✅ 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:
Inter, 1st position with 38 points and a positive goal difference of +30
Lazio, 10th position with 21 points and a positive goal difference of “0”
Inter remain the sole leader after winning the Serie A Week 16 game against Lazio on Sunday 17 December 2023 at the Olimpico di Roma Stadium in Rome, Italy. This victory is a boost for the morale of the team after the bitterness of the draw against Real Sociedad which cost them first place in the Champions League group and continue their run at the top of the table. Inter moved themselves to +4 above second-placed Juventus.
There he goes… “Inter King Lautaro Martínez” opened the score after defeating Lazio goalkeeper with a left-footed shot to the center. Lautaro is also the top scorer now with 15 goals.
👉Lazio 0 – 1 Inter, 40th minute, ⚽️ goal by Lautaro Martínez for @Inter_en with a left-footed shot to the center. https://t.co/Xn9emfMUfa
Marcus Thuram slapped the net for the 0-2 with a left-footed shot to the center. The assist is by Nicolò Barella.
👉Lazio 0 – 2 Inter, 66th minute, ⚽️ goal by Marcus Thuram for @Inter_en with a left footed shot to the center. The assist is by Nicolò Barella. https://t.co/epvvL0exlX
✅ Stats before the game: In the last 10 direct matches in Serie A, Lazio and Inter have never repeated the same result twice in a row: in this partial five victories for the Nerazzurri (including the one in the last match played in April), four for the Biancocelesti and a draw. Inter have not won at home to Lazio in Serie A since 29 October 2018 (0-3 with a brace from Icardi and a goal from Brozovic): since then three victories for the Biancocelesti and a draw; Maurizio Sarri, in particular, in addition to having won both previous home games as coach of the Capitoline club against Inter, is unbeaten at home in the top tournament against the Nerazzurri (five wins and two draws). Inter is the team that has won the most matches with a clean sheet in the five major European tournaments in 2023/24 (10, at least two more than any other team); this is only the fourth time that the Nerazzurri have won at least 12 of the first 15 matches of a Serie A championship (after 2006/07, 2017/18 and 2019/20) and it is only the fifth that they have obtained at least 10 clean sheets at this point of the season (after 1971/72, 1972/73, 1988/89 and 2015/16). This is the sixth time that Lazio has collected 21 or fewer points in the first 15 days of a Serie A championship in the three points per win era (the last one dates back to 2015/16): on all the previous five occasions it was not never finished higher than eighth place at the end of the tournament.
Maurizio Sarri and Simone Inzaghi (197 managers in Serie A with Lazio between 2016 and 2021) are two of the five coaches with the highest average points per game in the top division among those who only coached in the three-point era victory and with at least 150 benches in the competition: 1.93 for the current Lazio coach, 1.92 for the Inter coach – only Conte, Allegri and Ancelotti were better than them.
Serie A Standing BEFORE the game:
Inter, 1st position with 38 points and a positive goal difference of +30
Lazio, 10th position with 21 points and a positive goal difference of “0”
✅ Here are the official starting lineups for Lazio vs Inter for the Serie A Week 17 game on Sunday 17 December 2023 at the Olimpico di Roma Stadium in Rome, Italy at 20:45.
✅ Good morning, my friends! Here are the front pages from the Italian newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport, Sunday 17 December 2023.
La Gazzetta dello Sport, Front Page, Sunday 17 December 2023
Front Page, La Gazzetta dello Sport, Sunday 17 December 2023
👉Inter dream of +4, but there’s the Sarri trap
I take the points and… run away
👉Duvan again, Toro beat Empoli
Euro Zapata
👉Try again Milan
Pioli must secure a place in the top 4
Leao back with Giroud
✅ 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.
=============== Italian Serie A Tickets for the next 10 games
By Anna Italia
