📊 Form Guide

Cesena

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Cesena will be hoping for a better result following a 2-0 Serie B loss in their previous game against Palermo.

In that match, Cesena managed 61% possession and 14 shots on goal with 3 on target. At the other end, Palermo got 17 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. Joel Pohjanpalo (9', 71') was the scorer for Palermo.

It has not been often in recent games where Cesena haven’t conceded. It will be a concern for them that Cesena have been scored against in 6 of their previous 6 games, leaking 11 goals on the way. Such a trend won’t necessarily be carried forward into this next game, though.

Taking a look at their past results, Cesena:

• have not lost a league tie with Sampdoria in their last 2 matches.
• are unbeaten in their previous 3 home league matches.

Sampdoria

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After being defeated in their last game at the hands of Monza in Serie B action, Sampdoria and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that game, Sampdoria managed 62% possession and 19 shots at goal with 8 on target. Monza had 15 shots on goal with 4 on target. Patrick Cutrone (5'), Giuseppe Caso (13') and Andrea Petagna (85') scored for Monza.

Attilio Lombardo's Sampdoria have fired home a total of 5 times in the course of their most recent sextet of matches. The aggregate of goals that they have conceded during those matches adds up to 7.

↔️ Head to head

A review of their prior head-to-head clashes stretching back to 06/03/2011 shows us that Cesena have won 3 of these games and Sampdoria 1, with the tally of drawn games being 2.

An aggregate of 21 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 11 of them from Cesena and 10 coming from i Blucerchiati. That is an average goals per game value of 3.5.

The previous league encounter between these sides was Serie B match day 3 on 13/09/2025 when it ended Sampdoria 1-2 Cesena.

On that day, Sampdoria managed 54% possession and 11 shots on goal with 1 on target. Their only player to score was Nicholas Ioannou (92').

On the other side, Cesena got 8 shots on goal with 3 on target. Michele Castagnetti (37') and Giovanni Zaro (53') scored.

The referee was Maurizio Mariani.

📰 Team News: Cesena

It seems likely that Cesena may well kick off with a 4-2-3-1 formation this time featuring Jonathan Klinsmann, Andrea Ciofi, Giovanni Zaro, Matteo Piacentini, Tommaso Corazza, Michele Castagnetti, Dimitri Bisoli, Cristian Shpendi, Tommaso Berti, Marco Olivieri and Alberto Cerri.

📋 Team News: Sampdoria

It’s our belief that i Blucerchiati might elect for a 4-3-3 formation, going with Tommaso Martinelli, Alessandro Di Pardo, Oliver Abildgaard, Mattia Viti, Simone Giordano, Francesco Conti, Salvatore Esposito, Liam Henderson, Tjas Begic, Matteo Brunori and Nicholas Pierini.

🧠 Prediction

Looking at these two teams, we feel that Sampdoria have the firepower to score a goal against this Cesena team, however it possibly won’t quite be as many as they will have scored against them.

We reckon that it will be a close game with a 2-1 winning score for Cesena at full-time. Expecting it to be very competitive.

Lucas Pereira, 13:06 25/04/2026