✅ Good morning, my friends! Here are the front pages from the Italian newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport, Sunday 21 May 2023.
La Gazzetta dello Sport, Front Page, Sunday 21 May 2023
Front Page, La Gazzetta dello Sport, Sunday 21 May 2023
👉The Champions League race resumes with five goals
Milan are alive
Samp sunk
👉Spalletti snaps
Moving away from Naples, he is thinking of taking time out
“De Laurentiis, I need boots, not wings”
Corriere dello Sport, Front Page, Sunday 21 May 2023
Front Page Corriere dello Sport, Sunday 21 May 2023
👉Awaiting for the Court of Appeal: the second strand of the investigation also frightening
Juve feels like -12
Tomorrow the verdict: the objective is to take away Champions League
Serie A Standing BEFORE the game
Bologna, 11th position with 47 points and a negative goal difference of -1
Cremonese, 19th position with 24 points and a negative goal difference of -30
Bologna are already saved while Cremonese lost the Serie A Week 36 game on Saturday 20 May 2023 at the Giovanni Zini Stadium in Cremona, Italy. Bologna returns to victory after six games and does it in a bombastic way at the Zini. After the 3-0 in the first half, Motta’s men find two more goals with Orsolini and Sansone. For Cremonese, the honor goal is scored by Daniel Ciofani. However, there is a lack of mathematics to condemn Cremonese but, to stay in Serie A, Ballardini’s men need six points in the next two games and three consecutive missteps for Verona and Spezia, something that goes beyond the concept of a sporting miracle. Bologna, on the other hand, with these three points reaches 50 and climbs to ninth place with two lengths of delay from Monza in eighth, waiting for the other matches of the day.
In the next round, Cremonese will play in Rome against Lazio, while Bologna will host Napoli at Dall’Ara.
4 – Bologna have won an away match in Serie A with a four-goal margin for the first time since 22 October 2000 (5-1 against Napoli). Abundance.#CremoneseBolognapic.twitter.com/nOxA7zEGpm
3 – Bologna have scored at least 3 goals in the first half of a Serie A match for the first time since 19 October 2008 against Lazio at home (3), while they have achieved this on the road for the first time since 3 December 1961 (3, against Inter). Monologue.#CremoneseBologna
✅ Stats before the game: After losing their first two matches in Serie A against Bologna (in 1929/30), Cremonese remained unbeaten in the next three matches in the top division between 1989/90 and the first leg (W1, D2). Davide Ballardini’s first match at the helm of Cremonese in Serie A dates back to the first leg match against Bologna on 23 January (1-1); since his arrival, the Grigiorossi have earned 17 points in 17 games and would be out of the relegation zone. 46% of Cremonese’s points in this Serie A season have come from April (11/24), a record percentage. During the period, the Grigiorossi earned more points (11 in eight matches) than Bologna (10) in the league. After the success against Spezia in the last home match, Cremonese could obtain two wins in a row at Zini in Serie A for the first time since the period between November-December 1995 (against Padova and Bari in that case, with Luigi Simoni as coach). Bologna went on a run of six consecutive matches without a win (D4 L2) in the league for the first time since the April-May 2021 period (seven in that case). The rossoblù could also draw three games in a row in Serie A for the first time since January 2021 (five on that occasion).
📺 Click the video to watch Cremonese 1 – 5 Bologna highlights on Saturday 20 May 2023
🇮🇹 Referee Paolo Valeri from the section of Roma 2 will be assisted by Marcello Rossi from the section of Biella and Domenico Fontemurato from the section of Roma 2. The Fourth Official will be Daniele Minelli from the section of Varese. The VAR will be Valerio Marini from the section of Roma 1. The AVAR will be Marco Di Bello di Brindisi.
Photo via twitter.com/uscremonese
Photo via twitter.com/BolognaFC1909en
👉 Cremonese vs Bologna, Match Officials
Serie A Week 36
🗓️ Saturday 20 May 2023
🏟️ Giovanni Zini Stadium
⏲️ 15:00
Serie A Standing BEFORE the game
Bologna, 11th position with 47 points and a negative goal difference of -1
Cremonese, 19th position with 24 points and a negative goal difference of -30
🇮🇹 The Italian Referee Association (AIA) has designated the match officials for the Serie A Week 36 game Cremonese vs Bologna on Saturday 20 May 2023 at the Giovanni Zini Stadium in Cremona, Italy at 15:00.
Referee Paolo Valeri from the section of Roma 2 will be assisted by Marcello Rossi from the section of Biella and Domenico Fontemurato from the section of Roma 2. The Fourth Official will be Daniele Minelli from the section of Varese. The VAR will be Valerio Marini from the section of Roma 1. The AVAR will be Marco Di Bello di Brindisi.
👉 Here is the list of suspensions by the Sporting Judge Gerardo Mastrandrea assisted by Stefania Ginesio and the A.I.A Representative Carlo Moretti on Tuesday 16 May 2023 after the Serie A Round 35 concluded on Monday 15 May 2023.
One game suspension
Rodrigo Becao (Udinese)
Giacomo Bonaventura (Fiorentina)
Kelvin Amian (Spezia)
Lameck Banda (Lecce)
Juan Cuadrado (Juventus)
Danilo (Juventus).
List of cautioned: Ruan Tressoldi (Sassuolo), Bruno Amione (Sampdoria), Marcelo Brozovic (Inter), Filip Duricic (Sampdoria), Fabiano Parisi (Empoli), Luca Caldirola (Monza), Matheus Henrique (Sassuolo), Stefan De Vrij (Inter), Festy Ebosele (Udinese), Eljif Elmas (Napoli), Nikola Milenkovic (Fiorentina), Sergej Milinkovic-Savic (Lazio).
👉 Hello, my friends. Here are the 2022-2023 Italian Serie A Week 35 RESULTS / Thirty-fifth Round on Friday 12, Saturday 13, Sunday 14, and Monday 15 May 2023
✅ Here is the situation: 👉🏆🇮🇹 Napoli won the 2022-23 Serie A Scudetto on Thursday 4 May 2023 after the 1-1 draw with Udinese.
Verdict – Relegation. After 11 seasons in Serie A, Sampdoria is arithmetically relegated to Serie B 2023-24 after losing the Serie A Week 34 against Udinese.
Verdict – Promotion: Two Serie B teams are already promoted to the Serie A 2023-24: Frosinone and Genoa.
✅ 10 Serie A Games Completed
⚽️ Serie A Top Scorer up to Week 35 (Updated on Monday 15 May 2023)
Monza achieved a prestigious victory defeating Italy’s Champions at the U-Power Stadium. Napoli suffered the fourth defeat in the league returning to lose more than a month after the home defeat against Milan for 0-4. Now Spalletti’s team can no longer be defeated if they want to reach at least 90 points. Monza got the seventh consecutive useful result and continues the run-up to eighth place, remaining level on points with Fiorentina and Torino, waiting for Bologna, which by winning against Roma would reach the group at 49.
Empoli got a late equalizer against Sampdoria “already relegated” which mean arithmetic salvation.
As presented by Opta stats via Lega Serie A. Lazio forward Ciro Immobile scored again at home, in Serie A TIM, 243 days (612 minutes) after the last one, scored against Verona, on 11 September last. Lazio 2 – 2 Lecce
Remi Oudin is only the third French player to score at least two goals at the Olimpico against Lazio in Serie A, after Paul Pogba (two, in November 2014) and Thierry Henry (two, in April 1999), both with Juventus.
Salernitana has remained unbeaten in the last six home league games (W3, D3) for the first time since the period between February and May 1999 (six in that case too).
For the first time under the management of Gian Piero Gasperini, Atalanta have conceded goals in 10 consecutive matches in a single Serie A TIM tournament.
Przemyslaw Wiśniewski’s is the first goal scored by a Spezia defender in this championship: Petko Hristov scored the last in the competition more than a year ago (April 30, 2022 vs Lazio).
Milan finished two games in a row without scoring in all competitions for the first time since last January – even then the first of the two meetings was a derby loss against Inter (0-3 in EA SPORTS Supercup, then 0- 4 in Serie A TIM vs Lazio).
Against no team, Romelu Lukaku has scored more multiple goals than against Sassuolo in Serie A TIM (two braces like against Benevento and Genoa).
Inter have won their last seven games counting all competitions. The last time the Nerazzurri achieved multiple wins in a row in a single season was between February and April 2021 (nine in that case).
Torino have won three consecutive away games without conceding a goal in Serie A for the first time since March 1970.
Nikola Vlasic is the third Croatian midfielder to score at least five goals in his first season in Serie A TIM after Mario Pasalic (five in 2016/17) and Ivan Perisic (seven in 2015/16).
For the first time in this championship, Fiorentina have closed two games in a row at home without conceding a goal.
Udinese is the team against which Gaetano Castrovilli has been involved in the most goals in Serie A TIM (five: three goals and two assists).
Monza are the first newly promoted side to score 49 points after 35 Serie A matches since Verona in 2013/14 (52 points).
All four of Napoli’s defeats in this Serie A TIM season have come in 2023, and in all four they have failed to score.
Roma’s starting lineup with an average age of 25 years and 34 days is the youngest starting XI fielded by José Mourinho in his Serie A career.
Bologna have drawn three home games in a row in Serie A TIM for the first time since March 2016, in that case with Roberto Donadoni in charge.
Juventus (21) is the team that has scored the most goals with players born after 2000 in this Serie A TIM season.
Only Barcelona (25) have obtained more clean sheets than Juventus (19, like Lazio) in the top five European tournaments 22/23.
Sampdoria is the team that has conceded the most goals in added time (eight).
Roberto Piccoli has scored five of his seven Serie A goals coming into the current game, including all three most recently.
By Anna Italia
