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Five things you need to know about Sassuolo v Fiorentina

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Fiorentina travel to Mapei Stadium to take on Sassuolo in Week 10 of Serie A on Wednesday night – and we’ve put together these five key stats on the game to get you in the mood.
1)    Sassuolo v Fiorentina is one of the “newest” match-ups in Serie A. The two teams only faced off for the first time in the top tier of Italian football on 22 December 2013, with Fiorentina running out 1-0 winners away from home thanks to a Giuseppe Rossi goal (with his right foot!) eight minutes from time. The win took Fiorentina – coached by Vincenzo Montella during his first spell at the club – onto 33 points in fourth place, just three points from Napoli in third and five from inter in second. The Viola finished that season in fourth position to qualify for the Europa League.
2)    Fiorentina have the better of the record between the two sides in Emilia-Romagna. From seven meetings (six in Serie A, one in Serie C2), Fiorentina have got three wins, three draws and just one defeat. The Viola have scored 11 goals and conceded eight away at Sassuolo. The top scorer in the fixture is Khouma Babacar, who scored a brace for Fiorentina on 14 February 2015 and also scored for Sassuolo against the Viola in the last meeting of the two sides on 9 December, a 3-3 draw.
3)    The only meeting of Sassuolo and Fiorentina outside of Serie A took place in Serie C2 on Sunday 22 December 2002. The match was 1-0 by “Florentia Viola”, which was the name under which the team played in the 2002/03 season. The winning goal was scored by Christian Riganò, his 14th of the season, to give Alberto Cavasin’s Viola side their fourth straight win and help them draw level with Rimini on 32 points at the top of the table.
4)    Fiorentina’s 3-1 win over Sassuolo on 14 February 2015 was notable because it coincided with Mohamed Salah’s first start for the club – and the Egyptian’s first goal. Salah had made his debut for the club a week earlier when he came on for Joaquin in the 65th minute of the 3-2 home win over Atalanta. At Sassuolo, he slotted home a precise effort with his left foot on the half-hour mark to temporarily send Fiorentina into fourth place behind Napoli, Roma and Juventus. The Viola again qualified for the Europa League at the end of the season.

5)    The last Sassuolo v Fiorentina match took place on 9 December and ended in a raucous 3-3 draw, with the Viola fighting back from 3-1 down to salvage a point after the game had been goalless at half time. Alfred Duncan gave Sassuolo the lead on 62 minutes, before Babacar made it 2-0 five minutes later. Giovanni Simeone pulled one back for the Viola on 70 minutes, only for Stefano Sensi to find the net with ten minutes remaining to leave Fiorentina trailing by two. But goals from Marco Benassi on 89 minutes and Kevin Mirallas in the sixth minute of stoppage time ensured the spoils were shared in a 3-3 draw.
 

Published: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:18:00 +0100

Source: Fiorentina Official website en.violachannel.tv

Montella expecting tough test at Sassuolo

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Vincenzo Montella called for Fiorentina to ensure they are fully focused on Wednesday’s trip to Sassuolo as he appeared at a pre-match press conference to preview the Week 10 clash on Tuesday.

“We need to look ahead and not behind,” said Montella. “We have a tough game against a side that is proving itself to be more pragmatic than last season. They have some players in attack that are as good as most in the league: [Domenico] Berardi, [Gregoire] Defrel, [Francesco] Caputo, [Filip] Djuricic and [Jeremie] Boga. They have some very good players in midfield too in [Pedro] Obiang and [Alfred] Duncan. [Manuel] Locatelli is a very good young player in my eyes too. We need to put everything else to one side and show the mental strength to get back to the form we were showing before.”

Montella was pressed on whether or not he will rotate his team at Mapei Stadium, with Federico Chiesa put to the Viola boss as one player he might rest.
“Chiesa was tired but I think he’s one of the top players in terms of fitness,” he said. “He is able to play three games in a week because he recovers quickly. When you play twice or three times a week, it’s a whole different sport. I’ll probably make a few changes in midfield, but I won’t say anything more than that.”
Montella went on to discuss his other options in attack, with Franck Ribery suspended after his red card after the final whistle against Lazio.
“[Dusan] Vlahovic is certainly in better shape than Pedro, but he is a young lad and still needs to work on his game management,” said Montella. “[Kevin-Prince] Boateng gives us more certainties in terms of participation and his reading of the game.”
The Fiorentina coach also addressed the situation with Ribery, who took to social media to apologise following his actions during the Lazio game.
“I’ve had a very good relationship with Franck from day one and indeed before he arrived,” said Montella. “We cleared things up yesterday, I explained my reasons and he acknowledged that he crossed a line. It happens. He’s come to Fiorentina to test himself – he could have gone to Asia where he had much more lucrative offers, because he’s still a top player in his head. He chose to come to a competitive league, to Fiorentina, because he believes he’s still a top player. We’re benefitting from that but I have to make objective decisions during a game and that includes managing a top player of 36 years of age who never holds anything back.”

Published: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:59:00 +0100

Source: Fiorentina Official website en.violachannel.tv

Ten things you need to know about Fiorentina v Lazio

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Lazio are the visitors to the Stadio Artemio Franchi on Sunday evening in Week 9 of Serie A, when Fiorentina will be looking to extend their six-game unbeaten run in the league. Take a look at our collection of ten key facts on the clash to get you in the mood for the late kick-off on Sunday!

1.    The first Fiorentina v Lazio fixture in Serie was played on 1 November 1931, with Uruguayan striker Pedro Petrone scoring twice to give the Viola a 2-0 win. Fiorentina went on to secure an impressive fourth-place finish that year – level with AC Milan – while Lazio ended up joint-13th with Triestina and Pro Vercelli. Petrone would win the Serie A top scorer gong at the end of the 1931/32 season, netting 25 goals to share the prize with Bologna’s Angelo Schiavio.

2.    Fiorentina have hosted Lazio 77 times in total, winning 36, drawing 21 and losing 28 of those games and scoring 128 goals and conceding 85 along the way. That said, since the 1968/69 season, Lazio have racked up more wins in Florence than any other team: 15 in the last 50 years. That’s one more than AC Milan and Juventus, who are both on 14. But that’s not all: of those 15 wins, 11 have occurred since 2000, with seven taking place in the last 14 years. We’ll need to be on our game on Sunday…
3.    Fiorentina and Lazio have faced off twice in the final of the Coppa Italia, with both sides winning one title each. Lazio won the cup in the 1957/58 season, courtesy of a Maurilio Prini winner in Rome (two years after Prini had won the Scudetto with Fiorentina). Meanwhile, Fiorentina’s cup triumph came on 11 June 1961, with Gianfranco Petris and Gigi Milan on target to secure a 2-0 win in Florence.
4.    Fiorentina v Lazio brings to mind two of the most famous club icons in Italian football history: Giancarlo Antognoni and Giorgio Chinaglia. Both players represented only one club in Serie A, Antognoni spending 15 seasons with Fiorentina while Chinaglia – nicknamed “Long John” by the Lazio fans – spent seven with the Biancocelesti. The two players went head to head just five times in Serie A, with the record reading one win apiece and three draws.
5.    Both Fiorentina v Lazio fixtures in the 1947/48 and 1948/49 seasons saw plenty of goals – with Fiorentina getting the win on both occasions. On 25 January 1948, Fiorentina beat Lazio 4-1 thanks to braces from Angelo Bollano and Alberto Galassi. The Viola then followed that up with a 4-0 win on 2 January 1949: Galassi struck three times on that occasion, with Augusto Magli adding the fourth. Born in Todi in 1922, Galassi spent five seasons at Fiorentina between 1947 and 1952, racking up 135 appearances in Serie A and scoring 63 goals. He passed away in Florence in 2002 at the age of 80.
6.    The legendary Gabriel Omar Batistuta was a key player in this fixture in the 1998/99 and 1999/2000 seasons. Bati’s equaliser on 15 May 1999 meant Sven-Goran Eriksson’s Lazio had to settle for a 1-1 draw which cost them the Scudetto title, while the Argentina found the target twice on 15 April 2000 in a spectacular 3-3 draw (Enrico Chiesa got the other goal for the Viola), though that season did culminate in a title win for Eriksson’s men.
7.    Another striker to have gone down in the history of this fixture – for better and for worse – was Claudio Desolati in the mid-1970s. On 3 March 1974, a 19-year-old Desolati put Fiorentina ahead on 41 minutes, only for Chinaglia to equalise from the spot on 64 minutes. It was a pulsating game between Tommaso Maestrelli’s Lazio side, who would go on to win the title, and Luigi Radici’s Fiorentina, a team that brimmed with the enthusiasm of youth and would finish the season in sixth place. A year later, Fiorentina and Lazio were again locked in a 1-1 draw (Antognoni had responded to Chinaglia’s opener) when the Viola were awarded a penalty on 85 minutes: up stepped Desolati, only to crash the spot-kick off the bar. To be fair, Desolati did redeem himself with two goals in Fiorentina’s 2-1 win over Lazio at the Stadio Olimpico the following season.
8.    That man again. Gabriel Batistuta was honoured by the Curva Fiesole ahead of a 2-0 win over Lazio on 5 November 1995, when the fans unveiled a papier-mache statute with the inscription: “Untamed warrior, strong in the fight, loyal in spirit.” The Argentine reciprocated in his own way: with two goals. The statue was destroyed a few years later, perhaps in the wake of Batistuta’s move to Roma. But Batistuta’s relationship with Florence has now been repaired, as shown by the recent celebrations in Piazza Signoria for his 50th birthday.
9.    Fiorentina’s 3-0 win over Lazio on 20 January 1985 was memorable for the thick covering of snow in the stands and the fact that one of the goals was scored by Socrates. In his only season with the Viola, Socrates scored six goals in Serie A, two in the UEFA Cup and one in the Coppa Italia. That day, Fiorentina – led by Ferruccio Valcareggi (who had replaced Giancarlo De Sisti with 12 games played) – got the three points thanks to goals from Socrates, Claudio Pellegrini and Paolone Monelli. Socrates was nicknamed the “Doctor”, having obtained a degree in medicine in Brazil – though he never practised. Incidentally Socrates showed his medical instinct in that game against Lazio by helping a stricken Lionello Manfredonia from the field.

10.    The last meeting between Fiorentina and Lazio at the Stadio Artemio Franchi finished in a 1-1 draw, with Ciro Immobile’s 23rd-minute opener cancelled out by Luis Muriel just after the hour mark. The draw came a week after the Viola’s 3-1 defeat against Atalanta in Bergamo, a result that definitively ended the team’s hopes of qualifying for the Europa League. It was also the Colombian’s last goal for Fiorentina before joining Atalanta in the summer: he scored six goals in the league and three in the Coppa Italia for the Viola.

Published: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 19:14:00 +0200

Source: Fiorentina Official website en.violachannel.tv

UEFA EURO: Italy 29 players called up for Bosnia and Herzegovina and Armenia

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Italy Head Coach Roberto Mancini called up 29 players for European Qualifiers in the ninth and tenth matches in Group J, Italy will play Bosnia and Herzegovina on Friday 15th November 2019 at the Bilino Poje Stadium in Zenica at 20:45 and Armenia on Monday 18th November with kick-off at 20:45 at the Stadio Renzo Barbera.    Good news is that Italy already secured the qualification for EURO 2020 with three matches to spare.

As reported by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC), the Italian team will meet to start training on Monday 11 November at the Technical Center of Coverciano.   Players getting their first called ups include Brescia defender Andrea Cistana,  Fiorentina midfielder Gaetano Castrovilli, and Bologna forward Riccardo Orsolini.  Udinese midfielder Rolando Mandragora and Sassuolo forward Domenico Berardi are back for the first time since June and November 2018. For the first time, Gianluca Vialli will be the delegation head.

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👉 Bosnia Herzegovina vs. Italy 

The Azzurri will be playing in Zenica for the first time. The only other match played away against Bosnia and Herzegovina was in Sarajevo in 1996 and defeat marked the end of the Arrigo Sacchi era. Following the match in Turin, the balance is now level against Bosnia and Herzegovina with a win apiece and the sides level on goal difference.

👉 Italy vs. Armenia

It will be the fourth match between Italy against Armenia after two qualifiers for the 2014 World Cup and the earlier European Qualifier in September in Yerevan. Italy have won two and drawn one. It will be the 14th match in Palermo where the side has won 12 times with a current run of six straight wins, drawn once and lost once.

Points are up for stake as the team looks to top the group and ensure its status as a seeded team for the draw on 30 November in Bucharest and make up ground in the FIFA Ranking ahead of qualification for the 2022 World Cup. Italy are currently 15th in the world and 10th in Europe.

👉 Italy Squad List for  🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina and 🇦🇲  Armenia

Goalkeepers: Gianluigi Donnarumma (Milan), Pierluigi Gollini (Atalanta), Alex Meret (Napoli), Salvatore Sirigu (Torino);

Defenders: Francesco Acerbi (Lazio), Cristiano Biraghi (Inter), Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus), Andrea Cistana (Brescia), Giovanni Di Lorenzo (Napoli), Emerson Palmieri (Chelsea), Alessandro Florenzi (Roma), Armando Izzo (Torino), Gianluca Mancini (Roma), Alessio Romagnoli (Milan), Leonardo Spinazzola (Roma);

Midfielders: Nicolò Barella (Inter), Gaetano Castrovilli (Fiorentina), Frello Filho Jorge Luiz Jorginho (Chelsea), Rolando Mandragora (Udinese), Marco Verratti (Paris Saint Germain). Nicolò Zaniolo (Roma);

Forwards: Andrea Belotti (Torino), Domenico Berardi (Sassuolo), Federico Bernardeschi (Juventus), Federico Chiesa (Fiorentina), Stephan El Shaarawy (Shanghai Shenua), Ciro Immobile (Lazio), Lorenzo Insigne (Napoli), Riccardo Orsolini (Bologna).

Staff – Delegation Head: Gianluca Vialli; Head Coach: Roberto Mancini; Team Manager: Gabriele Oriali; Assistant coaches: Alberico Evani, Attilio Lombardo, Giulio Nuciari, Fausto Salsano; Fitness coaches: Claudio Donatelli and Andrea Scanavino; Goalkeeping coach: Massimo Battara; Match Analyst: Antonio Gagliardi and Simone Contran; Doctors: Andrea Ferretti (Medical director) and Carmine Costabile; Physiotherapists: Maurizio Fagorzi, Emanuele Randelli, Fabrizio Scalzi, Luca Lascialfari, Fabio Sannino; Osteopath: Walter Martinelli; Nutritionist: Matteo Pincella; Secretary: Emiliano Cozzi; Press officer: Paolo Corbi.

👉 Italy National Team Schedule from Monday 11 to Monday 18 November 2019  (all times CET)

Monday 11 November

12:00 – Arrival

13:45 – New FIGC partners’ press conference

14:00 – Head Coach’s press conference

16:00 – Training (First 15 minutes open to the press)

 

Tuesday 12 November

13:45 – Press conference (player)

16:00 – Training (First 15 minutes open to the press)

 

Wednesday 13 November

13:45 – New FIGC partners’ press conference

14:00 – Press conference (players)

16:00 – Training (closed)

 

Thursday 14 November

10:45 – Travel Florence-Sarajevo-Zenica

17:30 – Italy press conference (Coach and one player)

18:00 – Italy training (First 15 minutes open to the press)

19:45 – Bosnia and Herzegovina press conference (Head Coach and one player)

20:30 – Bosnia and Herzegovina training (First 15 minutes open to the presss)

 

Friday 15 November

20:45 – Bosnia Herzegovina vs. Italy

Bilino Poje Stadium in Zenica

Coaches’ press conference, mixed zone (players) and travel Sarajevo-Venice to follow.

 

Saturday 16 November

11:30 – Training (closed)

17:30 – New FIGC partners’ press conference

 

Sunday 17 November

11:00 – Travel Venice-Palermo

17:00 – Italy press conference (Head Coach and one player)

17:30 – Italy training (first 15 minutes open to the press)

18:30 – Armenia press conference (Head Coach and one player)

19:00 – Armenia training (First 15 minutes open to the press)

 

Monday 18 November

20:45 – Italy vs. Armenia

Stadio Renzo Barbera, Palermo

Coaches’ press conference, mixed zone (players) and return to club sides after the match.

6 Italian Serie A Players Called Up by Uruguay Coach Tabarez for friendlies in November 2019

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Congratulations to the 6 Italian Serie A players called up among the 24 by Uruguay Head Coach Óscar Washington Tabárez Silva for the international friendly games against Hungary on 15 November and November 19, 2019.

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  • Inter defender Diego Godín
  • Fiorentina midfielder Martín Caceres
  • AC Milan defender Diego Laxalt
  • Inter midfielder Matías Vecino
  • Juventus midfielder Rodrigo Bentancur
  • Cagliari midfielder Nahitan Nandez.
Uruguay 24 Called Up Players for Friendlies in November 2019

Goalkeepers:  Fernando Muslera, Martín Campaña.

Defenders: Diego Godín (Inter), Bruno Méndez, Sebastián Coates, Martín Cáceres (Fiorentina), Gastón Silva, Mathias Suárez, Diego Laxalt (AC Milan).

Midfielders:Lucas Torreira, Matías Vecino (Inter), Federico Valverde, Rodrigo Bentancur (Juventus), Nahitan Nández (Cagliari), Brian Lozano, Brian Rodríguez, Giorgian De Arrascaeta, Gastón Pereiro.

Forwards: Jonathan Rodríguez, Edinson Cavani, Maximiliano Gómez, Darwin Núñez, Cristhian Stuani, Luis Suárez.