✅ Good morning, my friends! Here are the front pages from the Italian newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport, Tuesday 22 August 2023.
La Gazzetta dello Sport, Front Page, Tuesday 22 August 2023
Front Page, La Gazzetta dello Sport, Tuesday 22 August 2023
👉Bubbles Milan
Diavolo are also at the table with the big ones
👉Cagliari stall the Toro attacks
Juric: “We were not lucky”
👉 Hello, my friends. Here are the 2023-2024 Italian Serie A Serie A Week 1 RESULTS / First Round on Saturday 19, Sunday 20, and Monday 21 August 2023. Napoli is the current Champion to defend their title. The 3 promoted teams from Serie A are Frosinone, Genoa, and Cagliari.
✅ 10 Serie A Games Completed
⚽️ Serie A Top Scorer up to Week 1 (Updated on Monday 21 August 2023)
Inter forward Lautaro Martínez, Salernitana Antonio Candreva, Roma forward Andrea Belotti, and Napoli forward Victor Osimhen with 2 goals each
From the 3 Serie B promoted teams, two had a bad debut in Serie A, we might say Cagliari had a decent debut with a goalless draw against Torino. Frosinone crushed at home by the Reigning Champions “Napoli.” Genoa humiliated by Fiorentina also at the Marassi Stadium.
The happiest of all, Napoli, who have won in all of their last seven Serie A debuts, six of these played away. Napoli had not conceded a goal within the first 7 minutes of play in their debut league match since August 1995 (Protti, Bari-Naples 1-1).
AC Milan celebrating the victory. Great start for Christian Pulisic becoming the fifth American player to score a goal in Serie A after Alexi Lalas, Michael Bradley, Weston McKennie and Gianluca Busio and the first to do so on his debut in the Italian top flight. Olivier Giroud’s goal against Bologna is the first scored with his right foot of the 33 scored by the French player for Milan in all competitions.
Massimiliano Allegri became the second Juventus coach to reach the milestone of 250 victories in all competitions since 1929/30, after Giovanni Trapattoni (319). Udinese have lost three of their last four Serie A debuts (D1), as many defeats as in the previous seven seasons in the top flight.
An added incentive for Hellas Verona because they have won for the first time an away game in their season opener. Previously, Verona had collected nine defeats and four draws away from home in Serie A in the first match of the season.
A curious detail, both of Federico Bonazzoli’s last two away goals in Serie A came against Empoli at the Castellani Stadium: the first on 14 May 2022 against Salernitana.
As for Fiorentina, it was since 1997 that Fiorentina had not won an away Serie A season opener (3-2 at Udinese). Fiorentina have scored at least four goals in an away Serie A opener for the first time since September 1956 (5-2 v Udinese). Surely, this is a good sign for Viola fans to expect a top performance this season.
Inter have won five league debuts in a row for the third time in their history after also succeeding between 1951 and 1955 and between 1993 and 1997. The leading motor is Argentinean forward Lautaro Martínez scoring a brace. Lautaro has been involved in 101 goals in Serie A (81 goals and 20 assists). Since his debut in the Serie A (since 2018/19), only Ciro Immobile (138) and Domenico Berardi (108) have done better.
Charles De Ketelaere scored his first Serie A goal after 33 appearances and 22 shots in the competition. Despite Atalanta being the team that has recorded the most defeats in their first Serie A match of the season (27), the Dea have won all of their last six opening matches in the tournament.
Forward Andrea Belotti scored his first two goals in Serie A for AS Roma, scoring again for the first time in the competition since 1 May 2022 (hat-trick against Empoli with Torino) and thus ending a streak of 34 consecutive games without goals active in the competition, of which the last 31 with the yellow and red shirt.
For the first time, Lecce won their season debut in Serie A, before today the Apulians had obtained six draws and 11 defeats in this league match. Ciro Immobile has reached 200 goals in the big five European leagues. Furthermore, this was Immobile’s 100th away goal across the big five European leagues.
Torino-Cagliari finished 0-0 for the 14th time in Serie A, confirming the most frequent result in meetings between these two teams in the competition. However, that hadn’t happened at Torino since January 1980. Cagliari have remained unbeaten in eight of their last nine Serie A matches against Torino (W3, D5). The Sardinians have also drawn four of their last five Monday matches in the competition.
Antonio Candreva scored his fourth brace in Serie A against Roma: the last one dates back to 24 January 2016, again at the Stadio Olimpico but with the Lazio shirt (vs Chievo Verona).
👉 Top Serie A teams standing AFTER Serie A Week 1 game. The first 4 qualify for the Champions League, 5 and 6 for Europa League. (Sunday 20 August 2023)
– FIORENTINA, 1st position with 3 points and a positive goal difference of +3
– JUVENTUS, 2nd position with 3 points and a positive goal difference of +3
– NAPOLI, 3rd position with 3 points and a positive goal difference of +2
– ATALANTA, 4th position with 3 points and a positive goal difference of +2
– INTER, 5th position with 3 points and a positive goal difference of +2
– AC MILAN, 6th position with 3 points and a positive goal difference of +2
Relegation Zone:
– SASSUOLO, 18th position with 0 points and a negative goal difference of -2
– GENOA, 19th position with 0 points and a negative goal difference of -3
– UDINESE, 20th position with 0 points and a negative goal difference of -3
👉 2023 – 2024 Italy Serie A Standing – Serie A Table up to Monday 21 August 2023
✅ Good morning, my friends! Here are the front pages from the Italian newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport, Monday 21 August 2023.
La Gazzetta dello Sport, Front Page, Monday 21 August 2023
Front Page La Gazzetta dello Sport, Monday 21 August 2023
👉Leao, it’s your turn
The big stars all score, just waiting for Rafa…
👉De Ketelaere is devilish
👉What a beautiful Old Lady
Boom debut: Chiesa-Vlahovic decide in 20 minutes
✅ Good morning, my friends! Here are the front pages from the Italian newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport, Sunday 20 August 2023.
La Gazzetta dello Sport, Front Page, Sunday 20 August 2023
Front Page, La Gazzetta dello Sport, Sunday 20 August 2023
👉1937-2023
Goodbye Mazzone
Baggio: “Carletto taught you about life”
👉Immediately two super braces
Lautaro smashes it
Inter flatten Monza
Hellas Verona beat Empoli and win the Serie A Week 1 game on Saturday 19 August 2023 at the Carlo Castellani Stadium in Empoli, Italy. One goal was enough to conquer the victory. The defeat is a bad feeling for Empoli fans who were expecting a home victory to start the new season. Coach Marco Baroni wins with substitutions. In the second half, Verona grow while the Tuscans drop, Bonazzoli as soon as he enters wets his debut with a three-point goal, quick to take advantage of a serious indecision by Caprile on a corner play. Djuric had his double canceled for offside, Shpendi nearly scored the Euro goal from distance but Montipo was not surprised.
On the second day, Empoli will visit Monza while Baroni’s team will host AS Roma.
Hellas Verona upset the Castellani! In the 75th minute, Federico Bonazzoli opened the score by defeating Empoli goalkeeper with a left-footed shot to the bottom right corner following a corner conceded by Ardian Ismajli.
👉 Empoli 0 – 1 Hellas Verona, 75th minute, ⚽️ goal by Federico Bonazzoli for @HellasVeronaFC with a left-footed shot to the bottom right corner following a corner conceded by Ardian Ismajli. https://t.co/LQ6H7Pq8hR
👉 Stats before the game: Empoli and Verona have drawn their last three Serie A encounters after registering just one X in their previous nine ties in the competition: four wins for each side complete the tally. Verona have never conceded more than one goal from Empoli in Serie A (nine goals in 12 matches); the Tuscan one is the team against which the Venetians have played the most matches without ever conceding at least two goals in the top division. Three wins and three draws for Empoli at home against Verona in Serie A: among the teams against which the Tuscans have never lost in home games in the competition, only Bologna has been faced more than once by the Azzurri: nine (W5, 4N).
Empoli have never drawn in their Serie A season opener (four wins and 11 defeats, including the 0-1 draw against Spezia last season). The Tuscan formation is in fact the one that has played the most top leagues without an X sign in the first game of the season (15).
📺 Click the video to watch Empoli 0 – 1 Hellas Verona highlights on Saturday 19 August 2023
🇮🇹 Referee Luca Massimi from the section of Termoli will be assisted by Andrea Zingarelli from the section of Siena and Marco Scatragli from the section of Arezzo. The Fourth Official will be Gianluca Manganiello from the section of Pinerolo. The VAR will be Paolo Valeri from the section of Roma 2. The AVAR will be Matteo Gariglio from the section of Pinerolo.
👉Empoli vs Hellas Verona, Match Officials
Serie A Week 1
🗓️ Saturday 19 August 2023
🏟️ Carlo Castellani
⏲️ 18:30
Alla 18.30 al #CarloCastellani#ComputerGrossArena la prima di campionato contro l’Hellas Verona; ecco la formazione scelta da mister Zanetti ⬇
EMPOLI: Caprile; Grassi, Caputo, Gyasi, Marin, Cancellieri, Ebuehi, Luperto, Ismajli, Baldanzi pic.twitter.com/41nYsqe5QB
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Subs: Perisan, Stubljar; Pezzella, Guarino, Ranocchia, Stojanovic, Marianucci, Haas.
Coach: Paolo Zanetti
👉 Lineup HELLAS VERONA (3-4-2-1): Montipò; Coppola, Magnani, Dawidowicz; Terracciano, Duda (88’ Cabal), Hongla, Doig (88’ Amione); Ngonge (69’ Bonazzoli), Folorunsho (69’ Saponara); Nboula (69’ Djuric).
Subs: Berardi, Perilli; Gomez, Patane, Cisse, Cazzadori.