AS Roma must win to shift Lazio and Udinese in the Serie A standings.
AS Roma look into this match with full of confidence after winning over Inter Milan and beating Lecce. Meanwhile, Sampdoria must win at the Stadio Luigi Ferraris in order to maintain the chance to stay outside the relegation zone, although it is difficult for Sampdoria to beat AS Roma who are in a good trend.
It will be an interesting match as both teams are looking to win. Let's see who will manage to get the three points or they have to settle for sharing the points.
The performance of the Roma team is completely erratic. They are not playing well consistently. So it is very difficult to make a prediction about the Roma match. Roma has won their last two matches in Serie A. Roma have won their last two matches against Lecche and Inter Milan. In today's match, the Sampdoria team is the last team in the table. And so I think Mourinho will not make any mistakes in today's match. The Roma team will get three points in this match and continue to fight for the title. Since the opponent is very weak. Roma should win today's match by at least 2 goals difference.
Roma is performing very carefully in today's match. The opponent is very weak. However, Roma is playing completely defensively today. I don't understand why Mourinho has adopted such a strategy. Perhaps because Roma's opponents are so strong in the next few matches, they don't want any player in their squad against Sampdoria to be injured. And so Mourinho decided to play a defensive strategy in this match.
Roma scored from a penalty in the 9th minute of the match. And for 40 minutes I didn't see any more attacks from the Roma players. While Sampdoria's players made several attacks, Roma's players concentrated on keeping their defense strong.