Serie A returned at the weekend after midweek Coppa Italia action and there was some compelling matches played, and goals scored. Here is our pick of the bunch. Here are the top five goals of the week 5. Alessandro Matri Juventus – Udinese A cracking winner by Matri as he scored his second goal of the game and the one that proved to be the winner.  Arturo Vidal played a ball to Claudio Marchisio who poked the ball through to [...]

We are now half way through the Serie A season and the main performance of the week 19 weekend was Roma’s 5-1 win over Cesena on Saturday evening. The Luis Enrique project now seems to be taking shape. Later that night Juventus won away at Atalanta and with that win were crowned winter champions. Inter Milan now have won eight games in a row in all competitions after beating Lazio 2-1 in the big Sunday night game. Saturday 21st January [...]

Eighteen matches into the season and Juventus are undefeated and sitting in first place. Everything seems rosy red, or pink (like their away shirt), in Turin. While Juventus find themselves in an ideal situation heading into the second half of the season, their rise to the top has been much due to their own good work as it has been to many of their rivals’ failure to truly assert themselves as Scudetto contenders, aside from Milan. This is evident by [...]

Incredible week in Serie A as Inter Milan win the derby for the first time in two years, thanks in part to a goal from the prince Diego Milito. An abandoned game in Sicily where rain was a winner. Catania-Roma was suspended with twenty-five minutes remaining. While Lecce, Parma and Cesena struggling at the bottom of the league all managed to pick up wins and those crucial 3 points. Top Five Goals of the Week are 5. Robert Acquafresca against [...]

Andrea Barzagli believes Juventus were unlucky not  to claim all three points against Cagliari on Sunday. Mirko Vucinic’s opener was cancelled out by Andrea Cossu’s strike early in the second half, but, after peppering the Cagliari goal, Juve could not find a winner. “It’s a shame not to have won. We created many opportunities without being able to make the most of them,” said the central defender. “Cagliari played a great game from a defensive point of view. We lacked [...]

Juventus will be at home for the first time in 2012 on Sunday when they welcome Cagliari to the Juventus Stadium. Starting the New Year off with more of a whimper than a bang, Juve did manage to take home the three points from Lecce even if it was a struggle. As Antonio Conte stated afterwards, they will look to build from that match and improve their performance. Match-winner Alessandro Matri is expected to start after the injury suffered by [...]

Another brilliant weekend in Serie A where two fallen giants must address their continued bad form. Both Inter Milan and Roma were the talking points this weekend as both teams records domestically continue to decay. Inter Milan lost at home to Udinese 1-0 where Roma lost 3-0 away at Fiorentina and had 3 players sent off. Here are the SerieAWeekly 5 Goals of the Week. 5. Mauricio Isla – Inter Milan vs. Udinese A classic Udinese counter attack where Pablo [...]

Only eight games were played in Serie A this weekend due to the bad rain in Naples and in Genoa in which two games were called off due to the severity of the rain. Sadly people lost their lives in Italy due to the bad weather. So two big games in Genoa-Inter and Napoli-Juventus were called off and will be played at a later day. Saturday 5th November Two games on the Saturday evening with Palermo entertained Bologna and the [...]

Superior finishing helped Lazio claim a 3-0 victory from a game that was more often than not spent on the back-foot. The result at Cagliari sees the Biancocelesti move to third in Serie A after an undefeated October. Edy Reja’s men have claimed four wins and a draw from their last five games to quietly become one of the league’s sides and this week’s Team of the Week. Lazio started as slowly as you’d expect from a side missing the [...]

After the fluke round with five 0-0 draws, this weekend action was packed with several brilliant games and high scoring. AC Milan came back from three goals down to win 4-3 at Lecce. Juventus drew 2-2 at home against Genoa in a brilliant game and Udinese end top at the weekend after a brilliant home win over Novara Saturday October 23rd There were two games on Saturday evening, the first of which featured Fiorentina at home to Catania which ended [...]

Serie A Weekly welcomes writer Kirsten Schlewitz to our Italian football frontpage For some reason, when gearing up for Napoli’s match last week, I was convinced that they were playing Cagliari. Perhaps I simply had a premonition that the Partenopei were about to be beaten by Parma – at the San Paolo, mind you. My brain was simply protecting my heart by fast-forwarding a week (while the internet protected me by not having any decent streams available). But now we’ve [...]

Gazzetta dello Sport Turbo Juventus! Marchisio brace defeats Milan. Old Lady go first Rocchi stopped for two or three games, but it’s a no to an Inter veto Udinese still top with super Di Natale Palermo and Cagliari fly Lazio strike, Fiorentina KO Tuttosport Immense Juve Milan dominated and trounced aside from the 2-0 Marchisio double, stadium to scream about: Bianconeri first Udine also top. Bologna, bye Bisoli Giovinco, Parma’s wizard shines blue Palermo and Cagliari fly: Two happy islands [...]