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Some Serie A roundup.

Finished watching Udinese and Lecce. Quite a dull match. RdP was okay, and Musso was fine, shouldn’t be blamed for both goals Udinese conceded. With Lecce winning and Genoa getting whipped 5-0, Genoa are now only a single point ahead of Lecce from the drop. If they do, I’d assume Juve would loan Romero to another Serie A club.

Tucu Correa had a goal and assist today. Second game in a row where he’s got a goal.

Goal

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Assist.

O 35o gol de Ciro Immobile na Serie A. Cada vez mais próximo da Chuteira de Ouro da temporada.
https://t.co/5F9DLpiVLG

— Fernando Campos (@DonanCampos) July 29, 2020

 

Great goal by Gio.

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Perotti got an offer from some Arab league but he wants to remain in Italy.

Immobile’s matched Fatso’s record, something I’m sure Fatso is not a fan of, which is sharing, especially when it comes to things like pizza. He may’ve played his final league match with Juve and might come to the MLS. He’ll love it here, easy league and will have plenty of food to choose from. Okay, Fatso rant is over.

Great to see Emiliano thriving at Arsenal. I hope they make him their #1 but I’m sure some club will come knocking if they don’t. The Arsenal fans love him. I hope he isn’t content at being a backup. That would be a damn shame. He’s a tall keeper, stands 6’4, has large hands and doesn’t back down. Would be great to see him given a serious look, along with Musso.

As for Gaich. Giant sigh. I think he’ll manage to be fine and score goals but sheesh, what a let down. Hopefully, he manages to score 20 goals in the season and ends up going to Germany or something. It is disappointing that the highest bidder is a Russian side. Teams like Madrid have no problem forking over 50ME for teenage brazucas but we have to try to squeeze every penny out of clubs for our cracks.

 

Appears Genoa and Romero will survive from relegation. They’re up 3-0 going into HT. Romero has played well and scored a great header, great leap and finish. As soon I write this he picks up a yellow, the announcer states it was his 14th yellow of the season.

I’ll tune into the Udinese match for the second half and see how Musso and RdP are doing. So far, it is 0-0 and we’ll see if Musso will get his league best 14th clean sheet of the season.

 

Ni Szczęsny, ni Donnarumma, ni Handanovic. El portero con más ARCOS INVICTOS (14) en la Serie A 2019/20 fue Juan Musso. Y el argentino lo consiguió jugando en Udinese, un equipo que peleó por mantener la categoría. TEMPORADÓN. pic.twitter.com/2a8tRiq7QZ

— Invictos (@InvictosSomos) August 2, 2020

 

One of the better pictures I’ve seen online recently.

Papu Gomez & his wife are goals. 14 years later 🤎

📸 @argtalanta pic.twitter.com/R7YsQVV8BB

— Italian Football TV (@IFTVofficial) July 27, 2020

Given that he had a great season for Atalanta, should Papu be given a look? He perhaps isn’t the answer for the long term but he made it to a lot of people’s team of the season in the Serie A.

 

The problem with Gio is consistency. When he scored 14 goals a couple seasons back, the hope was he’d take his tally close to 20. He went down to 6. This season, he was having another mediocre year until he returned from the covid suspension, where he scored 6 goals or so. IMO, he’s way down in the pecking order.

 

Dybala named Serie A Player of the Year - well deserved. He was far and away the best. He scored “only 11 goals” - but still won Player of the Year ahead of players with 36 and 31 goals. Shows you how decisive he is for Juve.

https://app.football-italia.net/?re...t#article/footballitalia-156794&menu=news-all

 

Just watch this whole video, what Dybala has done this season. He is the most talented Argentine player right now, after Messi.

If our coaches don’t find a way for Messi and him to play together, then shame on them.

Brazil has always been really good about this, pairing up Romario-Bebeto, then Ronaldo-Romario, then Ronaldo-Rivaldo, etc.

Great players can always play together.

 

Based on his form this season, Dybala should definitely be in the starting XI.

The Chile match in the Copa 19 showed that Messi and Dybala can work together. The 4-3-1-2 fits them perfectly.

 

Sometimes you dont even a need a pair, when you have someone this good.

Copa 1991 final goal


Copa 1993 final brace




and this

 

Atalanta has 5 Italian players and three of them are goalkeepers. Perhaps that is why they play such an attractive game. But this is the problem with the Azzurri, the Serie A team of the season will probably have 1 or 2 Italian born player(s).

As for Papu, it will be interesting what Scaloni does. Age is a factor but let’s see if he can keep this up...

 

When Inter won treble in 2010, their main squad had 4 Argentines, 3 Brazillians, 1 Colombian, 1 Cameroonian, 1 Netherlands, 1 Serbian.

Balotelli was only the team 3rd best goalscorer behind Milito and Eto'o. Materazzi did play in CL final replacing Milito at 92nd minutes if that counts as contribution lol

That's the last time Italian side won CL, exactly a decade ago.

 

Yea, the 2002 WC in particular, one more goal against Sweden, Argentina actually will eliminate England cause they didnt win their other 2 games. Crespo came in late but still score nevertheless. In do or die situation like that, Bielsa should have known better and just field Crespo and Bati at the same time.

Sweden only had like 3 chance in that game and Argentina had 15 shots on goal + 13 corners but for whatever reason, not as clinical as they and could. have been. Batistuta only played 20 games that season and mostly sidelined by ankle injury (which he never really recovered till today). Even against England Argentina had 65% possession but was dull upfront.

Some people seems to think Higuain chance in 2015 final wasnt easy, but Batigol scored exactly from that angle in Copa 1991.

 

Ocampos is having a wonderful first half v Roma. He is all over the place with great runs and skill:

 

Que animal es Ocampos por favor, está IMPARABLE. 🔥⚡️https://t.co/yUu0eUIzqT

— Sudanalytics (@sudanalytics_) August 6, 2020

 

Palacios started and was great. One of the best players in the game for sure. Had a stupendous pass to Kai but he couldn’t finish. He will be fine me thinks.

 

Ocampos needs to start for us, period. Tremendous player.