Floccari and Candreva: Samp knocks down at the “Olimpico”

Concentration
and commitment: no Roman holidays. An experimental and new Sampdoria
suffers a 2-0 defeat in Rome, but with determination and dignity and,
honestly, without deserving it. Despite a big difference in the
motivations and an adapted line-up, the blucerchiati,
in black, for more than 95 minutes cope with Vladimir Petkovic’s
biancocelesti,
a
team that is still flying towards the Europa League. The match is
decided by a poker of episodes that – unfortunately – are all
adverse to Delio Rossi’s guys.

The
match. The first occasion is at the minute 10th when Floccari, in a
suspicious offside position, diverts with his knee a wrong shot of
Klose. But Samp doesn’t give up, plays better than the home team
but Mauro Icardi takes the crossbar and the third post in seven days, after
the ones of Gianluca Sansone against Udinese and Catania. In the second half
the weather is hotter and hotter, rhythm decreases and occasions are
really few. In the end, with no further change at disposal, Samp
loses Jonathan Rossini for injury and Renan Garcia, mysteriously expelled for
protests. Lazio takes advantage of the situation and Candreva doubles
thanks to a generous penalty awarded during the extra time.

Sorry.
These are Rossi’s words at the end of the match played at the "Olimpico": «I feel sorry for the final 2-0, since it’s an
untruthful result because maybe before their second goal we would
have deserved something more. We played well. We made a big and quite
ingenuous mistake on the first goal: it’s bad error letting a ball
pass like that on a corner kick. Apart from this we’ve never given
up, maybe we would have need a little bit of extra determination, but
it was a balanced match, and I’ve had the chance of seeing players
who, until this moment, had played less».