👉 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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✅ Good morning, my friends! Here are the front pages from the Italian newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport, Monday 19 February 2024.
La Gazzetta dello Sport, Front Page, Monday 19 February 2024
Front Page, La Gazzetta dello Sport, Monday 19 February
👉Milan crumble
They concede 4 goals, no overtake of Juve
👉Tomorrow there’s Atletico
Inter, why it’s yes for the Champions League
👉Napoli chaos
Mazzarri in the balance
De Laurentiis contacts Calzona
👉 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
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50% Ball Possession MONZA and 50% Ball Possession AC MILAN Monza 4 – 2 AC Milan
45′ Matteo Pessina (pen) 64′ Olivier Giroud
45+6 Dany Mota 88′ Christian Pulisic
90′ Warren Bondo 🟥 Red Card: 52′ Luka Jovic
95′ Lorenzo Colombo Buy Serie A tickets for every Italian League football match
Serie A Standing BEFORE the game:
AC Milan, 3rd position with 52 points and a positive goal difference of +20
Monza, 11th position with 30 points and a negative goal difference of -7
What a flop for AC Milan wasted the chance to take the 2nd position. Monza with a prestigious victory won the Serie A Week 25 game freezing Milan on Sunday 18 February 2024 at the U-Power Stadium in Monza, Italy.
Everything worked in favor for Monza who took the lead at the end of the first half with the penalty converted by Matteo Pessina. Dany Mota’s curling shot which gave Monza a double lead at half-time. At the beginning of the second half, the Rossoneri remained with ten men due to the expulsion of Luka Jovic in the 52nd minute. A ray of hope appeared when Milan got back into the game with the new arrivals: first Olivier Giroud shortens in a split and then Christian Pulisic finds the equalizer. Monza, however, did not give up and took the lead again with Warren Bondo’s first goal in Serie A. In the final, Milan rushed forward but also conceded a fourth goal on the counterattack by Lorenzo Colombo. BAM! Way to go for Monza and a big flop for Milan.
Monza took the lead in the 45th minute. Matteo Pessina converted a penalty with a left-footed shot. The penalty was conceded by Malick Thiaw.
👉Monza 1 – 0 AC Milan, 45th minute, ⚽️ goal by Matteo Pessina converted a penalty for @ACMonza
with a left footed shot. The penalty conceded by Malick Thiaw. https://t.co/ehzVIrFuA5
Wow, what a headache for the Rossoneri. Monza scored another goal before ending the first half. Dany Mota scored with a right-footed shot
to the bottom right corner. The assist is by Andrea Colpani.
👉Monza 2 – 0 AC Milan, 45+6 minute, ⚽️ goal by Dany Mota for @ACMonza with a right footed shot
to the bottom right corner. The assist is by Andrea Colpani. https://t.co/oSiWjymRh3
Milan shortened the distance in the 64th minute. Forward Olivier Giroud defeated Monza goalkeeper Alessandro Sorrentino with a leftleft-footed footed shot to the bottom left corner. The headed assist is by Christian Pulisic.
👉 Monza 2 – 1 AC Milan, 64th minute, ⚽️ goal by Olivier Giroud for @acmilan with a leftleft-footed footed shot to the bottom left corner. The headed assist is by Christian Pulisic https://t.co/MV079BpGAu
Christian Pulisic equalized for the 2-2 in the 88th minute.
👉Monza 2 – 2 AC Milan, 88th minute, ⚽️ goal by Christian Pulisic for @acmilan with a left-footed shot to the top left corner. The assist is by Malick Thiaw. https://t.co/jepZNF0vM0
A cold shower for Milan and party for Monza. In the 89th minute, there it is a winning goal by Warren Bondo delighting the local fans.
👉Monza 3 – 2 AC Milan, 89th minute, ⚽️ goal by Warren Bondo for @ACMonza with a right footed shot to the top right corner. The assist is by Daniel Maldini. https://t.co/wQFLDPRSce
Monza sealed the victory in the 95th minute. Lorenzo Colombo just put the words “the end” scoring with a right oted shot to the bottom right corner. The assist is by Matteo Pessina.
👉Monza 4 – 2 AC Milan, 95th minute, ⚽️ goal by Lorenzo Colombo for @ACMonza with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner. The assist is by Matteo Pessina. https://t.co/WpBY2RULQh
✅ Stats before the game: Milan have won each of the first three matches against Monza in Serie A: in their history in the competition they have finished with success every time first four matches only against Ancona, Cremonese, Messina and Pro Vercelli. Milan is, together with Atalanta, one of the two teams against which Monza has not yet collected any points in Serie A (three defeats out of three against both). Monza is the only team that has not yet managed to find victory in this Serie A against opponents currently in the top half of the table: for the Brianza team four points in these matches, the result of four draws and seven defeats. Milan have scored exactly three goals in each of their last three league away games, against Empoli, Udinese and Frosinone: the Rossoneri have never scored more than two goals in four away games in a row during a Serie A season (in general , in their entire history they succeeded in 1964, but between two separate tournaments). Monza have kept a clean sheet in each of their last three league games (the last two of which were 0-0 draws against Udinese and Hellas Verona) and have never recorded a longer run of consecutive clean sheets in Serie A.
Serie A Standing BEFORE the game:
AC Milan, 3rd position with 52 points and a positive goal difference of +20
Monza, 11th position with 30 points and a negative goal difference of -7
Here are Monza vs AC Milan official starting lineups for the Serie A Week 25 game 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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