✅ Good morning, my friends! Here are the front pages from the Italian newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport, Tuesday 22 August 2023.
La Gazzetta dello Sport, Front Page, Tuesday 22 August 2023
Front Page, La Gazzetta dello Sport, Tuesday 22 August 2023
👉Bubbles Milan
Diavolo are also at the table with the big ones
👉Cagliari stall the Toro attacks
Juric: “We were not lucky”
👉 Hello, my friends. Here are the 2023-2024 Italian Serie A Serie A Week 1 RESULTS / First Round on Saturday 19, Sunday 20, and Monday 21 August 2023. Napoli is the current Champion to defend their title. The 3 promoted teams from Serie A are Frosinone, Genoa, and Cagliari.
✅ 10 Serie A Games Completed
⚽️ Serie A Top Scorer up to Week 1 (Updated on Monday 21 August 2023)
Inter forward Lautaro Martínez, Salernitana Antonio Candreva, Roma forward Andrea Belotti, and Napoli forward Victor Osimhen with 2 goals each
From the 3 Serie B promoted teams, two had a bad debut in Serie A, we might say Cagliari had a decent debut with a goalless draw against Torino. Frosinone crushed at home by the Reigning Champions “Napoli.” Genoa humiliated by Fiorentina also at the Marassi Stadium.
The happiest of all, Napoli, who have won in all of their last seven Serie A debuts, six of these played away. Napoli had not conceded a goal within the first 7 minutes of play in their debut league match since August 1995 (Protti, Bari-Naples 1-1).
AC Milan celebrating the victory. Great start for Christian Pulisic becoming the fifth American player to score a goal in Serie A after Alexi Lalas, Michael Bradley, Weston McKennie and Gianluca Busio and the first to do so on his debut in the Italian top flight. Olivier Giroud’s goal against Bologna is the first scored with his right foot of the 33 scored by the French player for Milan in all competitions.
Massimiliano Allegri became the second Juventus coach to reach the milestone of 250 victories in all competitions since 1929/30, after Giovanni Trapattoni (319). Udinese have lost three of their last four Serie A debuts (D1), as many defeats as in the previous seven seasons in the top flight.
An added incentive for Hellas Verona because they have won for the first time an away game in their season opener. Previously, Verona had collected nine defeats and four draws away from home in Serie A in the first match of the season.
A curious detail, both of Federico Bonazzoli’s last two away goals in Serie A came against Empoli at the Castellani Stadium: the first on 14 May 2022 against Salernitana.
As for Fiorentina, it was since 1997 that Fiorentina had not won an away Serie A season opener (3-2 at Udinese). Fiorentina have scored at least four goals in an away Serie A opener for the first time since September 1956 (5-2 v Udinese). Surely, this is a good sign for Viola fans to expect a top performance this season.
Inter have won five league debuts in a row for the third time in their history after also succeeding between 1951 and 1955 and between 1993 and 1997. The leading motor is Argentinean forward Lautaro Martínez scoring a brace. Lautaro has been involved in 101 goals in Serie A (81 goals and 20 assists). Since his debut in the Serie A (since 2018/19), only Ciro Immobile (138) and Domenico Berardi (108) have done better.
Charles De Ketelaere scored his first Serie A goal after 33 appearances and 22 shots in the competition. Despite Atalanta being the team that has recorded the most defeats in their first Serie A match of the season (27), the Dea have won all of their last six opening matches in the tournament.
Forward Andrea Belotti scored his first two goals in Serie A for AS Roma, scoring again for the first time in the competition since 1 May 2022 (hat-trick against Empoli with Torino) and thus ending a streak of 34 consecutive games without goals active in the competition, of which the last 31 with the yellow and red shirt.
For the first time, Lecce won their season debut in Serie A, before today the Apulians had obtained six draws and 11 defeats in this league match. Ciro Immobile has reached 200 goals in the big five European leagues. Furthermore, this was Immobile’s 100th away goal across the big five European leagues.
Torino-Cagliari finished 0-0 for the 14th time in Serie A, confirming the most frequent result in meetings between these two teams in the competition. However, that hadn’t happened at Torino since January 1980. Cagliari have remained unbeaten in eight of their last nine Serie A matches against Torino (W3, D5). The Sardinians have also drawn four of their last five Monday matches in the competition.
Antonio Candreva scored his fourth brace in Serie A against Roma: the last one dates back to 24 January 2016, again at the Stadio Olimpico but with the Lazio shirt (vs Chievo Verona).
👉 Top Serie A teams standing AFTER Serie A Week 1 game. The first 4 qualify for the Champions League, 5 and 6 for Europa League. (Sunday 20 August 2023)
– FIORENTINA, 1st position with 3 points and a positive goal difference of +3
– JUVENTUS, 2nd position with 3 points and a positive goal difference of +3
– NAPOLI, 3rd position with 3 points and a positive goal difference of +2
– ATALANTA, 4th position with 3 points and a positive goal difference of +2
– INTER, 5th position with 3 points and a positive goal difference of +2
– AC MILAN, 6th position with 3 points and a positive goal difference of +2
Relegation Zone:
– SASSUOLO, 18th position with 0 points and a negative goal difference of -2
– GENOA, 19th position with 0 points and a negative goal difference of -3
– UDINESE, 20th position with 0 points and a negative goal difference of -3
👉 2023 – 2024 Italy Serie A Standing – Serie A Table up to Monday 21 August 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 21 August 2023.
La Gazzetta dello Sport, Front Page, Monday 21 August 2023
Front Page La Gazzetta dello Sport, Monday 21 August 2023
👉Leao, it’s your turn
The big stars all score, just waiting for Rafa…
👉De Ketelaere is devilish
👉What a beautiful Old Lady
Boom debut: Chiesa-Vlahovic decide in 20 minutes
✅ Good morning, my friends! Here are the front pages from the Italian newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport, Sunday 20 August 2023.
La Gazzetta dello Sport, Front Page, Sunday 20 August 2023
Front Page, La Gazzetta dello Sport, Sunday 20 August 2023
👉1937-2023
Goodbye Mazzone
Baggio: “Carletto taught you about life”
👉Immediately two super braces
Lautaro smashes it
Inter flatten Monza
Frosinone failed to make a decent debut after their promotion from the Serie B. Napoli, current Italy’s Champions, crushed Frosinone claiming the Serie A Week 1 victory on Saturday 19 August 2023 at the Benito Stirpe Stadium in Frosinone, Italy. Napoli won from a comeback on a good Frosinone, the final 1-3 with a brace from Victor Osimhen on two assists from Di Lorenzo. Frosinone had found the momentary advantage thanks to the penalty scored by Harroui for Cajuste’s foul on Baez. Finally, Napoli that does not break down, draws with Matteo Politano and takes the lead with Osimhen.
Frosinone scored the first goal of the Serie A 2023-2024 season. In the 7th minute, Abdou Harroui converts a penalty with a right-footed shot defeating Napoli goalkeeper Meret in the bottom right corner. The penalty is conceded by Jens Cajuste after a foul on Jaime Báez in the penalty area.
⚽️ Frosinone 1 – 0 Napoli, 7th minute, Abdou Harroui converts a penalty with a right-footed shot in the bottom right corner. The penalty is conceded by Jens Cajuste after a foul on Jaime Báez in the penalty area. https://t.co/aIIKO5hC2tpic.twitter.com/3d01CCTRfd
Napoli breaking the draw with forward Victor Osimhen with a right footed shot to the high center.
👉 Frosinone 1 – 2 Napoli, 42nd minute, ⚽️ goal by Victor Osimhen giving the lead to Napoli with a right-footed shot to the high center. The assist is by Giovanni Di Lorenzo. https://t.co/g9RgSgsXEx
Napoli rocking and scoring again! Osimhen delighted the fans with a brace in the 79th minute defeating goalkeeper Turati with a right-footed shot to the bottom right corner. The assist is by Giovanni Di Lorenzo.
👉 Frosinone 1 – 3 Napoli, 79th minute, ⚽️ goal by Victor Osimhen for @en_sscnapoli with a right-footed shot to the bottom right corner. The assist is by Giovanni Di Lorenzo https://t.co/cs0sy3Fgq8
👉 Stats before the game: Among the opponents faced more than twice in Serie A, Napoli is one of the four – with Turin, Rome and Inter – against which Frosinone has always lost (4/4); moreover, the Neapolitan team is – among these – the one that has scored the most goals against the Ciociari in the top division (15). After a run of three consecutive wins, Napoli lost their last Serie A match against a newly promoted team (0-2 vs Monza); the Neapolitans have not suffered two defeats in a row against teams from Serie B since 2015 (against Palermo and Empoli). Frosinone have lost in both of their two Serie A season debuts: 1-2 at home against Torino on 23 August 2015 and 0-4 away against Atalanta on 20 August 2018. Napoli are unbeaten in their Serie A season opener against newly promoted sides (W13, D4): the last of these matches was a 2-0 win against Venezia in August 2021.
Napoli have won all their last six matches on matchday 1 of Serie A, already a record streak for the Neapolitans in the first match of the season in the top division.
By Anna Italia
Frosinone Tickets, 
👉 Lineup FROSINONE (4-3-3): Turati; Oyono, Monterisi, Romagnoli, Marchizza; Gelli, Mazzitelli (75′ Brescianini), Harroui (85′ Barrenechea); Baez (70’ Canotto), Cuni (68′ Borrelli), Caso (66′ Kvernadze).
Subs: Cerofolini, Palmisani, Pahic, Haoudi, Garritano, Szyminski, Bidaoui, Macej.
Coach: Eusebio Di Francesco.
👉 Lineup NAPOLI (4-3-3): Meret; Di Lorenzo, Rrahmani, Juan Jesus, Olivera (76′ Mario Rui); Cajuste (46′ Anguissa), Lobotka (91′ Ostigard), Zielinski; Politano (76′ Elmas), Osimhen (80′ Simeone), Raspadori.
Subs: Contini, Gollini, Natan, Lozano, Zerbin, Zedadka, Russo, Zanoli.
Coach: Rudi Garcia.