Yet no one has answered my question, can someone give me a statistics for Cassano's assists or goals vs Juventus, Inter, Milan, Roma, Lazio last season?
Sampdoria-Juventus 0:0
Juventus-Sampdoria 1:1 (Cassano assist)
Sampdoria-Inter 1:1 (no goal or assist, but he was the Man of the Match
by far, because he literally destroyed Inter's defense on that match.)
Inter-Sampdoria 1:0
Sampdoria-Inter 3:0 in Coppa Italia (Cassano scored one, a great lob, and created the third one, even though it won't be counted as an assist because an Inter player touched the ball last, before Pazzini scored. He was the man of the match again)
Inter-Sampdoria 1:0 in Coppa
Milan-Sampdoria 3:0
Sampdoria-Milan 2:1 (Cassano scored and assist)
Lazio-Sampdoria 2:0
Sampdoria-Lazio 3:1 (Cassano scored...fantastic goal)
Lazio-Sampdoria 1:1 coppa final
Sampdoria-Roma 2:2 (Cassano assist)
Roma-Sampdoria 2:0
3 goals and 3 assists, but what's just as important is his involvement in almost all the goals. He starts the action with a killer pass and many times the action results with a goal, even though technically he's not getting an assist for that. Like Diego against Sampdoria on Wednesday. Diego didn't score and didn't get an assist, but he was instrumental in many of the 5 goals we scored.
I checked all the goals on these matches i mentioned above, and even when he's not getting an assist or a goal, he created the goal in most of the cases.
Anyway, I don't understand why do you think he's not showing against the big teams. He scored and assisted a lot against the big teams even when he was at Roma.
Oh, and Cassano scored 3 and assisted 3 more against Juve, Roma, Milan, Inter and Lazio.
Small comparison with our players against Sampdoria, Roma, Milan, Inter and Lazio:
Del Piero 3 goals (Roma, Milan penalty and Lazio coppa) and 3 assists (Roma, Milan, Roma)
Amauri 3 goals (Milan twice and Sampdoria) 0 assists