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Serie A 20/21

mentalvortex

Ronaldo levels it for Juve with a towering header.

Clrnc

Roma is poor beyond hope. bunch of hopeless over the hill footballers

Claudius

mentalvortex wrote:
Ronaldo levels it for Juve with a towering header.

How this guy went from a pacy winger to guy who’s regularly able to deliver these hang-time headers is one of the great transformations

Napoli next. Should be fun.

Klaus

10 players and 4 coaches have tested positive for covid-19 in Genoa. There are discussions right now about whether they should postpone the whole Serie A or just Genoa's games. There's an international break in two weeks and one suggestion is that the league would restart after that point. Of course there will probably be new cases by then.

I wonder how much longer football leagues are going to keep on going if this becomes a regular occurrence.

Claudius

They need to kill the international breaks.
The football leagues should put pressure on the associations to condense international football to later in the season. I’m not even sure Covid-19 will be anywhere near under control by Q1 but target then. Having players disperse is going to be the biggest catastrophe.

goon

What’s testing for teams like over in Italy?

The PL clubs, at least for now, seem be doing quiet well limiting infections with regular testing. Often it’s just a couple of players who test positive rather than half the squad, suggesting it’s picked up early.

Klaus

I think they're testing at the same rate as Premier League, but I'm not sure.

There were 10 PL players and staff who tested positive in the last week for reference. Thiago was out against us last night because he had tested positive for covid. So as you say not half of someone's squad yet but still fairly high numbers, especially from people who are meant to take extra precaution, and we've barely entered fall. What is it gonna be like in two months? And how would another lengthy covid break impact football clubs? I imagine there would be some that'd go bust this time, and not just lower league clubs.

Klaus

Claudius wrote:
They need to kill the international breaks.
The football leagues should put pressure on the associations to condense international football to later in the season. I’m not even sure Covid-19 will be anywhere near under control by Q1 but target then. Having players disperse is going to be the biggest catastrophe.

I don't think there's any more risk in having them travel. Footballers rarely travel with commercial airlines anyway, there's no audience, etc. There are procedures in place to ensure they don't meet a lot of people. Can't think they're much more likely to be exposed while they're on national duty than they would be in normal training in the vast majority of the cases, and in any event they get tested regularly everywhere they go. There's just a risk involved when you play football, full stop.

Claudius

There’s massive discrepancy in policy response amongst African countries. The resources deployed, ability to track etc. When players leave their European bubbles and come to Africa, some countries will be highly capable of replicating those bubbles. Others will have no chance. It’s a crazy risk for leagues everywhere.

Klaus

Either way they get tested when they come back. Thiago hasn't been in Africa and he contracted covid within a week of arriving in England. Genoa were in Naples, not South Africa, and now half their squad is ill. Can't blame or worry about international travel too much when there are widespread infections in every European country.

Mirth

Klaus wrote:
I think they're testing at the same rate as Premier League, but I'm not sure.

There were 10 PL players and staff who tested positive in the last week for reference. Thiago was out against us last night because he had tested positive for covid. So as you say not half of someone's squad yet but still fairly high numbers, especially from people who are meant to take extra precaution, and we've barely entered fall. What is it gonna be like in two months? And how would another lengthy covid break impact football clubs? I imagine there would be some that'd go bust this time, and not just lower league clubs.

It's 10 people out of 1,595 or 0.6%. I think the Prem have been hitting around that mark since July so not high numbers just yet.

Claudius

Fair point, mate. We all live with Covid.

jones

Atalantas wing backs are ridiculous. Looking like 2016 Real Madrid wingers out there

Claudius

jones wrote:
Atalantas wing backs are ridiculous. Looking like 2016 Real Madrid wingers out there

They’re dynamite, mate. Total domination. But it’s an all out attack. They’re very very direct through the middle with Malinowski. Creates so much jeopardy

Klaus

As good as Hateboer and Gosens are, look at Papu Gomez. What a star he is. Easily one of the 3-4 best players in Italy. 2 goals and 3 assist in the opening two games.

Edit: Make that 3 goals and 3 assist.

Claudius

That’s an absolute stunner by Gomez.

Claudius

Someone please send Arteta Atalanta DVDs

Clrnc

jones wrote:
Atalantas wing backs are ridiculous. Looking like 2016 Real Madrid wingers out there

Its the system. Their wing backs get more goalscoring chances and are more dangerous than our winger.

jones

Claudius wrote:
That’s an absolute stunner by Gomez.

Weak foot too

jones

Clrnc wrote:
jones wrote:
Atalantas wing backs are ridiculous. Looking like 2016 Real Madrid wingers out there

Its the system. Their wing backs get more goalscoring chances and are more dangerous than our winger.

I know it's the system, both were mediocre until Gasparini look at them now

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