This season’s Serie A champion has been declared already, but the fight for the Champions League spot continues. Five teams can still switch positions in the remaining 4 rounds. Napoli will receive Udinese in the 35th round with hopes to guarantee their ticket to the UCL. Napoli are currently in the 5th position with 67 points resulting from 21W – 4D – 9L. Their record of 74 goals scored and 38 conceded set them as the second best offensive team and the third best defensive team in the league. In […]
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For this week’s pick, we have our eyes on Italy, to watch a match between Parma FC – AS Roma. Let’s look at the numbers and try to pick the best choice: Our home team will be Parma. Occupying the 19th and penultimate position with 2 wins, 9 draws, and 13 losses, only 15 points in 24 games, with 19 goals scored and 47 conceded, which gives us a – 28 goal difference. There is not much to be said about them, they are at the bottom of the table […]
The marquee match-up of the weekend in Italy will be played between Juventus and Roma. The anticipation is great as two of the most in-form teams in the campaign will clash. Having won 11 times, drawn 6 times, and lost only twice, Juventus have 39 points at the moment, trailing the league leaders, AC Milan, by only 7 points. However, they have played one less fixture compared to the other teams in the top four. The team from Rome, on the other hand, enjoying their top-flight run in 3rd place […]
This week we are going to look at a match for the Coppa Italia, for a match between Fiorentina and Internazionale. Let’s look at the numbers and try to pick the best choice: The Fiorentina has only one victory in their last 8 games, with 3 losses and 4 draws, they are standing at 15th place in the Serie A and have 15 points in 16 games in that league, with 17 goals scored and 23 suffered, which gives us a -6 goal difference. They are an average team at […]
Spain beat Italy 4-0 in the final of the European Championship on Sunday. The 4:0 Spain’s winning over Italy in Euro 2012 final match is the highest final victory in the history of European championships. Until now the highest score was 3:0 in the match between FRG and USSR. Previously, there were also four goals in one match, namely in 1976 Czechoslovakia achieved a draw 2:2 in the match with FRG, but they won the series of penalty shots scoring 5-3. The last three final matches were settled by one-goal […]
Spanish media had mixed feelings after Spain’s Euro opener with Italy ended in a draw on Sunday. Sunday’s 1-1 draw against Italy in the Euro 2012 Group C opener produced bittersweet feelings in Spain. On the one hand, their was a sense of relief that the world champions managed to battle out a draw, thanks to an equalizer from Cesc Fabregas just three minutes’ after Antonio Di Natale had given Italy the lead. However, there was also disappointment that Fernando Torres wasted several good chances at the end to give […]
In opinion of Lorenzo Bernardi, Italians and Spaniards are the main favorites of European football championships. “It won’t be easy, but I think that my compatriots will be playing with Spaniards twice – in the group and after that … in the final match,” he said. Italians play in Group C (Gdańsk, Poznań) together with Croatia and Ireland. Bernardi is go-ing to watch the matches on TV and thinks that many Italian fans will come to see the tour-nament live. „I hope, that they will visit not only Poland, but […]
The first duel within Group C will be the encounter of the current European and World Champions with the team of Italy. The Spaniards started their last great tournament with defeat 0:1 against Switzerland in the first match in their group. During the tournament they mostly did not charm their fans with their play, but they managed to win the Champion’s title. Although the Spaniards are expected to repeat their success from four years ago, many football experts think that the best times of that team are already over. An […]
Italians, the European Champions in 1968, will fight for the European Championship trophy for the eighth time. It must be admitted that the team of Cesare Prandelli was lucky in the qualifying rounds to be in the same group as their biggest rivals were the teams of Serbia, and Estonia. Squadra Azzurra easily won the group competition by scoring eight wins and two draws. The best scorer was Antonio Cassano with the score of six goals. In the group phase of the main event it will not be so easy. […]
England head coach Stuart Lancaster has opted for an unchanged starting line-up and bench for Saturday’s clash against Italy in the Six Nations.
The interim coach named an inexperienced side against Scotland last weekend and was delighted to leave Mu…