Articles tagged with "genoa"
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 ...
Genoa per noi
By salvatore | May 9th, 2008The team is off to Genoa this weekend, and everything else around it is up in the air. Yep, it seems the upheaval I was expecting to happen this summer has already begun, with sporting director Walter Sabatini and general secretary Giampiero Pers ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ten Things We Learned From Serie A This Weekend
By chris | March 25th, 2008Reggina Calcio needs better goal celebrations. As you can see above. Franco Brienza could be the surprise recall of the Euros. The little man did pretty alright playing with Luca Toni on the island a few years back, and he's looking li ...
Ten Things We Learned From Serie A This Weekend
By chris | March 25th, 2008Reggina Calcio needs better goal celebrations. As you can see to the left. Franco Brienza could be the surprise recall of the Euros. The little man did pretty alright playing with Luca Toni on the island a few years back, and he's looking like
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
Fiorentina: News and Notes
By Ted | March 17th, 2008After a good football day yesterday, today is a bit quiet on the newsfront. Here’s what’s happening in the purple world. We’ll start with a nice article explaining how the Great Man is satisfied with yesterday’s win. As he should be, presuma
Weekend In Review: Champions League Spots
By chris | March 17th, 2008Inter 2 - Palermo 1: Strolled in just before half time and wondered how the hell Palermo got a goal. Watched the second half and wondered how the hell Inter didn't get 7. I mean, even the ancient Figo was (yes, he decided to come off the bench this time -
Fiorentina 3 – Genoa 1: Welcome Back Adrian Mutu!
By Ted | March 16th, 2008Today in Florence Fiorentina handily defeated Genoa 3-1, thus insuring that the Viola will spend another week in that coveted 4th Champions League spot, aided by the handy loss by AC Milan at the hands of an increasingly likeable Roma team. (Thanks, fella
Fiorentina v. Genoa: Preview
By Ted | March 14th, 2008Before I get to this weekend’s match, please bear with me for two announcements: 1). Okay, first…this is just stupid. Stop it. 2). Secondly, it now seems official that Fiorentina have signed Felipe Melo from Spain. (for €13 million, no less.
Inter Info: 3/14/08 "Vaca, Again"
By robert | March 14th, 2008What's up my dawgs? Yes, the rumors are true. You're beloved Nerazzurri news dude/pre-match dude/post match dude/overall dude will be going away tomorrow. Relax, relax, not forever, just until next Sunday. So that means you guys are going to be on yo ...
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
Palermo - Livorno, Highlights !
By Marco | February 3rd, 2008Here are the complete highlights of yesterday. Bogdani and Tavano need to score on easy chances like that. We desperately needed 1 point from this. Fucking Pink Palermitano Posse and their Old, yet non Ballotta-esque, goaltender ! Especially now, seein
Odds n Ends on a Quiet News Day
By Martha | January 22nd, 2008•A man who knows a good PR opportunity when he sees it, Dunga has called Pato into the Brazil team for a February 6 friendly against the Republic of Ireland. (Dunga also coaches Brazil's national team, which goes a long way toward explaining Pato's pres
News Roundup As We All Drink to Adriano
By Martha | January 18th, 2008•Four of the players on UEFA.com's fan-chosen Team of the Year squad ply their trade in Italy, including three Rossoneri. Kaka, Alessandro Nesta and Clarence Seedorf are joined in the team by their totally awesome mortal enemy Zlatan Ibrahimovic. (No Pi
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
News Roundup Featuring Most of the Same Old Names
By Martha | January 14th, 2008•The Maniche deal -- now done enough to be officially address by Inter functionaries -- keeps getting pushed back. For a while, he as arriving last night and having his medical today. Now, while he's supposedly in Milan, the medical and contract won't h
A News Roundup of a (No Longer) Reasonable Size
By Martha | January 10th, 2008•The rumor mill tells us that Milan are planning a meeting with Emre's agent today. The Turk -- an ex-Inter player, you may recall -- is a reasonable man and therefore wants out of Newcastle, and Carlo Ancelotti is supposedly a big fan, Inter past notwi
Two Strikers Desperate to Move
By Martha | January 10th, 2008As of this morning, Christian Riganò is still in Spain. He's stuck on the bottom of La Liga with the hapless Levante -- nine points behind their nearest rivals with a goal difference of -22, twice that of the next-worst -- losing week after week, and not
Newbies for Genoa and Fiorentina (Juve Get Nothing)
By Martha | January 4th, 2008Finally, transfer are starting to trickle through. Granted, the most noteworthy so far are the ones Juve aren't making (Branislav Ivanovic? Nope, sorry. Ever Banega? Nope, too late.), but it's only a matter of time until something big happens. Right, Mila
Juventus Loses Out To Chelsea; Ivanovic Gets The Blues
By roberto | January 3rd, 2008Juventus' chances of securing a solid collection of some of the finest defensive prospects took a couple steps back today as one of the Old Lady's oldest transfer targets has reportedly reached an agreement with the Blues. Can you really blame Chelsea? No
Will we ever get points on the road?
By Francesco | December 23rd, 2007That's the question I ask. Will we ever get points on the road? I feel like going to a psychic or a fortune teller or something and asking that very question. With the 1-0 loss, Parma again fail to get vital points away and seem to get scared when the
Genoa-Parma, last game of the year
By Francesco | December 21st, 2007This photo is from the last time we played Genoa at home in Serie A, which was in December of 1994. Although the photo says 0-0, we went on to win that game 4-0. Fast forward 13 years, and Genoa-Parma is back. And this time I don't think it'll finish
Lucarelli Ready to Move?
By Martha | December 5th, 2007Shakhtar Donetsk's shocking Champions League collapse (six points from their first two matches, none from their last four) has dumped them out of all European competitions; in addition to the revenue the lost matches will cost the club, the collapse might
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