Sampdoria Vs. Juventus: 0-0 Full Time, A Fitting Result For A Poor Match

Injuries, petulance, poor officiating, and misplaced passes were the stories of the game on this Sunday afternoon as Juventus and Sampdoria played to a poor 0-0 draw in which neither team looked like they ever got started. The two most exciting players on the pitch, Milos Krasic and Giampaolo Pazzini, were substituted off with around a half hour to go, effectively ending any chance the match had of being entertaining. Krasic was inexplicably taken off as a tactical substitution, while Pazzini appeared to sustain a serious ankle injury.

The first half was riddled with injuries, as both Armand Traore and Stefano Lucchini were forced out of the match in the opening 10 minutes. The latter injury was caused by Amauri, who swiftly elbowed Lucchini in the face. Despite the fact that Lucchini was carted off and Amauri very well might have broken his cheek bone, he was not booked.

Manchester United loanee Federico Macheda made his full debut for Sampdoria, and it took him a very long time to get seriously involved in the match. He started to look okay late in the second half, but his first 60 minutes or so was characterized by very bad decision making and bad touches. He wasn’t the only guilty party, though. Almost no one had a good game from a technical standpoint, as both teams gave the ball away with unforced errors over and over again.

In the 91st minute, Juventus legend Alessandro Del Piero had a chance to score the winner, but despite being completely unmarked with a clear shot at goal from 12 yards out, he skied the ball into Row Z, coming nowhere near the target. It was an absolutely fitting end to an exceptionally poor encounter.