Good morning, my friends! Here are the front pages from the Italian newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport, Tuesday 4 April 2023.
La Gazzetta dello Sport, Front Page, Tuesday 4 April 2023
Front Page, La Gazzetta dello Sport, Tuesday 4 April 2023
👉Milan grand final
Now the Rossoneri believe in the Champions League too
👉Juve-Inter never ends
Under whose Cup
Semifinal First Leg
👉In eight years of commissions
How much agents cost: clubs spent €1.3 billion pic.twitter.com/YNQamYCswI
Empoli 1 – 0 Lecce
62’ Francesco Caputo (pen)
🟥 Red Card: 90′ Lorenzo Tonelli
Empoli won the Serie A Week 28 game defeating Lecce on Monday 3 April 2023 at the Carlo Castellani Stadium in Empoli, Italy. This is a very important victory for Empoli who hadn’t brought home the three points since January 23 against Inter. Zanetti’s team can therefore detach in the standings and climb to 31 points, three more than Salernitana, just behind. Lecce, on the other hand, has to deal with a bad period: today there are five consecutive defeats in the league, all without scoring a single goal. It, therefore, stops at 27, two more than La Spezia.
Difficult upcoming matches for both teams: for Empoli it will be the turn of the trip to San Siro, fresh from the great performance against Napoli. Lecce will meet Spalletti’s team on the twenty-ninth day of Serie A.
Empoli opened the score in the 62nd minute. Referee Michael Fabbri granted a penalty to Empoli conceded by Morten Hjulmand after a foul on Fabiano Parisi. Francesco Caputto converted the penalty defeating Lecce gaolkeeper with a right-footed shot to the center.
Caputo equals Antonio Di Natale in 5th place of the club’s top scorers in the tournament.
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CICCIO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dal dischetto, la botta centrale a battere Falcone e portarci avanti!!!!!!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/9IVz429ItL
— Empoli Football Club Official (@EmpoliFC) April 3, 2023
18 – Francesco #Caputo has scored 18 goals with Empoli in Serie A, equalling Antonio Di Natale at 5th place of the top scorers for this club in the competition. Sight.#EmpoliLecce#SerieApic.twitter.com/vkHzjxS4Mb
The Carlo Castellani Stadium is ready for Empoli vs Lecce
Photo via twitter.com/empolifc
🇮🇹 Referee Michael Fabbri from the section of Ravenna will be assisted by Fabiano Preti from the section of Mantova and Marcello Rossi from the section of Biella. The Fourth Official will be Manuel Volpi from the section of Arezzo. The VAR will be Federico La Penna from the section of Roma 1. The AVAR will be Giacomo Paganessi from the section of Bergamo.
Alle 19.30 al Castellani la sfida contro il Lecce: ecco la nostra formazione ⬇
EMPOLI: Perisan; Akpa Akpro, Caputo, Marin, Ebuehi, Bandinelli, Luperto, Ismajli, Baldanzi, Parisi, Piccoli. pic.twitter.com/XJ6yZJEXRd
— Empoli Football Club Official (@EmpoliFC) April 3, 2023
Photo via twitter.com/Officialuslecce
👉 Empoli vs Lecce, Match Officials
Serie A Week 28
🗓️ Monday 3 April 2023
🏟️ Carlo Castellani Stadium
⏲️ 18:30
🙍 Referee: FABBRI
🚩 Assistants: PRETI – ROSSI M.
4⃣ Fourth Official: VOLPI
🥅VAR: LA PENNA
AVAR: PAGANESSI
Photo via twitter.com/empolifc
Photo via twitter.com/empolifc
Photo via twitter.com/empolifc
Photo via twitter.com/empolifc
2022 – 2023 Italian Serie A Week 28
Empoli 1 – 0 Lecce
Monday 3 April 2023
Carlo Castellani Stadium
Empoli, Italy
18:30
Referee: FABBRI
Assistants: PRETI – ROSSI M.
Fourth Official: VOLPI
VAR: LA PENNA
AVAR: PAGANESSI
Hello, my friends. Here are the 2022-2023 Italian Serie A Week 28 RESULTS / Twenty-eighth Round on Saturday 1, Sunday 2, and Monday 3 April 2023.
The big clash between Napoli and AC Milan is all RED AND BLACK at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium. The astonishing victory relaunches Milan and takes them to 51 points in third place +1 over Inter. Milan scored a poker without conceding a goal silencing the fans. Yet, Napoli remain the sole leaders with 71 points with a large margin, +16, on the second place now occupied by Lazio.
Surely, AC Milan passed “this test” with flying colors ahead of their next Champions League Quarterfinals match. Before Milan, the last team capable of scoring four away goals against the top team at the start of the day in Serie A was Fiorentina, against Inter on 27 September 2015 (4-1).
Napoli have lost two of their last three Serie A TIM home games (W1), as many knockouts as in their previous 20 home matches in the competition.
Tough week for Inter losing their third consecutive game defeated by Fiorentina at the Giuseppe Meazza Stadium. Inter also lost the third position stepping down to the 4th position.
The good moment is for Lazio to consolidate second place by moving to +5 on third-placed Inter and seven points ahead of fifth-placed Atalanta. On the other hand, Monza loses again after three games, but still maintains a fifteen-point lead over the relegation zone.
It was since September 1991 that Atalanta hadn’t conquered the Cremonese field in Serie A (2-1 on that occasion); since then, five draws and one loss.
Ademola Lookman is the debutant who has scored the most goals this season: 13 (12 at Kvaratskhelia). The last Atalanta player to score at least 13 goals on his Serie A debut at this point in the season was Poul Rasmussen in 1952/53.
Vincenzo Italiano surpassed 100 points in Serie A TIM as Fiorentina coach (102), winning his first challenge as manager against Inter in the Italian top division.
Giacomo Bonaventura had not scored a header in Serie A TIM since January 2018, again at the Meazza, with the Milan shirt against Lazio.
For the first time in their history, Juventus won three consecutive matches in Serie A against Verona keeping clean sheets in each of them.
Verona’s streak of away matches in Serie A TIM without wins extends to 15 (D6, L9) – The Verona side have not recorded so many since March 2016 (series of 17 in the circumstance).
It was since February 2012 – with Pioli on the bench – that Bologna hadn’t closed three home matches in a row without conceding a goal.
After 168 days Musa Barrow found his goal again in Serie A TIM: he hadn’t succeeded since 16 February 2022 against Napoli.
Goal number 65 with the Lazio shirt for Sergej Milinkovic-Savic counting all competitions: the midfielder has become the foreign player with the most goals in the history of the biancoceleste club.
Sergej Milinkovic-Savic’s goal is Monza’s first conceded at home from outside the box in this Serie A TIM season.
With the draw against Salernitana, Spezia have collected exactly 100 points in their history in Serie A (including results obtained by default and excluding penalties).
Antonio Candreva today hooked Franco Causio (460 appearances) in 30th position among the most present all-time players in the history of Serie A.
This is the seventh season in which Paulo Dybala has scored at least 10 goals and provided at least five assists in SerieA TIM: since 2004/05, only three players have recorded seven league titles with 10+ goals and 5+ assists: Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Antonio Di Natale and Francesco Totti.
Georginio Wijnaldum has scored in back-to-back home games in Europe’s big five for the first time since March 2017 (for Liverpool against Arsenal and Burnley).
✅ 10 Serie A Games Completed
⚽️ Serie A Top Scorer up to Week 28 (Updated on Monday 3 April 2023)
👉 Top Serie A teams standing AFTER Serie A Week 28 game. The first 4 qualify for the Champions League, 5 and 6 for Europa League. (Sunday 2 April 2023)
– NAPOLI, 1st position with 71 points and a positive goal difference of +44
– LAZIO, 2nd position with 55 points and a positive goal difference of +25
– AC MILAN, 3rd position with 51 points and a positive goal difference of +12
– INTER, 4th position with 50 points and a positive goal difference of +15
– AS ROMA, 5th position with 50 points and a positive goal difference of +12
– ATALANTA, 6th position with 48 points and a positive goal difference of +15
Relegation Zone:
– HELLAS VERONA, 18th position with 19 points and a negative goal difference of -20
– SAMPDORIA, 19th position with 15 points and a negative goal difference of -31
– CREMONESE, 20th position with 13 points and a negative goal difference of -29
👉 2022 – 2023 Italy Serie A Standing – Serie A Table up to Monday 3 April 2023
POS
TEAM
GP
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
PTS
1
Napoli
28
23
2
3
64
20
+44
71
2
Lazio
28
16
7
5
44
19
+25
55
3
AC Milan
28
15
6
7
48
36
+12
51
4
Inter
28
16
2
10
47
32
+15
50
5
AS Roma
28
15
5
8
38
26
+12
50
6
Atalanta
28
14
6
8
47
32
+15
48
7
Juventus
28
18
5
5
46
22
+24
44
8
Bologna
28
11
7
10
36
36
0
40
9
Fiorentina
28
11
7
10
33
31
+2
40
10
Torino
28
10
8
10
30
34
-4
38
11
Udinese
28
9
11
8
37
34
+3
38
12
Sassuolo
28
10
7
11
36
41
-5
37
13
Monza
28
9
7
12
32
39
-7
34
14
Empoli
28
7
10
11
25
36
-11
31
15
Salernitana
28
6
10
12
32
48
-16
28
16
Lecce
28
6
9
13
24
33
-9
27
17
Spezia
28
5
10
13
24
44
-20
25
18
Hellas Verona
28
4
7
17
22
42
-20
19
19
Sampdoria
28
3
6
19
16
47
-31
15
20
Cremonese
28
1
10
17
23
52
-29
13
Uefa Champions League: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th
Europa League: 5th, 6th
Relegation: 18th, 19th, 20th
Good morning, my friends! Here are the front pages from the Italian newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport, Monday 3 April 2023.
La Gazzetta dello Sport, Front Page, Monday 3 April 2023
Front Page La Gazzetta dello Sport, Monday 3 April 2023
👉Clamorous 4-0 at Napoli: Now the Champions League
Milan like Champions
Super Leao…
👉Inter at the crossroads
Chivu is ready
De Zerbi or Conte for the future
Corriere dello Sport, Front Page, Monday 3 April 2023
Front Page, Corriere dello Sport, Monday 3 April 2023
👉Spectacular championship: Spalletti slips at home, Sarri chases at -16
Slap to Naples
Sudden collapse: Milan dominate Maradona [0-4] and are now third
👉Lazio more and more second: win in Monza [0-2] with Pedro and Sergej pic.twitter.com/4GbI5yL92i
✅ Here are the match officials and fixtures for the Serie A Week 28 / Twenty-eighth Round on Saturday 1, Sunday 2, and Monday 3 April 2023 as designated by the Italian Referee Association (AIA).
🇮🇹 The Italian Referee Association (AIA) has designated the match officials for the Serie A Week 28 game Napoli vs AC Milan on Sunday 2 April 2023 at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium in Naples, Italy at 20:45.
Referee Antonio Rapuano from the section of Rimini will be assisted by Alessandro Giallatini from the section of Roma 2 and Giuseppe Perrotti from the section of Campobasso. The Fourth Official will be Daniele Doveri from the section of Roma 1. The VAR will be Aleandro Di Paolo from the section of Avezzano. The AVAR will be Federico La Penna from the section of Roma 1.
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Saturday 1 April 2023
CREMONESE – ATALANTA
Giovanni Zini Stadium
Referee: MARINELLI
Assistants: SCATRAGLI – LAUDATO
Fourth Official: MIELE G.
VAR: NASCA
AVAR: LONGO S.
15:00
INTER – FIORENTINA
Giuseppe Meazza Stadium
Referee: MARESCA
Assistants: COLAROSSI – CAPALDO
Fourth Official: COSSO
VAR: MARINI
AVAR: DI BELLO
18:00
SPEZIA – SALERNITANA
Alberto Picco Stadium
Referee: ORSATO
Assistants: CARBONE – TEGONI
Fourth Official: ZUFFERLI
VAR: DI MARTINO
AVAR: DI BELLO
15:00
AS ROMA – SAMPDORIA
Olimpico di Roma Stadium
Referee: IRRATI
Assistants: ZINGARELLI – ROCCA
Fourth Official: MANGANIELLO
VAR: CHIFFI
AVAR: MUTO
18:00
NAPOLI – AC MILAN
Diego Armando Maradona Stadium
Referee: RAPUANO
Assistants: GIALLATINI – PERROTTI
Fourth Official: DOVERI
VAR: DI PAOLO
AVAR: LA PENNA
20:45
Monday 3 April 2023
EMPOLI – LECCE
Carlo Castellani Stadium
Referee: FABBRI
Assistants: PRETI – ROSSI M.
Fourth Official: VOLPI
VAR: LA PENNA
AVAR: PAGANESSI
18:30
SASSUOLO – TORINO
Mapei Stadium
Referee: PEZZUTO
Assistants: PAGLIARDINI – LONGO F.
Fourth Official: SACCHI
VAR: BANTI
AVAR: MAGGIONI
20:45
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