Juventus climbed back to the top of the table after their Monday night game away at Roma, the game ended in a 1-1 draw. What a joy to watch and advertisement for Serie A Football around the world. In other weekly news AC Milan drew away to Bologna 2-2 and Inter picked up a crucial 2-0 win over Fiorentina. Saturday 10th December Thanks to goals from Marco Rossi and a late goal from Rodrigo Palacio Genoa picked up a 2-0 [...]
On Sunday Juventus host Milan in the first big competitive match at their shiny new stadium. In lieu of writing a traditional preview, I’ve decided to take a look at some points to watch out for during the course of the match. 1) Which lineup will Antonio Conte deploy? During the first three games, Conte used his favored attacking 4-4-2 against teams that played similar formations in Parma, Siena, and Bologna. During last weekend’s match against Catania, however, Conte used [...]
Join the SerieAWeekly crew for live commentary and lively banter when the Capital Romanista welcome the southerners from Sicily in AS Roma vs Palermo for Italian Serie A action, Saturday at 18:00 local time (12:00pm EST) Serie A Live Action: Roma vs Palermo
It’s amazing what a little bit of rest can do. For Milan, it transformed a squad that was demoralized, tired, and out of ideas into a squad that was focused, determined, confident, and most of all, victorious. The most important derby since 2003 ended 3-0 in Milan’s favor, and if you believe in omens, the last time Milan had won both derbies in a season was in 2003/2004 when Milan last won the Scudetto. With seven games left to go, [...]
We asked Francesco Pizolla and TB to preview the biggest game in Serie A this season. This Saturday, at 20:45 CET, the most important Milan derby in recent years will take place. This is probably the most important derby since the 2003 Champions League semi-final derby, and Christian Abbiati even stated a few days ago that the atmosphere surrounding the Milan camp at the moment is very similar to how it was in 2003. As much as you read from [...]
Probable Formations Matchday 30 Italian Serie A Saturday 19.03.11 17:00 Lazio vs Cesena Lazio (4-1-3-2): Muslera , Scaloni, G. Biava, Dias, Garrido , Matuzalém, González, Hernanes, Mauri, Zárate, Sculli UPDATE: Lazio up 1-0 after Mauro Zarate scored inside two minutes. Lazio could go fourth in Serie A with victory over Cesena today Cesena (4-1-3-2): Antonioli, Santon , Pellegrino, Von Bergen, Lauro, Colucci, Caserta, Parolo, Jiménez, Bogdani, Malonga 19:45 Palermo vs AC Milan Palermo (3-4-1-2): Sirigu, Muñoz, Goian, Migliaccio, Darmian, Bacinovic, [...]
Genoa make the comeback of the season with four second half goals to put the final nail in the coffin for Claudio Ranieri. Qasa Alom reports Second half braces from Alberto Paloschi and Rodrigo Palacio cancelled out early goals from Phillipe Mexes, Nicolas Burdisso and then a second half strike from Francesco Totti. The miraculous comeback caps off a brilliant week for the home team, who move up into the top half after back to back wins. T The result [...]
Probable Formations Matchday 26 Italian Serie A Saturday 19.02.11 18:00 Bologna vs Palermo Bologna (4-3-1-2): Viviano, Moras, Portanova, Cherubin, Rubin, Perez, Mudingayi, Della Rocca, Ramirez, Di Vaio, Meggiorini Palermo (4-3-2-1): Sirigu, Anjelkovic, Munoz,Bovo, Garcia, Migliaccio,Bacinovic,Nocerino, Illcic, Pastore,Miccoli 20:45 Inter Milan vs Cagliari Inter (4-3-1-2): Cesar, Maicon, Cordoba, Ranocchia, Kharja, Zanetti, Cambiasso, Motta, Stankovic, Pazzini, Eto’o Cagliari (4-3-2-1): Agazzi, Pisano, Canini, Astori, Agostini, Biondini, Conti, Nainggolan, Cossu, Aquafresca, Nene Sunday 20.02.11 12:30 Lecce vs Juventus Juventus (4-4-2): Buffon, Sorensen, Bonucci, Chiellini, [...]
With Inter closing the gap on the frontrunners and Sampdoria winning the Derby della Lanterna during midweek in the rearranged fixtures, a full card will be played out with a number of crucial games around the peninsula. Bologna – Palermo Last weekend Bologna fell to a resurgent Sampdoria side as they leaked three goals in 15 minutes. But more performances like that will draw the Felsinei into a relegation fight. Palermo were battered 3-1 at the Stadio Dall’Ara last year [...]
Probable Formations Matchday 25 Italian Serie A Saturday 12.02.11 AC Milan vs Parma AC Milan (4-3-1-2): Abbati, Oddo, Nesta, Silva, Antonini, Gattuso, Van Bommel, Flamini, Robinho, Cassano,Ibra Parma (4-3-3): Mirante, Zaccardo, Paci, Lucarelli, Gobbi, Candreva, Dzemalli, Galloppa, Angelo, Giovinco, Amauri AS Roma vs Napoli AS Roma (4-3-1-2): Sergio, Cassetti, Rosi, Juan, Riise, Simplicio, De Rossi, Perrotta, Menez, Vucinic, Totti Napoli (3-4-2-1): DeSanctis, Aronica, Cannavaro, Campagnaro, Maggio, Gargano, Pazienza, Dossena, Hamsik, Lavezzi, Cavani Sunday 13.02.11 Palermo vs Fiorentina Palermo (4-3-2-1): Sirigu, [...]
The second that Wesley Sneijder scored that first goal for Inter- as it turned out, it was a rather early second, in the third minute of the game- it seemed like it could be a long night for Roma. Most importantly, the goal was betraying the script that should have been followed. The scene had already been set: this was classic Roma, tying one all with Brescia earlier in the week, forever dropping points to lower sides. However, there are [...]
Milan have a fantastic array of attacking talent but a huge dearth of depth in both midfield and defence. While an injured forward simply means another world class star takes off his tracksuit and enters the fray, a knock to either Alessandro Nesta or Thiago Silva leaves most Rossoneri fans with palpitations akin to those club President’s have when discovering player has Mino Raiola is his agent. With a number of large contracts due to expire this coming summer it [...]
