✅ Good morning, my friends! Here are the front pages from the Italian newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport, Monday 18 December 2023.
La Gazzetta dello Sport, Front Page, Monday 18 December 2023
Front Page, La Gazzetta dello Sport, Monday 18 December 2023
👉Lautaro and Thuram break everything, Lazio beaten too
Inter fly away
Now +4 over Juve
👉Lots of Milan and a little devil
Monza beaten and third place locked down
Serie A Standing BEFORE the game:
Fiorentina, 7th position with 24 points and a positive goal difference of +6
Hellas Verona, 19th position with 11 points and a negative goal difference of -9
Fiorentina grabbed three valuable points on their quest to climb to the European zone. Fiorentina won the Serie A Week 16 game against Hellas Verona on Sunday 17 December 2023 at the Artemio Franchi Stadium in Florence, Italy. Fiorentina reached 27 points while Verona remained in the relegation zone. The good news is that Fiorentina are now in the 6th position sharing those 27 points also with Napoli in the 5th position. Roma went down to the 7th position after losing the game against Bologna.
On the seventeenth matchday, Fiorentina will visit Monza while Verona awaits the salvation match against Cagliari.
The only goal of the match was scored in the 80th minute. Lucas Beltrán defeated Hellas Verona goalkeeper Lorenzo Montipò with a right-footed shot to the top left corner.
👉Fiorentina 1 – 0 Hellas Verona, 80th minute, ⚽️ goal by Lucas Beltrán for @ACFFiorentinaEN with a right-footed shot to the top left corner. https://t.co/w5LJ6XufnE
✅ Stats before the game: Fiorentina won both matches last season against Verona without conceding a goal (2-0 in Florence, 3-0 away) and have never beaten the Venetians for three games in a row with a clean sheet in their history in Serie A. In general Hellas have not beaten the Tuscan team in the top tournament since 24 November 2019 (1-0 at home with the decisive goal by Di Carmine). Four of the last six matches at the Franchi in Serie A between Fiorentina and Verona have ended with a score of 1-1: a Viola victory in September 2022 and a Venetian success in January 2018 complete this run. In the last seven matchdays Fiorentina have collected just seven points in Serie A (after having collected 17 in the first eight rounds): in this partial only four teams have done worse in the competition, including Verona (last with three points won in this interval). Verona have come from three consecutive draws and have not collected four in a row in the same top championship since April 1989 (five in that case); furthermore, Hellas have not won since August against Roma (13 games in a row), a record streak without success in the competition since the 24 consecutive games recorded between May 2015 and January 2016 under the management of Mandorlini and Delneri. In the era of three points for a win, only once out of eight previous occasions have Verona been relegated to Serie B after having collected more than 10 points in the first 15 days of a Serie A championship: in 2001/02, when they had as many as 22 at this point in the tournament.
📺 Click the video to watch Fiorentina 1 – 0 Hellas Verona highlights on Sunday 17 December 2023
🇮🇹 Referee Maria Sole Ferrieri Caputi from the section of Livorno will be assisted by Marco Bresmes from the section of Bergamo and Alessandro Lo Cicero from the section of Brescia. The Fourth Official will be Juan Luca Sacchi from the section of Macerata. The VAR will be Paolo Valeri from the section of Roma 2. The AVAR will be Giacomo Paganessi from the section of Bergamo.
Serie A Standing BEFORE the game:
Fiorentina, 7th position with 24 points and a positive goal difference of +6
Hellas Verona, 19th position with 11 points and a negative goal difference of -9
✅ Here are the official starting lineups for the Serie A Week 16 game Fiorentina vs Hellas Verona on Sunday 17 December 2023 at the Artemio Franchi Stadium in Florence, Italy at 15:00.
🇮🇹 Referee Maria Sole Ferrieri Caputi from the section of Livorno will be assisted by Marco Bresmes from the section of Bergamo and Alessandro Lo Cicero from the section of Brescia. The Fourth Official will be Juan Luca Sacchi from the section of Macerata. The VAR will be Paolo Valeri from the section of Roma 2. The AVAR will be Giacomo Paganessi from the section of Bergamo.
Serie A Standing BEFORE the game:
Fiorentina, 7th position with 24 points and a positive goal difference of +6
Hellas Verona, 19th position with 11 points and a negative goal difference of -9
🇮🇹 The Italian Referee Association (AIA) has designated the match officials for the Serie A Week 16 game Fiorentina vs Hellas Verona on Sunday 17 December 2023 at the Artemio Franchi Stadium in Florence, Italy at 15:00.
Referee Maria Sole Ferrieri Caputi from the section of Livorno will be assisted by Marco Bresmes from the section of Bergamo and Alessandro Lo Cicero from the section of Brescia. The Fourth Official will be Juan Luca Sacchi from the section of Macerata. The VAR will be Paolo Valeri from the section of Roma 2. The AVAR will be Giacomo Paganessi from the section of Bergamo.
✅ Here are the match officials and fixtures for the Serie A Week 16 / Sixteenth Round on Friday 15, Saturday 16, Sunday 17, and Monday 18 December 2023 as designated by the Italian Referee Association (AIA).
🇮🇹 The Italian Referee Association (AIA) has designated the match officials for the Serie A Week 16 game AC Milan vs Monza on Sunday 17 December 2023 at San Siro Stadium in Milan, Italy at 12:30.
Referee Gianluca Aureliano from the section of Bologna will be assisted by Mattia Scarpa from the section of Reggio Emilia and Daisuke Emanuele Yoshikawa from the section of Roma 1. The Fourth Official will be Giovanni Ayroldi from the section of Molfetta. The VAR will be Daniele Paterna from the section of Teramo. The AVAR will be Paolo Mazzoleni from the section of Bergamo.
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