Udinese and Sampdoria will play on Saturday the 5th of March at 3:00 pm in the 28th week of the Serie A. The match is going to be staged in Udine at the Dacia Arena. The encounter will be officiated by Massimiliano Irrati.

Udinese occupies the 14th place in the table with 26 points. It comes from a 1-1 draw against Milan in its last match in the Serie A. Until now, it has won 5 times, draw 11 times, and lost 9 times.​​

Sampdoria sits in the 15th place in the league with 26 points. It comes from a 4-0 loss against Atalanta in its last match in the Serie A. So far, it has won 7 times, draw 5 times, and lost 15 times.​​

Line-ups predictions​

These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.​

Udinese​

Line - Ups​
3-5-2
22 May
Salernitana-Udinese
0-4
3-5-2
14 May
Udinese-Spezia
2-3
3-5-2
07 May
Sassuolo-Udinese
1-1
3-5-2
01 May
Udinese-Inter
1-2
3-5-2
27 Apr
Fiorentina-Udinese
0-4
3-5-2
24 Apr
Bologna-Udinese
2-2
3-5-2
20 Apr
Udinese-Salernitana
0-1
3-5-2
16 Apr
Udinese-Empoli
4-1
3-5-2
10 Apr
Venezia-Udinese
1-2
3-5-2
03 Apr
Udinese-Cagliari
5-1
3-5-2
19 Mar
Napoli-Udinese
2-1
3-5-2
13 Mar
Udinese-Roma
1-1
3-5-2
05 Mar
Udinese-Sampdoria
2-1
3-5-2
25 Feb
Milan-Udinese
1-1
3-5-2
20 Feb
Udinese-Lazio
1-1
3-5-2
13 Feb
Hellas Verona-Udinese
4-0
3-5-2
06 Feb
Udinese-Torino
2-0
3-5-2
22 Jan
Genoa-Udinese
0-0
3-5-2
15 Jan
Juventus-Udinese
2-0
5-4-1
09 Jan
Udinese-Atalanta
2-6
3-5-2
18 Dec
Cagliari-Udinese
0-4
3-5-2
11 Dec
Udinese-Milan
1-1
4-4-2
06 Dec
Empoli-Udinese
3-1
4-4-2
02 Dec
Lazio-Udinese
4-4
3-4-2-1
28 Nov
Udinese-Genoa
0-0
3-4-2-1
22 Nov
Torino-Udinese
2-1
4-4-2
07 Nov
Udinese-Sassuolo
3-2
3-4-2-1
31 Oct
Inter-Udinese
2-0
3-4-2-1
27 Oct
Udinese-Hellas Verona
1-1
5-4-1
24 Oct
Atalanta-Udinese
1-1
3-5-2
17 Oct
Udinese-Bologna
1-1
3-5-2
03 Oct
Sampdoria-Udinese
3-3
3-5-2
26 Sep
Udinese-Fiorentina
0-1
3-5-2
23 Sep
Roma-Udinese
1-0
3-5-2
20 Sep
Udinese-Napoli
0-4
3-5-2
12 Sep
Spezia-Udinese
0-1
3-5-1-1
27 Aug
Udinese-Venezia
3-0
3-5-1-1
22 Aug
Udinese-Juventus
2-2

Udinese has mostly adopted the 3-5-2 line-up most used during the season (14 times or 56.00%).

Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-5-2 (14 times), 3-4-2-1 (4 times), 4-4-2 (3 times), 5-4-1 (2 times) and 3-5-1-1 (2 times).

Gabriele Cioffi is expected to play against Sampdoria with the following players: M. Silvestri, R. Nascimiento Franca, N. Pérez, I. Udogie, M. Palumbo, T. Arslan, W. Souza Silva, R. Pereyra, N. Molina Lucero, I. Pussetto and G. Deulofeu Lázaro.

Suppose that this will be the line-up, the resulting average age of Udinese would be 26.27.

B. Nuytinck and J. Larsen will definitely miss the match.

Sampdoria​

Line - Ups​
4-1-4-1
22 May
Inter-Sampdoria
3-0
4-1-4-1
16 May
Sampdoria-Fiorentina
4-1
4-1-4-1
07 May
Lazio-Sampdoria
2-0
4-1-4-1
30 Apr
Sampdoria-Genoa
1-0
4-1-4-1
23 Apr
Hellas Verona-Sampdoria
1-1
4-3-1-2
16 Apr
Sampdoria-Salernitana
1-2
4-1-3-2
11 Apr
Bologna-Sampdoria
2-0
4-1-3-2
03 Apr
Sampdoria-Roma
0-1
4-3-1-2
20 Mar
Venezia-Sampdoria
0-2
4-3-1-2
12 Mar
Sampdoria-Juventus
1-3
4-3-1-2
05 Mar
Udinese-Sampdoria
2-1
3-4-1-2
28 Feb
Atalanta-Sampdoria
4-0
4-3-1-2
19 Feb
Sampdoria-Empoli
2-0
4-4-1-1
13 Feb
Milan-Sampdoria
1-0
4-3-1-2
06 Feb
Sampdoria-Sassuolo
4-0
4-3-1-2
23 Jan
Spezia-Sampdoria
1-0
4-2-3-1
15 Jan
Sampdoria-Torino
1-2
4-4-2
09 Jan
Napoli-Sampdoria
1-0
4-4-2
06 Jan
Sampdoria-Cagliari
1-2
4-4-2
22 Dec
Roma-Sampdoria
1-1
4-3-1-2
19 Dec
Sampdoria-Venezia
1-1
4-4-2
10 Dec
Genoa-Sampdoria
1-3
4-4-2
05 Dec
Sampdoria-Lazio
1-3
4-4-2
30 Nov
Fiorentina-Sampdoria
3-1
4-4-2
27 Nov
Sampdoria-Hellas Verona
3-1
4-4-2
21 Nov
Salernitana-Sampdoria
0-2
4-4-2
07 Nov
Sampdoria-Bologna
1-2
3-1-4-2
30 Oct
Torino-Sampdoria
3-0
4-3-3
27 Oct
Sampdoria-Atalanta
1-3
4-4-2
22 Oct
Sampdoria-Spezia
2-1
4-4-1-1
17 Oct
Cagliari-Sampdoria
3-1
4-4-2
03 Oct
Sampdoria-Udinese
3-3
4-4-2
26 Sep
Juventus-Sampdoria
3-2
4-4-2
23 Sep
Sampdoria-Napoli
0-4
4-4-2
19 Sep
Empoli-Sampdoria
0-3
4-4-2
12 Sep
Sampdoria-Inter
2-2
4-2-3-1
29 Aug
Sassuolo-Sampdoria
0-0
4-4-2
23 Aug
Sampdoria-Milan
0-1

Sampdoria has mostly adopted the 4-4-2 line-up most used during the season (16 times or 59.26%).

Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-4-2 (16 times), 4-3-1-2 (4 times), 4-4-1-1 (2 times), 4-2-3-1 (2 times), 3-4-1-2 (once), 3-1-4-2 (once) and 4-3-3 (once).

Marco Giampaolo is expected to play against Udinese with the following players: T. Farabegoli, W. Falcone, B. Bereszyński, M. Yoshida, O. Colley, N. Murru, A. Candreva, A. Ekdal, A. Sabiri and F. Caputo.

Suppose that the line up is confirmed as above, the average age of Sampdoria would be 30.10.

Marco Giampaolo will probably not be able to employ I. Saio and F. Quagliarella because of injury.

K. Askildsen, M. Damsgaard and M. Gabbiadini will definitely miss the match.

Marco Giampaolo will not be able to have the presence of M. Thorsby who is suspended​​.