On Sunday afternoon, two of the teams struggling for results in Serie A, Salernitana host Sampdoria at the Stadio Arechi.
Salernitana are enduring a woeful Serie A campaign this season and are currently in 19th place in the Italian top-flight table. The home team have won just two of their 12 matches in the Italian top-flight.
In fact, the Granata have lost four of their previous five league games. Last time out, they suffered a 3-0 defeat at Lazio.
The defeat in Rome followed a familiar high-scoring trend for Salernitana, as four of their previous five Serie A have produced over 2.5 goals.
Stefano Colantuono’s team have won just one of their six home games this season in the Italian top-flight, suffering four defeats in the process.
The home team’s position in the table is not surprising, as no team in Serie A has scored fewer goals this season. Meanwhile, no team has conceded more than Salernitana’s tally of 26 this term in the Italian top-flight.
Sampdoria are in the relegation zone courtesy of an inferior goal difference to city rivals Genoa, who occupy 17th place. The Blucerchiati have won just one of their last eight matches in the Italian top-flight, having suffered six defeats in the process.
The visitors have struggled to keep the opposition out of late, as Roberto D’Aversa’s team has now conceded at least two goals in seven of their previous eight matches in Serie A.
Sampdoria unsurprisingly has a poor recent away record in Serie A, losing five of their last eight matches on their travels in the Italian top-flight.
A 3-0 defeat at Torino in their last away match in the Italian top-flight, means that Samp have suffered three straight away league defeats, conceding at least three goals in all three defeats.
Forebet predicts that Sampdoria will pick up a potentially pivotal victory in a high-scoring encounter to kick-start their Serie A campaign.