Good morning, my friends! Here are the front pages from the Italian newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport, Sunday 22 May 2022
La Gazzetta dello Sport, Front Page, Sunday 22 May 2022.
Front Page, La Gazzetta dello Sport, Sunday 22 May 2022
👉This evening the verdict of the longest Derby in history
The Scudetto
Milan and Inter, a season in the final match
At 18, Rossoneri in Reggio Emilia against Sassuolo: a draw is enough
Nerazzurri at San Siro with Samp pic.twitter.com/lnWAXUzRqn
👉 Serie A Standing BEFORE the game:
Empoli, 14th position with 38 points and a negative goal difference of -21
Atalanta, 8th position with 59 points and a positive goal difference of +18
Atalanta are out of European competition next season. Atalanta lost the Serie A Week 38 game against Empoli on Saturday 21 May 2022 at the Gewiss Stadium in Bergamo, Italy. Empoli conquered the Gewiss Stadium with this important away victory. A tough defeat for Atalanta because it means being officially excluded from European competition next season after 5 seasons. Fiorentina defeated Juventus and hence ended in the 7th position. Atalanta remained in the 8th position.
✅ Empoli playing their 500th game in Serie A, from the first in September 1986 against Inter to today’s match in Bergamo against Atalanta! (Saturday 21 May 2022) https://t.co/r47YIfiSm6
Fourth official game between Giampiero Gasperini and Aurelio Andreazzoli, with a never victorious Italian coach. Balance of 2 victories for the Atalantino coach and 1 draw. https://t.co/BvD4abkAra
Empoli opened the score in the 79th minute. Leo Stulac with a right-footed shot to the top right corner. The assist is by Nedim Bajrami.
👉Atalanta 0 – 1 Empoli, 79th minute, goal by ⚽️ Leo Stulac for @EmpoliCalcio with a right-footed shot to the top right corner. The assist is by Nedim Bajrami. https://t.co/rUG3j72mwN
✅ Stats before the game. Atalanta have avoided defeat in 10 of their last 11 games against Empoli in Serie A (W6 D4) keeping six clean sheets. Atalanta have never lost in nine home games against Empoli in Serie A (W4 D5) – among the sides against which the Dea are unbeaten at home in the top-flight, only against Catania have they played more matches (14). Atalanta have picked up 59 points in Serie A 2021/22; in the previous five seasons under Gian Piero Gasperini, the 2017/18 is the campaign in which they gained the fewest points (60). Under Gasperini, Atalanta have always qualified for European competition at the end of the season. Considering only the second part of this season, Atalanta would be 12th place in the standings with 21 points in 18 games, while Empoli would be 19th with 11 points in 18 matches. The Dea had instead closed the first half of the season in 4th place with 38 points while Empoli were in 9th position with 27 points. Atalanta have only won one of their last 10 league games at Gewiss Stadium (D5 L4): 4-0 against Sampdoria in February. The Dea could also draw three home games in a row in Serie A for the first time since February 2016.
📺 Click the video to watch Atalanta 0 – 1 Empoli highlights on Saturday 21 May 2022
🇮🇹 Referee Rosario Abisso from the section of Palermo will be assisted by Alberto Tegoni from the section of Milan and Valerio Colarossi from the section of Roma 2. The Fourth Official will be Alberto Santoro from Messina. The VAR will be Maurizio Mariani from the section of Aprilia. The AVAR will be Antonio Di Martino from the section of Teramo.
Gian Piero Gasperini faces Empoli for the sixteenth time in official games, as a coach: 4 wins of the current Atalanta coach, 5 draws and 7 Empoli wins https://t.co/EGRvzcg8BG
Serie A Standing BEFORE the game:
Empoli, 14th position with 38 points and a negative goal difference of -21
Atalanta, 8th position with 59 points and a positive goal difference of +18
✅ Here are Atalanta vs Empoli official starting lineups for the Serie A Week 38 game on Saturday 21 May 2022 at the Gewiss Stadium in Bergamo, Italy at 20:45.
Subs: Ujkani, Furlan, Stulac, Romagnoli, Bajrami, Di Francesco, Benassi, Fazzini, Degli Innocenti, Ismajli, Baldanzi, Parisi.
Coach: Aurelio Andreazzoli
🇮🇹 Referee Rosario Abisso from the section of Palermo will be assisted by Alberto Tegoni from the section of Milan and Valerio Colarossi from the section of Roma 2. The Fourth Official will be Alberto Santoro from Messina. The VAR will be Maurizio Mariani from the section of Aprilia. The AVAR will be Antonio Di Martino from the section of Teramo.
Good morning, my friends! Here are the front pages from the Italian newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport, Saturday 21 May 2022
La Gazzetta dello Sport, Front Page, Saturday 21 May 2022.
Front Page La Gazzetta dello Sport, Saturday 21 May
👉The great return, Paul is Bianconero
Pogba has said Juve
👉Scudetto sprint
Hunger from the Devil
Pioli, Ibra, Maignan and Co.
the secret motivation that pushes Milan
🇮🇹 Italy Head Coach Roberto Mancini called up 53 players for three days of work at the Coverciano Technical Centre. As reported by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC), two groups of players on the National Team radar will be assessed between Tuesday 24 and Thursday 26 May 2022.
The 53 called up players have been divided into two groups and will each take part in two training sessions. 29 play in Serie A, 18 in Serie B and six abroad. The most represented club are Genoa (six), followed by AC Milan, Empoli and Cremonese (four). The youngest player who will be involved is 16-year-old Udinese attacking midfielder Simone Pafundi, while Empoli goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario, who was born in 1996, is the most ‘experienced’.
This special work represents the first step on a path that the FIGC, in consultation with the leagues and clubs, has decided to go down in order to facilitate the transition from the National Youth Team setup to the senior side and to widen the pool of available players to choose from.
Mancini decided against calling up those involved in the Serie B play-offs (with the exception of Pisa’s Lucca, whose call-up depends on whether his club side make it to the final), the Serie C play-offs and the Primavera (U19) play-offs. Given that they could be part of Roma’s matchday squad for the Conference League final against Feyenoord on Wednesday 25 May in Tirana, no Giallorossi youngsters feature.
Tommaso Baldanzi (Empoli)
Riccardo Calafiori (Genoa)
Andrea Cambiaso (Genoa)
Matteo Cancellieri (Verona)
Lorenzo Colombo (Spal)
Diego Coppola (Verona)
Christian Dalle Mura (Pordenone)
Sebastiano Desplanches (Milan)
Salvatore Esposito (Spal)
Nicolò Fagioli (Cremonese)
Gianluca Gaetano (Cremonese)
Wilfried Gnonto (FC Zürich)
Jean Freddi Pascal Greco (Vicenza)
Caleb Okoli (Cremonese)
Tommaso Mancini (Vicenza)
Tommaso Milanese (Alessandria)
Marco Nasti (Milan)
Gaetano Oristanio (Volendam)
Simone Pafundi (Udinese)
Pietro Pellegri (Torino)
Roberto Piccoli (Genoa)
Alessandro Plizzari (Lecce)
Matteo Ruggeri (Salernitana)
Alessandro Sorrentino (Pescara)
Franco Tongya (Olympique de Marseille)
Mattia Viti (Empoli)
Alessandro Zanoli (Napoli) *Call-up depends on results of club side
🇮🇹 👉 The Italian National Team Schedule (all times CEST)
Tuesday 24 May 2022
By 12:30 – Meet-up at Coverciano, first group of players
17:00 – Training (behind closed doors)
Wednesday 25 May 2022
10:00 – Training (behind closed doors)
First group of players to return to their respective clubs after training session
By 12:30 – Meet up at Coverciano, second group of players
17:00 – Training (behind closed doors)
Thursday 26 May 2022
10:00 – Training (behind closed doors)
Second group of players to return to their respective clubs after training session
By Anna Italia
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