Match Report
The table gap was wide: 35 points between Bologna (9th, 54 pts) and Sampdoria (20th, 19 pts). Scoring rates set the scale: Sampdoria 0.63 scored and 1.87 conceded per game, Bologna 1.39 and 1.29, with the league averaging 1.28.
Sampdoria had gone 7 games without a win.
23 previous meetings sit in the GioScore records — Sampdoria 7, draws 6, Bologna 10, at 2.91 goals per meeting. In 70% of the meetings, both sides found the net.
The venue was Stadio Comunale Luigi Ferraris in Genova, with room for 4,500 spectators. On the scoreboard, Bologna led 1-0 at the break; 2 second-half goals set the final 1-2.