Wednesday evening an under performing Inter will take on high flying Sampdoria. Sinisa Mihajlovic’s men currently lie 4th in the table with 16 points after 8 matches. Full of confidence after drawing with Roma a real test for Mazzarri with Inter sitting 8th on 12 points. Here is a preview courtesy of @InterStats.
Sampdoria
- Founded in 1946 after the collaboration of two sides forming Sampdoria.
- Italian champions in 1990/91.
- The last time Sampdoria started the season as good as this they won the Scudetto.
- Other honours are 4 x Coppa Italia winners and 1 Italian super cup.
- In 1992 Sampdoria reached the Champions League final losing to FC Barcelona.
- Average age of the squad is 25,8 according to transfermarkt.it
- Most valuable player Manolo Gabbiadini €11 million according to transfermarkt.it
- €92 million the total market value according to transfermarkt.it
- Unbeaten this season, won 4 drawn 4.
- Only Juve(6) and Roma(6) have kept more clean sheets than Sampdoria (5) in Serie A this season. (Opta)
- Sampdoria have only won one of their last 8 Serie A away games, unbeaten in the last five. (Opta)
Inter
- Inter have conceded six goals at home in their last two games in Serie A, as many as they conceded in their previous 11 matches at home. (Opta)
- Career goals v Sampdoria: Palacio (4) Icardi (2) Guarin (2) Mbaye (2) Osvaldo (1) Hernanes (1)
- Samir Handanovic is in line to make his 80th Serie A appearance for Inter.
- Mauro Icardi appearance v Cesena was his 30th Serie A appearance for Inter.
- Rodrigo Palacio is still looking for his 30th Serie A goal for Inter.
- 7 consecutive games without scoring for Palacio. longest goal drought since joining Inter.
- Inter are still 6 home Serie A wins away from 1000 victories.
Head to Head
- Sampdoria’s last win against Inter in Serie A was in 2009.
- Sampdoria have never scored more than two goals against Inter in any of the last 20 meetings in Serie A.(Opta)
- 1996 was the last time Sampdoria took 3 points from Inter at the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza. (Opta)
- Mauro Icardi bagged two goals v Sampdoria in the last meeting which ended 4,0.
- 126 meetings between the two sides. Inter have W 65 D 41 L 20
- In those 126 meetings Inter have scored 217 conceding 105.
- At home in Serie A Inter have W 34 D 16 L 7. GF 110 GC 50
- 2nd of February 1947 was the first encounter. Ended 2,1 Inter.
- 25th of March 1956 Inter won 7,1, Inter’s biggest win over Sampdoria.
- Last season Inter drew 1,1 with Sampdoria at home.
- Sampdoria have only won two of the last 10 meetings between the two sides.
- Three of the last four meetings at the San Siro have ended in a draw.
- Palacio scores Inter wins. Since he signed, Inter have beaten Sampdoria 3 times and drawn 1. Palacio scored in all 3 victories.
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