✅ Good morning, my friends! Here are the front pages from the Italian newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport, Monday 18 December 2023.
La Gazzetta dello Sport, Front Page, Monday 18 December 2023
Front Page, La Gazzetta dello Sport, Monday 18 December 2023
👉Lautaro and Thuram break everything, Lazio beaten too
Inter fly away
Now +4 over Juve
👉Lots of Milan and a little devil
Monza beaten and third place locked down
Serie A Standing BEFORE the game:
AS Roma, 5th position with 25 points and a positive goal difference of +11
Bologna, 6th position with 25 points and a positive goal difference of +6
Bologna won the Serie A Week 16 game on Sunday 17 December 2023 at the Renato Dall’Ara Stadium in Bologna, Italy at 18:00. These two teams are in full swing for Europe. We will only find out which of the Champions League, Europa or Conference League at the end of the championship given that, in addition to the teams of Thiago Motta and Mourinho. For Bologna there is now the Italian Cup match on Wednesday at San Siro against Inter, then another decisive clash for Europe against Atalanta, Saturday 23rd at Dall’Ara. Direct clash also for Roma in the next round with Napoli at the Olimpico.
Thiago Motta therefore beats Mourinho and, as mentioned, rises to fourth place in the table with 28 points, something Bologna has never achieved after 16 matchdays in the era of three points for a win. Roma remain at 25 points, overtaken by Napoli and Fiorentina and at +2 on Atalanta, who play Salernitana tomorrow evening.
Bologna deservedly won the direct clash with Roma and savored the thrill of a solitary fourth place in the standings. After Moro’s goal at the end of the first half, the second half came at the dawn of the second with Kristensen’s own goal. Roma tried to puncture Ravaglia on a couple of occasions but the defensive rejections of the Emilians and the goalkeeper himself, who was monumental on Belotti, extinguished any desire for a Giallorossi comeback. In the final, after an offside by Azmoun who saves Lucumì from a direct red card, the fuel warning light comes on for Mourinho’s men who are no longer able to reopen the match.
Before the match, the Emilians were riding a streak of five consecutive victories within friendly walls, as well as eight consecutive useful results after the defeat suffered against Milan in the second round of the championship. The Romans have not been impeccable so far away from the Olimpico but in the last two they have scored four points.
On the day they honor their former manager Siniša Mihajlović, Bologna beat Roma 2-0 and move to 4th place. ❤️ pic.twitter.com/eSyLXROQEF
Bologna took the lead in the 37th minute. Nikola Moro defeated AS Roma goalkeeper Rui Patricio with a right-footed shot to the bottom left corner. The assist is by Dan Ndoye.
👉Bologna 1 – 0 Roma, 37th minute, ⚽️ goal by Nikola Moro for @BolognaFC1909en with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner. The assist is by Dan Ndoye. https://t.co/hcLzm9RArd
✅ Stats before the game:In the last five Serie A matches between Bologna and Roma, just three goals have been scored in total: two 0-0, two victories for the Giallorossi 1-0, one success for the Emilians 1-0. Bologna has not scored against Roma in Serie A for 325 minutes of play (Svanberg’s goal in the 35th minute in the 1-0 at Dall’Ara on 1 December 2021): this is the longest open streak without a goal in terms of minutes against an opponent currently in the top division. In the era of three points for a win, it had never happened that Bologna and Roma both had at least 25 points won after the first 15 rounds of Serie A, while the last time the Emilians were at this point in the tournament on par or better in the Giallorossi’s standings dates back to 2002/03 (Bologna 27 points, Rome 23). Only once, in the era of three points for a win, had Bologna won at least 25 points after the first 15 games of a Serie A tournament: 27 in 2002/03, with Guidolin on the bench. While, again considering the era of three points for a victory (since 1994/95), only in one season was the Emilian team in one of the top five positions in the table at this point of the tournament (fifth place – on a par with Atalanta and Milan – in 2000/01). Bologna have won all of their last four Serie A home games and have not achieved five consecutive home victories in the same top division since the end of the 2018/19 season, when they closed that tournament with seven victories in a row at the Dall’Ara.
Serie A Standing BEFORE the game:
AS Roma, 5th position with 25 points and a positive goal difference of +11
Bologna, 6th position with 25 points and a positive goal difference of +6
✅ Here are Bologna vs AS Roma official starting lineups for the Serie A Week 16 game on Sunday 17 December 2023 at the Renato Dall’Ara Stadium in Bologna, Italy at 18:00..
✅ Good morning, my friends! Here are the front pages from the Italian newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport, Sunday 17 December 2023.
La Gazzetta dello Sport, Front Page, Sunday 17 December 2023
Front Page, La Gazzetta dello Sport, Sunday 17 December 2023
👉Inter dream of +4, but there’s the Sarri trap
I take the points and… run away
👉Duvan again, Toro beat Empoli
Euro Zapata
👉Try again Milan
Pioli must secure a place in the top 4
Leao back with Giroud
✅ Here are the match officials and fixtures for the Serie A Week 16 / Sixteenth Round on Friday 15, Saturday 16, Sunday 17, and Monday 18 December 2023 as designated by the Italian Referee Association (AIA).
🇮🇹 The Italian Referee Association (AIA) has designated the match officials for the Serie A Week 16 game AC Milan vs Monza on Sunday 17 December 2023 at San Siro Stadium in Milan, Italy at 12:30.
Referee Gianluca Aureliano from the section of Bologna will be assisted by Mattia Scarpa from the section of Reggio Emilia and Daisuke Emanuele Yoshikawa from the section of Roma 1. The Fourth Official will be Giovanni Ayroldi from the section of Molfetta. The VAR will be Daniele Paterna from the section of Teramo. The AVAR will be Paolo Mazzoleni from the section of Bergamo.
=============== Italian Serie A Tickets for the next 10 games
By Anna Italia
