👉 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 20 February 2024 after the Serie A Round 25 concluded on Monday 19 February 2024
✅ One game suspension
PONGRACIC Marin (Lecce): double yellow card for incorrect behavior towards an opponent.
DI LORENZO Giovanni (Naples): for incorrect behavior towards an opponent; already warned (Fifth sanction).
DORGU Patrick Chinazaekpere (Lecce): for incorrect behavior towards an opponent; already warned (Fifth sanction).
GYASI Emmanuel (Empoli): for incorrect behavior towards an opponent; already warned (Fifth sanction).
✅ Club Fines
AS ROMA: Fine of €4,000.00 for throwing some smoke bombs onto the pitch;
JUVENTUS: Fine of €3,000.00 for throwing some smoke bombs into the playing area;
UDINESE: Fine of €3,000.00 for offensive chants against football institutions.
FROSINONE: Fine of €2,000.00 for throwing two plastic bottles onto the pitch;
HELLAS VERONA: Fine of €1,500.00 for throwing a smoke bomb into the playing area.
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👉 Hello, my friends. Here are the 2023-2024 Italian Serie A Week 25 RESULTS / Twenty-fifth Round on Friday 16, Saturday 17, and Sunday 18 February 2024. Without a doubt, Inter are having a great season! Inter is the sole leader with 63 points after crushing Salernitana with a 4-0. Salernitana are in the last position with only 13 points.
It seems Inter are running alone at high speed. Juventus wasted their chance to keep up the race for the Scudetto after another draw against Hellas Verona. Juventus risk losing the third position too. Juve are -9 points below Inter and just +2 above AC Milan in the 3rd position. Another flop was for AC Milan who could have taken the 2nd position, yet, they lost the away game against Monza. Good job for Monza showing character and playing without fear. Milan played with 10 players since the 52nd minute after Luka Jovic got a red card. Still, no excuse.
Atalanta consolidated the fourth place with 45 points after beating Sassuolo. On the other hand, Sassuolo, caught by Hellas Verona after the draw against Juventus, is now in third to last place with 20 points.
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Torino have kept 12 clean sheets this season in 24 games, the last time Torio had recorded at least 12 clean sheets after 24 Serie A games this season was in 1991/92 (13 in that case and third place in the standings at the end of the championship). Ivan Juric’s 100th bench with Torino in Serie A TIM, the Croatian coach is the seventh Granata coach with the most benches in the top flight.
Lautaro Martínez is the third player to score at least 20 goals for three seasons in a row in Serie A with Inter, after Giuseppe Meazza (five – from 1929/30 to 1933/34) and Stefano Nyers (four – from 1948/49 to 1951/52). Before Carlos Augusto, the last Inter defender to provide two assists in a Serie A TIM match was Yuto Nagatomo on 21 December 2011.
Considering the last two Serie A TIM seasons, Giovanni Di Lorenzo is the defender who has provided the most assists in the top flight (nine).
Genoa remained unbeaten in their first four away games of a calendar year in Serie A for the first time in the three points per win era (the last precedent dates back to 1993/94).
After three defeats in a row at the Bentegodi, Verona remained unbeaten in six of the last seven home league matches: two wins and four draws in the partial (1P).
Dušan Vlahović scored seven goals in six games played in 2024; in the last 30 seasons (since 1994/95), only one Juventus player has done better than the Serbian in his first six matches of a single calendar year in Serie A TIM: Cristiano Ronaldo with 10, in 2019/20.
Atalanta have won all of their last five matches played in Serie A TIM: this is the longest streak of consecutive victories for the Dea since the one recorded between November and December 2021 (six in that case).
In the last three seasons, Mario Pašalić (22) and Teun Koopmeiners (21) are the two midfielders who have scored the most goals in Serie A TIM.
Bologna have scored 45 points in the first 25 games of a Serie A season for the first time in the three points per win era (since 1994/95).
Felipe Anderson played his 100th consecutive Serie A TIM match since his return to Lazio in 2021/22: he is the only player to always appear in the competition in the last three seasons.
M’Baye Niang is the first Empoli player capable of scoring in his first two appearances for the Tuscan club in Serie A in the three points for a win era.
Empoli for the first time remained unbeaten at home against Fiorentina for four consecutive matches (W2, D2) in Serie A. 1-1 is the most frequent score between these two teams in the competition (six times).
👉 Top Serie A teams standing AFTER Serie A Week 25 game. The first 4 qualify for the Champions League, 5 and 6 for Europa League. (Sunday 18 February 2024)
– INTER, 1st position with 63 points and a positive goal difference of +47
– JUVENTUS, 2nd position with 54 points and a positive goal difference of +21
– AC MILAN, 3rd position with 52 points and a positive goal difference of +18
– ATALANTA, 4th position with 45 points and a goal difference of +24
– BOLOGNA, 5th position with 45 points and a positive goal difference of +14
– AS ROMA, 6th position with 41 points and a positive goal difference of +15
Relegation Zone:
– HELLAS VERONA, 18th position with 20 points and a negative goal difference of -11
– CAGLIARI, 19th position with 19 points and a negative goal difference of -23
– SALERNITANA, 20th position with 13 points and a negative goal difference of -31
👉 2023 – 2024 Italy Serie A Standing – Serie A Table up to Sunday 18 February 2024
✅ Here are the match officials and fixtures for the Serie A Week 25 / Twenty-fifth Round on Friday 16, Saturday 17, and Sunday 18 February 2024 as designated by the Italian Referee Association (AIA).
🇮🇹 The Italian Referee Association (AIA) has designated the match officials for the Serie A Week 25 game Monza vs AC Milan on Sunday 18 February 2024 at the U-Power Stadium in Monza, Italy at 20:45.
Referee Andrea Colombo from the section of Como will be assisted by Valeriani from the section of Ravenna and Stefano Del Giovane from the section of Albano Laziale. The Fourth Official will be Francesco Fourneau from the section of Roma 1. The VAR will be Valerio Marini from the section of Roma 1. The AVAR will be Marco Guida from the section of Torre Annunziata.
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Friday 16 February 2024
TORINO – LECCE
Olimpico di Torino Stadium
Referee: AYROLDI
Assistants: BERCIGLI – TRINCHIERI
Fourth Official: COLLU
VAR: SOZZA
AVAR: MAZZOLENI
19:00
INTER – SALERNITANA
Giuseppe Meazza Stadium
Referee: PICCININI
Assistants: CECCONI – ROSSI C.
Fourth Official: CAMPLONE
VAR: SERRA
AVAR: VALERI
21:00
✅ 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 February 2024.
La Gazzetta dello Sport, Front Page, Sunday 18 February 2024
Front Page, La Gazzetta dello Sport, Sunday 18 February 2024
👉Max draw in Verona, Simone at +9 (and with a game in hand)
Allegri to Inter
Juve have disappeared
And Inzaghi laughs: Scudetto in hand
👉Milan to overtake
Push for second place in Monza
Galliani: “Why I adore Ibra” pic.twitter.com/eMhlLceloZ
👉 Serie A Standing BEFORE the game:
Genoa, 12th position with 29 points and a negative goal difference of -5
Napoli, 10th position with 35 points and a positive goal difference of +5
Napoli rushing to climb to the top 6 positions ended the Serie A Week 25 game against Genoa with a draw on Saturday 17 February 2024 at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium in Naples, Italy. Napoli managed to grab one point after the late equalizer goal in the 90th minute by Cyril Ngonge. Napoli are six points away from fourth place, with the possibility for Atalanta and Bologna, however, to move to +9, in the event of victories against Sassuolo and Lazio respectively. Fifth consecutive useful result away from home, however, for Genoa,they have 30 points, with ten points ahead of the relegation zone, awaiting the Verona match, which will soon be playing against Juventus.
Surprise, surprise. Genoa silenced the Maradona Stadium in the 53rd minute with the leading goal. Morten Frendrup defeated Napoli goalkeeper Alex Meret with a left footed shot to the top right corner conceded by Matteo Politano.
👉Napoli 0 – 1 Genoa, 47th minute, ⚽️ goal by Morten Frendrup for @GenoaCFC with a left footed shot to the top right corner conceded by Matteo Politano. https://t.co/DAZHjs0u36
Napoli equalized in the 90th minute. Cyril Ngonge defeated Genoa goalkeeper with a left-footed shot to the bottom left corner. The headed assist is by Giovanni Di Lorenzo.
👉Napoli 1 – 1 Genoa, 90th minute, ⚽️ goal by Cyril Ngonge equalized for @en_sscnapoli with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner. The headed assist is by Giovanni Di Lorenzo. https://t.co/MPfMrNQyOM
✅ Stats before the game: After the 2-2 draw in the first leg, Napoli and Genoa could draw both matches in a single Serie A season for the first time since 1993/94, in which case Marcello Lippi was in charge of the Neapolitans while on the Grifone bench there was Claudio Maselli on the first leg and Franco Scoglio on the return. Napoli have remained unbeaten in 20 of the last 21 matches against Genoa in Serie A (14W, 6D): Grifone’s only success in the period dates back to 6 February 2021 (2-1 at Ferraris). Napoli are unbeaten in 13 home games against Genoa in Serie A (9W, 4D) and have never recorded more home games in a row without defeat against the Ligurians in the top flight – Grifone’s latest success away to the Neapolitans in the tournament it dates back to 22 February 2009 (1-0 thanks to a goal by Bosko Jankovic with Gian Piero Gasperini as coach). Napoli have lost eight of 23 matches in this championship, in the previous two full Serie A seasons the Neapolitans had never achieved more than seven defeats after 38 matchdays (seven in 2021/22 and four in 2022/23). Genoa lost their last championship match against Atalanta, interrupting a streak of eight games without defeat (3W, 5D) – in this Serie A only once have the Ligurians lost two games in a row: in October against Milan and Atalanta.
By Anna Italia
