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League Focus: Set-Pieces Still Key to Success in Serie A

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League Focus: Set-Pieces Still Key to Success in Serie A Maurizio Sarri opens a cigarette packet and lights up another one. He’d rather discuss the novel he’s reading. Empoli’s coach has a great passion for literature, particularly the works of Charles Bukowski. One wonders if he enjoys the TV show Californication. “Thanks to him I...

League Focus: The Serie A Run-In

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League Focus: The Serie A Run-In The end of the season is nearly upon us in Serie A.Apart from Juventus, flush with a nine-point lead at the top of the table and poised to retain their title providing that they don't experience an unlikely post-Bayern collapse in the meantime and throw it away as controversially happened under the ...

Match Focus: Palermo vs Catania - Serie A’s Forgotten Derby

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Match Focus: Palermo vs Catania - Serie A’s Forgotten Derby When drawing up a list of world football’s most hotly contested derby encounters, the same games inevitably crop up time and again. Boca Juniors v River Plate, Partizan v Red Star, Fenerbahçe v Galatasaray and Celtic v Rangers are always among the usual suspects while a list of exclusiv...

Stats Analysis: Serie A’s Set-Piece Specialists

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Stats Analysis: Serie A’s Set-Piece Specialists With Milan having stumbled at home to Fiorentina last week and thus holding a title-deciding door open for Turin’s Old Lady, Juventus kicked off against Palermo last Saturday evening knowing a win would take them top of the table for the first time in over two months. The opening goal in a gam...

WhoScored Tipster: Top Picks for the Weekend

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WhoScored Tipster: Top Picks for the Weekend Malaga vs Real Betis - Match PreviewSecond in the form table, Malaga have won more of their last six games than Real Madrid, such is their current hot streak. Manuel Pellegrini’s side took a point from the Bernabeu recently, but they are the only points they’ve dropped in their last six ...

Team Focus: Elephants Of Catania Marching Into Europe?

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Team Focus: Elephants Of Catania Marching Into Europe? A team currently in eighth place in the league would rarely catch the attention of many and, when the side is a tiny club that has rarely left an impression on Italian football the likelihood of them catching the eye falls even further. Yet there sit Catania, a club only founded in 1946 as the game ...

WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Best Bets

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WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Best Bets WBA vs Chelsea - PreviewArsenal’s thumping win in the North London derby last weekend promoted Chelsea to the top of the list of ‘crisis clubs’ in the Premier League.The questions over striker Fernando Torres, not to mention the methods of his manager or the morality of his captain...