The Italian Football Thread

Fiorentina up to third

They're awesome. Montella in charge, three goals in two games now for Aquilani, Pizarro controlling the midfield...........pretty hard to take

Saw some of Inter-Cagliari. Was a good game, Cagliari defended well and looked threatening on the break. Inter should have head a penalty at the end though (it looked just about inside the box).

Absolutely no confidence whatsoever for this derby tonight.

Samp

\o/

Great way for Icardi to introduce himself to Serie A, scoring a goal and providing the cross that caused Biava's own-goal.

Haha, the two own goals at San Siro and Luigi Ferraris respectively looked highly suspicious if you ask me...



Good goal from Gila. Four red cards in that match as well.

2 wins in a row, 2 clean sheets in a row, a 1-0 win away from home has just been grinded out.........what's going on Zeman?!

Siena away next, hopefully make it 3 out of 3. Daje Roma.

Watched some of the Fiorentina game. They were quite unlucky not to win. Was looking like one of those games where nothing goes your way. Hit the bar and Torino's second was a cross cum shot, but then in some respects they were lucky to have gotten a penalty too, so a draw was maybe fair.

Really looking forward to Milan v Juventus.

1-0 Milan! Watched most of it, they defended very well, although the penalty decision was wrong. Massive win for them. Two defeats in only a few weeks for Juve..

Had a funny feeling Milan might have snuck a result tonight, though that prediction was more to do with SES going up against Juve's lumbering back 3 rather than Juve playing horribly and Milan being gifted a penalty.

Nicola Sansone's goal against Inter the other night:

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Not bad for a 21 year old with one season of Serie B football under his belt

Milan have made a request that they be allowed field a 15 y/o player.

This guy:

I saw that the other day. He's training with their Primavera side but drops down to the Allievi level to play matches with kids his own age, probably why he looks so good in your clip. As he's not even been tested against 18/19 year olds I'm not sure how much use he'll be to the first team. If anything, it's probably a stunt to show their faith in him.

That El Shaarawy lad ain't bad.

MARCATORI
Giocatore Reti Presenze
El Shaarawy 12 15
Cavani 8 11
Di Natale 8 11
Klose 8 13
Lamela 8 12
Milito 7 14
Osvaldo 7 10
Gilardino 6 13
Hamsik 6 14
Hernanes 6 13

Probably couldn't have predicted that...

El Sha and De Sciglio have been so impressive for AC, expecting big things from them in January. Would love to see Pato and Robinho moved on just to free up wage and squad space.

Calciomercato.com think Milan will try to offload this lot between now and the end of the summer window:

Abbiati, Zapata, Acerbi, Mesbah, one of Robinho/ Pato, Pazzini, Flamini, and Vila.


Back to today and a good result for Lazio, not often we play that poorly and still come away with 3 points.

Not seen any highlights of the Roma game yet, but another good win, three in a row now Destro looks to have found his feet too. Fiorentina at home next week, that'll show if we've turned any sort of corner or not.

Isn't Zapata only on loan?

Some of the guys in this list (Acerbi, Mesbah) probably aren't good enough for Milan, but Pazzini?

And fuck Flamini.

Aye, Zapata's on loan and Acerbi's just co-owned, so both very much try before you buy players.

Pazzini's not a bad player but he's really not suited to Milan's system. I still struggle to see the logic in their spending €7m + Cassano to bring him in regardless of how unhappy Cassano was.

Beat Fiorentina 4-2 at home Saturday night, played some great stuff and, despite a couple of defensive mishaps (first Fiorentina goal especially), things are actually looking up.

Love it when Totti scores too, his second was a good strike but god knows what Viviano was doing with it.

Good win over a pretty poor Inter side, until they brought Palacio on they really didn't threaten much and with better shooting we could have been a couple of goals up going into the break.

Veron made an appearance at half time as well, he was in Rome for some award the other day and must have been invited to the game.

Good win for you lot. You're pretty good at home.

Veron was an excellent player. Never minded him (apart from when he butted Totti when he was at Inter).

Napoli docked two points and Grava and Cannavaro are suspended for six months.

There goes the Scudetto.

Matteo Gianello the keeper that tried to fix the game with Samp has been banned for 39 months. Seeing as he's 36, unemployed and, well, sh*t, that's pretty much a life ban.

The points penalty is nothing and Grava isn't a loss either but it'll be interesting to see how they replace Cannavaro, a short term deal for Lucio pehaps? It doesn't help that Aronica's off to Palermo either.


On the Lazio transfer front, Matuzalem's apparently had a medical with Genoa and he'll be off as soon as the window opens. Zarate left before the squad for Inter was announced at the weekend and now he's training by himself, his own choice it seems, so that's hopefully him away too. I really hope we find a club for him rather than just recinding his contract.

Napoli may actually have to buy some good defenders.

What for?

Failing to report their 3rd keeper trying to fix their game with Samp back in 2010.

Edit: Sao Paulo have just announced the signing of Lucio, so much for the idea of Napoli signing him...