Serie A: Lazio-Sampdoria 2-2 FT, as Immobile and Saponara exchange stoppage time goals
MATCH PREVIEW:
- Lazio have won their last four league games against Sampdoria, scoring an average of 3.8 goals per game in the process.
- Lazio are unbeaten at home against Sampdoria since January 2005, winning 10 and drawing two of their last 12 games against them.
- Lazio have scored in each of their last 13 games against Sampdoria on home soil (28 goals in total) – currently their longest run against a Serie A opponent.
- Lazio have shared three consecutive 1-1 draws – the last time they drew four Serie A games on the bounce came in 2003.
- Sampdoria won their last match, ending a run of five league games from which they had taken only two points.
- Over the last five match-days, games involving Sampdoria have seen a total of 22 goals scored (on average 4.4 goals per game).
- Lazio manager Simone Inzaghi has won each of his five Serie A games against Marco Giampaolo in his managerial career so far.
- Lazio’s Ciro Immobile has scored a brace in each of his last two league appearances against Sampdoria at the Olimpico.
- Lazio midfielder Joaquín Correa scored three goals in 31 league appearances for Sampdoria in 2015/16 – he has scored three goals and made one assist for Lazio in 13 games so far this campaign.
- Sampdoria’s striker Fabio Quagliarella has scored in each of the last four league appearances – he has never scored in five consecutive appearances in a single Serie A season.
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