Football Data: All the key statistics on Sampdoria v Cagliari

The leading Italian statistics agency on national and international football has provided some facts and figures on Sunday’s contest at the Marassi.

Giampaolo on the verge of 100 positive results in Serie A. Marco Giampaolo has picked up points in 99 of the 180 games in Serie A that he’s taken charge of (48 wins and 51 draws) and will be looking to make it 100 tomorrow afternoon. His first-ever point was from a 2-2 draw in Cagliari v Livorno back on 20 September 2006.

The bench continues to fire for Doria. After 24 games in Serie A 2016/17, Sampdoria are leading the way for goals scored from the bench with eight: Patrick Schick has five of them, Bruno Fernandes three.

Two years since Samp have won four on the bounce. Sampdoria are coming into this match on the back of three wins: 3-2 at home to Roma, 1-0 away against Milan and last week’s 3-1 win versus Bologna. You have to go back to March 2015 for the last time the Blucerchiati made it four in a row in the top flight.

Cagliari haven’t scored at Marassi for over three matches. In total, it’s been 313 minutes since Sunday’s opposition found the net at the Stadio Luigi Ferraris: Daniele Dessena was the last player for the Sardinian club to score at Samp’s home when he struck early in the second half in Sampdoria 0-1 Cagliari on 28 October 2012. After the remainder of that particular match, there was a 1-0 win for Samp in 2013/14, a 2-0 win in 2014/15 and this season’s 3-0 victory in the Coppa Italia.