Lecco-Sampdoria is a match of the thirty-sixth day of Serie B and is played Wednesday at 6 p.m.: odds, predictions, live TV and streaming.
So far it is a season of more sorrows than joys for a Sampdoria side that is trying to stay clinging to the last position valid to participate in the playoffs. The blucerchiati are eighth but are part of a large group of teams packed within very few points: seventh-ranked Brescia, for example, has one more than Andrea Pirlo’s men, while behind them are Pisa and Cittadella, within touching distance of overtaking.
Decisive, then, will be the last matches. Sampdoria urgently needs to return to winning to stay on the “train” that leads to the postseason: it has not even done so for 4 days, in which totaled only 3 points, the result of draws with Palermo, Spezia and Como. Last Saturday, the Ligurians stopped the run of the Lariani, favored to ascend to Serie A directly together with the leading Parma: it could have ended differently if Samp had resisted even in the final, but Cutrone’s goal in the 82nd minute blurred a success that would have been platinum. Pirlo cannot make any calculations in the trip to Lecco, the first relegation in chronological order in this Serie B. It has been a disastrous and trouble-strewn year for the Manzonians, back in more after more than a century through the very long Serie C playoffs. The team, however, despite frequent changes in technical guidance, never gave the feeling that it could maintain the category, and last Saturday also came the “judgment” of arithmetic following the heavy defeat in Parma (4-0).
Lecco-Sampdoria: the latest news on formations
Lecco coach Malgrati will definitely change something from the Parma match. In the defensive department he will recover two important pawns such as Lepore and Celjak, in the midfield instead Sersanti, Degli Innocenti and Ionita should play. Finally, the attack will be formed by Crociata, Novakovich and Buso.
On the other side, Pirlo could revolutionize the attack, since Esposito, Borini and De Luca will not be available. From 1′ Alvarez and Verre, considering that Pedrola is not yet ready to start.
The prediction
Sampdoria, on a month-long winless streak, has not lost on the road in five days. The blucerchiati are not shining but should be able to bend an already relegated team, which has lost 11 out of 17 games at home: the total goals will be at least three at the “Rigamonti-Ceppi”
The probable formations of Lecco-Sampdoria
LECCO (4-3-3): Melgrati; Lepore, Celjak, Bianconi, Caporale; Ionita, Degli Innocenti, Sersanti; Crociata, Novakovich, Buso.
SAMPDORIA (3-5-2): Stankovic; Piccini, Ghilardi, Gonzalez; Stojanovic, Darboe, Yepes, Kasami, Murru; Verre, Alvarez.
POSSIBLE RESULT: 1-3
