Bologna’s talented young full-back Adam Masina has caught the eye during the first half of the season in Serie A. He has helped the newly promoted club to seven wins so far and they are seven points clear of the relegation zone and looking good to retain their top flight status. Despite only turning 22
“I believe in the project of Milan, Mihajlovic made a good impression on me”, was Stephan El Shaarawy’s reaction to meeting Sinisa Mihajlovic, named the new manager of AC Milan in the summer, and the talk of the Serbian introducing a 4-3-1-2 at the San Siro generated much excitement and optimism that Il Faraone could
A solid Empoli side have been something of a surprise package in Serie A this season and at the heart of it all has been the impressive Polish midfielder Piotr Zielinski. This is his second season on loan at Empoli from Udinese and his current club are out-performing his parent side right now. Empoli are
Back at the start of December, Francesco Acerbi volleyed in a cross from Matteo Politano to send Sassuolo on their way to a convincing 1-3 win at Sampdoria. A fortnight later and Sassuolo took a point from bottom club Verona with a 1-1 draw, sending the Neroverdi into the winter break sitting eighth in Serie
When Juventus slipped to the fourth defeat of their increasingly chaotic title defence against Sassuolo at the end of October, Simone Zaza looked on from the bench and couldn’t make an impact in the 12 minutes he was given at the end of the match. Juventus handed Sassuolo €18 million for Zaza in the summer
Napoli finished 11 points higher in Serie A last season than AC Milan, but both clubs went into the summer with similar issues to address. Both clubs finished outside of the Champions League qualification places and both would respond by changing their manager, Milan sacking Filippo Inzaghi and appointing Sinisa Mihaljovic while Napoli appointed Empoli’s
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Paulo Dybala (Juventus) Juventus signed the Argentine forward for 32 million euros (£23.4 million) from Sicilian outfit Palermo this summer. Last season, the 21-year-old scored 13 times for Palermo and provided ten assists - very impressive considering it was his first season in Serie A and was with a relegation-battling side. Dybala is versatile, athletic and agile, with
There was a certain inevitably as to the identity of the opening two goal-scorers in Sunday’s meeting between Udinese and Torino. With Udinese’s lethal strike-force of 2007-2009 reunited at the Stadio Fruili, albeit on opposing teams, it was no surprise to see Fabio Quagliarella’s 15th minute opener cancelled out almost immediately by Antonio Di Natale.
Following the 2-0 victory over Lazio on Sunday, AS Roma were awash with emotion. Manager Rudi Garcia, boasting a 100% record from four games after joining the club in the summer, became at one with the fans. “I feel like one of you. I feel like a Romanista” he said, while his left-back Federico Balzaretti
Juventus have set the pace in Serie A yet again. The Old Lady of Turin currently hold a 9 point lead over second placed Napoli and could see this increase if results go their way tonight. The Juventini will be looking to get back to winning ways after suffering elimination from the Champions League in
This weeks installment of Serie A was a low scoring affair all around however teams made the most of it as Juventus, Udinese, Atalanta, Genoa and Siena were the only teams that secured themselves all 3 points this round. Round 4 of Serie A started off as Parma hosted Fiorentina in a relatively entertaining match
Welcome to the first of many Serie A weekly reviews! Serie A had some exciting action over the weekend in the second round of matches. On paper, Roma-Inter looked to be the most anticipated match, but Inter never lived up to the hype as they saw the King of Rome pick and choose his spots.