✅ Good morning, my friends! Here are the front pages from the Italian newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport, Tuesday 3 October 2023.
La Gazzetta dello Sport, Front Page, Tuesday 3 October 2023
Front Page La Gazzetta dello Sport, Tuesday 3 October
👉Champions League
Inzaghi challenges Benfica and replies to Sacchi
My Inter is European
👉Napoli, how to beat Carletto
Garcia with Osi and Kvara, Ancelotti with Vinicius and Bellingham: what a show
👉 Hello, my friends. Here are the 2023-2024 Italian Serie A Serie A Week 7 RESULTS / Seventh Round on Saturday 30 September, Sunday 1, and Monday 2 October 2023. The battle for the Scudetto is still neck-to-neck between Inter and AC Milan both with 18 points. Napoli , Juventus, and Fiorentina following closely with 14 points each.
✅ 10 Serie A Games Completed
⚽️ Serie A Top Scorer up to Week 7 (Updated on Monday 2 October 2023)
Inter crushed Salernitana in grand style at the Arechi Stadium. Lautaro Martinez is the first player in the history of Serie A to score four goals coming off the bench. It’s a super performance by Lautaro. Salernitana goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa would never forget this game and Lautaro is now his nightmare. Salernitana stepped down to the 19th position with only 3 points.
Milan got another confirmation after the victories against Verona and Cagliari which allowed them to regain the top of the table. Milan flies to 18 points, taking them to +11 over Lazio who remain stuck at 7 points. The game was blocked and very tactical in the first half and was unblocked in the second half thanks to Christian Pulisic’s goal, Noah Okafor sealing the victory in the final. Rafael Leão assisted on both goals.
Napoli conquered the Via del Mare Stadium. Napoli poker, Lecce ko. Ostigard’s header in the 16th minute broke the deadlock. Victor Osimhen scores the second goal at the start of the second half, Gaetano’s trio in the 88th minute, Politano closes the score from the penalty spot in the 94th minute. Assists for Zielinski, Kvaratskhelia and Raspadori. Second consecutive victory for Napoli.
Fiorentina with a sprint race to climb to the top 5 positions beat Cagliari. It is the fifth victory in Serie A for Vincenzo Italiano’s Fiorentina joining Napoli and Juventus in provisional 3rd place in the standings with 14 points. Nicolás González, Dossena (own goal) and M’Bala Nzola scored decisive goals. Cagliari, on the other hand, reached their third knockout. consecutive (fifth in the championship), remaining at the bottom of the standings with only two points achieved so far.
👉 Top Serie A teams standing AFTER Serie A Week 7 game. The first 4 qualify for the Champions League, 5 and 6 for Europa League. (Monday 2 October 2023)
– INTER, 1st position with 18 points and a positive goal difference of +16
– AC MILAN, 2nd position with 18 points and a positive goal difference of +7
– NAPOLI, 3rd position with 14 points and a positive goal difference of +10
– JUVENTUS, 4th position with 14 points and a goal difference of +6
– FIORENTINA, 5th position with 14 points and a positive goal difference of +5
– ATALANTA, 6th position with 13 points and a positive goal difference of +6
Relegation Zone:
– SALERNITANA, 18th position with 3 points and a negative goal difference of -10
– EMPOLI, 19th position with 3 points and a negative goal difference of -15
– CAGLIARI, 20th position with 2 points and a negative goal difference of -10
👉 2023 – 2024 Italy Serie A Standing – Serie A Table up to Monday 2 October 2023
✅ Good morning, my friends! Here are the front pages from the Italian newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport, Monday 2 October 2023.
La Gazzetta dello Sport, Front Page, Monday 2 October 2023
Front Page La Gazzetta dello Sport, Monday 2 October 2023
👉Inter and Milan already already on the run: +4
Who can catch them?
👉Osimhen
I love Napoli
But will he stay?
👉Lukaku lifts Mourinho back up
👉Atalanta better but no goals
And Juve is fine with that
Serie A Standing BEFORE the game:
Atalanta, 5th position with 12 points and a positive goal difference of +6
Juventus, 4th position with 13 points and a positive goal difference of +6
Atalanta and Juventus with only 1 point difference ended the Serie A Week 7 game with a goalless draw on Sunday 1 October 2023 at the Gewiss Stadium in Bergamo, Italy.Juventus join Napoli in third place with 14 points, while Atalanta remainded one point behind both with 13 points. Match experienced with high intensity but with little precision, with the two teams really struggling to overcome the opposing defense.
The most important opportunity of the match is a free kick from Luis Muriel who, in the 74th minute from 28 metres, kicks perfectly towards the left corner. Juventus goalkeeper Szczesny stretches out and performed a truly miraculous move by lifting it onto the crossbar and then into a corner. At the end the Goddess tries again but isn’t lucky and doesn’t find a way to score. The match between Gasperini’s team and Allegri’s team ends goalless, with the Dea finishing for the third consecutive match without conceding a goal.
Atalanta and Juventus declare that they want to aim for the top four positions, with the top three currently occupied by Inter, Milan and Napoli.
✅ Stats before the game: This is the 123rd clash in Serie A between Atalanta and Juventus. Previous records say that the Goddess has only won 13 times, despite the 66 defeats. The last match took place on May 7th, with the Bianconeri snatching a victory in Bergamo thanks to goals from Iling-Junior and Vlahovic. In the Gasperini era (from 2016/17) Atalanta lost only four of the 14 matches against Juventus in Serie A (2W, 8D), after suffering 12 defeats in a row in the tournament before landing on the Dea bench of the current coach. Juventus won the last match against Atalanta in Serie A without conceding a goal (2-0 last May 7 at the Gewiss Stadium), the Bianconeri could get two clean sheets in a row against the Dea in the league for the first time since March 2016, when the Nerazzurri were led by Edoardo Reja. Atalanta have won only one of the last 18 home matches against Juventus in Serie A (D5, L12), keeping a clean sheet only in the match they won in the period (1-0 on 18 April 2021 with a goal from Ruslan Malinovskyi) . Atalanta have won their last four home games in Serie A, under Gasperini’s management they have already achieved a streak of at least five home wins in a row twice in the league: seven, between February and July 2020 and between February and May 2021. With the defeat against Sassuolo, Juventus have lost six away games in 2023 in Serie A; since 2000 only once have the bianconeri recorded seven defeats away from home in a single calendar year in Serie A: in 2010, with three different coaches (Ferrara, Zaccheroni and Delneri).
👉 Lineup Atalanta: Musso, Toloi, Djimsiti, Scalvini, Zappacosta, de Roon, Éderson, Ruggeri, Koopmeiners, De Ketelaere, Lookman.
Serie A Standing BEFORE the game:
Atalanta, 5th position with 12 points and a positive goal difference of +6
Juventus, 4th position with 13 points and a positive goal difference of +6
✅ Here are Atalanta vs Juventus official starting lineups for the Serie A Week 7 game on Sunday 1 October 2023 at the Gewiss Stadium in Bergamo, Italy at 18:00.
👉 Lineup Atalanta: Musso, Toloi, Djimsiti, Scalvini, Zappacosta, de Roon, Éderson, Ruggeri, Koopmeiners, De Ketelaere, Lookman.