Two sides sitting down in the bottom half of the table in Serie A will clash this weekend as Sassuolo welcome Sampdoria to the Mapei Stadium - Città del Tricolore.
This fixture is set to be a very close encounter as neither side has really been able to progress on from any sort of consistency in the 2021/22 campaign.
Sassuolo are currently in the midst of further topsy-turvy form as the club have only won one game since the turn of 2022 and this comes off the back of getting just one win inside the hectic month of December as they managed to beat Lazio in stunning fashion back in the middle of the month.
A draw with Fiorentina and a damning defeat to Bologna on home soil would come as Sassuolo ended 2022 in torrid form, and in early 2022, the club would regain a bit of momentum.
A 1-1 draw with Genoa in what was a fairly lacklustre performance would come thereafter, and it sent Sassuolo crashing towards the relegation zone.
However, in direct contrast to this, the club would tear apart the in-form Empoli 5-1 as Domenico Berardi sent the club off on one of the performances of the past few years.
Giacomo Raspadori and Gianluca Scamacca would both bag braces in the game too as the Black and Greens moved a little further away from the bottom three.
On the other hand - and what all but sums up their season so far - the club would then concede four goals to Hellas Verona in a 4-2 defeat, before narrowly beating relegation-threatened Cagliari in the Coppa Italia. Sassuolo would then draw with Torino 1-1 in another lacklustre game.
Needless to say, it does now put the club on a near exact record this season as the club have won seven games, drawn eight, and lost eight also, while they have scored 39 and conceded 38.
As for Sampdoria, they haven't won in six games since beating Genoa in the league and then Torino in the Coppa Italia and the club have since gone on to lose four and draw two, but the four defeats have all come on the bounce in the last few games and thus making them one of Serie A's most out-of-form sides.
The two are fairly matched and not much separates them in the table. However, the form guide is certainly with Sassuolo and Forebet predicts they will win here in a game that sees over 2.5 goals.