Parma fell to an away defeat against Sampdoria at the Stadio Luigi Ferraris on Saturday. Sampdoria were looking to pick up points after winning last match. Parma were beaten 3-1 in the previous match against Sassuolo. This left, Sampdoria and Parma are 9th (52 points) and 20th (20 points) in the table respectively, after a total of 38 matches.
The Blue-circled started strong and were rewarded for their efforts, with Fabio Quagliarella opening the rout, 20 minutes in. They then scored again, increasing their advantage thanks to a goal from Omar Colley just before half-time, finalising the first half 2-0.
Sampdoria continued to apply pressure in the second and were rewarded, with Manolo Gabbiadini finding the net, on 64 minutes, leaving the final score at 3-0.
For Sampdoria, Valerio Verre, Adrien Silva, Vasco Regini, Kristoffer Askildsen and Ernesto Torregrossa, came on for Manolo Gabbiadini, Albin Ekdal, Alex Ferrari, Antonio Candreva and Fabio Quagliarella. Parma brought on Vasilios Zagaritis, Graziano Pelle, Simon Sohm, Botond Balogh and Chaka Traore, to replace Lautaro Valenti, Gervinho, Gaston Brugman, Vincent Laurini and Maxime Busi.
There were bookings for Mehdi Leris from Sampdoria. For Parma, Mattia Bani saw yellow.