Serie A 2010-2011 Thread

Fixtures are finally out

Week 1

Bari-Juventus
Chievo-Catania
Milan-Lecce
Parma-Brescia
Roma-Cesena
Sampdoria-Lazio
Udinese-Genoa
Palermo-Cagliari
Bologna-Inter
Fiorentina-Napoli

Fiorentina-Napoli, Bologna-Inter, Bari-Juventus, Roma-Cesena and Milan-Lecce are among the
Week 1 games in Serie A on the weekend of August 28-29.


The fixtures for the 2010-11 season were drawn up this evening and it was
the first since Serie A broke away from the Lega Calcio to form their
own organisation.

New Juventus boss Gigi Del Neri faced his former Sampdoria players in the second round on September 12.


Roma-Inter will be the star game of Week 5 on September 26, followed immediately
by a Champions League tie and then Inter-Juventus in Week 6.

Milan-Juventus is in Week 9 on the weekend of Halloween, October 31, at San Siro,
while Napoli-Palermo is in Week 15 with Edinson Cavani facing his
former club.

The Genoa derby, Milan-Roma and Fiorentina-Inter are all in Week 17, on the
weekend of December 19 and the final round before the Winter break.

Week 12 will be spectacular, as the weekend of November 14 includes
Inter-Milan, Juventus-Roma, Palermo-Catania and Lazio-Napoli.

The final round on May 22 has some high-profile clashes, with Juventus-Napoli, Inter-Catania, Udinese-Milan and Roma-Sampdoria.

There will be rest weekends on September 5, October 10 and March 27, plus
midweek rounds on Wednesday September 22, Wednesday November 10,
Thursday January 6 and Wednesday February 2.

The Christmas break lasts from December 19 to January 6.

http://www.football-italia.net/jul28y.html

Serie A

Doubt Milan or Juve can really threaten Inter this year. Or could Roma do it this year?

I think we could Fey, I think we could.

IL CALENDARIO DELLA ROMA

1° GIORNATA (29 agosto): Roma-Cesena
2° GIORNATA (12 settembre): Cagliari-Roma
3° GIORNATA (19 settembre): Roma-Bologna
4° GIORNATA (22 settembre): Brescia-Roma
5° GIORNATA (26 settembre): Roma-Inter
6° GIORNATA (3 ottobre): Napoli-Roma
7° GIORNATA (17 ottobre): Roma-Genoa
8° GIORNATA (24 ottobre): Parma-Roma
9° GIORNATA (31 ottobre): Roma-Lecce
10° GIORNATA (7 novembre): Lazio-Roma
11° GIORNATA (10 novembre): Roma-Fiorentina
12° GIORNATA (14 novembre): Juventus-Roma
13° GIORNATA (21 novembre): Roma-Udinese
14° GIORNATA (28 novembre): Palermo-Roma
15° GIORNATA (5 dicembre): Chievo-Roma
16° GIORNATA (21 dicembre): Roma-Bari
17° GIORNATA (19 dicembre): Milan-Roma
18° GIORNATA (6 gennaio): Roma-Catania
19° GIORNATA (9 gennaio): Sampdoria-Roma

12 points by the time we meet Inter is a must, the start is just too kind.

Impressive and bold team put up by Del Neri earlier today, in their CL qualifier win...


Very conventional 442 wiith two wingers and a fantasista... a lot of faith in youngsters like De Ceglie, Bonucci, Lanzafame, etc... very Italian too, with 9 Italian starters.... perhaps this is the new era for Juve...

Decent start of the summer tour for Inter... a comfortable 3-0 win over City.... clearly made easy by the Vieira's red card, thank God we got rid of him!!

Great to see so many kids getting a chance... Very few first team starters for Inter, in fact only the ones who had no WC in the legs - Pandev, Cambiasso, Chivu and Zanetti. Eto'o and Stankovic came in later in the 2nd half.

Coutinho played and I must say the lad has pace and some crazy mad skills... but he is very young and a few kilo's too light. He does work hard and is not a lazy attacking mid in the Recoba mold, which is a huge relief. Obi also looked good, gave Inter real pace and width.

This is the first time we got to see what Rafa plans to do about Cambiasso.... I was a bit nervous when Rafa had said that he plans to play Cuchu further up the pitch this season, but he looked good yesterday... got much more of the ball, made some nice passes. This could work, with a destroyer (Mascherano/Mariga) behind him.

Obinna, 2 goals, very cool. I am sure Branca's phone is ringing today with offers. This kid is talented, and we should get good money for him. Unfortunately, Mancini did little to impress, so looks like we are stuck with him...

Biraghi, what a shot!! This kid came out of no where, 30m shot into the goal!! Nice way to debut for the senior team, after the game he kept the game ball, Lescott's shirt, and his own shirt

PIRELLI CUP 2010 INTER-MANCHESTER CITY 3-0
Scorers: 39 ' and 54' Obinna, 74' Biraghi

Inter: 12 Castellazzi, 4 Zanetti (62' Alibech 31), 2 Cordoba, 23 Materazzi (78' 40 Nwankwo), 26 Chivu (62' Biraghi 34), 19 Cambiasso (62' 5 Stankovic), 17 Mariga (22 'st Dell'Agnello 54), 33 Obinna (72' Biabiany 50), 29 Coutinho (72 ' 30 A. Mancini), 20 Obi (62' 57 Natalino) 27 Pandev (62' 9 Eto 'o).
Subs not used: 21 Orlandoni.
Coach: Rafael Benitez

Manchester City: Hart 24 (45 1 Given) 5 Zabaleta, 28 Kolo Toure (64' Boyota 38), 33 Kompany (79' 7 Ireland), 3 Bridge (1' st Cunningham 45), 11 Johnson 24 Vieira, 42 Yaya Touré (45' Lescott 19), 18 Barry (55' 8 Wright-Phillips), 27 Jo Silva (75' Richards), 9 Adebayor.
Subs Not Used: 4 Onuoha 40 Weiss, 41 Ben Mee.
Coach: Brian Kidd (Roberto Mancini absent for family reasons)

Wrong decision by the ref IMO. I don't think even Vieira is stupid enough to elbow someone in a friendly. But no surprises seeing Materazzi dying