Sampdoria News
Juve, in their first season under coach Maurizio Sarri, clinched the title with two games to spare despite a stuttering run in which they won only one out of five matches before Sunday.
Juventus top the table with 42 points, although second-placed Inter (39) have a game in hand, while Sampdoria are 17th on 15 points.
Inter go into the match with a 100 percent record from three matches in Serie A while AC Milan have six points, although they have scored only two goals so far.
Quagliarella got off the mark in style when he met Bartosz Bereszynski`s cross with an acrobatic volley in the fourth minute.
Icardi was stripped of the captaincy recently, amid protracted negotiations over a new contract and he refused to travel for their Europa League fixture against Rapid Vienna the following day.
Quagliarella, 36, was unlucky to face Kalidou Koulibaly, arguably the toughest defender in Serie A this season, and did not get much of a look-in as he remained level with Gabriel Batitusta, the only other player to score in 11 successive games.
Sampdoria will now take on Udinese while Fiorentina will lock horns with Chievo in their next Series A clash.
The 27-year-old Italian, who joined Saints in January, 2017 from Napoli for a reported 14 million pounds ($18 million), has returned to seventh-placed Samp, where he played from 2013-15, to help the Serie A side qualify for Europe.
Lazio, who spent the week leading up to the game in a training retreat after failing to beat bottom side Chievo last weekend, thought they had won it when Ciro Immobile converted a 96th-minute penalty.
Ferrero, nicknamed "Viperetta" (little viper), bought Sampdoria in 2014 and is one of the most colourful figures in Italian soccer.
Arsenal did not provide financial details of the deal but it was reported last month that the fee agreed would be around 30 million euros. ($35.13 million)
The title could be tied up by next Sunday when Juventus and Napoli go head-to-head in a top of the table clash in Turin.
Inter Milan raced to a three-goal lead against Sampdoria then nearly threw it all away as they clung on for a 3-2 win which took them top of Serie A, at least for 24 hours, on Tuesday.
The pair`s goals came either side of Dennis Praet`s strike to ensure a positive end to United`s summer and gave them a boost ahead of next Tuesday`s European Super Cup clash with Real Madrid in Macedonia.
The new coach of the Argentine football team Edgardo Bauza met superstars Lionel Messi and Javier Mascherano at their club FC Barcelona`s training ground on Thursday, hoping to persuade the disgruntled duo to reconsider their international retirement.
Barcelona boosted their advantage to 3-1 with a beautiful goal from Messi off a free kick in the 34th minute.
The Italy International Mario Balotelli is unlikely to feature in Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp`s plans for next season.
Inter Milan rolled back the years to stretch their lead at the top of Serie A on Wednesday on a night of upsets that saw champions Juventus held by Frosinone and Roma lose to Sampdoria.
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