Serie A Superthread

Why does Spalletti insist on Santon? Nagatomo is no phenomenon but he's light years ahead of Davide, who is a Serie B player at best. Startling how much he has failed to live up to his early promise. We're witnessing yet another fûck away of a season by the players who claim to play for Inter (not a single one of them is good enough to play for such an historic club, though my bet is those clowns will make sure that's all we are). The Zhangs have to get their finger put or they can fûck off too. They've done nothing but spout bullshît since they came in and have acted like all they're interested in is making money off the back of us. One of the richest families in China and they pretend they're frightened of FFP whilst they watch their share price rise due to some dodgy dealing. Disgraceful.

KERSPLAT!

Inter badly in need of a win. Fantastic start to the season but they've gone seriously off the boil

Santon was useless.

Jim Bob Scratcher

Lovely finish by El Shaarawy

FCIM wrote: »

I hope Perisic plays better after the break because until we can play Rafinha (assuming he comes) behind the front two, we don't have anything to offer centrally. That's not an attack on Valero, he's good, but he should be regista not trequartista.

Agreed, Joao Mario should be that but it seems he just couldn't be bothered to play. I wouldn't even mind trying Gabigol there really but it seems like he's going back to Santos, he must have some serious issue if he's not even getting a chance and it's been under several managers too.

dor83 wrote: »

Inter v Roma kicks off at 19:45, line ups are:

Inter: Handanovic; Cancelo, Skriniar, Miranda, Santon; Gagliardini, Vecino; Candreva, Borja Valero, Perisic; Icardi

Roma: Alisson; Florenzi, Manolas, Fazio, Kolarov; Pellegrini, Strootman, Gerson; Nainggolan, Dzeko, El Shaarawy

I hope Perisic plays better after the break because until we can play Rafinha (assuming he comes) behind the front two, we don't have anything to offer centrally. That's not an attack on Valero, he's good, but he should be regista not trequartista.

Inter v Roma kicks off at 19:45, line ups are:

Inter: Handanovic; Cancelo, Skriniar, Miranda, Santon; Gagliardini, Vecino; Candreva, Borja Valero, Perisic; Icardi

Roma: Alisson; Florenzi, Manolas, Fazio, Kolarov; Pellegrini, Strootman, Gerson; Nainggolan, Dzeko, El Shaarawy

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irishman86 wrote: »

I like him but christ he believes his own hype
Some of the goals hes let in are scandalous

Pretty dodgy on the crosses as well

Still a superb talent though

irishman86

ERG89 wrote: »

Milan up against a bad Caglari side and you just can't trust them to hold out. Bonucci & Donnarumma still on their summer holidays as they haven't been arsed this season at all.

I like him but christ he believes his own hype
Some of the goals hes let in are scandalous

ERG89

Milan up against a bad Caglari side and you just can't trust them to hold out. Bonucci & Donnarumma still on their summer holidays as they haven't been arsed this season at all.

ERG89

dor83 wrote:

It's all their own fault too, still amazes me how they forced Borja Valero to leave even though he wanted to stay.

Bernadeschi, Vecino, Marcos Alonso, Ililic, Tomovic, Tatarusano, Gonzalo & even though he's been bad this year Kalanic all left in the last 2 years. Brought in mainly very average players.

Lazio have a good few prized commodities in their side now. If Milinkovic Savic has a good world cup they could get silly money for him.

ERG89 wrote: »

Nice hat trick for Quagliarella but Fiorentina have been destroyed the last few years. Bought average players & sold everyone of the good except Chiesa and Badelj

It's all their own fault too, still amazes me how they forced Borja Valero to leave even though he wanted to stay.

ERG89

Nice hat trick for Quagliarella but Fiorentina have been destroyed the last few years. Bought average players & sold everyone of the good except Chiesa and Badelj

FCIM wrote: »

I have no complaints about VAR whatsoever. I don't even think it drags things out half as much as commentators would like to have us believe. I also don't think it would be a good idea to show the images to the crowd as, unlike with other sports, it could incite trouble.

Completely agree, things can be interpreted differently and fans will have bias so showing the crowd at a stadium a replay would be a bad idea and could end really badly. I'm also happy with the VAR, refs have an impossible job so anything that helps them to do their job better is good with me, plus it would make cheating much more difficult because it would be too obvious.

dor83 wrote: »

Haha, in fairness VAR has gone in our favour a couple of times this season too so we can't complain.

I just think that refs should be booking players for it because otherwise it only encourages diving, if there are no consequences then they'll never stop.

I have no complaints about VAR whatsoever. I don't even think it drags things out half as much as commentators would like to have us believe. I also don't think it would be a good idea to show the images to the crowd as, unlike with other sports, it could incite trouble.

FCIM wrote: »

I'm listening to Tutto Il Calcio... and heard about the VAR all right. Referees often back out of booking a diving forward; they shouldn't but they do. You, like I was, should've been hoping VAR broke down at that moment .

Haha, in fairness VAR has gone in our favour a couple of times this season too so we can't complain.

I just think that refs should be booking players for it because otherwise it only encourages diving, if there are no consequences then they'll never stop.

dor83 wrote: »

Anyone else watching Lazio v Chievo? The VAR was used after the ref blew for a penalty but it was a clear dive and he reversed it correctly. My question is why didn't he book the player for diving?

I'm listening to Tutto Il Calcio... and heard about the VAR all right. Referees often back out of booking a diving forward; they shouldn't but they do. You, like I was, should've been hoping VAR broke down at that moment

Anyone else watching Lazio v Chievo? The VAR was used after the ref blew for a penalty but it was a clear dive and he reversed it correctly. My question is why didn't he book the player for diving?

dor83 wrote: »

I actually think VAR has been good in general, it has had it's problems but they can be ironed out and if implemented correctly it will work really well. Today I think they were saying the other player was offside and ruled he was interfering with play, I don't agree with it myself but I still think VAR gets more right than wrong.

I thought it was a decent game with both trying to attack and win. The second goal was correctly ruled out for me because of the position of the other player. Being closer to the goal than Hamsik was meant he was distracting for the Atalanta defence whereas had he been further away then I think a stronger argument could be made that he wasn't interfering.

I actually think VAR has been good in general, it has had it's problems but they can be ironed out and if implemented correctly it will work really well. Today I think they were saying the other player was offside and ruled he was interfering with play, I don't agree with it myself but I still think VAR gets more right than wrong.

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How did Mertens and koulibaly not get booked for bad tackles?

What a mess VAR is. Linesman rightly didn't flag Hamsik, he scores but then they rule it out on VAR despite him being onside. Lucky that wasn't a game deciding decision.

Good finish by Mertens, hopefully it opens the game up a bit now because it hasn't been great so far.

And then Mertens scores.

These early games are often poor affairs in Italy. Napoli missing Hamsiks guile today. Big final 30 coming up.

Probably game if the day in Europe coming up here in Bergamo.

One of the type if tests Napoli need to pass if they're serious about this title challenge this season.

Mr.Nice Guy

Juve were in the wars tonight in their win over Cagliari. Khedira off injured and Dybala off in tears with what looked like a hamstring injury.

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Wow Atlanta have been unreal

They really should be 3 up at this stage