Serie A Superthread

That's good pricing from Eleven, will they show every match and we can just pick which one we want when there are more than one game at a time or are we stuck with watching whatever they choose to show? Also see on the eirsport site they still have Serie A listed, maybe they still have some matches or maybe they just haven't updated their site yet.

EDIT: Just saw on their site that they will be showing at least one Serie A and one La Liga free on Facebook every week so there will at least be some matches available free.

ELEVEN SPORTS has struck an innovative partnership with Facebook that will see the social media platform become ELEVEN’s free-to-air (FTA) partner in the UK and Ireland.



As part of the agreement, at least one match per week from both LaLiga and Serie A will be shown live and free of charge on ELEVEN SPORTS’ UK Facebook Page. A selection of games from the other top-flight football leagues available on ELEVEN SPORTS will also be shown on Facebook across the season.



Select matches shown on Facebook will include those featuring the world’s biggest clubs such as Real Madrid, Barcelona, Juventus and Napoli, and best players including Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Antoine Griezmann.



Ronaldo’s eagerly anticipated Juventus debut is one of the opening games selected for live streaming on Facebook. The games to be shown LIVE on ELEVEN SPORTS’ UK Facebook Page across the first two weekends of the LaLiga and Serie A seasons will be:



(All kick-off times BST)

Friday 17/08 - Girona v Valladolid (7.15pm)
Saturday 18/08 - Chievo v Juventus (5pm)
Monday 20/08 - Valencia v Atletico Madrid (7pm)
Saturday 25/08 - Valladolid v Barcelona (9.15pm)
Sunday 26/08 - Inter Milan v Torino (7.30pm)

TripleAce wrote: »

Pricing is ok, but I am seriously considering cancelling my Sky subscription unless they get a channel for Serie A. Will the Champions League games also be part of Eleven Sport, or will they be streamed on Sky Sport as usual? I don't watch much tv, only interested in these events tbh.

From this year RTE will choose one game on Tuesday with TV3 showing a different game and also showing two games on Wednesday, there will be two kickoff times each night, one at 5:55pm and the other at 8:00pm. TV3 will also be showing Europa League and have the rights to both finals. BT still have the UK rights so hopefully they'll still be available here, a few years back the used to black out the channel for Europa League matches as they didn't have the rights here but that stopped so hopefully it won't happen again.

For the Serie A, I emailed Eleven Sport to ask about their coverage and whether we could choose which matches we watched when there were multiple matches at the same time, they replied with this

Dear dor83,

Thank you for contacting ELEVEN SPORTS support.

There will be 4-5 games available each week from Serie A and La Liga. Unfortunately, you can't choose which games you want to watch.


Best Regards,
Teodora
ELEVEN SPORTS

So we are stuck with whatever games they choose, was hoping for all games to be available and just choose the one you want to watch.

I also contacted Eir about their site still having Serie A listed to see if they would be showing it but they haven't replied despite me contacting them four times. They don't have any Serie A matches down on their schedule for this weekend so my guess is that they won't be showing any.

ConnyMcDavid wrote: »

I'm surprised Serie A games will still go ahead this weekend after todays tragedy in Genoa.

I know they will have a minute silence but I think they should halt all games.

I'm in no way trying to be insensitive to what happened or belittle your opinion but why would they postpone the matches scheduled for the weekend for something that happened 4-5 days before and has nothing to do with football? Again, not trying to be insensitive, it was a tragedy and my sympathy is with anyone affected by it but I see no reason for the league to postpone fixtures because of it.

So the transfer window is closed and the season starts this afternoon, I'm really looking forward to this season and not just for Inter but for the league as a whole. Obviously the big news from the transfer market was the arrival of Ronaldo but even without that it was a big window, Inter have brought in quite a few players, Milan without Li have done well, Napoli will be interesting with Ancelotti, Roma have brought in a lot of players while only really losing Alisson and Ninja, Lazio have done ok too so even though I expect Juve to win it again I can see it being a close fight for the rest of top 4 positions.

As an Inter fan I am very happy with the players brought in and while Cancelo and Rafinha will be missed I think the replacements are very good and combined with the other signings it will improve the starting 11 and the overall squad. The players brought in mean that there will be more flexibility in the tactics that can be used and the attack has been added to so that it shouldn't be all down to Icardi so there should be more goals from other players this year. Where last season we could easily predict the line-up for every match I expect there to be a lot more variation with formation and players this season, which should make them harder to play against hopefully. While I don't expect a title challenge as I think Juve are too strong for anyone else, I do expect a top 3 finish(hoping for 2nd) and the issues with form that happened from December to February to be gone and a much more consistent season.

Chievo v Juve is the first match of the season and should see Ronaldo make his debut but the big match of the round is Lazio v Napoli tonight. Tomorrow the 5:00pm game is Torino v Roma and the rest are at 7:30pm except the two games which were postponed(Milan v Genoa and Samp v Fiorentina).

Inter start with a difficult away trip to Sassuolo who have a very good record against Inter but I expect Inter to get a narrow win.

I would really like to keep up with Serie A properly this season.
In recent seasons I've tended to just see bits via reddit, and while it's fairly reliable as far as seeing goals and getting scores overall i've felt it to be pretty unfulfilling and disjointed.
What exists in the way of round-up/highlights shows?
Would be interested in any and all recommendations, both available via Irish tv subscriptions and other/foreign broadcasters.

Yeah Eleven is really the only option at the moment, I read somewhere that they will have highlights from every game so that's good and I think they'll have a round-up type show too. I went to their site and it let me watch the highlights to one of last nights La Liga games and from last seasons games in Serie A without logging in so it might be free and only need to sub for the matches, give it a try. They will also be showing some free matches on their Facebook page so that is at least a plus, I'd prefer if it was on an actual TV channel but it's better than nothing.

Vincent Vega wrote: »

Thanks.
Seems like a pretty reasonable deal they're offering.
I see from the FAQ they say they're showing Chievo - Juventus for free via Facebook today too.
edit: well, everything bar the opening 15mins :pac:

Yeah that's to do with the rules for broadcasting live football on a Saturday afternoon in the UK, I have it on the app at the moment and it showing it fine so it might detect IP so it can show it here.

EDIT: And it's gone to just commentary now so it's blocked here too. I think I'll email them to suggest they detect IP for it because I can't see why they couldn't and if enough people ask for it they might look at doing it.

Hope they can hold out.

Balls. Good header by bonucci, bernadeschi has played very well since coming in.

dor83 wrote: »

Yeah unfortunately we are stuck with the delay that comes with streaming, maybe BT will decide to do a deal and get some games.

I was watching on an android box in the first half and the stream was poor, freezing a lot, but for the 2nd half I decided to use my laptop and it's much smoother. I put it down to the android box being old.

Ya fingers crossed for BT

I've been watching it on my laptop and tbf it's good quality, it's just the delay is killing me

Luckily I did the free trial

Awesome game. Thought Dybala and Ronaldo were poorish. Tough on Cheivo though.

Looks like this season Serie A will be posting highlights of matches on their official Youtube channel along with English commentary. You can already find Saturday's highlights there now. Last season to watch highlights on their channel you had to put up with Italian commentary.

La Liga posts highlights on the evening of games too but they're usually very short (90 seconds) and without commentary. Ligue 1 provides English commentary with highlights on Youtube, but only at the end of the round of games on Sunday around midnight. Bundesliga in the past has tended not to put up highlights to their Youtube channel unless it's Top 5 goals of the weekend type things.

Pleased to see Serie A take this step.