The calendar leaves no time to catch up with Juventus after the overwhelming victory over Udinese: before the Italian Super Cup Sunday in Riyadh, against Lazio now rival also in the scudetto race, there is the championship advance with Sampdoria, tonight at Marassi . The doubt of Maurizio Sarri can be between the confirmation of the trio Dybala-Higuain-Ronaldo or the return to the Bernardeschi trequartista. The coach frames Sampdoria as a very insidious opponent. "It comes from the derby won, we know when the game in Genoa is important and I believe it has found enthusiasm and confidence, because it is pulling itself out of the critical ranking situations of a few weeks ago." It will be a "difficult game", as always happens when Ranieri sits on the opposing bench, observes Sarri: "He is a great coach. It will be a difficult game, a quality performance will be needed to bring the points home".
Ranieri, heart and lucidity with Juve - "We must play with heart and lucidity": this is Claudio Ranieri's anti Juve recipe. The coach of Sampdoria in view of tomorrow's advance at Ferraris is aware of the difficulties but aims at the enthusiasm of the team back from the victory in the derby: "We play with a super technical team, made up of great champions. Of course - he said -, having a few more days would have been useful, but we will make a virtue of necessity ". As for training choices, Ranieri said he was evaluating more solutions "because with Juventus we will have to run a lot and never stop. So I also evaluate rotations like those seen in the derby". Tomorrow morning, Ranieri will have the decisive test done at the Ekcc.
Possible lineups for Sampdoria-Juventus.
Sampdoria (4-4-2): 1 Audero; 18 Thorsby, 25 A.Ferrari, 15 Colley, 29 Murru; 12 Depaoli, 26 Leris, 7 Linetty, 14 Jankto; 27 Quagliarella, 23 Gabbiadini. (22 Seculin, 30 Falcone, 21 Murillo, 5 Chabot, 3 Augello, 19 Regini, 11 Ramirez, 20 Maroni, 6 Ekdal, 10 Rigoni, 17 Caprari). All .: Ranieri. Suspended: Vieira. Beware: Depaoli, Ferrari, Colley. Unavailable: Barreto, Bereszynski, Bertolacci, Bonazzoli. Juventus (4-3-1-2): 77 Buffon, 16 Cuadrado, 19 Bonucci, 4 de Ligt, 12 Alex Sandro, 23 Emre Can, 5 Pjanic, 25 Rabiot, 33 Bernardeschi, 21 Higuain, 7 Ronaldo. (31 Pinsoglio, 37 Perin, 2 De Sciglio, 8 Ramsey, 10 Dybala, 11 Douglas Costa, 13 Danilo, 14 Matuidi, 20 Pjaca, 24 Rugani, 28 Demiral, 38 Mason, 39 Portanova). All .: Sarri. Beware: none Suspended: Bentancur Unavailable: Szczesny, Chiellini, Khedira Referee: Rocchi from Florence Snai odds: 7.00 4.50 1.45