Articles tagged with "catania-team-news"
Bizzarri Save Helps Catania Upend Lazio
By Chris | March 23rd, 2009I should just rename this blog "Bizzarri", because it seems that is all you need to say most weeks that Catania play. The Rossoblu's peerless ...
Catania Hold On For Precious Away Point
By Chris | March 16th, 2009Maybe, someday, Serie A keepers will learn to stay close to home when Giuseppe Mascara gets the ball. Mascara made Emanuele Belardi look a little ...
Catania Trounce Men In Pink 4-0
By Chris | March 2nd, 2009The Catania offense exploded for four goals against island arch-rivals Palermo this weekend, to put themselves 10 points clear of the relegation zone. After a ...
Catania Secure First 2009 Win. Yay.
By Chris | February 22nd, 2009I suppose there is no mid-season swoon that a visit by the worst side in Serie A won't fix. Catania took the first step to ...
Snatching a Draw From The Jaws of Victory
By Chris | February 16th, 2009Every point counts now, as Catania have fallen from the ranks of the secure in Serie A into the heat of the relegation race. Away ...
Rossoblu in Freefall
By Chris | February 2nd, 2009Catania's mid-season "swoon" looks to be degrading into a complete second-half collapse. The tank appeared to be empty against Atalanta this past weekend. I scoured ...
Catania Secure First Point of Year at Genoa
By Chris | January 26th, 2009The Rossoblu have had an inauspicious start to the year, with three consecutive defeats, including an inexplicable gift of points to Bologna last weekend. Hence, ...
Coppa: Juve 3, Catania 0
By Chris | January 15th, 2009Well, that's that. Who the hell cares about the Coppa anyhow? Damn.
Catania Open 2009 With Loss
By Chris | January 12th, 2009Gli Elefanti had an inauspicious start to the new year, falling 1-0 away to Napoli. Of course, it may have been too much to ask, ...
Catania Returns To Form Against Roma
By Chris | December 23rd, 2008The Rossoblu shook off their holiday blues, and posted a convincing (albeit unlikely) win at home to AS Roma over the weekend. Catania dominated the ...
Lo Monaco Fumes as Catania Falls
By Chris | December 8th, 2008It was a predicable result, in many ways: Catania dogs Milan for most of the game, misses on each of their few chances to score, ...
Catania Drops Critical Points to Lecce
By Chris | November 30th, 2008This was a game that Catania may look back on at the end of next month and wish they could play over. Though the single ...
Trounced by Samp. Maybe its the Ugly Away Jerseys.
By Chris | November 24th, 2008It was as if Sampdoria was waiting for this particular game to spring back to form. Earlier in the week it seemed an ideal fixture ...
Keep Your Pants On, Catania Wins
By Chris | November 17th, 2008No shortage of Rossoblu headlines this week. Lets begin with the result. Beppe Mascara recorded a hat-trick, including one from an impressive free kick as Catania ...
Moronic Catania Fans Push Zenga's Buttons
By Chris | November 10th, 2008Catania's come-from-behind win at home over Cagliari was overshadowed by the behaviour of Catania's own classless fans. Walter Zenga was visibly annoyed as he endured ...
Catania Hit First Losing Skid of the Season
By Chris | November 3rd, 2008So much for predictions. Pasquale Foggia returned to Lazio from suspension to score a late, great goal which gave the home side a hard-won victory ...
Catania Seeks Return to Form Against Lazio
By Chris | November 1st, 2008High-flying Calcio Catania were brought back to earth mid-week, falling 2-0 to leaders Udinese. While Catania played well enough for much of the game, it ...
Rossoblu Steal Another Away Point
By Chris | October 26th, 2008Catania walked away from Tuscany with what Zenga called a "salvation point" after drawing 1-1 with Siena, in a game that saw the home side ...
Strong Individual Performances Power Catania to Second Place
By Chris | October 19th, 2008So, how many games does it take for a fluke to become a trend? Catania have been piling up results in the first 2 months ...
Elefanti Hold Off Struggling Reggina
By Chris | October 6th, 2008After missing an easy chance in the first half, Michele Paolucci scored his third goal of the season in the second half and was promptly ...
Catania Move Up The Table
By Chris | September 30th, 2008Michele Paolucci's breakaway goal early in the first half was all the Rossoblu needed to secure a victory over Chievo Verona. A positional error by ...
Juve Donates a Point to Catania
By Chris | September 24th, 2008I think its a very good sign when a team wins games it should not. That was certainly the case Wednesday, as Gli Elefanti got ...
Paolucci, Bizzarri Keep Surging Atalanta At Bay
By Chris | September 21st, 2008Catania continued their stout play at home with a narrow 1-0 result against Atalanta, who began the day atop the Serie A table. Michele Paolucci, ...
Rossoblu Bounce Back in Coppa Italia
By Chris | September 18th, 2008Catania moved into the 5th round of the Coppa Italia on Wednesday, with a convincing 4-0 win over upstart Padova. Some might have seen Gli ...
Mourinho Making Friends in Serie A
By Chris | September 16th, 2008By now you've probably heard the exchange of words between Inter coach Jose Mourinho and Catania chief executive Pietro Lo Monaco. Following the misleadingly-close 2-1 ...
One Giant Step Backwards
By Chris | September 14th, 2008As many predicted, Catania left San Siro this weekend without stealing points from the sleeping giant, Inter. No surprises there. Moreover, they kept the score ...
First Test of the Year in San Siro
By Chris | September 9th, 2008While fans have been pleasantly surprised by Catania's consistent pre-season form, not to mention the opening win over Genoa, honest Etnei would readily admit that ...
Too Much Mascara Causes Genoa Tears
By Chris | September 1st, 2008A second-half tally by Giuseppe Mascara powered the Rossoblu to a narrow 1-0 win over the visitors from Genoa. After a disallowed goal off the ...
Paolucci Lifts the Elephants
By Chris | August 24th, 2008Did I say Catania were looking for a striker? Juve/Udinese loaner and super-sub Michele Paolucci came off the bench to score both goals, as Catania ...
Lo Monaco to Stand Pat?
By Chris | August 20th, 2008Apparently the Rossazzurri general manager thinks the Catania attack will pack some punch this season. We had better learn some new names then: Plasmati, Antenucci ...
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