Articles tagged with "atalanta"
Serie A Week 37 Review
By Francesco | May 12th, 2008Week 37 turned out to be a very interesting round of Serie A. It was filled with some much joy and so much drama. Inter, as we know by know, did not win the Scudetto. The 2-2 draw at home was not enough for the Nerazzurri to claim the title. Roma ...
Serie A Week 37 Preview
By Francesco | May 10th, 2008Here we are at the penultimate day of the 2007/2008 Serie A season. It has been a long, interesting season with lots of battles in the table but this second to last day is really becoming more important than the last day, because lots of scenario ...
Serie A Week 36 Round-up
By Francesco | May 4th, 2008Week 36 (I incorrectly said it was Week 37 in the preview) turned out to be an interesting week in this last part of the 2007/2008 season. Here's what happened this weekend: Milan-Inter: 2-1 In the match everyone was looking forward to, the ...
Serie A Week 37 Preview
By Francesco | May 2nd, 2008Sorry guys for the late post, but my internet has been down all day (Stupid Time Warner Cable!). So here's the weekend preview: As you can see by the picture, the main event of Week 37 is the Derby della Madonnina between Milan and Inter. This ...
Transfer Market Musings- I swear to God this will not become a regular thing
By alessio | April 22nd, 2008After missing yet another live Juventus game this weekend due to court-mandated university-mandated community service (Thank god it was the last one) I am finally back. And I know there is nothing worse than someone constantly spouting market bullsh ...
Napoli-Atalanta Game Review: 2-0, La Vendetta!!!
By fortunato | April 13th, 2008With the haunting reminder of the 5-1 thrashing suffered at the hands of Atalanta last December 2 in Bergamo, the Partenopei were looking for revenge in today’s ‘ritorno’ match at the San Paolo in front of an estimated 40,000 plus spectators. N ...
Weekend in Review: Week 31
By chris | March 30th, 2008Mancio decided to eschew tactical concerns during Saturday's game in favor of making shadow puppets and/or scary faces. I'm busy packing for an early flight, so here's your one sentence wrap up for each Serie A weekend game. (The team blogs are mo ...
Milan 1 - Atalanta 2
By Gianfranco | March 30th, 2008Today's game was pretty much summed up with one substitution. You are down 2-nil and remove an "attacking" fullback and put in Brocchi. Folks, welcome to rock bottom... There really is almost no good to be said about todays performance. E ...
Milan - Atalanta
By Gianfranco | March 30th, 2008vs. I am not going to sit here and poor with a preview of a game that we should, need, and must win. Atalanta are as complacent as they come in the middle of the table and should be ripe for the picking, but we all know how that goes d ...
Weekend In Review: Week 30
By chris | March 24th, 2008Inter v Juventus: Bigger match review here. Roma 2 - Empoli 1: On a day when the real Alessandro del Piero looked like magic but couldn't finish, Sebastian Giovinco did the same, though he managed to slot home a gimme on a wide open counter. Christian
WIR: The Meat In The Calcio Sandwich
By chris | March 17th, 2008UEFA Cup Spot(s) Sampdoria 3 - Catania 1: If you missed the train/bus, and didn't show up til the hour mark, you were totally cool, because the fireworks didn't start until the 68th. Four goals in the final 22, and you don't have to look at the scoreli
Week 27: 71.1% There And Loving It
By chris | March 10th, 2008Well, not so much if you're Roberto Stellone. Move that ass, Moris. Figure it's getting to about that point in the season..... Top O' The Table: Status quo. Three fairly comfortable 2-0 victories along with Francesco Totti and David Trezeguet goals and
Putting On Your Sunday Finest
By chris | February 25th, 2008Last giornata 8 teams walked away from their fixture having failed to score a goal. This weekend 8 scored more than 2 and 2 games found 8 goals for a grand total of 35 goals. On behalf of calcio fans everywhere: Thank you. Cagliari 1 - Lazio 0: You can
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
By chris | February 17th, 2008I promise not all weekend posts will reference classic songs. Some, not all. While it's nice to see all the big fellas get their Saturday in the sun, it's leaves much to be desired on Sunday, when The Other Sixteen get to dust off their booties and kic
Atalanta 2, Fiorentina 2: Viola Blow it at the Death
By Ted | February 9th, 2008Football can, at times, be an enormously complex game, but there are also relatively simple truisms that one can take from it. On of the most obvious is that good teams protect leads. Fiorentina in recent weeks has been unable to protect their leads, so
Preview: Atalanta – Fiorentina
By Ted | February 8th, 2008On Saturday in Bergamo two of Italy’s top teams will meet in a vital Series A showdown as Atalanta hosts Fiorentina at the Stadio Azzurri D’Italia. Fiorentina is currently fourth with 37 points, while Atalanta sits seventh with 29 points. Both clubs
Parma, Last Train to Salvation
By Francesco | February 5th, 2008Probably the best thing from the weekend was Cristiano Lucarelli scoring his first goal in a Gialloblu' shirt, but the game was a bad loss to Atalanta (3-2). More after the jump. Here are the highlights: Poor marking on the first goal, how
News Round-Up As Donadoni Keeps Talking
By Martha | January 24th, 2008•In case you missed it, Atalanta beat Milan 2-1 yesterday despite, as often happens with Milan's opponents, having much less of the ball, and the worse of the play. (La Gazzetta gave Pato a 4.5. Nico Burdisso, who was lasted less than eight minutes befo
News Roundup As We're Forced to Think of WC 2010
By Martha | January 15th, 2008•Even though we're still months from the start of Euro 2008, it's evidently not too early to think about World Cup qualifying, as the schedule of qualifying fixtures was announced today (and how delightfully optimistic of C4 to illustrate their story wi
Week 18, Or: It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Pato!
By Martha | January 14th, 2008Milan not only scored at the San Siro, but they won there, too. And it's all down to Pato! ALL HAIL PATO! Wait, what? You say Ronaldo scored twice, and that Pato didn't sprout wings and fly around the ground while choirs of angels sang his praises? Seriou
Transfer Numero Uno: Zampagna to ... Vicenza?!
By Martha | January 3rd, 2008If you've not gathered it from how I talk about him whenever he's mentioned here, I have an irrational affection for Riccardo Zampagna. He's an uncompromising, grumpy bastard who looks like a longshoreman/mob enforcer and usually plays like one, with a lo
Mega News Roundup As We Wait for the First Mega Deal
By Martha | January 2nd, 2008Sory this is so epic, I'm headed to the airport and wanted to pull together as much as I could before I'm at the mercy of the FAA and the weather. God only knows when I'll get home. •RomaChris has done a great Roma rumor roundup, including such diver
News Roundup As Everyone at Milan Gets a Day Older
By Martha | December 28th, 2007•Sampdoria's world-class whiner Andrea Caracciolo could be on his way out of yet another club this winter, possibly to Atalanta. I wonder if it's ever occurred to him that the problem is his lack of consistency, rather than every club he plays with trea
Lazio vs Juventus: Preview, Plus Post-Game Post-Mortems
By roberto | December 13th, 2007So, how have you been? It's nice to be writing again. What have you been up too? How's the backhand? We haven't spoken in a while... I know I know it's all my fault. I've been a terrible blogger as of late and possibly an even worse undergrad. Funny I sho
News Roundup Ahead of Meaningless Champions League Matches
By Martha | December 12th, 2007•Poor Mauro Camoranesi is hurt again -- this time it's his right quad, and he's out for four to six weeks. At least he timed this one to coincide with the winter break, so he won't miss too many matches. •If the Italian media are to be believed, on
Week 12 Redux: Inter and Roma Inch Away
By Martha | December 6th, 2007All the games from Week 12 have now been made up, apart from Milan's visit to Atalanta; with Milan wandering around in Japan for the next couple of weeks and missing two more matches, god only knows when the Atalanta game will be played. Oddly, that game
Odds and Ends for a Weird Champions League Matchday
By Martha | December 4th, 2007•Roma's biggest Ultra groups have announced that they will not attend the team's home match with Caglari tomorrow. They won't come together elsewhere this time (as they did during the Udine match), but instead will just stay home. •Antonio Cassano
Week 14: Inter, Roma Continue to Roll
By Martha | December 3rd, 2007Of the four teams that went into this round within four points of Inter at the top of the table, only Roma won to keep pace with the leaders. On an emotional day in Florence, Inter played their best domestic match in a while to reinforce the growing suspi
Inter v Atalanta: Zzzzzzzzzz.
By Martha | November 24th, 2007Ok, here's a question: If your team is up by a goal and has been under pressure pretty much the entire second half, is the 87th minute the time to give a central defender who has been hurt all season his debut? And to put him on the pitch for a mid, sendi
News Roundup as Milan Try Frantically to Find Michael Jordan's Number
By Martha | November 19th, 2007I'm traveling Tuesday morning; will get back to the grindstone as soon as is humanly possible. •Kaka's dreams: 1)To captain Brazil; 2)To meet Michael Jordan; 3)To win the Golden Ball. Not necessarily in that order. •Atalanta have suspended strik
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