Week 1, Or: Well, That’ll Do
By: Martha | August 27th, 2007
What a weekend of football! Despite the stumble by Inter — no, I don’t want to talk about it — most of the top clubs started as expected, often with an abundance of style (granted, the seeding system tends to encourage that, but still). Milan scored three first-half goals in beating Genoa, Juve coasted and still put five past Livorno, Fiorentina struggled for 45 minutes before running away from Empoli and, oh yeah, Roma and Palermo played a stunner of a match that left delirious Giallorossi fans labeling them instant Scudetto contenders. Oh, and we also had a coach literally kicking another coach’s ass. How great is calcio?
In addition to being exciting, the weekend offered a sign of great things to come for the Azzurri. The whole team may be injured right now, but with storming performances and great goals from Alberto Aquilani, Riccardo Montolivo and Alessandro Rosina as well as an additional tally from Giampaolo Pazzini (not to mention a goal from the penalty spot by Giuseppe Rossi in his Villarreal debut), the future is looking awfully bright.
Full results after the jump.
Fiorentina - Empoli 3-1: Bobo! Bobo played! This image made my day.
Genoa - Milan 0-3
Inter - Udinese 1-1
Juventus - Livorno 5-1: Freaking Trezeguet.
Lazio - Torino 2-2
Napoli - Cagliari 0-2
Palermo - Roma 0-2
Parma - Catania 2-2
Reggina - Atalanta 1-1
Siena - Sampdoria 1-2: The winning goal and a dream Samp return for little Vincenzo Montella — Cassano must be chomping at the proverbial bit to join in the fun.
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Hey, who you calling delirious?
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Hey, if the shoe fits ….
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Juve at the top of the table. NIGHTMARE FLASHBACKS.
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Speaking of the Azzurri, I’d love for Donadoni to put in a guy like Aqualani against France. He played well in the first half against Palermo (freaking DVR didn’t record second half) and that goal… wow. If we don’t have Toni up front against France, I think we may be in trouble. Who is going to provide a physical presence up top?
Juve at the top of the table turns my stomach a little bit. the penalty that led to the second goal was even weaker than the penalty called against napoli with savini and cagliari player both going for the ball at the same time. I won’t say it’s just a return to normal where Juve gets the calls because we should really wait at least half a season before figuring out how the refs are doing.
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the world is set right, Juve are at the top of the table:D iaquinta had a hell of a game
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noi odiamo la juve
noi odiamo la verona
noi odiamo la roma!
FORZA IL MAGICO MILAN!Well, I have to admit the roma-palermo game was stunning. They both played some amazing football. And Juve, goals galore. But Inter’s stumble made up for all of that, and on top, a 3-0 win for milan as well!
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LMAO Martha you couldn’t have said it better, ‘calcio’ in italian means ‘kick’. Baldini just cracks me up…
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Roswitha, I’m with you — Sofia, it’ll never last. (:
Joe, he did use Aquilani against Hungary and was at the match last night, so if he already liked him he’s even more smitten now. If you ask RomaChris (not the most unbiased of voices, but he does know his shit), Aqui’s got a real chance to start against France — we’ll see how next week goes for him.
Marco, that’s hilarious. (And a post is going up in just a few minutes with most excellent footage of the kick, it definitely needed a post of its own.)
Mele: No comment.
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LOL, time to rip Juve even though they won. I had so many arguements with my buddies and my cousins that are Juventino about their seemingly (not so) HUGE win:
I really hope that Juve Fans are not naive enough to believe that win was as good as the score line inicates (like my friends and Family). It really should have been 2-1. Only Trez’s 1st and 3rd goals were taken well and deserving. They also, sad to say, had a favorable ref. I am not trying to imply anything but it was like watching Man-U with the calls they were getting in their favour and the lack of calls going Livorno’s way. Couple that with the fact that they played a team who sold their Heart & Soul and are Releagtion Zone favorites… a win was in the cards. I wasn’t all that impressed by them. Seriously.
Iaquinta did not deserve either goal he scored as the penalty call should have received a 9.6 from the judges and yellow card and a 2 game suspension like Adriano received last season… not a penalty. His 2nd goal was him Standing in LA LA land while Nedved diced through a weak & clueless Livorno defense only to have a shot going wide hit an ususpecting Vincenzo sending it tot he back of the net. But at the end of he day the sat sheet says a 5-1 victory. Welcome back to Serie A.
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ok Paolo first of all you have the greates friends and family obviously. secondly, we were getting calls against us left and right. the ref called every single dive the fillipini bros did. so dont even start on the ref thing. cant everyone get over that or are you just trying to find something against juve because your inter tied udine?? sure livorno arent the hardest team to beat but we beat them so get over it. it was a convincing win and i know you and almost everyone else on this blog is mad about it. with alll the paying the ref talk your starting to sound raymond domenech jeez…and please never compare juve to manU i hate manU.
and martha - it might last but if it doesnt i gotta celebrate now and enjoy it while i can. juve could finish at the top….stranger things have happened….
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LoL like I said I wasn’t trying to imply anything with the ref. Juventus just got a lot more out of the ref including that soft penalty which killed the Livorno momentum. I knew Juventus was going to win so I watched the game as a pure neutral and I am just giving it my honest opinion. I wasn’t trying to find anything against Juve cuz Inter tied. The Campionato is 38 games, not one game, and the tie does not bother me. Although there were some other things that concerned me a bit, but I am not worried.
I am seiously offended that I was even remotely likened to Raymond Domemnech. I was just being honest. I didn’t say I had Dossier that proves anything and I don’t think I made any absurd claims or accusations. But its all good :) 5-1 was just a very generous score line for what that game, between a good team and a relegation favorite, had to offer and I think it went right to some people’s heads (my friends’ for sure). I know everyone is sooooo proud of La Fidanzata d’Italia, but there has to be some sense of reality no?
Ok maybe the Man-U comparison was harsh, but still I call it like I see it. You can read my comments on the Inter game as well. I make no excuses.
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ok well im sorry for offending you i just get very protective of my team because for some unknown reason people seem to hate us except for juve fans or any other fans when we play inter. yes the penalty was a stupid call i wont lie. but you know when the fillipini bros are flopping around the field we deserved something. every rref makes mistakes and that was pretty much the only questionable call in favour of juve. its isnt that we think because we won the opener that we are going to win the title well maybe for some but that would be geting ahead of ourselves. its just that we spent a season in serie b and so for our return to serie a we won 5-1! that was a very proud moment for a lot of juventini because of what we have been thru in the past year. so please do not hate us for our celebrations we just are happy to be home.
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No worries and no need to be so protective. Juventus is loved compared to the likes of Inter, everyone wants Inter to fail but that is neither here nor there!
Like I said welcome back to Serie A, looking forward to next week and obviously looking forward to the Derby D’Italia!
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haha the Derby d’Italia that should be interesting….the two most hated clubs in italy face off haha…who will everyone else support??
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I’ve always liked Iaquinta, from his crazy days at Castel Di Sangro to his good run at Udine, and now he’s on my team…
but I just want to say that he looks fkn scary without a shirt on, like some evil Skeletor that likes to man-jump Trezeguet, and I hope he stops stripping. I was really freaked out.
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Mike, did you watch the FSC telecast, when the announcer could help himself and talked about Iaquinta’s “rippling muscles” before lapsing into awkward silence? Pure gold.
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I did indeed; that FSC announcer is pretty good despite his confusing “dives” with “fouls”. He was really familiar with all the players, even random bench guys on Livorno and pre-pube Juve youngsters. There is another guy who I think did the Inter game that I could NOT understand a word he said, I think sounds like a drunk Governor Terminator, but overall I’m really happy Serie A is on FSC because:
1] replays of matches throughout the week
2] picture quality is often MUCH better than RAI
I still need RAI.Int for things like uncomfortable variety shows, Miss Italia 4-hour specials, and the achingly slow La Domenica Sportiva; but I’m glad that FSC is a real option now with all the live games.
…During that wonderful Miss Italia special last Sunday I sat there watching these ridiculously hot way-too-young-for-me girls thinking to myself “how the F could this ever get any better?”… and then they started playing soccer, kicking and giggling and grabbing each other, and I almost passed out.
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