Fiorillo and Okaka are not enough, Catania survives thanks to Leto and Bergessio

It
won’t be a particularly happy Easter for Sampdoria and its supporters.
In fact, given that we fully achieved our aim and that the city
supremacy still keeps blucerchiati colours, under the Etna we suffered
the third consecutive defeat. Also, it won’t be a particularly happy
Easter because the match was Catania’s last hope but the locals –
without victories since last 16th February – prevailed over a team
without eight titular players and with six guys from the Primavera on
the bench, that’s true, but that seemed to be too mild and too
inconclusive to come back home from the “Massimino” with a smile on its
face.

The match. Despite a super Vincenzo Fiorillo and a great Stefano Okaka, who imitates Bale when around the minute 15 of the second half he answers to Leto after a great personal action and scores the temporary 1-1, Samp must surrender to the immediate 2-1 by Bergessio that gives the rosazzurri some more hopes to reach the salvation.

Answers. «Injuries and expulsions forced us to change 9 players over the 11 who played last match – explains Sinisa Mihajlovic at the end of the game – but Catania surely played better than us and deserved to win, even if we conceded a ridiculous goal. Substitutes? We wanted to give to those who played less, the chance to play so that we could see their answers. And I’ve got many: both positive and negative». Without a doubt Fiorillo’s answers were fully positive: «Playing as titular next season? A match changes nothing – says the Genoese goalkeeper -, I want to do my best and to improve in every single aspect. We still have four matches, then we will evaluate the performances of both the team and mine».