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Sampdoria vs Chievo

Serie A, Italy

Date: 22 November, 2009

Stadium: Comunale Luigi Ferraris

After a fine start to the season, Samp are falling down, it was long time since they last scored, defeat, or better shipwreck against Juventus killed their confidence. You would remember we spoke about Del Neri’s greatest risk and his team’s greatest weakness. Simply, they rely too much on Cassano. He can’t keep his form on the same level whole season, if he could, he would be the best player in the world. As soon as he lost the tempo, troubles came knocking. Chievo, who are having a great season, are coming to Marassi on Sunday. However, Cheivo ruined the impression a bit with Parma loss but the Flying Dnkeys have already collected plenty of away points and it is not a real problems. Now, Cheivo will surely cut no slack to their former manager who got Chievo’s name on the Italian football map in the first place. After the break in Torino, they played draw with Bari in a home game they deserved to lose. The audience booed Cassano, he threatened to leave and the entire atmosphere changed overnight. That is exactly the main reason why Sampdoria are not amongst the biggest clubs in Italy. They have a good fan base but no power to hold the pressure. They lost at Sardinia in the last round, fatigue was obvious, it is as if they didn’t  have enough will nor motivation to do anything. We can freely say that break came at the right time for them. At the beginning of the season, they even announced Champions League fight, but Del Neri claimed it was the unrealistic prospect aiming the mid-table finish and Euro Cups possibly. The will boost his squad in the winter, he lacks couple of players in the back line, Semioli who arrived to be the main pillar of defense got hardly injured. The former Italian international will be out of the pitch against his former club, Padalino is also missing, while the Lithuanian Stankevicius is suspended. It will surely cause some tactical alterations and the return to 4-4-2.Before the loss in Parma, they won three out of four away games. They beat teams that will be fighting for survival this year and it is a huge capital for spring. Unlike most people, we haven’t doubted Chievo’s qualities, we stand firmly behind the idea that the system is of importance not the individual solutions. They have couple of good players, rest of the team consists of either obscure or players not needed in big clubs. There is a fine chemistry in Verona side, the team play well, they can be a worthy opponents capable of scoring goals. All players work well together, two years ago they made a great result having won the Serie B title making an express return to the elite. They are now picking the fruits of their work. They deserve more than just 15 points, just remember the way they lost to Lazio and Milan at hteri Bentegodi. Still, they gwt it all back away. Rigoni, Mora, Frey and Bogdani will be out for a Sunday game, the last two are first team regulars although ‘El Diablo’ Granoche is a fine replacement for the Albanian. That is why their game will not duffer much. If the game opens up properly and the teams keep up a tempo it will be an enjoying afternoon in Genoa. That is why we will go for over 2.5 even though Samp had a plenty of problems lately. We expect them to lower their guard, a point means little to them, they will play to win. Also, Cheivo are not a defending type so you can try goals, the odds are solid. We will post live score and results of this match, as soon as posible.. stay with us.

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