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Udinese vs Sampdoria Prediction & Betting tips
Udinese plays for the first time in this competition for his own audience against Sampdoria, which was not yet in action by the brigade in Genoa. Last season the mutual matches yielded many goals, Udinese won at home with 4-0, Sampdoria won at home with 2-1.
Udinese:
Udinese started the season with PhD student Parma. After a moderate first half, it went into a 1-0 deficit after Parma Inglese’s striker sent in both William Troost-Ekong and Bram Nuytinck. Udinese started strong in the second half, but even trailed 2-0 after keeper Simone Scuffet let the ball slip.
Udinese then turned the game around in four minutes. 65 minutes into the match, Rodrigo de Paul scored from a penalty after a handball, in the 69th minute Seko Fofana equalized after a fine cross by Kevin Lasagna. Udinese even got the better chances on three points, but eventually went home with a run.
In the meantime, Udinese also moved on to the transfer market. After winning Troost-Ekong last week, Lukasz Teodorczyk from Anderlecht also played on the last day, scoring fifteen times last season.
Sampdoria:
Just like for fellow townsman Genoa, the contest of Sampdoria was postponed because of the brugramp. Thus, both rival teams stood together brotherly during the state funeral of the victims.
However, Sampdoria still achieved a major boost just before the closing of the transfer market. Simone Zaza came from Valencia for fourteen million euros, the 27-year-old Italian managed to score nineteen times in 53 games. This purchase was desperately needed since Sampdoria saw many players leave this summer and because of that it was not as good as last year. Of the fixed values, the club lost Lucas Torreira, Emiliano Viviano, Ivan Strinic, Matias Silvestre and striker Duvan Zapata, for whom Zaza thus takes the place. That a goalkeeper was desperately needed was already seen in the cup match that Sampdoria played against third division Viterbese, in which it only scored once.
Udinese vs Sampdoria head to head matches
25.02.18 SA Sampdoria Udinese 2 : 1
30.09.17 SA Udinese Sampdoria 4 : 0
21.05.17 SA Udinese Sampdoria 1 : 1
22.12.16 SA Sampdoria Udinese 0 : 0
10.04.16 SA Sampdoria Udinese 2 : 0