Sampdoria vs Crotone Predictions, 21 Oct 2017

The Match Is Over. Score: 5-0

Sampdoria v Crotone Predictions for Saturday's 5.00pm kick-off Italian Serie A league fixture set to face hosts Sampdoria and a Crotone team at Stadio Luigi Ferraris. Sampdoria and Crotone have played each other eight times. The total number of goals has never fallen below 1 or exceeded 3 in any of these matches.

Match status: 2017-18 Serie A - Matchweek 9
Kick-off: Saturday 21 Oct 2017, 05:00pm GMT
Venue: "Stadio Luigi Ferraris" in Janov, Italy

Sampdoria v Crotone Team News

Crotone have scored 5 goals and taken 5 points in the last 3 games played, an improvement from the start of the season when they scored just 1 goal and only won 1 point in the first 5 games.

Sampdoria have not managed to score a single goal in the 1st half of the 3 last games played. Crotone, on their hand, have scored just twice in the 1st half of the first 8 matches played this season.

Sampdoria forward Fabio Quagliarella started the season in great form, scoring 4 in 3 matches. Since then, he has played 305 minutes in 4 games, scoring 0 goals.

Crotone are playing just their second-ever season in the top division in Italy. Their current return of 6 goals scored in 8 is on par with last season, in which they managed 34 in 38 matches. The now-departed striker Diego Falcinelli (Sassuolo) scored 13 of those goals.

Teams' Possible Starting Lineups:

Sampdoria: Puggioni - Strinic, Regini, Silvestre, Bereszynski - Praet, Torreira, Barreto - Ramirez - Quagliarella, Zapata (4-3-1-2 formation)

Crotone: Cordaz - Martella, Ajeti, Ceccherini, Sampirisi - Stoian, Barberis, Mandragora, Rohden - Trotta, Budimir (4-4-2 formation)

Missing Players of Sampdoria and Crotone:

Sampdoria: No missing players.

Crotone: Aleksandar Tonev.

Head-to-Head Serie A Record: Sampdoria v Crotone

2016-17 Italy Serie A
Sampdoria 1-2 Crotone

2016-17 Italy Serie A
Crotone 1-1 Sampdoria

2011-12 Italy Serie B
Crotone 1-0 Sampdoria

2011-12 Italy Serie B
Sampdoria 2-0 Crotone