Serie A Superthread

pm1977x

Lazio getting spanked 3-0 at Samp a bit of a surprise.

Mr.Nice Guy

Unexpected results. No win for any of the Champions League sides. Not ideal preparation for midweek. Pleased for Osimhen getting off the mark.

justshane

Osimhen looms a real player, be doing everything but score till today.

It rained goals in Serie A today. One game had 4 goals, two had 7, the rest had 5

Cienciano

dor83 wrote: »

They said that after Juve released a statement saying they intended to show up for the game. The local authorities have said they told Napoli not to travel, that overrides the rule that says they need to play so long as they have 13 fit players including 1 keeper. The game should have been postponed and Napoli will most likely win an appeal of the forfeit.

Just to explain what happened. First of all, Napoli had 2 players tested positive. You need 10 players positive to cancel the game. Napoli had just played Genoa who had 2 positive players out and they were happy to play that.

The game was supposed to go ahead, Napoli had transport to Turin arranged with social distancing "bubble" safeguards in place as per Serie A rules. Napoli asked for the game to be cancelled. Napoli assumed it would be rescheduled and they weren't going to play and cancelled their transport and hotel. The league ruled the game should go ahead, same as other game did with under 10 players tested positive. The day before the game ASL say not to travel only because it was now impossible to organise the logistics of proper safeguarded bubble travel arrangements. This was the day before the game. Napoli fúcked up big time, and lied by omission with their "We were told not to travel".

This is the reason Napoli were punished, they decided themselves not to play the game even though they should have. Lots of teams are playing with covid positive players in all leagues, if every game was cancelled because of a covid positive player not one league in Europe would finish.

dor83

Cienciano wrote: »

Just to explain what happened. First of all, Napoli had 2 players tested positive. You need 10 players positive to cancel the game. Napoli had just played Genoa who had 2 positive players out and they were happy to play that.

The game was supposed to go ahead, Napoli had transport to Turin arranged with social distancing "bubble" safeguards in place as per Serie A rules. Napoli asked for the game to be cancelled. Napoli assumed it would be rescheduled and they weren't going to play and cancelled their transport and hotel. The league ruled the game should go ahead, same as other game did with under 10 players tested positive. The day before the game ASL say not to travel only because it was now impossible to organise the logistics of proper safeguarded bubble travel arrangements. This was the day before the game. Napoli fúcked up big time, and lied by omission with their "We were told not to travel".

This is the reason Napoli were punished, they decided themselves not to play the game even though they should have. Lots of teams are playing with covid positive players in all leagues, if every game was cancelled because of a covid positive player not one league in Europe would finish.

That post was going by the information available at the time, which was that at the Naples ASL had released a statement saying that they told Napoli not to travel. That had been reported on the Saturday, before Napoli were scheduled to fly, and the ASL clarified on the Sunday.

It'll depend on what was advised by the ASL on the Saturday, the disciplinary commission said that it made it difficult to travel but wasn't an outright ban, what exactly they mean by that I don't know but I fully expect the most Napoli get to be a point deduction and that the match will be rescheduled. The disciplinary commission said themselves that they only had two options, to punish them as they did or to not punish them at all, so they couldn't give a lesser punishment and Napoli will likely get it reduced on appeal.

snowblind

Atalanta have scored 4 goals in 27 matches under Gasperini (2016-) *gasp*

breezy1985

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Zlatan’s magic is turning AC around

Çalhanoğlu, Bennacer, Samu and Theo have all been excellent and almost every player has upped their game and the new signings look good with a bunch of em getting goals Vs Celtic tonight

Smell the glove

Atalanta battered again. Gasp needs to sort this out quickly. Two fantastic results from Samp all the same battering lazio last week and now this.

Dillonb3

Smell the glove wrote: »

Atalanta battered again. Gasp needs to sort this out quickly. Two fantastic results from Samp all the same battering lazio last week and now this.

Quagliarella still banging them in at 37 years old

Smell the glove

Dillonb3 wrote: »

Quagliarella still banging them in at 37 years old

A fantastic goal it was too! He's something else.

Agent Coulson

Juve go behind to Verona.

Juve get the equalizer 13 minutes to go

Agent Coulson

Finishes 1-1.

How long before the pressure starts to come on Pirlo.

breezy1985

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Finishes 1-1.

How long before the pressure starts to come on Pirlo.

Hopefully another year

Agent Coulson

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Finishes 1-1.

How long before the pressure starts to come on Pirlo.

I don't think Pirlo gets pressure.

Agent Coulson

Zlatan on a one man mission to make AC great again.

ERG89

2-2. Atrocious VAR decision that must have been intentional by the ref who didn't even check it.

Now he gives Milan a penalty that never was. Clown :rolleyes:

kksaints

Refs had a bit of a mare the last 10 minutes.

pm1977x

Checking a liveblog and everyone saying this ref has lost control of the game, is he that bad?

ERG89

pm1977x wrote: »

Checking a liveblog and everyone saying this ref has lost control of the game, is he that bad?

He missed 2 actual handball pens and gave two joke ones. This being Italy its likely not by accident.

justshane

Ref was a disaster, Leao looks a player.

DM_7

justshane wrote: »

Ref was a disaster, Leao looks a player.

Set up two goals. Two odd subs that Milan made with so much time left. Leao and Saelemaekers were offering some threat.

Standard of attacking play overall was very poor overall despite the number of goals - apart from Leao's two assists. Summed up by a bizarre sequence of play about an hour in where Roma broke and most of the Milan team stayed forward, did not work back. Roma made a mess of the break. The ball was played forward to Milan's players who did not bother getting back and they were all just standing around. Nothing happened. It was weird

Not sure what Zlatan was thinking for the corner. Should he have been heading that out?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-7dK7UQZRE

Headshot

It's really amazing how Ibra is still so good even at the ripe old age of 39

ERG89

Milan did well considering it was another questionable refereeing performance. A fortunate penalty given to Udinese and a blatant handball by a Udinese player checked and ignored. Try at least to be subtle Serie A.

Mr.Nice Guy

The Gervinho volley was a thing of beauty.

https://twitter.com/PremierSportsTV/status/1323233777456472065

Also enjoyed Jankto's strike for Samp. Serie A has been very exciting once again. De Zerbi is doing impressive things at Sassuolo.

ShamoBuc

Cracker.

pm1977x

Gervinho really has the hex over Inter the last few years.

Smell the glove

Pirlo must be under pressure. More points dropped today. The last second of the match , what a.disater for them. You love to see it all the same. Makes the scudetto race interesting.

Headshot

Milan falling a part here.

Reminding me of last seasons Milan

breezy1985

Headshot wrote: »

Milan falling a part here.

Reminding me of last seasons Milan

Just got one back