Italian Serie A – Round Fourteen

November 26, 2016

Torino                                   2-1           Chievo Verona

Iago Falque 36’ 38’                            Roberto Inglese 86’

Iago Falque scored a brace in under two minutes to give Torino a home victory over Chievo Verona. It was the third consecutive league for Torino.

Empoli                                    1-4            AC Milan

Riccardo Saponara 17’                        Gianluca Lapadula 15’ 78’

                                                                 Suso 62’

                                                                 Andrea Costa 64’(o.g)

AC Milan has is now undefeated in 9 of their last 10 league matches.

AC Milan moves up another three points and closer to the top of the league table after a ‘4-1’ away victory over Empoli.

Looking at the record for the two teams ahead of this fixture, there isn’t that much surprise about the final results.

November 27, 2016

Palermo                         0-1                   Lazio

                                                                Sergej Milinkovic-Savic 31’

It was another defeat to Palermo, the seventh consecutive league defeat for the team.

A first-half goal gave Lazio an important away win to keep them in contention for a top place finish.

Bologna                          0-2                   Atalanta

                                                                 Andrea Masiello 15’

                                                                 Jasmin Kurtic 68’

A win over Bologna made it six consecutive league victories for Atalanta and nine league matches without a defeat.  On this run, Atalanta has defeated some ‘big boys’ like Napoli, Inter Milan and Roma.

This good run has placed Atalanta in contention for a place in European competition.

Cagliari                           2-1                   Udinese

Diego Farias 35’(pen)                           Seko Fofana 51’

Marco Sau 59’

Marco Sau’s second half goal gave to Cagliari a home win over Udinese and opened a four-point gap between the two teams on the league table.

Crotone                             1-1                 Sampdoria

Diego Falcinelli 43’                                Bruno Fernandes 72’

Bruno Fernandes scored for Sampdoria to deny Crotone a chance to get a second win to their season.  

Sampdoria is undefeated in four consecutive league matches and it was a deserving point they received in this fixture.

Genoa                                3-1                 Juventus

Giovanni Simeone 3’ 13’                       Miralem Pjanic 82’

Alex Sandro 29’(o.g)

It was definitely not the results a lot of supporters expected.

Juventus failed to extend their lead at the top of the league table after suffering their third defeat(all away) in the 2016/17 Serie A season.

When Juventus was trailing by three goals at the half to Genoa, a lot of supporters might have been wondering if the scoreboard was faulty.

Roma                                 3-2                         Pescara

Edin Dzeko 7’ 10’                                           Ledian Memushaj 60’

Diego Perotti 71’                                             Gianluca Caprari 74’

It was a sixth consecutive league defeat for Pescara.

Newly promoted Pescara put up a fight that was worthy of a point against Roma.

After their defeat to Atalanta, Roma couldn’t allow themselves to drop more points against opposition that are expected give up points.  

A brace from Edin Dzeko in the first 10 minutes of the match set the foundation for Roma’s victory, but it was Diego Perotti’s second half goal that ended up being the match winner.

November 28, 2016

Napoli                                      1-1                 Sassuolo

Lorenzo Insigne 42’                                     Gregoire Defrel 82’

Sassuolo scored late to deny Napoli a home victory and to put a stop a fifth straight league defeat.

Inter Milan                                4-2                    Fiorentina

Marcelo Brozovic 3’                                         Nikola Kalinic 37’

Antonio Candreva 9’                                        Josip Ilicic 62’

Mauro Icardi 19’ 90’+1’

This match ended up being a tighter affair than what the first twenty minutes showed us. The first twenty minutes of the match would have predicted a blowout victory for Inter Milan.  

Fiorentina went into the halftime break two goals down and a man down, but were able to score and keep the team a goal behind for most of the remainder of the match.

A late goal from Mauro Icardi settled nerves for Inter Milan and their fans.