoria 03/03/21
Sampdoria1-3Genoa 26/11/20
Sampdoria1-1Genoa 01/11/20
Sampdoria1-2Genoa 22/07/20
Genoa 0-1Sampdoria 14/12/19

Home

Juventus 2-0 Genoa
Genoa 0-3 Milan
Udinese 0-0 Genoa
Genoa 0-2 Roma
Empoli 2-2 Genoa

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Sampdoria 1-3 Lazio
Fiorentina 3-1 Sampdoria
Sampdoria 3-1 Hellas Verona
Salernitana 0-2 Sampdoria
Sampdoria 1-2 Bologna

Genoa team news

The host prepares for this match with a long list of injured players, the likes of Stefano Sturaro, Nicolo Rovella, Nikola Maksimovic, Felipe Caicedo, Mattia Destro, Mohamed Fares and Domenico Criscito who will be unavalabe for selection.