Serie A Superthread

irishguitarlad · 17-10-2020 5:41pm

What's up with premier Sports feed? Keeps going off

dor83 · 17-10-2020 5:43pm

irishguitarlad wrote: »

What's up with premier Sports feed? Keeps going off

It's completely gone now, going to have to find a stream despite paying for premier sports.

EDIT: Seems to be working now.

ERG89 · 17-10-2020 6:39pm

That looked a pen, sure he was in an offside position but Eriksen didn't even attempt a pass it essentially deflected into Lukaku's path

Headshot · 17-10-2020 6:57pm

AC Milan appear to have turned a corner, they looked pretty impressive I have to say.

Agent Coulson · 17-10-2020 6:59pm

Zlatan’s magic is turning AC around

Headshot · 17-10-2020 7:00pm

Have to say Eriksen has been a big disappointment since going to Inter.

irishguitarlad · 17-10-2020 7:01pm

I think Inter need a creator in midfield. I thought calhanoglu and Kjaer were excellent for Milan.

irishguitarlad · 17-10-2020 7:03pm

Headshot wrote: »

Have to say Eriksen has been a big disappointment since going to Inter.

I was just going to say this, they are crying out for a player like him. Conte must not like him or he just might be poor in training. His appearances from the bench have been poor anyways.

dor83 · 17-10-2020 7:09pm

Really poor performance from Inter, Conte has to take the blame for the defensive problems this season after letting Godin leave and replacing him with Kolarov who isn't even a centre back. I know that Bastoni and Skriniar were missing today but if he had brought in an actual CB then maybe we wouldn't be relying on a wing back who is well past his best to play there, I would probably ever play Ranocchia there ahead of him. Add to that the fact that Perisic should not be playing as a wing back and you have a left side that is really lacking defensively.

17-10-2020 9:44pm

Wow! A referee the hunchbacks don't own. Juve effed up the aaaa.! ðŸ˜‚

pm1977x · 17-10-2020 10:22pm

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

Mr.Nice Guy · 17-10-2020 11:25pm

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

justshane · 17-10-2020 11:33pm

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

18-10-2020 9:51pm

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

Cienciano · 18-10-2020 10:29pm

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 · 19-10-2020 12:20am

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 · 22-10-2020 6:22pm

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

breezy1985 · 23-10-2020 12:28am

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 · 24-10-2020 3:55pm

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 · 24-10-2020 4:04pm

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 · 24-10-2020 5:37pm

Dillonb3 wrote: »

Quagliarella still banging them in at 37 years old

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

Agent Coulson · 25-10-2020 10:15pm

Juve go behind to Verona.

Juve get the equalizer 13 minutes to go

Agent Coulson · 25-10-2020 10:43pm

Finishes 1-1.

How long before the pressure starts to come on Pirlo.

breezy1985 · 25-10-2020 10:45pm

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Finishes 1-1.

How long before the pressure starts to come on Pirlo.

Hopefully another year

26-10-2020 6:30pm

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Finishes 1-1.

How long before the pressure starts to come on Pirlo.

I don't think Pirlo gets pressure.

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Agent Coulson · 26-10-2020 8:54pm

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

ERG89 · 26-10-2020 10:16pm

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 · 26-10-2020 10:25pm

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

pm1977x · 26-10-2020 10:28pm

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

ERG89 · 26-10-2020 10:35pm

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 · 27-10-2020 12:46am

Ref was a disaster, Leao looks a player.

DM_7 · 27-10-2020 4:48pm

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 · 01-11-2020 2:18pm

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

ERG89 · 01-11-2020 2:26pm

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 · 02-11-2020 8:50pm

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 · 02-11-2020 8:53pm

Cracker.

pm1977x · 02-11-2020 9:18pm

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

Smell the glove · 08-11-2020 8:23pm

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 · 08-11-2020 9:07pm

Milan falling a part here.

Reminding me of last seasons Milan

breezy1985 · 08-11-2020 9:20pm

Headshot wrote: »

Milan falling a part here.

Reminding me of last seasons Milan

Just got one back

ERG89 · 08-11-2020 10:44pm

Ends 2-2. Even though he got the equaliser not a great night for Zlatan, goal disallowed due to a handball from him and he blazed a pen over the bar.

Milan's form was always going to end as they are outperforming the squad's ability post lockdown but a bad week for them heading into the International break.

breezy1985 · 08-11-2020 11:06pm

ERG89 wrote: »

Ends 2-2. Even though he got the equaliser not a great night for Zlatan, goal disallowed due to a handball from him and he blazed a pen over the bar.

Milan's form was always going to end as they are outperforming the squad's ability post lockdown but a bad week for them heading into the International break.

Jeysus Ide hate to see how harsh you are on the teams not top of the league

pm1977x · 10-11-2020 2:17pm

It's becoming increasingly apparent that it wasn't Juve who were stopping Inter from winning titles in recent years, it was just simply Inter stopping themselves. This Conte project seems to be done already, now it's just a countdown to the messy goodbye, disappointed because I had such high hopes for him but seems even he can't overcome the Inter malaise. :mad:

Cienciano · 10-11-2020 8:56pm

Napoli appeal rejected. Napoli really made a bollocks of it.

https://www.football-italia.net/161855/official-napoli-appeal-rejected

breezy1985 · 10-11-2020 9:22pm

pm1977x wrote: »

It's becoming increasingly apparent that it wasn't Juve who were stopping Inter from winning titles in recent years, it was just simply Inter stopping themselves. This Conte project seems to be done already, now it's just a countdown to the messy goodbye, disappointed because I had such high hopes for him but seems even he can't overcome the Inter malaise. :mad:

The rest of the chasing pack didn't cover themselves in glory either. AC seem to have only gotten their s*** together by accident

Mr.Nice Guy · 11-11-2020 1:23am

pm1977x wrote: »

It's becoming increasingly apparent that it wasn't Juve who were stopping Inter from winning titles in recent years, it was just simply Inter stopping themselves. This Conte project seems to be done already, now it's just a countdown to the messy goodbye, disappointed because I had such high hopes for him but seems even he can't overcome the Inter malaise. :mad:

Think it's too early to say that. They're only 5 points off the top and Milan are away at Napoli next. Every chance Inter could be 2 points off the top after the next round if they beat Torino. I think it's an open race at the moment but I'd be more confident of Juve putting a run together.

pm1977x · 11-11-2020 1:30am

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

Think it's too early to say that. They're only 5 points off the top and Milan are away at Napoli next. Every chance Inter could be 2 points off the top after the next round if they beat Torino. I think it's an open race at the moment but I'd be more confident of Juve putting a run together.

Maybe, just feeling very pessimistic after such a sluggish start, thought they were getting it together last season but feel the Europa League loss was quite damaging to morale and recruitment wasn’t great, time will tell.

NCW feen · 17-11-2020 11:08pm

Can anyone recommend a good podcast on Serie A / Italian football?

breezy1985 · 18-11-2020 1:15am

NCW feen wrote: »

Can anyone recommend a good podcast on Serie A / Italian football?

"Totally Football Show" with Jimbo from BT and channel4 all them years ago does a European podcast with an Italian section

Smell the glove · 19-11-2020 7:21am

NCW feen wrote: »

Can anyone recommend a good podcast on Serie A / Italian football?

Totally Goalazzo
The Italian Football Podcast (now gone behind paywall at patreon but have one free episode a month.
Forza Italian Football Podcast
The Gentleman Ultra
Curve e Calcio (only available through patreon)

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