🇮🇹 Seria A News, Match Previews and Discussions- 2020/21 Season Open Thread

By scoring yesterday…
Cristiano has scored 33 league goals in 28 matches this year.
He has 41 goals in all club competitions in 38 matches this year.
44 goals for both club and country in 44 appearances this year.
16 goals in all club competitions this season in 13 appearances.
12 Serie A goals in 9 matches this season.
64 league goals for Juventus in 73 matches.
81 goals for Juventus in 102 matches.
He has 756 goals in 1033 matches.
19 goals in 19 appearances for both club and country this season.

12 Likes

Romelu Lukaku has been directly involved in more goals (14) than any other player in Serie A this season:

◉ 14 games
◉ 11 goals
◉ 3 assists

In amazing form this season.

8 Likes

Inter 6-2 Crotone: Lautaro hatrick leads Nerazzurri to fifth straight home success

Lautaro Martinez hit a perfect hat-trick and Romelu Lukaku sparkled as Inter defeated Crotone 6-2 at San Siro to turn up the heat on Milan at the start of 2021.

It was all square at the break after Martinez cancelled out Niccolo Zanellato’s opener and was in close attendance for a Luca Marrone own goal prior to Vladimir Golemic’s equalising penalty.

But Martinez completed his treble following the interval, while Lukaku, involved in the first four Nerazzurri goals, was also on target and Achraf Hakimi swept in the sixth in a fifth straight home win.

5 Likes

romelu-lukaku-of-inter-milan-celebrates-with-lautaro-martinez-after-picture-id1266845723

Inter have won eight Serie A games in a row for the first time since December 2008.

Inter have scored at least 40 goals in the first 15 Serie A games played for the first time since 1950-51 (45 in that case).

Martinez’s treble is the first perfect hat-trick from an Inter player since Mauro Icardi in March 2017 (vs Atalanta).

5 Likes

Juventus 4-1 Udinese: Ronaldo brace gets Juve back on track

Screenshot_20210104-094619

Cristiano Ronaldo moved onto 20 goals for club and country for the 15th straight season as his double helped Juventus down Udinese.

Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice as Juventus bounced back from their Fiorentina fiasco with a 4-1 win over Udinese at the Allianz Stadium on Sunday.

Ronaldo put Juve ahead in the 31st minute with a fine strike after Udinese’s Rodrigo de Paul had seen an effort ruled out by VAR.

Federico Chiesa and Ronaldo then made sure Juve avoided going three consecutive home games without a win for the first time since 2015-16.

Marvin Zeegelaar snatched a consolation for Udinese, but Paulo Dybala had the final say in stoppage time.

7 Likes

cristiano-ronaldo-of-juventus-celebrates-his-goal-from-the-penalty-picture-id1223044568

Ronaldo has 14 goals from his first 11 Serie A appearances this term. Only in 2014-15 with Real Madrid in LaLiga has he managed more after the same amount of matches.

Since he joined Juve in 2018-19, Ronaldo has scored the first goal of game in 21 Serie A encounters – more than any other player in the competition during this period.

Ronaldo has provided 15 assists in Serie A: 14 of them have been served at the Allianz Stadium.

Matthijs de Ligt has made his 50th appearance for Juve in all competitions.

8 Likes

Ronaldo in Serie A this season:

:soccer:
:soccer::soccer:
:soccer::soccer:
:soccer:
:soccer::soccer:
:no_entry:
:soccer::soccer:
:no_entry:
:soccer::soccer:
:no_entry:
:soccer::soccer:

Cristiano Ronaldo has now scored in 20 straight years :boom:

10 Likes

portuguese-football-player-cristiano-ronaldo-receives-from-the-hands-picture-id84259882

Cristiano Ronaldo overtakes Pele’s official goal tally :sunglasses:

:seven::five::eight: Ronaldo
:seven::five::seven: Pele

9 Likes

Benevento 0-2 Milan: Pioli’s men top again despite Tonali red card

Screenshot_20210104-115010

Milan returned to the Serie A summit with a 2-0 win at Benevento as Stefano Pioli’s side survived playing with 10 men for almost an hour.

With rivals Inter having gone top after a 6-2 thrashing of Crotone earlier on Sunday, the Rossoneri responded with a gritty victory at Stadio Ciro Vigorito.

Franck Kessie scored a first-half penalty but Sandro Tonali was dismissed before the interval to make it a potentially uncomfortable evening for the visitors.

However, Pioli’s men dug deep and Rafael Leao produced a moment of magic four minutes into the second half, with Gianluca Caprari’s missed spot-kick robbing Benevento of a golden chance to get back into the match.

6 Likes

davide-calabria-of-ac-milan-celebrates-with-hakan-cahlanoglu-after-a-picture-id1230164524

Milan have picked up 37 points in the first 15 Serie A games for the first time in the three-points-for-a-win era.

Leao is the second youngest foreign player to score 10+ goals for Milan in Serie A (21 years and 207 days), after only Alexandre Pato (19 years and 19 days).

Milan have scored in each of their last 18 away Serie A matches. Only between March 1992 and April 1993 did they have a longer streak on the road in the top flight (19).

Milan have netted in each of their last 35 league games. Only Juventus registered a longer streak in Serie A history (44 in 2017 and 43 in 2014).

Milan have scored at least two goals in each of their last 17 league matches. The last team to have a longer streak in the top five European leagues was Bayern Munich in 2014 (20).

7 Likes

Juventus have announced tonight that full-back Alex Sandro has tested positive for Covid-19. The player has mild symptoms and is now self-isolating.

4 Likes

AC Milan confirm that Zlatan will miss their match against Juventus on Wednesday.

7 Likes

juventus-colombian-midfielder-juan-cuadrado-celebrates-after-scoring-picture-id1057005840

BREAKING: Juan Cuadrado has tested positive for coronavirus and will miss the game vs league leaders AC Milan tomorrow.

8 Likes

AS Roma’s top scorer in Serie A this season:

◉ Henrikh Mkhitaryan (8)

AS Roma’s top assist provider in Serie A this season:

◉ Henrikh Mkhitaryan (7)

Doing it all for the club. :sweat_smile:

10 Likes

AC Milan vs Juventus: Match Preview and Team News

juventus-portuguese-forward-cristiano-ronaldo-and-ac-milans-swedish-picture-id1225252470

The Rossoneri will face their rivals with the hope of winning points that will help them hit the 40-point mark as they chase the title.

Serie A leaders AC Milan face an epic league encounter as they will host reigning champions Juventus on Wednesday.

AC Milan and Juventus will meet in Serie A with the Rossoneri ahead of the Bianconeri on the table, for the first time since November 2015 – however, Juventus won that encounter 1-0, courtesy of a goal scored by Paulo Dybala.

Juventus will be looking for a second consecutive Serie A win since beating Udinese 4-1 on January 3 and have been tipped to see off Milan.

The last draw between Juventus and AC Milan came back in February 2012.

Milan vs Juventus Team News

Recovering Ismael Bennacer, Matteo Gabbia and Alexis Saelemaekers are expected to miss the Juventus visit after training separately from the squad on Monday, while Zlatan Ibrahimovic will be a big miss after it was confirmed he’ll not be available for today’s game due to the injury he sustained last year but should be back for Milan’s next game.

Meanwhile, Juventus’ second top scorer Alvaro Morata will be out due to a muscle injury while Alex Sandro and Juan Cuadrado will be ruled out by a Covid-19 infection. Adrien Rabiot will return from suspension giving Andrea Pirlo a great boost ahead of the game.

Milan vs Juventus Preview

41% of the games won by AC Milan in Serie A in the 2000s have come with Andrea Pirlo on the pitch (167/407). After leaving the Rossoneri, Pirlo won five of his seven league games against AC Milan as a player with Juventus (D1 L1).

Against Benevento, Rafael Leao became the second-youngest foreign player to score 10 goals for AC Milan in Serie A (21 years and 207 days), after Alexandre Pato (19 years and 19 days) - the Portuguese has been involved in seven goals in 11 appearances in Serie A in this campaign (four goals and three assists), with as many goal involvements as he managed in 31 appearances last season.

9 Likes

AC Milan 1-3 Juventus FT:

:soccer: Chiesa
:soccer: Calabria
:soccer: Chiesa
:soccer: McKennie

AC Milan lose their first Serie A game of the season.

6 Likes

Other SerieA results

7 Likes

Wojciech Szczesny made eight saves against AC Milan.

The most he has ever made in a Serie A game for Juventus.

8 Likes

BREAKING: Matthijs de Ligt has tested positive for Covid-19, Juventus have confirmed.

matthijs-de-ligt-of-juventus-fc-in-action-the-serie-a-match-between-picture-id1178162627

11 Likes

Juventus vs Sassuolo LINE-UPS: Ronaldo leads, Bonucci, Danilo, Dybala all in

The line-ups of Juventus vs Sassuolo have been announced.

Juventus XI: Ronaldo, Bonucci, Szczesny, Danilo, Dybala, Arthur, Demiral, Bentancur, Chiesa, Frabotta, McKennie

Subs: Buffon, Chiellini, Ramsey, Pinsoglio, Morata, Rabiot, Bernardeschi, Kulusevski, M. Portanova, A. Di Pardo, N. Fagioli, R. Drăgușin

Sassuolo XI: A. Consigli, F. Caputo, Chiriches, Djuricic, Obiang, Defrel, Ferrari, G. Kyriakopoulos, Locatelli, H. Traorè, M. Müldür

Subs: G. Pegolo, Peluso, Magnanelli, K. Ayhan, Toljan, J. Boga, Marlon, Lopez, N. Schiappacasse, Rogerio, G. Raspadori, B. Oddei

2 Likes