Monday's Serie A : Cremonese vs Sampdoria

Cremonese host Sampdoria in a crucial clash between two Serie A strugglers who have yet to pick up their first wins of the campaign.

Cremonese (D4, L6) are competing at this level for the first time since 1995/1996 and remarkably, they also failed to win any of their first ten Serie A matches in that campaign too. 

Failure to win here however, would represent the first time in their history that the Grigiorossi have gone 11 opening league games without victory, while another defeat would hand them their third Serie A defeat in a row at home - another first at this level.

Sampdoria have suffered one defeat more than their hosts (D3, L7) and consequently are the side propping up the Serie A table. That poor start to the season saw coach Marco Giampaolo relieved of his duties at the beginning of the month, with Dejan Stanković brought in as his replacement.

It would have been pleasing for Stanković to see his side get on the scoresheet however, as a lack of goals has plagued their campaign so far. Sampdoria have netted just five times across their opening ten league games, which is the lowest return in the division.