Soriano deceives the new Samp of mister Mihajlovic, Cana rains on its parade

There are lots of reasons to be angry when a
match ends in such a way. But there are many others that make us
hopeful for the future. A regenerated Sinisa Mihajlovic's Sampdoria, playing with ten men
since the beginning of the second half of the match, was able to keep
in check Lazio. However, personality, diligence and will
are not enough and Samp doesn’t obtain the first victory of new
cycle.

Approach. The
first tactical scheme chosen by the Serbian mister is the 4-2-3-1
tested in Bogliasco in just three days of trainings. The starting
line-up is composed by the goalkeeper Da Costa, a four men defense
with De Silvestri, Mustafi, Gastaldello and Costa; the midfielders
Obiang and Palombo to protect them, and the trio composed by
Gabbiadini, Krsticic and Wszolek to support the only striker, Pozzi.
Samp approach seems to be good and encouraging. Reactive and
combative , the blucerchiati
don’t allow the biancocelesti
to advance. Despite some good opportunities the match doesn’t
change and the result of the first half is a 0-0 draw.

Joke. At the
beginning of the second half, the referee Orsato shows Krsticic a
straight red card for a foul on Ledesma. Despite the shock, Samp
doesn’t give up and keeps attacking. Later, the biancocelesti
hit the post from an offside position not seen by the lineman, but at
the minute 22nd, after a confused action, Roberto Soriano gives the
blucerchiati
the lead scoring with a header under the Gradinata
Sud. Up to the very last minute of the
injury time Lazio is not able to find a break-through
but when the match is finishing Cana scores the 1-1 beating Da Costa
on his post.

Satisfied. «This
is the right way – says Mihajlovic after the match -. I’m happy
for my guys because it took them only few days to understand the way
I want them to play: aggressive. We’ll have more time to work
together so we can improve, but I’m satisfied with the performance.
A draw like this, with a goal suffered at the very last second gnaw
at us but on Tuesday will restart working with chest out and head
held high, thinking of the match against Inter and of what could
happen tomorrow».