Good morning, my friends! Here are the front pages from the Italian newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport, Monday 20 December 2021
La Gazzetta dello Sport, Front Page, Monday 20 December 2021.
Front Page, La Gazzetta dello Sport, Monday 20 December
👉Milan fury: Kessie equalizer disallowed at the 90th, Napoli win
The VAR doesn’t work this way
👉It’s at +4 and Wednesday the first half of the season ends
Inter Winter Champions
Corriere dello Sport, Front Page, Monday 20 December 2021 .
Front Page Corriere dello Sport, Monday 20 December
👉Elmas decides the big match: Inter remain at +4, it’s Winter Champions
Napoli coup
They beat Milan at San Siro [0-1], catch them and leapfrog Atalanta
👉Fiorentina 2-2 with Sassuolo
Dusan record
33 like CR7
AC Milan failing big time losing the Serie A Week 18 game defeated by Napoli at the San Siro Stadium. The victory helping Napoli to overtake the 2nd position reaching 39 points and a +22 goal difference. AC Milan stepping down from the 2nd to the 3rd position remaining with 39 points but with a lower goal difference +16. Milan have not beaten Napoli at home in the league since 2-0 in December 2014 with Filippo Inzaghi on the bench (Menez and Bonaventura scored): since then three Campania wins and three draws.
Inter win the Serie A Week 18 game against Salernitana in grand style keeping the sole leadership reaching 43 points at the Arechi Stadium. Alexis scoring the 101 league goal of the year! Salernitana need to start earning points to dream with salvation. Inter are one of the three teams (along with Lazio and Bologna) that Salernitana has faced more than once at home in Serie A, always finding success and never conceding a goal.
A slap for Atalanta losing the Serie A Week 18 game against AS Roma risking to lose the 3rd position at the Gewiss Stadium. Roma conquering the Gewiss with this important away victory grabbing all 3 points reaching 31 points being -6 points below Atalanta. The three-way race for the Scudetto remain among Atalanta, Inter and AC Milan, and we might even see Napoli joining it!
Juventus winning the Serie A Week 18 game defeating Bologna at the Renato Dall’Ara Stadium. Juventus have now won their last 11 Serie A games against Bologna, against no team they have a longer open streak in the competition. Juventus with a sprint race to be among the top 3 positions, so far, reaching 31 points being -12 points below Inter in the 1st position with 43 points while Bologna remaining with only 24 points.
It is a wake up call for Cagliari to end this year, at least, with a victory to dream with salvation. Udinese silencing the Unipol Domus claiming the away victory with a poker. Udinese reaching 20 points having +10 points lead over Cagliari. The six Serie A matches played in December between Cagliari and Udinese ended with five Friulian wins and a 1-1 draw, in the most recent of these (in 2020).
Lazio win the Serie A Week 18 game defeating Genoa at the Olimpico di Roma Stadium. Lazio with a sprint race to climb towards the top 6 positions while Genoa need to climb from the relegation zone. Andriy Shevchenko is the third coach in the era of three points to win who has not found success in any of the first five matches as the Genoa bench in Serie A, after Giuseppe Marchioro in 1995 and Luigi Delneri in 2012 – both have won the sixth game with this team.
Torino returning to smile after winning the Serie A Week 18 game defeating Hellas Verona at the Olimpico Torino Stadium in Turin, Italy. The much needed victory giving the boost to the morale of the team. Torino with a leapfrog reaching 25 points being now +2 points above Hellas Verona remaining with 23 points. Torino have won five of their last six home league games (one draw).
Good morning, my friends! Here are the front pages from the Italian newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport, Sunday 19 December 2021
La Gazzetta dello Sport, Front Page, Sunday 19 December 2021.
Front Page, La Gazzetta dello Sport, Sunday 19 December
👉Eyes on me
Ibra leads Milan against Napoli to stay within Inter’s reach
👉The answer from Max and Mou
Who are you calling washed up?
👉Juve anti-fog
Morata and Cuadrado goals: Bologna defeated
Corriere dello Sport, Front Page, Sunday 19 December 2021 .
Front Page, Corriere dello Sport, Sunday 19 December
👉Roma enchant in Bergamo (4-1): Atalanta ko, Juve win in Bologna (2-0)
This is Mou
Brace by Abraham, first Zaniolo goal in Serie A this season, flash of Smalling
71% Ball Possession ATALANTA and 29% Ball Possession AS ROMA Atalanta 1 – 4 AS Roma
45+1′ Bryan Cristante (og) 1′ Tammy Abraham
. 27′ Nicolò Zaniolo
. 73′ Chris Smalling
. 82′ Tammy Abraham Buy Serie A tickets for every Italian League football match
Serie A Standing BEFORE the game:
AS Roma, 8th position with 28 points and a positive goal difference of +7
Atalanta, 3rd position with 37 points and a positive goal difference of +17
A slap for Atalanta losing the Serie A Week 18 game against AS Roma risking to lose the 3rd position on Saturday 18 December 2021 at the Gewiss Stadium in Bergamo, Italy. Roma conquering the Gewiss with this important away victory grabbing all 3 points reaching 31 points being -6 points below Atalanta. The three-way race for the Scudetto remain among Atalanta, Inter and AC Milan, and we might even see Napoli joining it! Atalanta have remained unbeaten in all of their last seven Serie A games against Roma, until now, (4W, 3D, 1 lost). Atalanta have won 5 times over Roma in Serie A since Gasperini was appointed manager of the Nerazzurri: 3 home wins, 4 ties (one in Bergamo and the other 3 in Rome), only 1 defeat in total.
A super flash goal in the 1st minute with forward Tammy Abraham defeating Atalanta goalkeeper Juan Musso with a right footed shot to the top right corner.
Photo via twitter.com/asromaen
Atalanta losing control and concede another goal in the 27th minute. It is Nicolò Zaniolo to score with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner. The assist is by Jordan Veretout.
Chris Smalling scoring for the 3-1 in the 72nd minute from very close range with a right footed shot to the top left corner. The assist is by Jordan Veretout.
Hero Tammy Abraham sealing the game for the poker in the 82nd minute with a right footed shot to the center.
Photo via twitter.com/asromaen
✅ Stats before the game. Three of the last four matches between Atalanta and Roma in the league ended with a success for the Bergamo team (1D): the same number of victories that the Lombard team had obtained in the previous 14 matches against this opponent.
Roma have scored in all of their last 11 Serie A away games against Atalanta, even though they have only won four of these games (3D, 4L). Atalanta comes from six consecutive league successes (they are the only team with full points from the beginning of November to today); only once in its history has it achieved a longer streak of consecutive Serie A victories, between February and July 2020 (nine). Roma have not won any of the last 12 Serie A matches against teams that occupied the top five positions in the standings at the start of the championship (6D, 6L), also losing the two most recent ones (KO with the other Lombard players, Milan and Inter Milan). ).
📺 Click the video to watch Atalanta – AS Roma highlights on Saturday 18 December 2021.
🇮🇹 Referee Massimiliano Irrati from the section of Pistoia will be assisted by Stefano Alassio from the section of Imperia and Andrea Zingarelli from the section of Siena. The Fourth Official will be Andrea Colombo from the section of Como. The VAR will be Luigi Nasca from the section of Bari and the AVAR will be Alessio Tolfo from the section of Pordenone.
Serie A Standing BEFORE the game:
AS Roma, 8th position with 28 points and a positive goal difference of +7
Atalanta, 3rd position with 37 points and a positive goal difference of +17
👉 Here are Atalanta vs AS Roma official starting lineups for the Serie A Week 18 game on Saturday 18 December 2021 at the Gewiss Stadium in Bergamo, Italy at 15:00.
🇮🇹 Referee Massimiliano Irrati from the section of Pistoia will be assisted by Stefano Alassio from the section of Imperia and Andrea Zingarelli from the section of Siena. The Fourth Official will be Andrea Colombo from the section of Como. The VAR will be Luigi Nasca from the section of Bari and the AVAR will be Alessio Tolfo from the section of Pordenone.
By Anna Italia
