Good morning, my friends! Here are the front pages from the Italian newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport, Sunday 18 September 2022
La Gazzetta dello Sport, Front Page, Sunday 18 September 2022.
Front Page, La Gazzetta dello Sport, Sunday 18 September
👉 Milan vs. Napoli
San Siro at 20:45
Beauties of Italy
There is more beyond the primacy
Pioli against Spalletti, playing for the Scudetto
Corriere dello Sport, Front Page, Sunday 18 September 2022 .
Front Page Corriere dello Sport, Sunday 18 September 2022
👉Milan-Napoli and Roma-Atalanta: The race for the top gets underway
Scudetto first act
Pioli: “Challenge worth the title”.
Spalletti: “Let’s believe it.”
Tutto Sport, Front Page, Sunday 18 September 2022 .
Front Page, Tutto Sport, Sunday 18 September
👉Juric comes back and can’t find his team anymore
Toro, where were you?
👉Keep the fans entertained too
👉What a Sunday! Three clashes at the top: whoever wins dream
We start with Udinese-Inter, Roma-Atalanta, finally Milan-Napoli pic.twitter.com/6mTsgCj3u3
👉 Serie A Standing BEFORE the game:
Empoli, 16th position with 4 points and a negative goal difference of -2
Bologna, 12th position with 6 points and a negative goal difference of -2
Tough debut for new Bologna Coach Thiago Motta losing the Serie A Week 7 game against Empoli on Saturday 17 September 2022 at the Renato Dall’Ara Stadium in Bologna, Italy. A goal by Filippo Bandinelli in the second half of the match was enough to give Empoli their first win this season. Bandinelli’s goal is worth 3 precious points reaching 7 points while Bologna remain with 6 points. Bologna battled and might complain given the two poles hit by Arnautovic and Zirkzee deny the draw and Bologna stops their run after three consecutive useful results. Surely, the party is all for Empoli grabbing this important away victory.
Photo via twitter.com/EmpoliFC
The fourth official technical confrontation between Thiago Motta and Paolo Zanetti, as coaches, with the new Bologna coach who has collected 3 victories. In the next round, after the break, Empoli will play at home against AC Milan, while Bologna will go to visit Juventus.
Photo via twitter.com/EmpoliFC
Empoli opened the score in the 75th minute. Filippo Bandinelli defeated Bologna goalkeeper Lukasz Skorupski with a right-footed shot to the center.
👉Bologna 0 – 1 Empoli, 75th minute, ⚽️ goal by Filippo Bandinelli for @EmpoliFC with a right-footed shot to the center. https://t.co/MdBtBESJbi
✅ Stats before the game. Bologna and Empoli have met 16 times in Serie A: Bologna 4 wins, 7 draws, and Empoli 5 wins. Out of the seven draws between Bologna and Empoli in Serie A, six were 0-0, including the most recent match, on 6 February. Empoli have only lost one of their last nine Serie A matches against Bologna (1-3 on 27 April 2019), achieving five wins in the partial (3D). Bologna have not won a first-leg match against Empoli in Serie A since January 6, 2004, under the guidance of Carlo Mazzone, with goals from Bellucci and Pecchia, which overturned the Tuscans’ initial advantage with Di Natale. Of the eight Serie A home games against Empoli, Bologna lost only one: 2-3 on 19 December 2015 with Roberto Donadoni on the bench – four Rossoblu wins and three draws complete the picture at Dall’Ara. Thiago Motta in his third challenge as a coach against Empoli: in the previous two few emotions, with only draws and only two goals scored in total, data referring to the double Spezia-Empoli in last year’s Serie A. (1-1 on December 19th, 0-0 on April 9th)
📺 Click the video to watch Bologna 0 – 1 Empoli highlights including all goals on Saturday 17 September 2022
🇮🇹 Referee Manuel Volpi from the section of Arezzo will be assisted by Francesca Di Monte from the section of Chieti and Gaetano Massara from the section of Reggio Calabria. The Fourth Official will be Marco Piccinini from the section of Forlì. The VAR will be Luigi Nasca from the section of Bari. The AVAR will be Stefano Del Giovane from the section of Albano Laziale.
Photo via twitter.com/BolognaFC1909en
Alle 15.00 la sfida contro il Bologna; ecco la nostra formazione ⬇
👉 Serie A Standing BEFORE the game:
Empoli, 16th position with 4 points and a negative goal difference of -2
Bologna, 12th position with 6 points and a negative goal difference of -2
✅ Here are Bologna vs Empoli official starting lineups for the Serie A Week 7 game on Saturday 17 September 2022 at the Renato Dall’Ara Stadium in Bologna, Italy at 15:00.
Subs: Perisan, Cacace, Walukiewicz, Grassi, De Winter, Henderson, Pjaca, Ekong, Degli Innocenti, Fazzini, Ujkani, Cambiaghi.
Coach:. PaoloZanetti.
🇮🇹 Referee Manuel Volpi from the section of Arezzo will be assisted by Francesca Di Monte from the section of Chieti and Gaetano Massara from the section of Reggio Calabria. The Fourth Official will be Marco Piccinini from the section of Forlì. The VAR will be Luigi Nasca from the section of Bari. The AVAR will be Stefano Del Giovane from the section of Albano Laziale.
Good morning, my friends! Here are the front pages from the Italian newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport, Saturday 17 September 2022
La Gazzetta dello Sport, Front Page, Saturday 17 September 2022.
Front Page, La Gazzetta dello Sport, Saturday 17 September 2022
👉The super challenge tomorrow, Milan and all the anti-Napoli arms
The archdevils
👉Juve is broken
Allegri, flop preparation
from Pogba to Rabiot in two months 17 injuries
Corriere dello Sport, Front Page, Saturday 17 September 2022 .
Front Page, Corriere dello Sport, Saturday 17 September 2022
👉 The challenge in San Siro, the techno-scandal, Juve crisis: “uncomfortable” interview
Milan-Napoli no VAR
Mauro: “Don’t ruin the game between two wonderful realities”
Italy Head Coach Roberto Mancini called up 29 players for the final matches in the UEFA Nations League 2022. Italy will face England at the Giuseppe Meazza Stadium in Milan on 23 September at 20.45 CEST and Hungary at the Puskas Arena in Budapest on 26 September at 20.45 CEST. Italy’s objective is to end in first place in Group 3 of the A League, allowing access to the Final Four, which was achieved in the last edition of the tournament. Italy up to Matchday 5 are in the 3rd position with 5 points while Hungary are in the 1st position with 7 points and Germany in the 2nd with 6 points while England are in the last position with just 2 points.
🇮🇹 👉 UEFA Nations League Standings / League A – Group 3
As reported by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC), Coach Roberto Mancini – who against England will join Valcareggi and Vicini in terms of number of games managed for the Azzurri (54, Lippi and Prandelli are at 56) – has called up 29 players, who will meet on Sunday 18 September at the Coverciano Federal Technical Centre. There are first call-ups to the national team for Lazio and Empoli goalkeepers Ivan Provedel and Guglielmo Vicario, the latter already called up last May, reserved to national interest players, and for Salernitana defender Pasquale Mazzocchi. Vincenzo Grifo, who was last called up for the friendly against San Marino in May 2021, will also be back in the Azzurri shirt.
The group will leave on Thursday 22 September for Milan, where they will stay the day after the match against England, before moving to Budapest on Sunday 25 and finally returning to Italy in the night after the match against Hungary.
Regarding the collision of the National Team with the 2022 Political Elections, scheduled for Sunday 25 September, the logistics will be evaluated in the coming days to allow the staff to vote, while guaranteeing their attendance at the match on 26 September against Hungary.
In fact, the current regulations do not allow those who are temporarily in another location to vote outside their place of residence, with the exception of cases that are strictly provided for limited categories of personnel. The team programme, therefore, may be subject to change between Saturday 24 and Sunday 25, which will be clarified shortly.
Goalkeepers: Gianluigi Donnarumma (Paris Saint Germain), Alex Meret (Napoli), Ivan Provedel (Lazio), Guglielmo Vicario (Empoli);
Defenders: Francesco Acerbi (Inter), Alessandro Bastoni (Inter), Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus), Giovanni Di Lorenzo (Napoli), Federico Dimarco (Inter), Emerson Palmieri (West Ham), Federico Gatti (Juventus), Luiz Felipe (Betis Siviglia), Pasquale Mazzocchi (Salernitana), Rafael Toloi (Atalanta);
Midfielders: Nicolò Barella (Inter), Bryan Cristante (Roma), Jorginho (Chelsea), Lorenzo Pellegrini (Roma), Tommaso Pobega (Milan), Sandro Tonali (Milan), Marco Verratti (Paris Saint Germain);
✅ ITALY vs. ENGLAND. There are 29 previous matches between Italy and England, with the balance tipped in favour of the Azzurri: 10 Italian wins, 8 English wins and 11 draws, the last of which was the 0-0 in the first Nations League match. The national team will play for the 60th time in Milan (only Rome has hosted more matches for the Azzurri, 62), where they have collected 37 wins, 19 draws and 3 defeats. The last one was against Spain in October 2021, the first defeat for the national team in San Siro, which ended an incredible unbeaten run in the city of 93 years (the other two defeats in Milan date back to 1911 and 1925 in matches played at the Arena Civica and Velodromo Sempione). Only once has Italy vs. England been played in Milan, 83 years ago: it was on 13 May 1939, ending 2-2. For Italy, the victory drought at the Meazza has lasted 10 years: the last one on October 16, 2012, 3-1 against Denmark, with five draws (with Germany twice, Croatia, Sweden and Portugal) and one defeat since.
✅ HUNGARY vs. ITALY. It will be the 16th away match in Hungary for Italy and the 36th confrontation with the Magyars: the head-to-head sees 17 Italian victories (the last one in Cesena in the first match), 9 draws and 9 Hungarian wins. Taking only the matches in Budapest, there is perfect parity: 5 wins for each side and 5 draws. In 1924, in the Hungarian capital, Italy suffered the worst defeat in its history: 7-1. With Marco Rossi on the Hungarian bench, this will be the 17th game with a national team led by an Italian coach after Varrella and Leoni (San Marino), De Biasi (2) and Panucci (Albania), Zaccheroni (Japan), Ghedin (Malta, 4 times), Foni (Switzerland), and Trapattoni (Ireland, 4 times).
By Anna Italia
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