Good morning, my friends! Here are the front pages from the Italian newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport, Tuesday 21 December 2021
La Gazzetta dello Sport, Front Page, Tuesday 21 December 2021.
Front Pages, La Gazzetta dello Sport, Tuesday 21 December
👉Zhang-Inzaghi
Scudetto Pact
(and much more)
👉Milan injuries, disharmony in the play and Ibra’s 40 years become more noticeable
👉Juve wastes
Five years on the market and 500 million errors
Good morning, my friends! Here are the front pages from the Italian newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport, Monday 20 December 2021
La Gazzetta dello Sport, Front Page, Monday 20 December 2021.
Front Page, La Gazzetta dello Sport, Monday 20 December
👉Milan fury: Kessie equalizer disallowed at the 90th, Napoli win
The VAR doesn’t work this way
👉It’s at +4 and Wednesday the first half of the season ends
Inter Winter Champions
Corriere dello Sport, Front Page, Monday 20 December 2021 .
Front Page Corriere dello Sport, Monday 20 December
👉Elmas decides the big match: Inter remain at +4, it’s Winter Champions
Napoli coup
They beat Milan at San Siro [0-1], catch them and leapfrog Atalanta
👉Fiorentina 2-2 with Sassuolo
Dusan record
33 like CR7
AC Milan failing big time losing the Serie A Week 18 game defeated by Napoli at the San Siro Stadium. The victory helping Napoli to overtake the 2nd position reaching 39 points and a +22 goal difference. AC Milan stepping down from the 2nd to the 3rd position remaining with 39 points but with a lower goal difference +16. Milan have not beaten Napoli at home in the league since 2-0 in December 2014 with Filippo Inzaghi on the bench (Menez and Bonaventura scored): since then three Campania wins and three draws.
Inter win the Serie A Week 18 game against Salernitana in grand style keeping the sole leadership reaching 43 points at the Arechi Stadium. Alexis scoring the 101 league goal of the year! Salernitana need to start earning points to dream with salvation. Inter are one of the three teams (along with Lazio and Bologna) that Salernitana has faced more than once at home in Serie A, always finding success and never conceding a goal.
A slap for Atalanta losing the Serie A Week 18 game against AS Roma risking to lose the 3rd position at the Gewiss Stadium. Roma conquering the Gewiss with this important away victory grabbing all 3 points reaching 31 points being -6 points below Atalanta. The three-way race for the Scudetto remain among Atalanta, Inter and AC Milan, and we might even see Napoli joining it!
Juventus winning the Serie A Week 18 game defeating Bologna at the Renato Dall’Ara Stadium. Juventus have now won their last 11 Serie A games against Bologna, against no team they have a longer open streak in the competition. Juventus with a sprint race to be among the top 3 positions, so far, reaching 31 points being -12 points below Inter in the 1st position with 43 points while Bologna remaining with only 24 points.
It is a wake up call for Cagliari to end this year, at least, with a victory to dream with salvation. Udinese silencing the Unipol Domus claiming the away victory with a poker. Udinese reaching 20 points having +10 points lead over Cagliari. The six Serie A matches played in December between Cagliari and Udinese ended with five Friulian wins and a 1-1 draw, in the most recent of these (in 2020).
Lazio win the Serie A Week 18 game defeating Genoa at the Olimpico di Roma Stadium. Lazio with a sprint race to climb towards the top 6 positions while Genoa need to climb from the relegation zone. Andriy Shevchenko is the third coach in the era of three points to win who has not found success in any of the first five matches as the Genoa bench in Serie A, after Giuseppe Marchioro in 1995 and Luigi Delneri in 2012 – both have won the sixth game with this team.
Torino returning to smile after winning the Serie A Week 18 game defeating Hellas Verona at the Olimpico Torino Stadium in Turin, Italy. The much needed victory giving the boost to the morale of the team. Torino with a leapfrog reaching 25 points being now +2 points above Hellas Verona remaining with 23 points. Torino have won five of their last six home league games (one draw).
Serie A Standing BEFORE the game:
Torino, 13th position with 22 points and a positive goal difference of +4
Hellas Verona, 12th position with 23 points and a negative goal difference of -3
Torino returning to smile after winning the Serie A Week 18 game defeating Hellas Verona on Sunday 19 December 2021 at the Olimpico Torino Stadium in Turin, Italy. The much needed victory giving the boost to the morale of the team. Torino with a leapfrog reaching 25 points being now +2 points above Hellas Verona remaining with 23 points.
Torino have won five of their last six home league games (one draw), always scoring at least two goals: it has been since October 1992 that Torino have not collected six home games in a row with at least two goals scored; and it is even since March 1950 that they have not succeeded within the same Serie A championship. Good achievement for Torino.
However, to get more points even in the last match of the year, Torino will go to San Siro next week against Inter, something more will be needed. In the pre-Christmas match, however, Hellas Verona will host Fiorentina, trying to end 2021 with a victory.
Torino scoring just one goal and enough to conquer the victory in the 26th minute. It is Tommaso Pobega to defeat Hellas Verona goalkeeper from very close rangewith a left footed shot to the top right corner. The assist is by Antonio Sanabria.
✅ Stats before the game. Seven of the last eight matches between Turin and Verona in Serie A have ended in a draw (a Hellas victory in the partial): from the 2015/16 season to date, only the match between Fiorentina and Genoa (eight, but out of 13 matches) has registered more draws in the top flight. All the last four Serie A matches at Torino between these two teams ended in a draw, the last two 1-1; in general, the grenade club has won only one of their last 11 home games against Verona in the top flight (5-1 in November 2001 with Camolese on the bench).
Serie A Standing BEFORE the game:
Torino, 13th position with 22 points and a positive goal difference of +4
Hellas Verona, 12th position with 23 points and a negative goal difference of -3
✅ Here are Torino official called up players by Coach Ivan Juric for the Serie A Week 19 game Torino vs Hellas Verona on Sunday 19 December 2021 at the Olimpico Torino Stadium in Turin, Italy at 18:00.
By Anna Italia
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