Venezia vs Sampdoria Predictions

• The two teams drew 1-1 in December’s return fixture.
• Both teams have scored in seven of Venezia’s last nine matches.
• Neither team looks worth backing on the win markets, with both on three-match losing runs.

Three-pointer awaits out-of-form sides

Venezia and Sampdoria go into Sunday’s relegation six-pointer having each lost three games on the spin, with the hosts managing just one win in 12 outings and Sampdoria winning two of their last 13. With just four points separating the strugglers, and Venezia possessing a game in hand, Sunday’s clash could go a long way to deciding who ends up in Serie B next term.

Paolo Zanetti’s Venezia look to be in serious danger, conceding 20 goals in 10 matches since the turn of the year to slip into the relegation places. Venezia have not been struggling to find the net of late, scoring in six of their last eight games, but an inability to keep goals out at the other end is harming their chances of survival, and both teams have now scored in seven of their last nine games.

Sampdoria, meanwhile, found the net in losses to Udinese and Juventus in their last two outings, but have proven equally porous, shipping nine goals in their last three games, all of them defeats. Samp have now kept just two clean sheets in their last 18 matches, and their tally of 51 goals conceded in Serie A is only one fewer than Sunday’s hosts.

Both teams can net in vital encounter

Indeed, Roberto D’Aversa’s visitors have the fifth-worst defensive record in Serie A, and Venezia have the fourth-worst. With both teams looking increasingly vulnerable in recent weeks, backing both teams to score, a winning bet in almost all of Venezia’s recent contests, looks prudent.

Meanwhile, a repeat of the two sides’ earlier 1-1 stalemate could prove a decent correct score prediction, with Sunday’s clash representing a ‘must-not-lose’ scenario for both.

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