Serie A Superthread

ERG89 wrote: »

Jack Rodwell, supposedly signing with Roma until the end of the season. I know they have injury issues but what an embarrassing signing; have they no academy players at all???
This club were in a CL semi final 18 months ago & now resort to picking up rubbish on the cheap.

As much as I love Italian football it's a sign of how much the standard has dropped, Rodwell will do nothing for you on a Wednesday night in the champions league, however still plenty good enough cover against pretty much every team in the mid to bottom half of the table at the moment

Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »

Roma have about 9 first team squad players out with injuries, they'd sign me on a 6 month free right now.

It dose not excuse the lack of talent the likes of cagliari or spal are bringing to the table at the moment

I mean Milan are not even close to being considered AC Milan at the moment,, I love the Italian game and not trying to sell it short but. Standard is low at the moment

Atalanta 1-0 down at home to Udinese. Kjaer tries to be too clever and gives it away to Okaka who scores. Pity Kjaer never took a chance like that when he played against Ireland.

1-1 now as Ilicic scores. Initially judged offside but after a very long review the goal is allowed.

Oh dear. How to shoot yourself in the foot. Udinese's Opoku gives away a pen and gets a second yellow in the process. Chance for Atalanta to turn this around.

And Muriel scores for 2-1. Tough for Udinese to get back into this now.

3-1 Atalanta just before half-time. Ilicic gets another. Looks like game over already.

4-1 Atalanta just after the break. Muriel with the finish. This could be a Southampton/Leicester type scenario, though you don't tend to see that in Italian football.

5-1 now. Only 51 minutes gone. Pasalic gets in on the act. Musso had made a vital save from Gomez before that. This could get very ugly for Udinese depending on how badly Atalanta want to punish them. Ilicic won't stop as he's on for a hat-trick.

Another pen for Atalanta. Chance for 6-1. Muriel to take it.

Muriel scores it to get his hat-trick. Still 15 minutes to go.

7-1 now. The 17-year-old sub Traore beats Musso. Think the keeper will be disappointed with that. Still 7 minutes of normal time.

It ends 7-1. Udinese will be lucky that was the extent of it as it could have been more. Sending off was a massive moment. Atalanta up to third, 3 points off Juve.

From looking at the highlights Milan appeared to be fortunate they only lost by a goal. Sad to see what's happening to them. There was a rumour in the summer that linked them to Christophe Galtier and Luis Campos. Those two transformed Lille from a team heading for the drop to one in the Champions League, and if they could get them next summer I think they should go for it. As a United fan I want Campos as sporting director at Old Trafford.

Disappointing draw for Napoli as this was a great chance to make ground on Juve and Inter.

Immobile looked quality in Lazio's win over Fiorentina. I feel if they had started him against Celtic on Thursday the result would have been a different story.

Inter go top for the night. Brescia lie in 18th, I hope they really did get a sweetheart deal on Balotelli's wages as it's all they might get relying on him. Tonali 110% won't be there next year anyway.

Napoli host Atalanta tomorrow night at 6. Not a lot else jumps out too much other than maybe Lazio vs Torino. Milan play SPAL Thursday if you hate yourself enough to watch that, might be the scariest thing on Halloween night.

Father Hernandez wrote: »

https://twitter.com/PremierSportsTV/status/1189293450719617024

Lukaku has 7 goals in 10 games

Glad to see him do well, great goal.

I saw stats this morning that said Inter only had 2 shots on target! Maybe Lautaro's goal didn't count due to deflection (I didn't see it), but even still that's a pretty worrying stat considering the opposition.

2-2

Atalanta equaliser seconds beforehand Napoli were denied what looked like a clear penalty.

Ended 2-2, Napoli as you can imagine weren't too pleased.

LuckyGent88 wrote: »

Juve got out of jail once again. Played against 9 men for quite awhile before Rabiot got himself sent off.

Get a penalty in the 96 minute and Ronny converted

Against 10 men actually. Looks like the second red card was for a benched player.

96th minute penalty for Juve. Need to watch that one.

No Halloween horror for Milan as they win thanks to Suso's nice free-kick.

https://twitter.com/PremierSportsTV/status/1190016919551787016

Looked like they deserved the win from the highlights. Their next games will be much tougher tests: Lazio, Juve and Napoli.

Can, Khedira, Ramsey and Douglas Costa on the bench and Rabiot suspended for Juve, they really are stacked in CM

Balotelli subjected to racist abuse at Verona and ends up being convinced not to walk off by teammates and opponents. Verona went on to beat Brescia.:

https://twitter.com/HenryBushnell/status/1191021968562282497

Uncomfortable scenes. They probably should have walked off with him, although he did go on to score this great goal:

https://twitter.com/LondonsFinestQU/status/1191036771150090240

Surely the Italian league need to do something about it, he’s being abused every week it seems.

Ban all the fans until they self police those idiots, it’s the only way it seems.

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

Surprised that was Lazio's first win at the San Siro in 30 years. Juve and Napoli up next for Milan.

Against AC Milan yes. Won in March against Inter 0-1.



Immobile now at 100 goals in 147 games for Lazio, crazy stats.

'If Balotelli was not ready psychologically to face the Verona fanbase and, above all, such a delicate match in which our city and our coach – among the most beloved figures – was taking his final chance at saving his job, then he should've said so and left his place to someone less irritable than him.
'None of us would've been upset if he had, quite the contrary.
'The personal declarations of one of the leaders of the Verona Curva cannot justify the witch-hunt sparked by the media and institutions in yet another attempt to criminalise and destroy the entire Ultras world.

says the Brescia (Ballotelli's own club) Ultras, in soft support of the Verona racists