Week 5: Made of Awesome*

By: Martha | September 27th, 2007

Inter love One fantastic game this round, and a couple great results for teams with lofty ambitions. The Fiorentina-Roma match was complete insane and a great pleasure to watch (different and more nervy than Roma-Palermo, but an equally worthy advertisement for Serie A), and the draw, combined with Inter’s very welcome thrashing of Sampdoria, left Inter in a tie for first with Roma. Could there be a better set-up for Saturday’s death match in Rome? Hopefully the Inter that isn’t utter crap will show up and keep the result from being humiliating.

In joint second are Palermo, who handed Milan the sort of utterly demoralizing loss usually reserved for the city’s other team, surprising Napoli, and Juve, who turned in yet another beating, this time a 4-0 victory over winless Reggina. One of the Only Lady’s goals came from David Trezeguet — that’s six through five games for both him and Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who has three braces already. What’s all that about Serie A being a boring, defensive league?

At the other end of the table, Empoli, Reggina and Livorno are still struggling terribly. That said, the latter two can at least point at Empoli and laugh — they have scored only a SINGLE GOAL THROUGH FIVE MATCHES. Jesus. It’s going to be a long season doesn’t even begin to describe how that must feel — it’s already been a long season for them, and there’s no sign it’s going to get any better. That said, they do at least have Europe. That’s something, right?

*Except for Milan supporters.

Full results and the table after the jump.

Catania-Empoli 1-0
Fiorentina-Roma 2-2
Genoa-Udinese 3-2: Don’t look now, Carlo Ancelotti, but your Marco Borriello scored a hat trick. That’s four for the season, more than all Milan’s strikers combined.
Inter-Sampdoria 3-0
Juventus-Reggina 4-0
Lazio-Cagliari 3-1
Napoli-Livorno 1-0
Palermo-Milan 2-1: Poor Milan. Four goals in four games just isn’t going to do it.
Parma-Torino 2-0: DAMMIT. (But: Woo hoo, a goal for Reginaldo!)
Siena-Atalanta 1-1

CLUB GP W L D PTS GD
Roma 5 3 0 2 11 7
Inter Milan 5 3 0 2 11 7
Juventus 5 3 1 1 10 8
Napoli 5 3 1 1 10 6
Palermo 5 3 1 1 10 2
Atalanta 5 2 0 3 9 3
Fiorentina 5 2 0 3 9 3

[Complete table here.]