GENOVA. Sampdoria bested Torino to win 2-1. It was Sampdoria to strike first with a penalty of F. Quagliarella at the 16′. Then it was a penalty in the 54′ minute to make things even for 1-1. Eventually, V. Verre gave the win to Sampdoria in the 60′ minute with a goal. Torino was surely better in terms of ball possession (65%).​

The match was played at the Stadio Comunale Luigi Ferraris stadium in Genova on Thursday and it started at 9:00 pm local time. The referee was Marco Piccinini with the collaboration of Daisuke Emanuele Yoshikawa and Paolo Laudato. The 4th official was Alessandro Prontera. The weather was clear. The temperature was quite cold at 2.9 degrees Celsius or 37.2 Fahrenheit. The humidity was 70%.​

Match Statistics​

Ball possession

Torino was in firm control of the ball 65% while Sampdoria was struggling with a 35% ball possession.

Attitude and shots

Torino was more pushing with 43 dangerous attacks and 14 shots of which 4 were on target. Nonetheless, Sampdoria managed to find the solution to win this encounter.​

Sampdoria shot 9 times, 3 on target, 6 off target. On the other side, Torino shot 14 times, 4 on target, 10 off target.

Cards

Sampdoria received 5 yellow cards (J. Chabot, R. Ciervo, N. Murru, K. Askildsen and A. Silva). Talking about the opposition, Torino received 2 yellow cards (I. Juric and A. Buongiorno).

Standings

After this encounter, Sampdoria has points to occupy the 0th place in the standings. Regarding the opposition, Torino stays with points (0th).

Next matches

Sampdoria – Formation

Sampdoria started with a 4-4-1-1 line-up (4-4-1-1).

The manager Roberto D\’Aversa decided to play with the following team: Wladimiro Falcone (6.9), Radu Drăguşin (7.1), Alex Ferrari (7.1), Julian Chabot (6.4), Nicola Murru (6.4), Fabio Depaoli (6.4), Morten Thorsby (6.6), Kristoffer Askildsen (6.8), Riccardo Ciervo (6.4), Valerio Verre (7.8) and Fabio Quagliarella (7.3).

The home team had on the bench: Manolo Gabbiadini (6.5), Tommaso Augello, Nicola Ravaglia, Emil Audero, Adrien Silva (6.6), Bartosz Bereszyński, Simone Trimboli, Maya Yoshida, Antonio Candreva (6.8), Gerard Yepes, Omar Colley (6.6) and Francesco Caputo (6.6).

Substitutions

Sampdoria made 5 changes: M. Thorsby for A. Silva (46′), R. Ciervo for A. Candreva (70′), J. Chabot for O. Colley (70′), F. Quagliarella for F. Caputo (71′) and V. Verre for M. Gabbiadini (81′).

Best player: Valerio Verre​

The player that probably impressed the most for Sampdoria was Valerio Verre.

His rating is (7.8) with 1 goal, 23 passes (65% accurate) and 3 key passes. He was won 8 duels out of 13. He performed 2 crosses.

Torino – Formation

Torino started with an extremely aggressive line-up (3-4-3).

Ivan Juric played with: Etrit Berisha (6.2), Armando Izzo (6.8), Tomás Rincón (6.2), Alessandro Buongiorno (6.5), Ola Aina (6.9), Rolando Mandragora (7.6), Karol Linetty (6.8), Cristian Ansaldi (6.5), Josip Brekalo (6.8), Simone Zaza (6.7) and Daniele Baselli (7.7).

These were the players on the bench: Saša Lukić, Ricardo Rodríguez (6.8), David Zima, Ben Lhassine Kone (6.6), Dennis Praet (6.4), Luca Gemello, Marko Pjaca (6.9), Wilfried Singo, Vanja Milinković-Savić, Antonio Sanabria, Magnus Warming (6.6) and Mergim Vojvoda.

Substitutions

Torino made 5 changes: K. Linetty for M. Warming (61′), J. Brekalo for M. Pjaca (70′), A. Buongiorno for R. Rodriguez (70′), R. Mandragora for B. L. Kone (80′) and O. Aina for D. Praet (80′).

Best player: Daniele Baselli​

The player that probably impressed the most for Torino was Daniele Baselli.

His rating is (7.7) with 88 passes (81% accurate) and 3 key passes. He was won 5 duels out of 7. He performed 5 crosses.

Results of the day

These are the results of the day in the Coppa Italia.​

• Spezia – Lecce – 0-2
• Sampdoria – Torino – 2-1