Sampdoria 3-1 ACR Messina: result and report

Serie A · Saturday 21 April 2007

Result

Sampdoria 3-1 ACR Messina

Serie A · Saturday 21 April 2007, 16:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

Sampdoria · ACR Messina · Serie A predictions

Sampdoria 3-1 ACR Messina: match report

Sampdoria beat ACR Messina 3-1 in Serie A on Saturday 21 April 2007. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Reto Ziegler opened the scoring in the 13th minute. Sampdoria's goals came from Reto Ziegler (13'), D. Franceschini (83') and Gennaro Delvecchio (89'). ACR Messina scored through Christian Rigano (54').

Discipline: Sampdoria received 4 yellow cards; ACR Messina received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game Sampdoria were 11th on 39 points from 32 and ACR Messina 19th on 24 points from 32. Sampdoria went on to finish that season 10th with 49 points, and ACR Messina 20th with 26.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Sampdoria wins, 0 draws and 0 for ACR Messina.

Going into the match Sampdoria's last five read L-L-W-D-D and ACR Messina's L-L-L-L-L.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 12'Yellow card · Mark IulianoACR Messina
  • 13'Goal · Reto ZieglerSampdoria · 1-0
  • 34'Yellow card · Marco ZanchiACR Messina
  • 41'Yellow card · Luigi LavecchiaACR Messina
  • 44'Yellow card · Alessandro RomeoSampdoria
  • 52'Yellow card · Fabio BazzaniSampdoria
  • 54'Goal · Christian RiganoACR Messina · 1-1
  • 57'Yellow card · Sergio VolpiSampdoria
  • 63'Yellow card · Vincent CandelaACR Messina
  • 83'Goal · D. FranceschiniSampdoria · 2-1
  • 85'Yellow card · Reto ZieglerSampdoria
  • 89'Goal · Gennaro DelvecchioSampdoria · 3-1

Head-to-head

3 meetings: Sampdoria 3, draws 0, ACR Messina 0.

Team news

Sampdoria line-up

Luca Castellazzi, Reto Ziegler, Luigi Sala, Giulio Falcone, Mirko Pieri, Cristian Zenoni, Sergio Volpi, Angelo Palombo, Fabio Bazzani, Alessandro Romeo, Christian Maggio

ACR Messina line-up

Gabriele Paoletti, Andrea Giallombardo, Salvatore Masiello, Marco Zanchi, Vincent Candela, Daniele De Vezze, Edgar Álvarez Reyes, Luigi Lavecchia, Christian Rigano, Sergio Floccari, Mark Iuliano