SAMPDORIA v CHIEVO – Pick: 1 – 24 September 2014

Steady Samp too strong for Chievo

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Football – Italy – Serie A

Wednesday 24th September 2014 – Kickoff: 2045hrs

Sampdoria will be looking to keep their unbeaten start to the new Serie A season going when they host Chievo Verona in Wednesday night’s encounter.

A 2-0 home win over Torino has been sandwiched by two away draws so far as they’ve secured points on the road at Palermo 1-1 and Sassuolo 0-0, and having won the previous three encounters with Chievo, I daresay they’ll be keen to keep this particular head-to-head record going too.

Samp are actually unbeaten in their last four Serie A matches overall although this does include three draws within this sequence, while their last home win of last season was incidentally against tonight’s opponents, Sampdoria running out 2-1 winners on that occasion.

Sampdoria also held a good record at home against bottom half teams last season as they won 6 of their 9 matches against such opposition, along with 1 draw and 2 defeats.

 

Visitors Chievo Verona have lost both of their opening home matches with defeats to Juventus 0-1 and Parma 2-3 but they did win their first away match of the season when they went to Napoli and registered a surprising 1-0 win against their hosts who have started the new Serie A season very slowly indeed.

With a win over Cagliari in their last away match of last season, Chievo are actually chasing a third successive away win here tonight, but the hosts hold a good record over them in recent clashes and it will be no easy task to get the three points tonight I feel.

Chievo finished last season with a poor away record of  4-4-11  15/32 and they finished just four points and two positions above the relegation zone.

 

Sampdoria have been pretty steady of late so I’ll back them to register a second home win on the trot tonight, perhaps edging this one 1-0.

Pick: Sampdoria straight win @ 1.95 Bet Victor