Serie A Superthread 2011/2012

grenache

Looks like Napoli pulled the wool over the FIGC's eyes regarding the "flooding" situation in Naples last weekend. You don't need to know Italian to understand the evidence here! Good old De Laurentis, why play an on-fire Juve when you don't have to

http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=/&gl=IE#/watch?v=XLAxpPSmIg8

Pinturicchio

grenache wrote: »

Looks like Napoli pulled the wool over the FIGC's eyes regarding the "flooding" situation in Naples last weekend. You don't need to know Italian to understand the evidence here! Good old De Laurentis, why play an on-fire Juve when you don't have to

http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=IE#/watch?v=XLAxpPSmIg8

I've seen those allegations alright. :P

There were actually floods in other areas though. The reason given for calling off the match was that the emergency services were busy with the floods so couldn't guarantee safety at the match. I don't know if that's true or not but it is convenient for Napoli! Especially after playing Bayern a couple of days earlier.

Pinturicchio

Press release:

Today, JUVENTUS FOOTBALL CLUB S.p.A. have appealed to the Regional Administrative Court of Lazio, according to Art. 30 of the Code of Administrative Procedure, against FIGC [Italian Football Federation] and towards F.C. INTERNAZIONALE s.p.a., claiming for a sentence concerning the unfair damages due to the unfounded practice of the administrative activity and to the non-practice of the compulsory activity related to the provisions adopted by FIGC in the summer 2006 and 2011. Through this action, JUVENTUS intend to ascertain the inequality of treatment and the illegal behaviours which generated the same, thus obtaining the compensation for the severe damages which are conservatively valued several hundred million Euros for minor revenue, brand depreciation, opportunity and chance losses, costs and expenses.

The appeal follows the decision by the President of TNAS [National Sports Arbitration Court] dated 9 September 2011, which remitted the club to the Regional Administrative Court as far as the damages are concerned and within the broadest strategy of Juventus’ safeguard, as announced in the press conference occurred on 10 August 2011.

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Juve are suing the FIGC and Inter for €443,700,000.

79.1 (Lack of participation in European cups) + 60 (transfers of players written down below cost) + 41.6 (missed television rights) + 110 (loss of brand value) +20 (two-year delay in building new properties) + 133 (a decrease of the shares of Juventus) = 443.7 Million.

dor83

Inter v Cagliari kicks off in about half an hour, line-ups are:

Inter: 1 Julio Cesar; 42 Jonathan, 23 Ranocchia, 25 Samuel, 4 Zanetti; 5 Stankovic, 8 Thiago Motta, 19 Cambiasso; 10 Sneijder; 28 Zarate, 7 Pazzini.
Subs: 12 Castellazzi, 2 Cordoba, 18 Poli, 20 Obi, 22 Milito, 29 Coutinho, 37 Faraoni.

Cagliari: 1 Agazzi; 14 Pisano, 21 Canini, 3 Ariaudo, 31 Agostini; 8 Biondini, 5 Conti, 4 Nainggolan; 20 Ekdal; 19 Thiago Ribeiro, 18 Nené.
Subs: 25 Avramov, 2 Gozzi, 9 Larrivey, 23 Ibarbo, 24 Parico, 30 Rui Sampaio, 32 Ceppelini.

Pinturicchio

Good first half between Juve and Palermo. Buffon seems to be back to his best. Chiellini and Bonucci still shaky though.

grenache

Currently in Italia for a week visiting some Italian friends. Heading to Lazio - Juve game on Saturday in Rome with two Juve friends. Hope to take some good pictures. Should be fun.

Watched the Napoli - City game on Tuesday with some other Napoli fans in Irish pub in Siena. Incredible performance from the team, backed by the most vociferous tifosi in Europe. Gonna stick up some classic Napolitan commentary of the game when i get the chance, it's absolutely priceless


Milan can consider themselves unlucky against Barca. Did quite well with limited possession, lovely goal from Ibra and very soft penalty decision.

PerrinV2

grenache wrote: »

Milan can consider themselves unlucky against Barca. Did quite well with limited possession, lovely goal from Ibra and very soft penalty decision.

Boateng's wasn't bad either.

Blatter

I see Milan have opened talks with Carlos Tevez.

Jelle1880

grenache wrote: »

Currently in Italia for a week visiting some Italian friends. Heading to Lazio - Juve game on Saturday in Rome with two Juve friends. Hope to take some good pictures. Should be fun.

Watched the Napoli - City game on Tuesday with some other Napoli fans in Irish pub in Siena. Incredible performance from the team, backed by the most vociferous tifosi in Europe. Gonna stick up some classic Napolitan commentary of the game when i get the chance, it's absolutely priceless


Milan can consider themselves unlucky against Barca. Did quite well with limited possession, lovely goal from Ibra and very soft penalty decision.

Hope your mates will be sad come saturday evening
Should be a good game, big crowd (5000 Juventus fans), fantastic atmosphere,...

Luis21

grenache wrote: »

Currently in Italia for a week visiting some Italian friends. Heading to Lazio - Juve game on Saturday in Rome with two Juve friends. Hope to take some good pictures. Should be fun.

Watched the Napoli - City game on Tuesday with some other Napoli fans in Irish pub in Siena. Incredible performance from the team, backed by the most vociferous tifosi in Europe. Gonna stick up some classic Napolitan commentary of the game when i get the chance, it's absolutely priceless


Milan can consider themselves unlucky against Barca. Did quite well with limited possession, lovely goal from Ibra and very soft penalty decision.

soft pen ? LOL. They were lucky not to be rightfully down to 10 men.

Davaeo09

Luis21 wrote: »

soft pen ? LOL. They were lucky not to be rightfully down to 10 men.

^This

But they did give a VERY good account of them selves over the two matches. I'd almost rate them ahead of the top Prem teams at this stage

grenache

Jelle1880 wrote: »

Hope your mates will be sad come saturday evening
Should be a good game, big crowd (5000 Juventus fans), fantastic atmosphere,...

From a Napoli point of view i'm hoping for a draw, but I don't suspect. Juve fans will be going home sad this time. They're on a bit of a roll at the moment. Lazio defence is good though, they don't give away many goals. Does anyone know if Klose will be back? With Juve's momentum i will go for them to nick a 1-0 victory in a close game. Matri to score.

grenache

Luis21 wrote: »

soft pen ? LOL. They were lucky not to be rightfully down to 10 men.

There was minimal contact, i've seen many refs wave play on for such innocuous challenges.

Jelle1880

grenache wrote: »

From a Napoli point of view i'm hoping for a draw, but I don't suspect. Juve fans will be going home sad this time. They're on a bit of a roll at the moment. Lazio defence is good though, they don't give away many goals. Does anyone know if Klose will be back? With Juve's momentum i will go for them to nick a 1-0 victory in a close game. Matri to score.

Klose should be available yes.

dor83

Lazio v Juve kicks off in about 15mins, should be a good game, I'm hoping for a draw. Line-ups are:

Lazio: Marchetti; Konko, Diakite, Stankevicius, Radu; Ledesma, Brocchi, Lulic; Hernanes; Rocchi, Klose
Bench: Carrizo, Biava, Scaloni, Cana, Gonzalez, Sculli, Cisse

Juve: Buffon; Lichtsteiner, Bonucci, Barzagli, Chiellini; Vidal, Pirlo, Marchisio; Pepe, Matri, Vucinic
Bench: Storari, De Ceglie, Pazienza, Estigarribia, Giaccherini, Quagliarella, Del Piero

dor83

Pepe makes it 1-0 Juve, very good game so far.

ironingbored

Conte seems to be building a very, very good Juve side.

Should be 2-0 up.

The counterattack was perfection.

Lazio always dangerous though.

If Del Piero comes on it will be his 700th game for an Italian club. 686th for Juve.

dor83

Yeah, Conte seems to have them playing as a team, which they didn't do last year, and this combined with some very good business in the summer(Lichtsteiner, Vidal, Pirlo and Vucinic signed for a combined total of less than €40m) is what has made the difference imo.

This has been a great game, could easily have been a few goals more and I can't see it finishing like this.

ironingbored

What a save from Marchetti!

2-0 and the game would have been over.

ironingbored

Juve win 1-0.

Pepe, Lichtsteiner, Matri, Pirlo, Vidal all excellent.

Jelle1880

Only managed to see the last half hour, in which Lazio did **** all.

Pinturicchio

Juve had a brilliant first half and a much quieter second, but did enough overall to win IMO. Pirlo was struggling with a knee injury and didn't have a great game. He gave the ball away more than usual. Matri was excellent. He's really growing into that role in the centre of the front three.

For Lazio, Diakite had the best game I've ever seen him have. I've always thought he was rubbish.

grenache

Just arrived back in Tuscany from the game in Rome tonight. What a classic arena the Stadio Olimpico is. From a distance the blue v pink colours looked like boys v girls. Only the ones who played like girls were in the bright azzurri shirts! Juve should have won this game by 3 goals or more. In Barzagli and Chiellini they had two rocks at the back, gave nothing away all night. Vidal linked very well all night with goal-scorer Pepe, who was by some distance the MOM. Pirlo didn't look as sharp obviously and gave away the ball more often than usual, but most of Juve's good play revolved around him. I actually thought Matri had a below average performance, the one glorious chance that came his way was brilliantly saved by Marchetti.

Klose was as ineffective as i've ever seen him, his work rate didn't impress me, and he seemed to spend most of his time giving out to team mates and the linesman. Lazio's best guys were Diakitè, Rocchi and Brocchi, in that order. The rest were toothless.

Chant of the night came from the Juve fans when Cissé was introduced for Lazio. Basically how Cissé had spent a night in a private men's club with Totti's wife Ilaria Blasi.

*On a separate note, some of Lazio's "fans" showed themselves up again by firing a large banger into the Juve section. Mayhem insued around a small part of the South Stand for a few minutes. Don't think the tv cameras captured it.

dor83

Siena v Inter just kicked off, line-ups are:

Siena: 1 Brkic; 2 Vitiello, 13 Rossettini, 19 Terzi, 3 Del Grosso; 70 Mannini, 10 D'Agostino, 14 Gazzi, 23 Brienza; 11 Calaiò, 9 Larrondo
Bench: 25 Pegolo, 6 Angelo, 18 Gonzalez, 27 Belmonte, 36 Bolzoni, 80 Contini, 83 Reginaldo

Inter: 1 Julio Cesar; 4 Zanetti, 23 Ranocchia, 25 Samuel, 55 Nagatomo; 8 Thiago Motta; 11 Alvarez, 5 Stankovic, 19 Cambiasso, 28 Zarate; 7 Pazzini
IBench: 12 Castellazzi, 2 Cordoba, 16 Caldirola, 18 Poli, 20 Obi, 22 Milito, 30 Castaignos

Pinturicchio

Mutu's second goal was a beauty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8HHKZeRsII

grenache

And his first goal was just sheer cheek. Even more so because he ran up to the Genoa keeper to commisserate with him! :pac:

Richard Hillman

Anybody watching Napoli-Juve?

Hamsik scored a peno and ran to celebrate down in the underground tunnel. He appeared back after about 20 seconds to find out he has to take it again. Then he sent the 2nd peno miles over the bar :pac:

edson

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Anybody watching Napoli-Juve?

Hamsik scored a peno and ran to celebrate down in the underground tunnel. He appeared back after about 20 seconds to find out he has to take it again. Then he sent the 2nd peno miles over the bar :pac:

ya, streaming it tho!

funny about the penalty alright, I hope napoli win, don't want juve running away with it

hamsik just made amends now tho!

Paparazzo

Turned on just after the peno. Looks like domination from Napoli, juve just slowing it down and getting into it in the last 5 minutes.

Richard Hillman

Juve have been awful so far. Napoli have gotten lucky with their goals, offside for the 1st and the deflection to put Pandev through. Napoli have been the better team though.

Paparazzo

All Juve now!

Richard Hillman

What a goal from Pandev

edson

great goal by pandev!

Paparazzo

Turned into a great game! COME ON JUVE!!!

Paparazzo

BOO YEAH!

grenache

Cracking game, Pandev out of nowhere has got two decent goals.

Hang in there Napoli!!

Richard Hillman

Serie A is boring eh

grenache

that juve equaliser was coming. We just cannot defend.

Paparazzo

Juve chances keep falling to Chiellini

Paparazzo

Napoli players go down very easy

carlop

Pretty annoying game to only see the second half. My stream also froze for Pandev's second so all I got to see were three Juve goals:mad:

Based on the second half they were value for a point, but it's pretty devastating to give up a two goal lead twice at home.

grenache

Paparazzo wrote: »

Napoli players go down very easy

I prefer to think of it as them putting their body in the way of the ball

grenache

http://www.gqitalia.it/sport/articles/2011/11/cavani-segna-terremoto-a-napoli-scossa-sismica-al-gol-del-matador-durante-napoli-manchester-city

it's in Italian, but if you click on the link you'll see the literally seismic effect of Cavani's goals for Napoli against City last week. Quite amazing, only in Naples could this happen.

Paparazzo

grenache wrote: »

http://www.gqitalia.it/sport/articles/2011/11/cavani-segna-terremoto-a-napoli-scossa-sismica-al-gol-del-matador-durante-napoli-manchester-city

it's in Italian, but if you click on the link you'll see the literally seismic effect of Cavani's goals for Napoli against City last week. Quite amazing, only in Naples could this happen.

Sounded like bombs going off after the second Napoli goal tonight!

population

It is just impossible to hold on to a lead when we are constantly looking to play on the counter and we are constantly having to deal with having Aronica in our starting 11.

Bit miffed with the result but in fairness to Pepe he kept going and took his chance very well.

ironingbored

grenache wrote: »

http://www.gqitalia.it/sport/articles/2011/11/cavani-segna-terremoto-a-napoli-scossa-sismica-al-gol-del-matador-durante-napoli-manchester-city

it's in Italian, but if you click on the link you'll see the literally seismic effect of Cavani's goals for Napoli against City last week. Quite amazing, only in Naples could this happen.

Agree, solo a Napule potrebbe succedere!

What a game tonight. Italian football is boring...yeah right! :rolleyes:

3-3 fair result overall.

Not many teams will take 3 points off Napoli at the San Paolo.

grenache

population wrote: »

It is just impossible to hold on to a lead when we are constantly looking to play on the counter and we are constantly having to deal with having Aronica in our starting 11.

Bit miffed with the result but in fairness to Pepe he kept going and took his chance very well.

Nail on the head, Mazzari is going to have to adapt his tactics or else face a mid-table finish. Aronica came up with the squad all the way from Serie C - and it definitely shows.

carlop

grenache wrote: »

Nail on the head, Mazzari is going to have to adapt his tactics or else face a mid-table finish. Aronica came up with the squad all the way from Serie C - and it definitely shows.

I expect us to go on a pretty strong run over the non-European football period and be in the top 4 and closer to Juve and Milan by February. I'd agree though that a good defensive signing is needed.

population

Rumours of Pippo heading to Napoli. Wouldn't mind but a bit of a strange one given Pandev has just come into form.

carlop

population wrote: »

Rumours of Pippo heading to Napoli. Wouldn't mind but a bit of a strange one given Pandev has just come into form.

Pointless signing but it'd be epic!