The 2016-17 Calcio Saga Part III

Cabaye's a jobber tbh, can't believe he's 31, look at his career and it's actually been very underwhelming

Yep, can't believe Mole hyped Cabaye up, like 0.4 apps for PSG or something lmao

Fazio 2-0 with a header from a freekick, second assist by De Rossi.

Fiore were very dangerous in the first half but have been pushed around by Roma since the break.

Roma are just smashing everyone at home. 4-0 now with Nainggolan and Dzeko again.

35-7 in goals in 11 home games.

Firenze wrote:

rincon wrote:The capocannoniere race got mixed up

Mertens 16
Belotti 15
Icardi 15
Dzeko 15
Higuain 15
Immobile 12

Really hard to call

surely 90m man Higuain will win it

flop if not IMO

Agreed 100%

Agreed, sell that jobber, immense flop.

now the round closes at

Dzeko 17
Mertens 16
...

ffs forza Theo

No one saw Milan go down to 9 men and win it late with some Deulofeu magic and a Pasalic goal vs Bologna?

resurgent Mehlan

The goal:
http://streamable.com/n23l9

They probably won't be resurging much with how many injuries they have. Bonaventura, De Sciglio, Antonelli, Calabria, Montolivo. Now Kucka and Paletta suspended next game. Prepare to see a real poverty line up @Lazio on monday.

I saw the whole match since '86 minute so Milan's victory is because of me since I swiitch off tv.
Bologna are very poor and Destro is a fraud.  Besides I don't have idea why I hyped Donadoni time ago.
Anyway credit to Milan for the Incredible victory,  I wonder if it can turn again their season. . Got on heirocal mode.  
I think no also because I rate Bonaventura as their best player. .but it depends on Deloufeu 's performances too. .He has skills for being effective in this Serie a

Napoli's player clearly thinking about the CL match. Very slow start to the game (vs Genoa) and a lot of changes.

Reina; Ghoulam, Koulibaly, Albiol, Maggio; Hamsik, Diawara, Zielinski; Insigne, Mertens, Giaccherini

Zielinski 1-0

Excellent placing of a mid-range shot after a clearance of Mertens pass

2-0 Giaccherini

Mertens assist he has been unplayable this second half after ghosting the first one.

For any Madrid fans out there, it seems like long balls from Diawara/Jorginho will be in order on Wednesday.

Napoli straight up did the same thing for 80 minutes until they scored with it. It looked like a practice session to get it right. Really long ball from Diawara, Hamsik or even Reina to Mertens/Insigne to chase down and squaring it for the runner in the middle.

I guess they might expect to be pushed back at times against Madrid and (uncharacteristically) played almost only long balls tonight.

I think Genoa are losing for 3 months , yet they can't risk to relegate ... Juric 'd have been sacked in a normal league

I'm not sure that I blame Juric tbh. Preziosi saw that their safety was set and basically scrapped this season for the next. Selling Rincon and Pavoletti right away. Ocampos going to Milan, etc.

They saw an opportunity and took it. I'm not even sure that I can criticize either, if Genoa doesn't relegate (they won't) then they will have spent this second half of the season cultivating a good squad with Cataldi, Hiljemark, Simeone, Laxalt, etc. The team is underperforming atm, but they will pull through cause they have too much quality and it might pay off in the end.

This game they basically had no defenders left and started with Gentiletti getting injured. To make matters even worse, Veloso got injured before the break. The squad is compromised, I'm not ready to give up on Juric.

BORJAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Another Peno for Roma

Unreal ffs

11 penalties in 24 games now and Nainggolan was bitching about how we always win with penalty kicks

Dzeko kicked it terribly too. Just scored one to make up for it at least.

It was hilarious to hear a Roma player complain about penalties.

How many have we had? like 2 or something this season?

In the face of Inter's suspensions they change their tactics

Inter vs Empoli

Handanovic; Miranda, Medel, Murillo; D'Ambrosio, Kondogbia, Gagliardini, Candreva; Mario, Eder; Palacio

Gabriel is suffering.

Still I remember when Kondogbia was rated as a fraud.
Thank you Stefano

Capolavoro!! #TernanaPerugia #Nicastro #Fenomeno pic.twitter.com/D0Nm6p0cbq

— leonardo ciurnella (@ciurno77) February 12, 2017

Not Serie A but still Italian football so why not

I watched it just now .. well, it's not a banal match.
It is the derby of the Umbria  , Ternana - Perugia (centre Italy. Well, I think it's known Perugia ) . Great rivalry so I can realize how much were excited Perugia fans for it. I hope they come back in Serie A, they've a good tradition in this league. while Ternana fans have thoughts now ,they are going to relelate  ...

Cagliari much better than Juve at the start. Now Chiellini got a knock and is out for Rugani.

Higuain is so lethal. His movement and finishing are too good.

0-1 at HT