✅ Good morning, my friends! Here are the front pages from the Italian newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport, Tuesday 22 August 2023.
La Gazzetta dello Sport, Front Page, Tuesday 22 August 2023
Front Page, La Gazzetta dello Sport, Tuesday 22 August 2023
👉Bubbles Milan
Diavolo are also at the table with the big ones
👉Cagliari stall the Toro attacks
Juric: “We were not lucky”
👉 Hello, my friends. Here are the 2023-2024 Italian Serie A Serie A Week 1 RESULTS / First Round on Saturday 19, Sunday 20, and Monday 21 August 2023. Napoli is the current Champion to defend their title. The 3 promoted teams from Serie A are Frosinone, Genoa, and Cagliari.
✅ 10 Serie A Games Completed
⚽️ Serie A Top Scorer up to Week 1 (Updated on Monday 21 August 2023)
Inter forward Lautaro Martínez, Salernitana Antonio Candreva, Roma forward Andrea Belotti, and Napoli forward Victor Osimhen with 2 goals each
From the 3 Serie B promoted teams, two had a bad debut in Serie A, we might say Cagliari had a decent debut with a goalless draw against Torino. Frosinone crushed at home by the Reigning Champions “Napoli.” Genoa humiliated by Fiorentina also at the Marassi Stadium.
The happiest of all, Napoli, who have won in all of their last seven Serie A debuts, six of these played away. Napoli had not conceded a goal within the first 7 minutes of play in their debut league match since August 1995 (Protti, Bari-Naples 1-1).
AC Milan celebrating the victory. Great start for Christian Pulisic becoming the fifth American player to score a goal in Serie A after Alexi Lalas, Michael Bradley, Weston McKennie and Gianluca Busio and the first to do so on his debut in the Italian top flight. Olivier Giroud’s goal against Bologna is the first scored with his right foot of the 33 scored by the French player for Milan in all competitions.
Massimiliano Allegri became the second Juventus coach to reach the milestone of 250 victories in all competitions since 1929/30, after Giovanni Trapattoni (319). Udinese have lost three of their last four Serie A debuts (D1), as many defeats as in the previous seven seasons in the top flight.
An added incentive for Hellas Verona because they have won for the first time an away game in their season opener. Previously, Verona had collected nine defeats and four draws away from home in Serie A in the first match of the season.
A curious detail, both of Federico Bonazzoli’s last two away goals in Serie A came against Empoli at the Castellani Stadium: the first on 14 May 2022 against Salernitana.
As for Fiorentina, it was since 1997 that Fiorentina had not won an away Serie A season opener (3-2 at Udinese). Fiorentina have scored at least four goals in an away Serie A opener for the first time since September 1956 (5-2 v Udinese). Surely, this is a good sign for Viola fans to expect a top performance this season.
Inter have won five league debuts in a row for the third time in their history after also succeeding between 1951 and 1955 and between 1993 and 1997. The leading motor is Argentinean forward Lautaro Martínez scoring a brace. Lautaro has been involved in 101 goals in Serie A (81 goals and 20 assists). Since his debut in the Serie A (since 2018/19), only Ciro Immobile (138) and Domenico Berardi (108) have done better.
Charles De Ketelaere scored his first Serie A goal after 33 appearances and 22 shots in the competition. Despite Atalanta being the team that has recorded the most defeats in their first Serie A match of the season (27), the Dea have won all of their last six opening matches in the tournament.
Forward Andrea Belotti scored his first two goals in Serie A for AS Roma, scoring again for the first time in the competition since 1 May 2022 (hat-trick against Empoli with Torino) and thus ending a streak of 34 consecutive games without goals active in the competition, of which the last 31 with the yellow and red shirt.
For the first time, Lecce won their season debut in Serie A, before today the Apulians had obtained six draws and 11 defeats in this league match. Ciro Immobile has reached 200 goals in the big five European leagues. Furthermore, this was Immobile’s 100th away goal across the big five European leagues.
Torino-Cagliari finished 0-0 for the 14th time in Serie A, confirming the most frequent result in meetings between these two teams in the competition. However, that hadn’t happened at Torino since January 1980. Cagliari have remained unbeaten in eight of their last nine Serie A matches against Torino (W3, D5). The Sardinians have also drawn four of their last five Monday matches in the competition.
Antonio Candreva scored his fourth brace in Serie A against Roma: the last one dates back to 24 January 2016, again at the Stadio Olimpico but with the Lazio shirt (vs Chievo Verona).
👉 Top Serie A teams standing AFTER Serie A Week 1 game. The first 4 qualify for the Champions League, 5 and 6 for Europa League. (Sunday 20 August 2023)
– FIORENTINA, 1st position with 3 points and a positive goal difference of +3
– JUVENTUS, 2nd position with 3 points and a positive goal difference of +3
– NAPOLI, 3rd position with 3 points and a positive goal difference of +2
– ATALANTA, 4th position with 3 points and a positive goal difference of +2
– INTER, 5th position with 3 points and a positive goal difference of +2
– AC MILAN, 6th position with 3 points and a positive goal difference of +2
Relegation Zone:
– SASSUOLO, 18th position with 0 points and a negative goal difference of -2
– GENOA, 19th position with 0 points and a negative goal difference of -3
– UDINESE, 20th position with 0 points and a negative goal difference of -3
👉 2023 – 2024 Italy Serie A Standing – Serie A Table up to Monday 21 August 2023
✅ Good morning, my friends! Here are the front pages from the Italian newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport, Monday 21 August 2023.
La Gazzetta dello Sport, Front Page, Monday 21 August 2023
Front Page La Gazzetta dello Sport, Monday 21 August 2023
👉Leao, it’s your turn
The big stars all score, just waiting for Rafa…
👉De Ketelaere is devilish
👉What a beautiful Old Lady
Boom debut: Chiesa-Vlahovic decide in 20 minutes
✅ Good morning, my friends! Here are the front pages from the Italian newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport, Sunday 20 August 2023.
La Gazzetta dello Sport, Front Page, Sunday 20 August 2023
Front Page, La Gazzetta dello Sport, Sunday 20 August 2023
👉1937-2023
Goodbye Mazzone
Baggio: “Carletto taught you about life”
👉Immediately two super braces
Lautaro smashes it
Inter flatten Monza
Genoa promoted from the Serie B made a sour debut in the Serie A Week 1 losing the game against Fiorentina on Saturday 19 August 2023 at the Luigi Ferraris Stadium. Serie A debut for Coach Alberto Gilardino who replaced Blessin. A nightmare for the Marassi public who embrace Serie A again after only one season of purgatory in the cadetteria. Fiorentina, on the other hand, starting the championship on the right foot.
Surely, it is a good first for Fiorentina. Very high quality first half from the Italian team who after eleven minutes are already two goals ahead thanks to Biraghi’s prowess and Bonaventura’s winning tap. Nico Gonzalez headed the 3-0, in the second half a wonderful assist from Bonaventura gave Mandragora the poker ball. Genoa tries to get back into the game with the goal scored by Biraschi, but the result will not change until the triple whistle
A more aggressive recovery by Genoa wasn’t enough to overturn the deficit in the first half, a bitter return to Serie A for Gilardino’s eleven
Fiorentina have not won on their Serie A debut in 1997 when they played it away; in the last seven occasions they have played their first away away game in the competition they have picked up just two points.
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– Fiorentina had not won their opening league game away from home since 1997;
– The Viola had not scored as many goals in a season opener away since 1956;
– In the first 38 matches of 2023, Fiorentina has won 20 and drawn 8, scoring 68 goals and conceding 39.#forzaviolapic.twitter.com/FOgWb9YIRw
Stats before the game: Genoa have won only 18% of their Serie A matches played against Fiorentina (W18, D38, L46); among the teams faced at least eight times in the top flight, Viola is the one against which the Ligurians have the lowest percentage of successes.
Genoa lost their last Serie A home game against Fiorentina and have not suffered two home defeats in a row against the Viola since the period between November 2012 and September 2013. In the last seven seasonal debuts in Serie A, Genoa have never repeated the same result twice in a row (W3, D2, L2); defeat against Inter in the most recent match for the Ligurians, on 21 August 2021. Genoa haven’t drawn in their first home match in Serie A since September 2011 (2-2 against Atalanta); since then for the Ligurians four wins and one defeat in five home season debuts. Fiorentina haven’t drawn in their Serie A season debut since 2010 (1-1 vs Napoli); since then the Viola have won seven and suffered five defeats in the following 12 championships.
📺 Click the video to watch Genoa 1 – 4 Fiorentina highlights on Saturday 19 August 2023
🇮🇹 Referee Giovanni Ayroldi from the section of Molfetta will be assisted by Alessandro Lo Cicero from the section of Brescia and Valerio Colarossi from the section of Roma 2. The Fourth Official will be Rosario Abisso from the section of Palermo. The VAR will be Daniele Doveri from the section of Roma 1. The AVAR will be Gianpiero Miele from the section of Nola.
Genoa vs Fiorentina, Match Officials
Serie A Week 1
🗓️ Saturday 19 August 2023
🏟️ Luigi Ferraris Stadium
⏲️ 20:45
By Anna Italia
