Make alternate plans – it’s Samp v Chievo

Thursday’s defeat at Parma was drab and bleak. If you feel like punishing yourself for three minutes, you can have a look at the highlights here. Or, I could sum it up for you and save you the bother – Samp looked dreadfully ineffective going forward, and Pazzini, on the few occasions when a chance did come his way, looked a long, long way short of the Pazzo of last season.

Today, we face Mimmo Di Carlo’s old side, Chievo. They have scored a grand total of zero goals in their last three games, and Samp have scored one. By all accounts, it’s not shaping up to be a classic, especially when one considers that both teams will be missing their captain and main goal threat – Sergio Pellissier fulfills both roles for Chievo and is currently injured. We all know why our main goal threat is absent, and Angelo Palombo is also missing due to injury. I might jut sit this game out, as I can think of better things to do that watch a match that will almost certainly be utterly, utterly drab. Bets on for a 5-4 thriller then.

The latest in the Cassano mess was an appeal from the man himself to his teammates for support, and talk that a massive fine might get him back into the Samp good books. Garrone, however, seems as stubbornly unmoving as ever. Sigh. If you want to read more about it, have a look at this post in the Serie A blog.

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