Sampdoria-Cremonese is a match of the twenty-seventh day of Serie B and is played on Tuesday at 8:30 pm: odds, predictions, live TV and streaming.
First Reggiana, then Ascoli and finally Palermo. Cremonese suddenly forgot how to win and in last Saturday’s direct clash with the Rosanero again missed the appointment with victory, suffering the overtaking of Venezia in second place. Now Giovanni Stroppa’s grigiorossi have 47 points, one less than the lagoon players. The battle for second place, which together with first place allows them to bypass the dangerous playoffs and gain direct promotion to the top flight, remains tight.
Cremonese at least avoided losing ground even to the Sicilians, who were reeled back in after a disastrous first half (2-2), in which they had ended up two goals down and moreover in a numerical inferiority. A proof of character that the Lombardi will have to replicate in Marassi against Sampdoria, hunting for their eighth consecutive useful result (the grigiorossi’s last defeat dates back to December). Last Friday, the Blucerchiati broke a three-day fast of victories: goals by Darboe and De Luca, scored three minutes apart in the first half of the match with Cosenza (1-2), brought a smile to Andrea Pirlo’s face, again under pressure after the draws with Modena and Brescia and the defeat to Pisa. Sampdoria is -4 from the playoffs but must continue to watch its back as well.
Sampdoria-Cremonese: latest lineup news
The list of unavailable players at Sampdoria is always long. Also injured in Cosenza was Kasami, who goes to join Murru, Conti, Borini, Ferrari, Pedrola, Ricci and Vieira. Pirlo must also do without Stojanovic, who is disqualified. In Kasami’s place one of Benedetti and Verre.
Two disqualified players for Stroppa are Castagnetti and Sernicola. The former coach of Crotone and Monza could make someone back, and Coda and Vazquez are not exempt from the turnover either.
The prediction
Sampdoria in Cosenza was cynical but certainly did not enchant at the level of play, suffering from the dribbling of the Calabrians. The “Marulla” success, however, may have ignited that spark that Pirlo’s blucerchiati have so far lacked: against Cremonese – the second-best away performance after Parma – we should see a balanced match, in which both are likely to score.
The probable lineups of Sampdoria-Cremonese
SAMPDORIA (3-5-2): Stankovic; Piccini, Ghilardi, Gonzalez; Depaoli, Benedetti, Yepes, Darboe, Barreca; Alvarez, De Luca.
CREMONESE (3-5-2): Jungdal, Antov, Marrone, Bianchetti; Zanimacchia, Majer, Pickel, Falletti, Quagliata; Johnsen, Tsadjout.
POSSIBLE RESULT: 1-1
