BRESCIA. Brescia prevails over Sampdoria 3-1. Brescia was just to good to grab a decisive 3-0 lead with Alexander Jallow (10′), Gennaro Borrelli (34′) and Birkir Bjarnason (41′). Sampdoria reduced the distance with a goal (86′) by Simone Giordano, but there was not much to do for them. Sampdoria was decisively better in terms of ball possession (62%).
The match was played at the Stadio Mario Rigamonti stadium in Brescia on Sunday and it started at 4:15 pm local time. In front of 6,346 spectators. The referee was Manuel Volpi with the support of Marco Trinchieri and . The 4th official was Roberto Lovison. The weather was broken clouds. The temperature was quite cold at 5.74 degrees Celsius or 42.33 Fahrenheit. The humidity was 47%.
Match Statistics
Ball possession
Sampdoria had a superior ball possession 62% while Brescia was struggling with a 38% ball possession.
Attitude and shots
Sampdoria was more pushing with 48 dangerous attacks and 9 shots of which 3 were on target. Even so, Brescia was able to find the solution to win this match.
Brescia shot 13 times, 4 on target, 6 off target. On the opposite side, Sampdoria shot 9 times, 3 on target, 4 off target.
Cards
Brescia received 4 yellow cards (Davide Adorni, Matthieu Huard, Alexander Jallow and Andrea Cistana). Talking about the opposition, Sampdoria received 3 yellow cards (Pajtim Kasami, Gerard Yepes and Fabio Depaoli).
Match Timeline
Standings
After playing this encounter, Brescia has 18 points like Pisa and Bari 1908 to hold in the 11th place. On the opposite side, Sampdoria will stays with 16 points like Reggiana and Lecco to sit in the 14th place.
Next matches
In the next match in the Sampdoria will play away against Bari 1908 on the 16th of March with a 3-1 head to head stats in favor of Sampdoria (2 draws).
Brescia – Formation
Brescia
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46'
41'
Brescia started with a 3-4-2-1 line-up (3-4-2-1).
The manager Rolando Maran decided to play with the following team: Luca Lezzerini , Davide Adorni , Andrea Cistana , Massimiliano Mangraviti , Lorenzo Dickmann , Nicolas Galazzi , Dimitri Bisoli , Tom Van De Looi , Alexander Jallow , Gennaro Borrelli and Birkir Bjarnason .
The home team had on the bench: Matthieu Huard , Fabrizio Paghera, Flavio Bianchi , Gabriele Moncini , Riccardo Fogliata , Lorenzo Andrenacci, Matteo Ferro, Andrea Papetti and Michele Besaggio.
Substitutions
Brescia made 5 changes: Davide Adorni for Andrea Papetti (46′), Nicolas Galazzi for Riccardo Fogliata (81′), Gennaro Borrelli for Gabriele Moncini (75′), Birkir Bjarnason for Flavio Bianchi (70′) and Alexander Jallow for Matthieu Huard (70′).
Player of the match: Nicolas Galazzi
As per our analysis, the most impressive player for Brescia was Nicolas Galazzi even if he didn’t score any goal.
His rating is with 27 passes (96% accurate) and 4 key passes. He won 3 duels out of 7. He performed 6 crosses.
Sampdoria – Formation
Sampdoria
Sampdoria started with a christmas tree line-up (4-3-2-1).
Andrea Pirlo played with: Filip Stankovic , Fabio Depaoli , Daniele Ghilardi , Facundo González , Simone Giordano , Pajtim Kasami , Gerard Yepes , Ronaldo Vieira , Sebastiano Esposito , Valerio Verre and Manuel De Luca .
They had on the bench: Kristoffer Askildsen , Simone Panada, Matteo Ricci , Andrea Conti, Antonino La Gumina , Nicola Ravaglia, Nicola Murru, Stefano Girelli, Lorenzo Costantino, Petar Stojanovic , Andrea Dacourt and Marco Delle Monache .
Sampdoria could not rely on the presence of Kristoffer Askildsen (injured).
Substitutions
Sampdoria made 5 changes: Gerard Yepes for Matteo Ricci (71′), Pajtim Kasami for Petar Stojanovic (71′), Sebastiano Esposito for Antonino La Gumina (81′), Ronaldo Vieira for Kristoffer Askildsen (30′) and Valerio Verre for Marco Delle Monache (71′).
Player of the match: Simone Giordano
The player that probably impressed the most for Sampdoria was Simone Giordano.
His rating is with 1 goal, 44 passes (84% accurate) and 0 key passes. He won 1 duel out of 1. He performed 8 crosses.
Results of the day
These are the results of the day in the Serie B.
