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Serie A 20/21

mentalvortex

Great result for De Zerbi's Sassuolo as they beat an in-form Napoli 2-0 in Naples.

That too without Caputo, Berardi and Djuricic.

Klaus

They messed up my accumulator. I never thought they had it in them without that trio. Incredible win for them.

Claudius

mentalvortex wrote:
Great result for De Zerbi's Sassuolo as they beat an in-form Napoli 2-0 in Naples.

That too without Caputo, Berardi and Djuricic.

Annoyed this game was same time. Will catch a repeat tomorrow.
Klaus, why would you bet against Sassuolo right now even with Rino doing so well?

Klaus

Because they were playing away to one of the two most in-form teams in the league and missing Berardi, Caputo and Djuricic. :doh: Two top 10 players this Serie A season so far, and another one who at the very least has been in the top 20.

mentalvortex

Roma also won today by 2-0 at Fiorentina.

Dare I say that Pedro has looked very good for them.

Claudius

Just finished the Sassuolo - Napoli game. Although it finished 2-0 it was a game of margins. Napoli were probably more the protagonists in this game, and Sassuolo unusually defended stoutly without their main attackers - Caputo, Berardi and Djuricic. Captain for the night Locatelli was imperious marshaling the defense and keeping Napoli on the edges of the box. It was an unusual display for the team.
Napoli will consider themselves unlucky although all the VAR calls were spot on. Sassuolo’a first goal was a penalty that Locatelli converted after play was stopped for a handball about a minute earlier. Napoli then had a 90th minute equalizer ruled out for offside. And in the 95th minute, Osimhen thought he had a foul on the edge of the penalty box for shirt pulling (turned out he was the one tugging shirts), and while Napoli players were protesting Sassuolo went off and got a second.

I’ve only seen him twice now at Napoli but Osimhen seems a handful. Immensely powerful

Clrnc

Now you know why I have been wishlisting Osimhen for the longest time.

But seriously though 70m is insane. Way overpriced.

mentalvortex

For all intents and purpose, that 70 million fee was an accounting exercise from what I read.

Lille had to show a certain amount of revenue from player sales to avoid FFP sanctions and Napoli helped them with that.

In reality the fee was around 45 million, as Napoli sold Lille 4 academy graduates and a backup goalie (valued at 5 million each) in return.

Claudius

Lots of FFP shenanigans this summer. Uefa is asleep at the wheel, Ole-style

Clrnc

mentalvortex wrote:
Roma also won today by 2-0 at Fiorentina.

Dare I say that Pedro has looked very good for them.

Mkhi scored a superb hattrick today for Roma. Pedro looked good again.

Basically Serie A slow pace is far too easy for seasoned PL players. Young, Dzeko, Mkhi, Pedro etc goes there to retire and tears up the league

jones

To be fair those were Mkhitaryan's first goals this season plus against a team that will probably go down. Had an amazing game but nothing new really, he always had days where he could tear teams apart by himself just too many shit days in between.

mentalvortex

A day of draws in Serie a as most of the big games ended up in a stalemate.

Juventus drew against Lazio thanks to another injury time goal for Caicedo.
Most of the focus/criticism would probably be on Dybala who was dogshit and responsible for the equalizer.

Milan came back from two goals down against a very good Verona side and should have won as they had the best chances in the second half.
Ibrahimovic is going to kick himself for his penalty miss.

Inter drew against Atalanta who should have won it at the death as Muriel missed an absolute sitter.
Positives for both sides as Lautaro finally scored and looked good tonight while Miranchuk scored on his Serie A debut and looked threatening all game.

mentalvortex

Quick edit - Ibrahimovic confirmed to the media in the post-match media that he has ceded penalty taking duties to Kessie from now on.

Klaus

Speaking of Ibrahimovic:

Claudius

Watching Juve- Cagliari. 2 things. Ronaldo is still beastly. Scored 2 beauties to make it 8 in 5. Morata is Spanish for Lacazette

Clrnc

Mkhi with another MOTM performance for Roma. Can't believe he went from not making the bench here to being one of the best players in Serie A

MistaT

Ibra with the most beautiful of headers vs Napoli.

It's a shame Michelangelo isn't alive, only he could do Ibra justice

Klaus

I thought Koulibaly messed up initially, but it looks like it's Mario Rui who marks Zlatan and doesn't shout to Koulibaly early enough that the run is coming.

Sicario

Zlatan is just too good man.

Transformative.

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