✅ Good morning, my friends! Here are the front pages from the Italian newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport, Friday 24 May 2024.
La Gazzetta dello Sport, Front Page, Friday 24 May 2024
Front Page La Gazzetta dello Sport, Friday 24 May 2024
👉After the triumph, the coach meets Percassi Gasp ups the ante
👉Thiago Motta’s Juventus
He still wants Rabiot and the super defense, Bremer-Calafiori
Serie A Standing BEFORE the game:
Bologna, 3rd position with 68 points and positive goal difference of +24
Genoa, 11th position with 46 points and a negative goal difference of -22
Genoa won the Serie A Week 38 game defeating Bologna on Friday 24 May 2024 at the Luigi Ferraris Stadium in Genoa, Italy. Rossoblù derby at the Ferraris with Genoa and Bologna finished their respective seasons in the best possible way, positive for both. Gilardino’s men have in fact achieved a quiet salvation as newly promoted players, while Motta’s men have instead achieved a sensational objective with qualification for the next Champions League.
Gilardino’s first season as Serie A coach ends with Ferraris’ applause, leading his team to 49 points. Smiles also for Thiago Motta who, despite today’s defeat, was celebrated and greeted warmly by his players in the center of the pitch before his final farewell.
Genoa ends their season with an exclamation point, the match against Bologna ends 2-0 for Gilardino’s men thanks to goals from Malinovskyi in the 13th minute and Vitinha in the 59th minute. In the second half the hosts almost completely left the initiative to their opponents, who created a couple of chances with Fabbian, and struck them at the first defensive indecision, effectively ending the match. In the end Gudmundsson tries a couple of times but fails to score the 15th goal of his amazing championship.
Genoa took the lead in the 13th minute. Ruslan Malinovskyi defeated Bologna goalkeeper Federico Ravaglia with a left-footed shot to the bottom right corner. The assist is by Aarón Martín.
— CBS Sports Golazo ⚽️ (@CBSSportsGolazo) May 24, 2024
In the 59th minute, Vitinha scored with a right-footed shot to the bottom left corner. The assist is by Albert Gudmundsson.
👉❤️💙Genoa 2 – 0 Bologna❤️💙, 59th minute, ⚽️ goal by Vitinha for @GenoaCFC with a right-footed shot to the bottom left corner. The assist is by Albert Gudmundsson. https://t.co/D4hqb0KuQv
Portuguese international Vitinha with his second of the season since joining Genoa on loan 🇵🇹 pic.twitter.com/Pix9rbKZGm
— CBS Sports Golazo ⚽️ (@CBSSportsGolazo) May 24, 2024
✅ Stats before the game: Genoa have remained unbeaten in eight of the last nine matches against Bologna in Serie A (W4, D4), after having achieved just one success in the previous nine (D3, D5). After the 1-1 draw in the first leg last January 5, Genoa and Bologna could draw both matches in a single Serie A season for the first time since 1957/58. Genoa have won their last two matches at the Ferraris in the league (against Cagliari and Sassuolo), the last time they achieved multiple home successes in a row in Serie A dates back to the period between January and February 2021 (three, the first of such as against Bologna). Genoa have earned 46 points in this championship (11W, 13D, 13L), in the previous 11 seasons played in Serie A only in 2014/15 did they obtain more points at the end of the championship (59 and 6th place in the standings). Bologna have gained 68 points in this championship in 37 games, in their history in Serie A they have only done better three times in an entire season counting three points per victory always: 69 in 1930/31, 71 in 1931/32 and 76 in 1963/64 (in all these three cases the championship had 18 teams).
✅ Here are the match officials and fixtures for the Serie A Week 38/ Thirty-eighth Round on Thursday 23, Friday 24, Saturday 25, and Monday 26 May 2024 as designated by the Italian Referee Association (AIA).
🇮🇹 The Italian Referee Association (AIA) has designated the match officials for the Serie A Week 38 game Hellas Verona vs Inter on Sunday 26 May 2024 at the Marc’Antonio Bentegodi Stadium in Verona, Italy at 20:45.
Referee Luca Zufferli from the section of Udine will be assisted by Matteo Bottegoni from the section of Terni and Fabrizio Lombardo from the section of Cinisello Balsamo. The Fourth Official will be Giacomo Camplone from the section of Pescara. The VAR will be Paolo Valeri from the section of Roma 2. The AVAR will be Gianpiero Miele from the section of Nola.
=============== Italian Serie A Tickets for the next 10 games
👉 Hello, my friends. Here are the 2023-2024 Italian Serie A Week 37 RESULTS / Thirty-seventh Round on Friday 17, Saturday 18, Sunday 19, and Monday 20 May 2024.
Inter won the 2023-2024 Italy’s Champions winning the Scudetto last week after defeating AC Milan in the Milan Derby. Inter’s 20th Italian league title and earn the Nerazzurri a second star on their shirts. The historic moment for Inter was on Sunday with the Official Award Ceremony to receive the Scudetto after the draw against Lazio which ended with a 1-1 draw.
AS Roma survived the pressure and defeated Genoa. Three golden points take Roma to the Europa League qualification and still leave a small hope for the Champions League, but a lot will depend on the fate of Atalanta. Mathematically speaking, with this result, Roma can no longer be reached by Lazio, by virtue of the direct matches in their favor. Roma beat Genoa 1-0 thanks to the goal by Romelu Lukaku.
The bad news is for AC Milan beaten by Torino with a 3-1. Yet, despite the defeat, Milan remain in the 2nd position. The good news is for Torino overtaking Napoli, who are now in tenth place in the table. With this victory, Torino climbed to ninth place and keeps alive the hope of qualifying for the next Conference League.
👉 Top Serie A teams standing AFTER Serie A Week 37 game. The first 4 qualify for the Champions League, 5 and 6 for Europa League, (updated Monday 20 May 2024)
– INTER, 1st position with 93 points and a positive goal difference of +67
– AC MILAN, 2nd position with 74 points and a positive goal difference of +27
– BOLOGNA, 3rd position with 68 points and a positive goal difference of +24
– JUVENTUS, 4th position with 68 points and a goal difference of +21
– ATALANTA, 5th position with 66 points and a positive goal difference of +28
– AS ROMA, 6th position with 63 points and a positive goal difference of +20
Relegation Zone:
– EMPOLI, 18th position with 33 points and a negative goal difference of -26
– SASSUOLO, 19th position with 29 points and a negative goal difference of -32
– SALERNITANA, 20th position with 16 points and a negative goal difference of -49
👉 2023 – 2024 Italy Serie A Standing – Serie A Table up to Monday 20 May 2024
54% Ball Possession AS ROMA and 46% Ball Possession GENOA AS Roma 1 – 0 Genoa
79′ Romelu Lukaku
🟥 Red: 72′ Leandro Paredes
Serie A Standing BEFORE the game:
Genoa, 11th position with 46 points and a negative goal difference of -1
AS Roma, 6th position with 60 points and a positive goal difference of +19
AS Roma survived the pressure and won the Serie A game against Genoa to remain within the European zone on Sunday 19 May 2024 at the Olimpico di Roma Stadium in Rome, Italy. Three golden points that take Roma to the Europa League and still leave a small hope for the Champions League, but a lot will depend on the fate of Atalanta. With this result, Roma can no longer be reached by Lazio, by virtue of the direct matches in their favor.
Genoa remains stuck in eleventh place with 46 points. Roma narrowly won a complicated match in which there were no shots on target for most of the match and which only broke the deadlock at the end when Lukaku found the decisive goal with a header. The Giallorossi were left with ten men halfway through the second half due to a double yellow in a few seconds for protests against Paredes and suffered in the final minutes, but Genoa broke through to Svilar.
Roma took the lead in the 79th minute. Belgian forward Romelu Lukaku defeated Genoa goalkeeper with a headed shot to the center. The assist is by Stephan El Shaarawy.
👉🟡🔴 AS Roma 1 – 0 Genoa 🔴🔵, 79th minute, ⚽️ goal by Romelu Lukaku for @ASRomaEN with a headed shot to the center. The assist is by Stephan El Shaarawy. https://t.co/4VrUaOHDO2
— CBS Sports Golazo ⚽️ (@CBSSportsGolazo) May 19, 2024
✅ Stats before the game: Roma have remained unbeaten in 16 of the last 17 matches against Genoa in Serie A (W12, D4), however losing the most recent match (1-4 on 28 September). After the success in the first leg last September 28, Genoa could win both seasonal matches against Roma in Serie A for the first time since 1946/47. Roma remained unbeaten in 36 of the last 37 home matches against Genoa in Serie A (W30, D6): Grifone’s only success in the period dates back to 17 January 1990 (1-0 with a goal from Carlos Aguilera at the Flaminio stadium and with Franco Scoglio as coach). Roma have not won any of their last five matches in all competitions (D3, L2), the Giallorossi have not recorded six official matches in a row without success since the period between April and May 2021, with Paulo Fonseca as coach. Roma have gained 60 points in 36 matches in this championship, exactly as many as they had obtained after as many matches in the last Serie A season (17W, 9D, 10L) – in comparison the Giallorossi have scored more goals (63 in 23/24 and 47 in 22/23), but also conceded more goals in the current championship (44 in 23/24 and 35 in 22/23).
By Anna Italia
