Sampdoria-Roma is on the pitch for the tenth day of Serie A football
EVE:
On the day in which Lazio and Udinese stop each other,
Roma
flies to Genoa to face Dejan Stankovic's Sampdoria tomorrow.
Hence, Marassi's challenge becomes a great opportunity for Mourinho's Roma who with a victory could overcome both, reaching 22 points in Serie A. All this while remaining in the wake of Napoli, the next opponent of the Giallorossi.
But the Special One, which will still focus on Belotti instead of Abraham, warned the family about him before leaving and will do so again tomorrow morning in the muscle awakening: be careful to take the result for granted.
The concentration must remain high, if not only because the last trip won in Genoa against Sampdoria is the 1-0 last year with a goal from Mkhitaryan, but it is necessary to go as far as 2008 to see the Giallorossi win two consecutive home trips of the Sampdoria.
In short,
an away match that has always been difficult and complicated since the arrival of Stankovic, his first in front of the home fans and that Mourinho knows well having lived the treble with Inter together.
Friends who will turn into enemies for the next ninety minutes, in a match that will allow the Special One to embrace Rick Karsdorp again.
The Dutchman, stopped since mid-September for injury to the internal meniscus of his left knee, is back in the squad after a week of training with the team.
He does not have ninety minutes in his legs yet and the owner will leave Zalewski, but it could be one more solution during the match in progress, then waiting to take advantage of the week of training immediately after Sampdoria, which will not see midweek commitments for the Giallorossi.
Kumbulla can't do it instead,
the defender, after finishing in the stands in Seville for a muscle fatigue accused in the pre-Betis finish, did not start with the rest of the team and will be available for Napoli again.
Meanwhile, in Marassi the defense will be the usual one with Rui Patricio in goal and the trio of central players formed by Mancini, Smalling and Ibanez.
In midfield, however, the first doubts arrive, with El Shaarawy who could take the place of Spinazzola, while Zalewski will remain on the right.
At the center Camara is playing a chance in place of Matic, who came out battered on Thursday, while Cristante is sure of a place.
On the trocar we see Zaniolo alongside Pellegrini and behind Belotti in place of an Abraham in great difficulty.
The Gallo, after the goal in Europe, is looking for the first in the league,
It will be the first time for the new Sampdoria
coach
Dejan Stankovic at Ferraris, in front of the maestro Josè Mourinho, now commander of the Roma bench but in 2009-2010 coach of that Inter who won the treble and had Stankovic among its protagonists on the field.
Appointment tomorrow at 18.30 for a challenge that the new Sampdoria must give confirmation and confidence after the draw in Bologna.
And the former Red Star coach is also thinking of designing a Sampdoria with a different tactical face, trying to give more substance to the offensive department by focusing on 4-4-2 to try to annoy Roma in the last sixteen meters.
So Manolo Gabbiadini would pair up with Francesco Caputo while in this module the sacrificed would be Sabiri who would start from the bench and behind the offensive duo there would be Leris and Djuricic on the side lanes with Rincon and Vieira (the latter preferred in Villar thus ensuring greater physicality) at the heart of the game.
Stankovic worked on this tactical solution and it could be the big news of a Sampdoria that in defense will have to deal with the absence of Murillo who was injured in Bologna causing a muscle injury to his left thigh.
Certainly there is a need for points even if the opponent is one of the tough ones, but above all Stankovic asked and repeated to his boys that "the attitude is fundamental,
