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Lazio Season in Tatters Ahead of Rome Derby

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Lazio Season in Tatters Ahead of Rome Derby Stefano Pioli was the runner up at Italy’s Manager of the Year awards in Florence earlier this month. Max Allegri, the winner, revealed that his vote had gone to him. The case was obvious. Pioli’s first season at Lazio had been a great success. He guided a team that had finished in mid-t...

Perisic Spearheading Resurgent Inter's Charge for Europe

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Perisic Spearheading Resurgent Inter's Charge for Europe ‘SprINTER’ was La Gazzetta dello Sport’s front-page headline on Sunday morning. After making a stumbling start to 2016, the Nerazzurri are beginning to pick up the pace again. The weekend’s win against Bologna was their fourth in a row at San Siro. Inter haven’t been ab...

Allegri Making the Most of Juventus' Golden Bench

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Allegri Making the Most of Juventus' Golden Bench On Monday Max Allegri was in Florence for Italy’s Coach of the Year awards. “I voted for Stefano Pioli,” he revealed. “But I was undecided. I thought about voting for Roberto Donadoni too.” Once the ballots were closed, however, Allegri was declared the winner. He recei...

Team Focus: Resurgent Milan Beginning to Bubble to the Surface

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Team Focus: Resurgent Milan Beginning to Bubble to the Surface Milan are yet to play champagne football, but Sinisa Mihajlovic believes they have the making of a “fine sparkling wine” after a flat start to the season. “We took six points from our first four games and suffered a lot.” There is a fizz about Milan. “We’ve taken ...

Player Focus: Morata's Goalscoring Return a Timely Reminder of his Quality

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Player Focus: Morata's Goalscoring Return a Timely Reminder of his Quality What a difference patience can make. Juventus’ sloppy start to the season saw many turn on Max Allegri, with the experienced Italian under significant pressure as the Old Lady failed to keep on the coat tails of the early pace setters. Of course, any team losing three key players - in Juventus...

Player Focus: Saponara Keeping the Traditional Number 10 Role Alive

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Player Focus: Saponara Keeping the Traditional Number 10 Role Alive All Riccardo Saponara ever dreamed of was to play in the red and black of AC Milan. For that, his father Luciano is to blame. A passionate fan of the club, he’s the one who passed it onto his son. As a boy, Saponara’s first football memory was of Milan winning the Scudetto in 1999. Only ...

Player Focus: Prolific Pavoletti Flourishing Away From Serie A's Spotlight

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Player Focus: Prolific Pavoletti Flourishing Away From Serie A's Spotlight Funny thing destiny, isn’t it? Leonardo Pavoletti will openly admit he became a footballer almost by accident. His father, Paolo, is a tennis instructor and it wouldn’t have been at all surprising if he had followed in his footsteps and tried to go pro. He apparently had a formidable two...

Player Focus: Can Higuain Buck Scorer Trend & Lead Napoli to the Title?

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Player Focus: Can Higuain Buck Scorer Trend & Lead Napoli to the Title? To get the measure of Maurizio Sarri, consider this for a moment. He turned 57 on Sunday. Until last season, he had never coached in Serie A. He never played professionally. And yet upon being confronted with Gonzalo Higuain, the striker Napoli paid €38m for a couple of years ago, the second hi...

Team Focus: Fifth Successive Title No Longer Mission Impossible for Juventus

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Team Focus: Fifth Successive Title No Longer Mission Impossible for Juventus There is a plaque outside the Alberto Braglia commemorating the first of Fausto Coppi’s wins in the Giro d’Italia in 1940. On Sunday it was the latest stage for Juventus in what has been an uphill season in Serie A. The topography in Modena? Flat with one or two bumps. In other words, ma...

Player Focus: Dybala Firing Rejuvenated Juventus Back Up the Table

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Player Focus: Dybala Firing Rejuvenated Juventus Back Up the Table Patience is a rare commodity in football. Club hierarchies demand instant success from some managers or they run the risk of finding themselves out of a job, regardless of how long they have been at the helm. Take Garry Monk for example, who was shown the exit door at Swansea City earlier this week,...