Diego Petrucci – Page 3 – Italian Football Blog

NAPOLI RECORD UNDER THREAT AT FIORENTINA

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Napoli are the only team with a perfect record in Italian football after six games this season. The Europa League campaigners have been in sensational form in the Italian Serie A this season but that unblemished record is at serious risk ahead of the trip to Florence later this weekend.

The Partenopei take on a Fiorentina side with four wins in the league this term. Also, Fiorentina have won four of their last five Serie A outings. The only defeat in five matches in the Italian football top flight came against defending champions Inter Milan. Fiorentina lost 3-1 to the Nerazzuri with ten men after Argentine international Nicolas Gonzalez was sent off for dissent via two yellow cards in quick succession. Continue reading NAPOLI RECORD UNDER THREAT AT FIORENTINA

CAGLIARI TRIO BACK FOR NAPOLI TRIP

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Newly appointed Cagliari manager Walter Mazzarri has been boosted by the return of three players for the trip to league leaders Napoli in the Italian Serie A. Struggling Cagliari made the first managerial change in the top flight of Italian football this season when Mazzarri was named as the replacement for the sacked Leonardo Semplici and he will take charge of his third Cagliari game against former team Napoli. Mazzarri is one of the most popular managers on the Italian football scene.

Mazzarritook charge of his first game at Cagliari last weekend and it ended in an impressive 2-2 draw at the home of Italian football capital club Lazio but he was unable to build on the result following the shock 2-0 defeat at home to newly promoted Empoliduring the week. Continue reading

CAN INTER CHALLENGE FOR THE TITLE THIS NEW SEASON?

The Italian Serie A is set to commence this weekend and its new campaign is one that has a lot of questions attached to it. Questions like “Who will be crowned this year’s champions?” will, of course, appear at the very top of the list but there are others too that have been asked even though the answers can’t be gotten yet until after the season comes to an end. One other question is whether Inter Milan can bring in a perfect replacement for the departed Romelu Lukaku after the Belgium international striker completed his dream return to England to continue from where he stopped at Chelsea.

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A lot of people blame Inter for selling the striker but the club needed only one major reason to sell the player but they had two. First, they were in an unwanted financial situation and they needed to make player sales to ensure that they got some revenue this summer or else they would go bankrupt. Secondly, Lukaku told them of his desire to return to Chelsea and they could not stop the player from leaving this summer as well.
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BELOTTI OFFERED NEW DEAL AT TORINO

Italian football team Torino have offered star player Andrea Belotti a new deal as they attempt to persuade him to stay in the face of interest elsewhere. This is according to the newest reports in the Italian media. Sky Sports Italia confirmed the development of a new deal for Italian football player Belotti as revealed by Torino president Urbano Cairo.

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The new contract offer for Belotti is a four-year deal worth €4m annually. Italian football star Belotti has one year remaining on his present contract with the Granata.
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INTER JOIN ATLETICO IN MUNIZ CHASE

Italian football giants Inter Milan have joined Spanish La Liga champions Atletico Madrid in the race to sign Brazilian player Rodrigo Muniz. 20-year-old Muniz plays his club football for Flamengo in the Brazilian top division. Muniz is one of the most popular young players linked with a move from South American football to European football.

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Brazilian media portal O Dia revealed the interest of Italian football giants Inter Milan via a report. It was disclosed that the Italians have been in contact with the representatives of their transfer target. Also, the report stated that Italian football giants Inter Milan will soon send a proposal in the bid to sign Muniz. The Italians are ready to join the fight for the young striker.
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REPORTS: CHELSEA WERE NEVER INTERESTED IN HAKIMI

In what will come as a new and surprising transfer twist, reports are claiming that English Premier League side Chelsea were never interested in signing Inter Milan defender Achraf Hakimi this summer. The reports are particularly hard to believe because the rumors had it over the media through several headlines that the Blues were the other club asides from Paris Saint-Germain to have shown serious and concrete interest in signing the defender. But according to the latest reports, Chelsea were never in the race.

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Just earlier this month, there was a report that Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain were engaged in a bidding war for the Moroccan international defender, with the Blues said to have made an offer of around £70 million while PSG upped the bid to £80 million before finally establishing an agreement with Inter Milan over the transfer. But according to Football transfer expert Fabrizio Romano, PSG were really the only team that were showing serious interest in the player.
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ITALIAN FOOTBALL BEST XI REVEALED

Inter Milan players dominated the best XI players in Italian football top flight as revealed by CIES Football Observatory at the end of the league campaign for this season. The qualification used meant that the players must have played at least a third of the domestic league minutes played.

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The Nerazzuri dominated Italian football for the majority of the just finished Italian Serie A campaign and they rightly dominated the list of best players released by CIES Football Observatory. Six Inter Milan players made the Serie A XI to highlight their supremacy as the best team in Italian football.
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MILAN IN CHAMPIONS LEAGUE DANGER

Italian football giants AC Milan led the Serie A for several weeks as they were the pacesetters before newly crowned champions Inter Milan took over at the summit and it would be a big blow if they don’t qualify for the Champions League next season as one of the four representatives from Italian football at the end of proceedings on the final day of the season scheduled for the coming weekend.

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AC Milan have themselves to blame if they don’t return to the Champions League after several years in the other UEFA competition called the Europa League. The Rossoneri had just one job but they surprisingly fluffed their lines to make Champions League qualification more difficult. They would have sealed their return to the Champions League with a win over visitors Cagliari at the weekend but the seven-time European champions could only play a goalless draw with the team from Sardinia.
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CONTE TO DECIDE DIMARCO FUTURE

Inter Milan manager Antonio Conte wants to wait until the summer before deciding whether to bring Federico DiMarco back to the club or not.

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Italian fullback DiMarco joined Hellas Verona on loan from Inter Milan at the start of the season and the loan deal has the option of a permanent deal. The latest edition of Italian newspaper La Gazzettadello Sport revealed that Verona are on course to make the loan move for DiMarco permanent for €6.5m as contained in the loan contract signed at the start of the season. In addition, Italian football giants Inter Milan would retain 50% clause on any future sale for the fullback.
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ITALIAN FOOTBALL: MOST TOP FLIGHT TITLES

Juventus are the undisputed kings of Italian football as they have the most top flight titles ahead of rivals Inter Milan and AC Milan. The Turin giants have twice as much league titles in the Italian Serie A as both Inter Milan and AC Milan.

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The Old Lady secured a ninth successive league title in the Italian Serie A last season to take their league tally to 36 and also to further cement their status as the kings of Italian football.
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