Day 20:
Juventus: 1 point in 2 games. Not a good start of the year. The attack doesn't score, the defense concedes too much. For sure they miss Asamoah, Chiellini and a healthy Vucinic. And their first purchase is already a flop.
Congratulations to Petkovic and whoever at Lazio decided to hire him as a coach. Lazio have gained 42 points in 20 games, like in 1999-2000 (the season of their 2nd scudetto).
Third win in a row for Napoli who are back in the fight for scudetto (-5 from Juventus).
De Rossi-Zeman: what is the solution? Roma are 13 points behind Juventus and, what is really worse, 10 behind Lazio. According to Zeman's explanation De Rossi can't play with Florenzi and Bradley because all of them are incontristi (defensive midfielders, and De Rossi right now is of course the third choice according to Zeman), so he chose Tachtsidis. DDR can play just with Pjanic according to Zeman! (and with Tachtsidis if Zeman's speech is not bs).
Milan are mediocre. If they reached the CL spot it would mean that serie A is worse than I thought. Luckily it won't happen. Sorry Berlu, but Niang, for good that he is, doesn't look like Balotelli. Maybe he is not a bad egg, maybe he is not dumb...
Udinese lost many pieces during the past summer but they are like the Phoenix. And they have an unbelievable striker in Di Natale (14 goals!).
Beware of Atalanta. I think they have weakened their defense during the transfer campiagn (Peluso is not good enough for Juventus in 3-man defense but for Atalanta he was important and even more important was IMO the veteran Manfredini). There are now 10 clubs involved in the relegation battle.
how could Iachini allow Rosina to take the PK? I understand that Paolucci, for example, had managed to miss two PKs in the same game when he played for Vicenza, but Rosina, as a former granata, looked like the worst possible choice. It is not a surprise that he missed it. Not saying that he did it on purpose of course.
I realized there is plenty of goals scored with headers without defenders marking their opponents.
Juventus: 1 point in 2 games. Not a good start of the year. The attack doesn't score, the defense concedes too much. For sure they miss Asamoah, Chiellini and a healthy Vucinic. And their first purchase is already a flop.
Congratulations to Petkovic and whoever at Lazio decided to hire him as a coach. Lazio have gained 42 points in 20 games, like in 1999-2000 (the season of their 2nd scudetto).
Third win in a row for Napoli who are back in the fight for scudetto (-5 from Juventus).
De Rossi-Zeman: what is the solution? Roma are 13 points behind Juventus and, what is really worse, 10 behind Lazio. According to Zeman's explanation De Rossi can't play with Florenzi and Bradley because all of them are incontristi (defensive midfielders, and De Rossi right now is of course the third choice according to Zeman), so he chose Tachtsidis. DDR can play just with Pjanic according to Zeman! (and with Tachtsidis if Zeman's speech is not bs).
Milan are mediocre. If they reached the CL spot it would mean that serie A is worse than I thought. Luckily it won't happen. Sorry Berlu, but Niang, for good that he is, doesn't look like Balotelli. Maybe he is not a bad egg, maybe he is not dumb...
Udinese lost many pieces during the past summer but they are like the Phoenix. And they have an unbelievable striker in Di Natale (14 goals!).
Beware of Atalanta. I think they have weakened their defense during the transfer campiagn (Peluso is not good enough for Juventus in 3-man defense but for Atalanta he was important and even more important was IMO the veteran Manfredini). There are now 10 clubs involved in the relegation battle.
how could Iachini allow Rosina to take the PK? I understand that Paolucci, for example, had managed to miss two PKs in the same game when he played for Vicenza, but Rosina, as a former granata, looked like the worst possible choice. It is not a surprise that he missed it. Not saying that he did it on purpose of course.
I realized there is plenty of goals scored with headers without defenders marking their opponents.