Serie A | Udinese 2-0 Sampdoria: Blucerchiati in Serie B

Udinese made short work of sorry Sampdoria with Roberto Pereyra and Adam Masina goals, mathematically relegating the Genoese club.

The Dacia Arena was the venue for Napoli to win the Scudetto last week and just four days later it saw the Blucerchiati doomed to the drop.

The hosts were still missing Beto, Isaac Success, Gerard Deulofeu, Enzo Ebosse and Kingsley Ehizibue. Dejan Stankovic had Bruno Amione suspended, Emil Audero, Andrea Conti, Mehdi Leris, Ignacio Pussetto, Abdelhamid Sabiri and Gerard Yepes injured.

Ilija Nestorovski’s header was fingertipped out from under the crossbar by Nicola Ravaglia in the opening three minutes, then the same striker’s acrobatic overhead kick was smothered.

Samp had a series of corners, but one of them sparked a rapid counter-attack with Festy Ebosele running the entire length of the pitch, his through ball allowing Roberto Pereyra to spring the offside trap and dink his finish over on-rushing Ravaglia from six yards.

Florian Thauvin attempted a spectacular lob from midfield, which Ravaglia had to fingertip over the bar. Udinese rode their luck because Marvin Zeegelaar would’ve been sent off for bringing down Manolo Gabbiadini on the edge of the box if the Samp striker hadn’t been marginally offside.

Instead, Udinese doubled their lead when a corner was not cleared effectively, Sandi Lovric floated a ball over the top and Adam Masina’s glancing header flew into the far bottom corner.

Fabio Quagliarella blasted off target from distance, while Marco Silvestri stuck out a foot to parry the Zanoli effort and Filip Djuricic fired the rebound wide.

Sampdoria were very unlucky to see Manolo Gabbiadini’s half-volley thump the base of the near post with Silvestri beaten, then Gabbiadini also stung the goalkeeper’s gloves.

Udinese 2-0 Sampdoria

Pereyra 9 (U), Masina 34 (U)