✅ Good morning, my friends! Here are the front pages from the Italian newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport, Thursday 5 October 2023.
La Gazzetta dello Sport, Front Page, Thursday 5 October 2023
Front Page La Gazzetta dello Sport, Thursday 5 October
👉Champions, Milan with another 0-0 in Dortmund
Without goals
Many opportunities, but only a point with Borussia
👉Victory in Glasgow at the 95th
Infinite Lazio
Pedro header and fly to the top
👉Chiesa exclusive: Juve, Vlahovic and the Scudetto
“Yes, Dusan and I want to dream”
Fede on the attack: “Objective is fourth place, but if we are up there in March…”
59% Ball Possession ATALANTA and 41% Ball POSSESSION RAKOW Atalanta 2 – 0 Raków Czestochowa
49′ Charles De Ketelaere
66′ Éderson
🏆👉 Atalanta won the UEFA Europa League Group Stage game on Thursday 21 September 2023 at the Gewiss Stadium in Bergamo, Italy. Atalanta beat Raków Czestochowa without too many problems on the first day of the group stage.. Charles De Ketelaere scored first and then Ederson grabbing a 2-0 victory. First position immediately conquered and the lead goes to the championship.
In the next game, Atalanta will face Sporting Lisbon, while Rakow will have to deal with Sturm Graz.
This is the first ever meeting between Atalanta and Raków Czestochowa in a European competition: in general, La Dea has never faced a Polish team in Europe. Raków Czestochowa have never played in a major European competition before this edition of the UEFA Europa League – Atalanta will also be the first Italian team to face a European match (20 previous qualifying matches).
Atalanta opened the score in the 49th minute. It is Charles De Ketelaere to defeat Raków Czestochowa goalkeeper Vladan Kovacevic with a headed shot to the bottom right corner. The assist is by Davide Zappacosta
👉 Atalanta 1 – 0 Raków, 49th minute, ⚽️ goal by Charles De Ketelaere for @Atalanta_BC with a headed shot to the bottom right corner. The assist is by Davide Zappacosta . https://t.co/8mtMKQ7vNS
Atalanta doubled in the 66th minute. Éderson scored with a headed shot to the top right corner. The assist is by Matteo Ruggeri.
👉 Atalanta 2 – 0 Raków, 66th minute, ⚽️ goal by Éderson for @Atalanta_BC with a headed shot to the top right corner. The assist is by Matteo Ruggeri. https://t.co/vjGNCd256V
✅ Stats before the game: This will be only the second time ever for Atalanta in the UEFA Europa League group stage: in the first, they won their group and remained unbeaten, in 2017/18 (W4, D2), winning all three home games. Raków Czestochowa will be the 28th different Polish team to compete in a major European competition and the first Polish debutant team since Dyskobolia Grodzisk Wielkopolski in 2003/04. The last Polish team to win their first ever match in a major European competition was Arka Gdynia, against Beroe Stara Zagora in the 1979/80 Cup Winners’ Cup. Between the Europa League and the Champions League, Atalanta remained unbeaten on the first day of the group stage in three of the four matches (2W, 1D), the only defeat in this match was against Dinamo Zagreb in September 2019 (0- 4).
Atalanta did not score in their most recent match in European competition (0-2 against RB Leipzig in the Europa League quarter-finals in April 2022), after having scored 23 goals in their previous 12 matches.
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⚫️🔵 📺 Click the video to watch Atalanta 2 – 0 Raków Czestochowa highlights on Thursday 21 September 2023
33% Ball Possession SHERIFF TIRASPOL and 67% Ball Possession AS ROMA Sheriff Tiraspol 1 – 2 AS Roma
57′ Cristian Tovar 45+4′ Gaby Kiki (own goal)
🟥 Red Card: 97′ João Paulo 64′ Romelu Lukaku
👉🏆 AS Roma won the away game in the Europa League Group Stage – Group G against Sheriff Tiraspol on Thursday 21 September 2023 at the Sheriff Main Arena in Tiraspol, Moldavia. Roma took home the three points from this trip to Moldova. AS Roma got the lead thanks to the own goal by Gaby Kiki’s from a free kick by Paredes, Cristian Tovar equalized in a corner. Romelu Lukaku’s great goal decided the prestigious away victory.
Mourinho’s Roma returns to the European stage after the bitter disappointment of the defeat in the final on penalties against Sevilla. The Giallorossi’s path in the Europa League starts from Moldova.
For Mourinho’s team now the challenge against Servette, defeated on their debut 2-0 by Slavia Prague.
The Roman gladiators ended the first half with the lead thanks to the own goal by Gaby Kiki scoring against his own goalkeeper Maksym Koval.
👉 Sheriff Tiraspol 0 – 1 AS Roma, 45+4′ minute, ⚽️ own goal by Gaby Kiki. https://t.co/PVGPyVPmtf
Sheriff Tiraspol equalized in the 57th minute. Cristian Tovar defeated AS Roma goalkeeper Mile Svilar with a right-footed shot to the high center following a corner conceded by Evan Ndicka.
Roma took the lead again in the 64th minute. Forward Romelu Lukaku defeated Sheriff Tiraspol goalkeeper Maksym Koval with a left-footed shot to the bottom right corner. The assist is by Bryan Cristante.
👉 Sheriff Tiraspol 1 – 2 AS Roma, 64th minute, ⚽️ goal by Romelu Lukaku for @ASRomaEN with a left-footed shot to the bottom right corner. The assist is by Bryan Cristante. https://t.co/b0L8t7YRlJ
Stats before the game: This will be the first official match for Sheriff Tiraspol against Roma, with Inter being the only Italian team previously faced in Europe; with the Nerazzurri defeated in both matches in the group stage of the 2021-22 UEFA Champions League. Roma have never faced a Moldovan team in European competitions; the last time the Giallorossi faced a team from a particular country for the first time in Europe was in September 2017, beating Azerbaijani side FK Qarabag 2-1 in the UEFA Champions League. This will be Sheriff Tiraspol’s sixth appearance in the UEFA Europa League group stage; the Moldovan team has never managed to progress to the next stage in the five previous participations (2009-10, 2010-11, 2013-14, 2017-18, 2022-23). Roma, finalists in their last participation in the UEFA Europa League in 2022-23, have progressed from the group stage in all five previous participations in the competition: 2009-10, 2016-17, 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2022 -23. Roma have not conceded more than one goal in a European match for 12 consecutive matches (since the 2-1 home defeat against Real Betis), a period in which they have only conceded seven goals.
📺 Click the video to watch Sheriff Tiraspol 1 – 2 AS Roma highlights on Thursday 22 September 2023
🇱🇻 Referee Andris Treimanis from the section of Latvia will be assisted by Assistant Referee 1: Haralds Gudermanis (LVA) and Assistant Referee 2: Aleksejs Spasjonņikovs (LVA). The Fourth Official will be Aleksandrs Golubevs (LVA). The VAR will be Christian Dingert (GER). The AVAR will be Benjamin Brand (GER). The Referee Observer will be Neale Barry (ENG)
Here are Sheriff Tiraspol vs AS Roma official starting lineups for the Europa League Group Stage – Group G game on Thursday 21 September 2023 at the Sheriff Main Arena in Tiraspol, Moldavia at 18:45.
🇱🇻 Referee Andris Treimanis from the section of Latvia will be assisted by Assistant Referee 1: Haralds Gudermanis (LVA) and Assistant Referee 2: Aleksejs Spasjonņikovs (LVA). The Fourth Official will be Aleksandrs Golubevs (LVA). The VAR will be Christian Dingert (GER). The AVAR will be Benjamin Brand (GER). The Referee Observer will be Neale Barry (ENG)
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👉🏆 UEFA announced the match officials for the Europa League Group Stage – Group G game, Sheriff Tiraspol vs AS Roma on Thursday 21 September 2023 at the Sheriff Main Arena in Tiraspol, Moldavia at 18:45.
Referee Andris Treimanis from the section of Latvia will be assisted by Assistant Referee 1: Haralds Gudermanis (LVA) and Assistant Referee 2: Aleksejs Spasjonņikovs (LVA). The Fourth Official will be Aleksandrs Golubevs (LVA). The VAR will be Christian Dingert (GER). The AVAR will be Benjamin Brand (GER). The Referee Observer will be Neale Barry (ENG)
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🏆👉 Sheriff vs AS Roma, Match Officials
Europa League Group Stage
🗓️ Thursday 21 September 2023
🏟️ Sheriff Main Aréna
⏲️ 18:45