Serie A Week 34 – Saturday 23 April 2022 – San Siro | Preview by Tlalane Phahla – Follow her on Twitter High off their Coppa Italia semi-final win over arch rivals Milan midweek, Inter shift their attention to their continued scudetto fight…
Napoli scored an early penalty through Lorenzo Insigne and tried to saw out the remaining 80 minutes but were caught late on by an equalising goal from Stephan El Shaarawy. Napoli Meret: Untroubled for the entire opening 45 minutes as Roma failed…
Napoli stand accused of inflating player costs in their deal for Victor Osimhen while Juventus reportedly had ‘fake’ capital gains of €60m. The trial is set to get underway tomorrow with a number of clubs under spotlight of the Italian football association,…
We seem rather strapped for cash. I don’t know the exact figures and doubt anybody knows them. It is never good business sense to reveal you are poor. Yet our financial matters seem harrowing, in whatever reality can be grasped and taken…
I have been out of sorts of late, due to an unexpected, certainly unwelcome, yet ultimately unavoidable motorcycle accident involving a three vehicle pile up in my intended direction of travel. Which has led to…a rather testing time all round. Throughout which…
First on the agenda must be Dejan Kulusevski. Who is rumoured to be on his way out, with none other than our old friend Paratici apparently eager to try pluck him from Turin and offer him a chance to shine in London.…
We sit in 7th after a haphazard start to the campaign which many of us felt so positive towards before the first game of the season. For Paratici had gone! Pirlo had gone! And yet then Ronaldo left in the final flurry,…
Despite the dire state of our league position, both before and after, I was encouraged by the performance against AC. For whilst they were missing a few players, they are a team in superb form, with their away record certain confirmation of…
Whilst the mercato window closed shut with no last minute addition to the troublesome midfield area, or any serious challenge to the long jaded Sandro, this summer we did make one major signing other than the protracted Locatelli deal. As a former…
What could have served as a solid, if unspectacular start to the new campaign, was transformed into disappointment as Polish keeper Szcesney threw away victory almost singlehandedly. And yet even with the promising signs in the first half, the game was overshadowed…
It came as only vague surprise to find the latest former player to visit Continassa linked with a job at the club. And now it appears employed by the club. With Simone Padoin rejoining the ranks as part of Max’s coaching staff.…
We have 8 games remaining in the league. Atalanta sit 1 point behind us in 4th spot, with Napoli 3 points away in 5th. Lazio have a game in hand and could be 4 points away if that match is won. Suffice…
A decent first half showing with Ronaldo capitalizing on some appalling defending for a well taken hatrick and 0-3 lead at the break. Unfortunately, we emerged from the changing rooms lethargic, disjointed and were outplayed for most of the remainder of the…
The angst continues to burn hot in many, occupy any media ever focused on Juve, with the same cycle of questions raised. Is the Ronaldo purchase costing us too much for too little? Is Pirlo so out of his depth that he…
After an hour of listless, uncoordinated failure to string even three passes together in the final third, Pirlo offered evidence that he may still have the solutions to the problems, even if the problems are (partly) of his own manufacture. A sign…
I am unsurprised to find the press asking more questions of Pirlo’s selection and system. They echo the bother a fair few of us have held since the season begun. Close to every game we have seen players placed in unnatural roles,…
After the training session against Crotone, news of mega financial losses and a growing injury list…we head to the romantic city of Verona this weekend. A tie which should/could offer at least a semblance of a more accurate barometer of our current…
Juve welcome basement dwellers Crotone tonight and the opportunity to regain any semblance of form could not come more gift wrapped. For our opponents are wretched, having lost 5 of their last 6 games and looking certainties for relegation. After the horror…
The last outing v Inter was the first time this season I felt we had some clear identity. Players were more comfortable in their natural or close to natural roles. They showed more fight, more happiness, more potency to express their core…
It would be wrong to write that we laboured to the welcome 3 points, as this was a fairly comprehensive victory. Yet I would feel equally false if I were to surmise that this outing showed real potential, riddles solved and the…