Tolján again stepping in field so Berardi can stay wide. Berardi shooting shots for him! He is a wonderful football player. This is Orsolini. Still with Orsolini! And that is wonderful from Bologna's number seven. Hello and welcome back to Serie A Spotlight. This is episode 94 and we're your host Jake. And Matt. Here to give you a rundown of matchday six which took place midweek and matchday seven which we'll be covering in greater detail.
Yep, unfortunately with the Serie A calendar being quite swamped. So are we? Naturally. We managed to give you guys a full episode for matchday five but matchday six and seven we couldn't think of a better way than killing them both essentially in one episode. So I hope it's not too much of an inconvenience for all of you. But that means that we had two goals of the week. For matchday five it was Berardi who scored the winner against Inter. In a fantastic match where Sasvolo ended the game 2-1.
It was a brilliant solo display there by Berardi who literally carried Sasvolo on that win. And that goal literally was a cherry on top of the cake for his performance. Ritegui's goal in Gen was 4-1 triumph against Roma. It was absolutely brilliant. Yeah, it's very close. It was up there. If it wasn't for the stage it might have taken it. You just have Albert Gudmundsson taking on three players whipping the ball in. It's flicked down and then Ritegui just smacks it on the half volley.
That's a brilliant goal. I want to talk a lot about Albert Gudmundsson in this episode. Yes, he's the cover art guy. That's him. That's the guy. He got the cover art ahead of Orsalini who scored the hat. Berardi. And over that, Aro Martinez who scored four. But we mentioned Orsalini so that is our matchday six goal of the week. Orsalini scored a hat trick of goals against Empoli. However, his first one was the nicest one.
The way he flicked the ball over the last defender and then volleyed it before it could hit the ground into the bottom corner. Stunning. When Orsalini is on, he looks ridiculous. Colombo, it was an honorable mention over there for a great solo strike. I really wasn't expecting it by Colombo. And Gudmundsson once again, an honorable mention over there. Fantastic goal in the two draw away to Odinesa.
Yes, just as Colombo scored the solo goal from the left, Orsalini scored the solo goal from the right. So, pretty identical to be honest as goes. Orsalini had more flair to it and more technique. So that one takes the cake, of course. Guys, remember to like, follow, rate us five stars. We've got Instagram, we've got TikTok, we've got YouTube.
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And maybe even who knows, do this full time one day. Yeah, hopefully. Yeah, let's take you through a quick round on of matchday 6. I know Matt. Give me a second before you do that. Because one of the perks naturally with you guys being in our Patreon is that you can participate in our FantaCulture League. Now, if you want any updates on how that is going for matchdays in, then check out our Instagram.
We post all of the results and the league tables over there, along with some banter that is shared on our chat. We've got some fantastic memers in the strat, particularly Luca fucking kills me, man. He's such a funny guy. Right now, I'm in fourth. I'm coming off a 6-1 victory because I have Orsalanian, my team, and I was against the renegades. Before that, I lost to Mintoff, which is classic. How are you doing, bro? I am currently sixth.
Not doing as well as I would like to, but it's still early on in the season. And I feel like we could do some good things this year. We're on six points. First place is 9 points. That's not too bad. I'm on seven and first place is nine. So, yeah, not worried over here. By the way, bro, you interrupt one more time, you die. It's as simple as that. Now, matchday six, I'm going to give you a quick rundown.
Mjueve beat Lecce, 1-0, Millic got the nod over Vladovic, and repaid a leg-re-stress with his second half winner. Lecce have been humbled, and Kaba was sent off at the end. And since then, Lecce were actually humbled twice. Kaliari won Milan 3. Lovumbo opened the scoring in Sardinia, but Milan's firepower proved to be too much for Raniari's side. Inter lost 2-1 to Sasvolo at home. There are three certainties in this life. Death, taxes, and Berardi scoring against Inter.
Sasvolo were clearly unfazed by the seemingly invincible Inter side as they handed them their first L of the season. Napoli triumphed 4-0 over a poor looking Udenes's side. They have two new problems to deal with, since we last spoke to you guys. The first being that they might be losing star Victor Rosiman after the old TikTok fiasco. We'll be talking about that in greater detail later on.
The second problem they face is that they need to find a new TikTok admin, of course, because he's definitely got sacked. Yeah, as I say, one of them is definitely easier to replace than the other, right? Lazio beat Torino Tunel, Vecino, and Zakanis' goals were more than enough for a well-earned victory against a tough Torino side. Genoa destroyed Roma 4-1 at home. Gilles Ardino's boys blew Roma out of the water with the magical Albert Goodmanson leading the way.
It was an incredible performance by Goodmanson. Genoa were much better than Roma in every aspect. Yeah. And Goodmanson looks like a top player in his position, completely like. Breakout player for sure. He's going to be expensive, man. He's going to be very expensive. Frosinone held Fiorentina 1-1 at home.
Fiorentina were very wasteful and they suffered a late equaliser at the hands of Mathias Sule on loan from Juventus as Frosinone continued to prove that no occasion is actually too big for them. Atalanta beat Verona 1-1 away from home. Coupe minors goal in the 13th minute was enough for Atalanta to get a street smart away victory against once again Chiqui Verona side. Empoli got their first victory of the season against all odds.
Of course Zanetti was sacked and they brought in Andrzej Azoli to replace him. They played Salerni at home and won their kid. Thomas Sobaldanzi scored the only goal in Empoli's first win of the season, hopefully the first of many. Even though I highly doubt that. But we'll see. Monza, Nyl, Bologna, Nyl was the last one. Two sides were actually bigger and better than most people would think. This was a stalemate which saw Salemakers getting a double yellow upon entry.
So that's just worth watching. Yeah, literally. Thank you Salemakers for making that game a little bit more interesting at the end with the red card. No, that was such a shame that we didn't get to record a full episode for this because I mean all across the board. I mean, Juve won Leczeny with a middle goal. That's fine Milan winning 3-1 away against Caliari. That's okay, although I wish you saw Lovumbo's goal.
Jake predicted that Lovumbo was going to be the first scorer pretty much in that match. But Inter's a swallow and Genoa Roma and even Frozino Nefiorentina to me those three matches and Empoli-Salernitana naturally. My God, just these four games are the ones that stand out. Naturally, Empoli getting their first goal and their first win. They did a great job over there to hold off Salernitana.
Through my experience, when you have midweek games, you look at the scores, you'll have six games happening at the exact same time. Yeah. And when you look at the scores, one nil, nil, nil. Yeah, exactly. Very low scoring. This was absolutely crazy midweek. Crazy, crazy, crazy. Let's just go through so that we do give at least these four fixtures some importance over here. Inter's a swallow. It's good to mention that Inter are on obviously hot form. Right, they were undefeated.
They only conceded one goal and that was in the Derby della Madonina, which they won 5-1. They go up at home in the San Siro against a swallow. They get the lead. They get it quite early on as well. And so swallow, come back and get a 2-1 victory over there. Berardi right after we placed him on the podcast and right after obviously we received one of our best fan texts before about Berardi on the podcast. He goes and does that. Fantastic stuff. What a player.
So swallow looked completely different with him and the Sasvolo analogy rings on. Not that I made back in 2020 when it was. I think it was 2021. 2021. It got picked up quite a bit. Yeah, basically tweeted out randomly. I was stoned on my sofa watching Sasvolo and I tweeted out that Sasvolo are the Robin Hood of, say, Andrei's steel points from the rich and give them to the poor. Right, next thing I know this tweet is blowing up. Like, IFTV, love it. They keep posting it and reposting it.
Shout out to IFTV. Love you guys. Yeah, they are the Robin Hood. Now we've discussed this in great detail. Why is it that Sasvolo beat the big teams and then seem to lose the small ones? We do have a couple of analogies that we've mentioned before. Yeah, I mean you have Sasvolo who don't have a massive fan base. So they don't have that thing where they step onto the pitch and they're playing for their fans because they're so moved by the T4 and the chanting and the songs.
And you know, like think about the player like Berardi should have had 10 songs about him by now. Isn't it fucked up? That's what I was going to say. Put Berardi, well, ideally Berardi would be in a team with a fan base that has every kid in the city wearing his shirt because that's that is the staple. That is the level of a staple that Berardi is to this Sasvolo team. I mean, I think like Sasvolo who only got promoted to say, yeah, what bro?
Eight years ago, seven years ago, something like that under the Francesco. And this you were reject, right? Berardi comes in and he has put this team on the map. He has put this team, he has made them contenders for Europe. It's been 10 years of Sasvolo for sure, by the way, because Berardi had scored his, he made his debut in 2013 for them. I see. Okay. Okay. So it's been around 10 years. Let's say 10 years. But what this guy's been able to do, he should be a hero for all these kids.
Thankfully, we're starting to see this stadium going up literally by the tens. It's not like it's an incredible difference, but they're steering the ship into the right direction. Hopefully it's coming at the right time where Berardi could really be our role model for these kids and Berardi could really make Sasvolo the team to support for all these people that live in Maudena and that live around Bologna as well. So yeah. Yeah, definitely.
And it is nice to see their fan base growing slowly, but steadily. We also had Genoa Roma, of course, which was absolutely crazy. Madonna goes from Thorsby, Goodminton, Retegue and Junior Messias coming on, who celebrated that goal more passionately than his goal in the group stages of the Champions League with Milan, which happened to be Milan's first Champions League goals. It wasn't the last time they were in it, which I believe was seven years prior to that.
I'm not quite sure what's going to go to miss. Yes, I think it was more Starstruck in the Champions League goal. And here he was just like, I'm not finished. I've still got this. I haven't peaked. Perhaps I still have more to offer to this league. Yeah, man.
And I think a team like Genoa that are so exciting is the right space to put him in, because him and Salah Makers competing for that right-hand side against Milan had become such a boring, an tedious conversation and such boring, an tedious fucking performances as well. Every now and then. And clearly the weak side to Milan.
Now you put him into a project of an up-and-coming team with so many exciting players, and suddenly he's in the light of excitement again, which he hasn't been in for a while. So good on you, Honior. He's an underrated signing by Genoa, because you can play him anywhere. You can play him on the wing. You can play him as a Mazzala. You can play him as a support striker. You can... He's very versatile. I'm pretty sure you can put in a shift as a wingback as well. Yeah, probably.
But I do think we should get going with matchday seven. This week in, say, matchday seven. Victor Ozzyman, brother, is the talk of the town, right? He deleted all his Skodetto celebration pictures on Instagram and threatened to sue the club. After an hour, police official Instagram and TikTok accounts posted a video mocking his penalty miss and another video calling him a coconut. He appeared standoffish with teammates, but allegedly peace has been restored.
If you were to believe things that appear on social media, Ozzyman has put up a post saying that he loves Naples and that the people of Napoli give him the fuel and the adrenaline he needs to perform at the highest level. Oh, but they must weed him out, man. They have to weed him out. This whole Pizzella Ozzyman thing, everyone. You've got kids eating fucking ice creams, shaped and colored like Ozzyman's dick, guys. I'm surprised he's still there.
Love Naples, love the city, love the football team, love the people. I'm quite sure they weed him out. I've got a bit of a skit of how this conversation might have gone down. It's not funny. It just puts it into perspective. Basically, Ozzyman walks into Tello Rentes' office. Like, hey, boss, hey, Victor, how are you, my man? Not bad, boss, not bad. I just wanted to pull you aside about something. Oh, what's wrong, Victor? Tell me. Like, well, I don't want to make a big deal about it.
Oh, come on, Victor. Just tell me. Okay, no problem. No problem, boss. Look, I've been here for three years now, right? Last season was my best year here. We can both agree. Yes. I was the Capucon on Yere for Napoli. And we won the first league in 30 years. It's like, yes, and Ozzyman, Victor, right? I think you were pivotal to all that. Yes, yes, and I think so as well. The team was great as well, but I do think that I played a massive part. Then I can't help but feel. I go on social media.
My team's social media. And I can't help but feel that these guys are mocking me. Like, first there's this video about me being a coconut. Like, I'm a coconut. I'm a coconut. Like, sure, whatever. Like, I'm a coconut. I don't get it, but sure, like, fuck it. But then I miss a penalty. I make a mistake and they're mocking me, playing music over me. I don't think that's right. The coconut thing, fuck it. Like, I'm a coconut, but this I can't. I can't accept it. That's how I feel the conversation.
Yeah, I mean. I'm going down. We just put it into perspective. What a weird encounter this is. Yeah, I mean, it's totally bizarre because when that was by the way, thank you. No, thank you. Thank you for this. I enjoyed that. And I'm sure they know that and said, yeah, we did. Yeah, but it's definitely a weird way to fall out of favor with your best player. It's definitely the strangest situation I've seen.
When you look at the the TikTok admin, the poor guy is probably a Napoli fan who landed his dream job and is the admin of Napoli's official TikTok account. You know, and everyone in the comments is like, does the admin reply? He's like, yeah, I do brother. Best admin in the world. He's like, I love my job. And then he goes home. He's like, oh, Mr. Penalty, maybe there is a trend right now where you put high pitch, the voices and these funny memes with football moments.
You speed them up to make them funnier. And he decided to make it about his own player. Right. And that's I'm sorry, but that's a poor judgment call. And of course, with the way that things have developed, he's going to lose his job. Right. You have to be you have to feel for him, but that's the only situation. Right. Thankfully, the Osama situation seems to have calmed down, but I am I'm sure that next year he won't be there.
Look, I think there's definitely like to cut the social media admin some slack. It's not the worst thing in the world that he has done. You've seen other teams poking fun at their own players, maybe not mocking them for a penalty miss. I do think there was a line that was crossed. I just think that there are certain cultural differences over here, guys. There's an admin who is constantly watching these memes and formulating content. And probably European Italian, you know what I mean?
Osama comes from Nigeria and have you ever spoken to your typical Nigerian person? You'll find that these people are massive on respect, huge on respect. You respect them. They respect you. Second, they feel disrespected. Then they feel disrespected and they're going to react as though they are disrespected. And I think that's the way Osama is reacting. Sure, we could look at him and say, calm down. It's just a meme, bro. But it's not just a meme for him, is it?
Yes, I think culturally in Nigeria, for example, the employer dynamic might be different. And the whole concept of respect on this whole 2023 meme culture, I'm not sure, is quite understood over there or appreciated, quite frankly. Yes, it was rather risky. And yeah, the admin definitely paid the price. But anyway, I hope no one lost their job, by the way. Yeah, same. But someone definitely did.
Lautaro Martinez made the headlines as he scored four goals in 30 minutes in a battering, an absolute battering of Salernitana since his entry. Because to be honest, Salernitana were holding their own before Lautaro entered. He was the first player in Seya and the modern era to score four goals after coming off the bench. Or Solini also had an impressive feat as he put pressure on Spaletti for a national team call-up with a brilliant hat trick against Nepele and I do mean a brilliant hat trick.
Albert Goodman almost had a hat trick himself as he scored two and had one void off against Odinese. After his midweek master class against Roma, he's really developing into a player. Papu Vomis is back in the league. Oh my god. By Nakomel Papu. You have no idea how happy that makes me, bro. Yes, sir. He has signed for Monza and he has already danced. The Papu dance with Gagliani. Yes. Fantastic content over there to enjoy.
And I don't know about you, but these videos always come up when I'm at work. Aha. And you like save them for later? Exactly. Kind of thing. Exactly. Yeah. Miserable life. What can we do?
Salernitana's incredible fans dedicated their t-fort to Pink Floyd unveiling the famous wall from the album The Wall, which eventually transitioned into the popular lyrics Shine on You Crazy Diamond from performing miracle survivals to signing top players to having a brilliant fan base who put out these incredible t-fos. Salernitana really are Seria's crazy diamond and I sure do hope that they'll keep on shining. I certainly hope so. It looks like they're struggling a little bit at the moment.
They've definitely got the players and the manager to turn it around. It's just not really ticking for them right now, is it? Yeah, I thought of a cool idea today, which is it's a bit too late to do. Considering that this is probably his last season at Salernitana, considering how he did try to. Last season, probably? Yeah, literally, I think it'll be off in January kind of thing.
It would have been so cool if we did a series of an inexpensive, by the way, going towards Salernitana in their own stadium until Dia scores and we get to sing Gulaedia and we'd go to every home match of Salernitana until his scores and we get to do just once. This question. The love of God let me be there once by Dia goes. It might be too late. That's what I'm thinking. Because the fans might not sing it to him anymore.
I mean, he's already shown that he's willing to force his way out and even when things do collapse, he makes himself unavailable for the games. Like he's totally demonstrated that he would rather be elsewhere. And I'm sure the fans have picked up on that and I highly doubt they'll be singing his praises any time soon. Oh, well, man, when your man scores an important goal and then you're overcome by emotion and joy, you do some things, bro. So maybe. Yes, I once broke at the show show.
Yes. And like I don't blame you because it was a Grazia Noppelle bicycle kick on his first game back in the league. And on my Fanta. And you had picked him up on Fanta as well. Mental. Okay. 20 minutes in. We finally get to talk about the matchday. Yeah, we have to do the rundown. Yeah, matchday seven. So let me give you guys a quick rundown over here.
So probably the biggest game of the week was Milan Lazio and Milan managed a very, very clean 2-0 victory over Lazio over here with goals by new signings, Pulisic and Okofar. Good to mention that also left his streakers off the mark for Milan. Thanks to his midweek goal against Caliari. He's also picked up a knock and will be missing two games, but we'll be back for the eventous game. Atalanta, Nyl, Juve, Nyl was enough to make me very close to opening football manager halfway through this game.
It was a bit of a KGF where both teams didn't quite get used to each other. And that did lead to the Nyl-Nyl stalemate. Few clear cut chances, but one phenomenal save by Vojciak Czesne denying Moriel's free kick. Salernita and Nyl inter four naturally, as Jake mentioned earlier, it was Lautaro Martinez who stole the headlines. Lecce Nyl, Napoli four, another four Nyl away victory over here.
Where Geitano scored his first goal for Napoli and in great fashion, to be honest, I do think that was quite a contender, skip past a man and from outside the box, left the keeper rooted to the spot with a great, great strike. This was quite a good game. Roma two, Frozino, Nyl a brace for Romelu Locacco, had a super performance alongside the ball up front. Fiorentina three, Caliari Nyl. I think Nico Gonzalez is one of the best players in this game.
The league so far this season, he's been phenomenal for them. And Fiorentina are still looking very good, just the one loss against Inter this season, man. Saswolo Nyl, Monza one, a very, very even affair. Surprise Monza, man, should get away with a one Nyl away victory over here, but classic Saswolo Robin Hood. Torino Nyl, Verona Nyl, a bit more of an exciting Nyl affair over here.
Bologna three, Empoli Nyl, Ursulina Hatric, enough to get me a 17.5 from him on Fanta and a 6-1 victory over Lewis. Fuck you, Lewis. I think there is a two Genoa two. Genoa will be disappointed that they gave away a lead, especially when they conceded an own goal in around the 93rd minute from their substitute. So very, very unlucky for them over there, but a brilliant showing of Genoa spirit and their goal scoring prowess. They can't stop fucking scoring. They just put four past Roma.
The year they are in Odine a couple of days later, scoring two away from home, which, okay, it's two goes away to Odineza, but this was a Serie B side last year with a new manager this year. It's not like these games are fucking easy for them, you know?
Yes, as you correctly mentioned, Odineza are a seasoned Serie A side, Genoa are a side who have just come up from Serie B, who should be struggling way more than they are, to be honest with you, they have, of course, a B MVP of last season, Goodman's in over there. We've spoken about them. You're probably already sick of hearing his name, but you better get used to it. Yeah, they have a good team.
They have a solid foundation with players with, say, experience and the manager in Jilardino, who is hailed to be a fantastic, adaptable, man managing coach. He's fantastic, apparently. He's a, and apparently he, it's very clear and very easy to observe the way that he makes minor tweaks to his system on a weekly basis.
So like, for example, let's say he plays a 4-3-3-1 week and he plays it the next week, you will clearly see a slight tweak in where to enthrong the previous season of it, through a man change, through a change in movement on the pitch when you watch the way the formation comes together. Yeah, he's said to be with the next big thing in Italian management. Yeah, in fact, it's not the same formula you see every game with them. Never. They're liquid, man.
They literally take different shapes on forums in every match, according to their opponents. Now, you look at Fresno and Estart, you look at Genoa, Estart, Fresno, they look insane. Don't get me wrong, they look fantastic, very fluid, very quick, very fast. But it is always like the same formula. I think Genoa can adapt more in that sense, that they could play a wider array of teams and drop less points.
Whilst Fresno and Estart will just probably get you more shock victories, but over a consistent 38-match season, Genoa look prepared to stay up this season. This is the way I've used the difference, because Fresno and Estart both look good, but here's the difference in my opinion. Right? You have Genoa, who are a well-drilled team, who have players, who are capable of making the difference through individual brilliance.
So if your tactical setup is not perfect, or is not quite effective, these players can still make the difference. Like Albert Goodman's in wiping out three players and playing a through ball, or just shooting it into the top corner, taking matters into his own feet. Fresno, on the other hand, are purely well-drilled. That's it. When you look at the individual, there are a bunch of players towards the end of their careers who have experienced mid-20s players. They're a fucking boner, man.
They're going like, they're drilling. They're hard as fuck. They are. With Fresno, the thing is, apart from their erections, and phallic situations, they have a bunch of players who are almost, I don't want to say rejects, but they're not prolific. They don't have any names of players who are prolific. They have players on loan from big teams, because they're not ready to start at these big teams.
They have players who are playing at the likes of Sasuolo, who couldn't quite cut it at Sasuolo and have moved for a more prominent role. A Cremonez bench player who barely featured and say a lot of season and bias was getting minutes. Because for us, Fresno and I are a step in people's career, while Genoa are still a historically very successful team, and people are proud and honored to wear the badge. And Genoa have the finances.
Genoa are owned by 777 partners, an American business or a corporation, whatever, I don't know the term. But they're rich, and they're investing, and Genoa have clearly been on an upward trajectory from when they took over with blessing and say, yeah, when they already relegated essentially, we could already see the signs. They got relegated in the end, which was inevitable, because of the terrible start.
They had their previous owners on the uncertainty and starting the season without a sponsor and getting absolutely destroyed by Inter, remember that? Yeah, yeah. So yeah, now they're witnessing the fruits of their labor. Yes, yes. Let's jump into the first match of match day seven. No, like 28 minutes. That's great. We're fine. That's good. That's good. We managed to kill match day six in 30 minutes, and like the intro to match day seven, so fuck it. But we start with you, Brello.
Milan 2, Lazio Nile. Milan extender on beaten home, say a hit the head record, one of impressive 12 games. Temporarily reclaim the top spot, as well as in the table. It was only temporarily, because of course, Inter absolutely demolished Salernetana and leapfrogged Milan over there. There have been no draws in the last 10 encounters between Milan and Lazio. Seven wins for Milan, and the last one was 2-0-2, and this was in May 2023. Now let's get into the lineups.
For Milan, it was a 4-3-3 formation, pretty orthodox this season. Mike Manjane in goal, Calabria on the right, Hernandez on the left with Kier and Tomori in the middle. Loftus, Treak and Reinders flanked Yassine Adley in the middle, who since our last podcast episode has had two starts. In his first start, he contributed to Le Vombo's goal, inadvertently of course, but in this game he had a much better game, and overall looked pretty solid and exciting.
Poulissic was out on the right, Lea was out on the left, and Giroud was up front. For Sarri's men, it was also a 4-3-3 formation, with Providele in goal, Hisai on the left, Mara Sircha on the right, Tressaal and Romanio Ali at the back, with Luis Alberto Rovell and Guendouzi in the middle. Zacani was out on the left, Anderson was out on the right, and Castellanios got the nod over Immobile. Yes, with Immobile being fit. Yes, this was expected almost, because... Sorry, I'm burping.
Lotito approached Sarri, apparently, or could be seen signalling to Sarri that he wanted Castellanios to come on. Apparently, Lotito's been basically putting pressure on Sarri to play Castellanios ahead of Immobile. Yeah, I know, right? Crazy, crazy. Okay. Let the man do his job. He was fit for the role. Now, it doesn't matter what your opinion is, if you hire a manager, he's gonna manage. Yeah, yeah. Play by play.
Both teams had their chances in the opening minutes, with Felipe Andresen testing Maneon with a near post strike. The game was an even contest until Rafael Leao began to make his presence felt with his usual dynamic runs. His efforts forced Pravidal into near post saves, like the usual chaos with Leao.
As the first half progressed, Milan had the golden opportunity to break the deadlock when Olivier Giroud's initial shot led to Tiani Reinder's follow-up, which unfortunately for him, clipped the post. It was a pretty good opportunity, wasn't it, brother? Yeah, but he was wrong footed, wasn't he, man? He was. I can't tell, but look at that and say that has to be a guaranteed goal. Yes, yes. But his stance was a little bit off. He wasn't expecting that, you know? Yeah, yeah, that's true.
The second half started without any clear-cut chances until the 60th minute when Milan made the breakthrough. Rafael Leao was once again instrumental driving to the byline and pulling back to an unmarked policy who calmly slotted in his third, say, Goal Captain America has truly arrived. Eunice or Eunice, Moussa, substituting for the injured, Ruben Lofterskrieg came close to adding a second for Milan as Lazio struggled to find their footing.
Neither team had scored a goal after the 75th minute in Serie A this season, which didn't bode well for Lazio at all. One of the key players for Milan was Florenzi, this game who won the 85th minute. When the score line was still 1-0, made a crucial block on Lazio's Gustav Isaksen after a solo run, a brilliant block over there by the budget de Marco.
In the dying minutes of the game, Milan secured the victory as Leao raised down the left wing as usual and set up substitute Noh Okofo confidently scored his second goal of the week, although Pedro managed a spectacular reply for Lazio. It was ruled offside. Yes, sir. Giro Mopola keeping him onside, make what you will of that. With this win, Milan continued their three-game winning streak while Lazio remained stranded in the mid-table after a challenging drink start this year, a campaign.
Bro, safe to say Milan dominated this game, for me, best performance of the season so far. What do you make of it? Yes, so it was always interesting to see how Milan were going to adapt after they lost against Inter, which was followed by a weird nil-nil draw mid-week to Newcastle, even though Milan dominated that game. But here we're starting to see Milan really getting their confidence back and being that offensive team that they want to be.
We have now seen Milan get past Lazio with the score of 2-0. We've seen them get past Roma with the score of 2-1. What happened against Inter happened against Inter, but at least Milan are really showing that they are a force to be reckoned with. At the moment, Lazio aren't there. At the moment, a club like Lazio, with the start, they've had the difference in momentum between Milan and Lazio as far too steep to put these teams up against each other. Up against each other so early on.
And I think it was a clean victory for Milan. Dominated is a strong word. I think it was a very, very, very clean victory. It was a clean victory, totally. I mean, Lazio, I can't remember them really threatening apart from Pedro's disallowed goal. Of course, I think Milan kept them quite quiet. Yes, Luis Alberto looked frustrated from the get-go. I don't know what it is. Milan have Lazio quite figured out, man.
And just as Inter have Milan completely figured out and Nczagi knows Piolli inside out, apparently maybe it's the same thing with Piolli and Sarri. Maybe Piolli has totally figured out Sarri right now. I mean, you could say that, but Milan also lost four in ill against Lazio last season, so... That's a fair point. Yeah, that was a crisis. But it's one of those cases. Milan can beat anyone, but they can get mecked. Mecked. There are like five teams that can meck Milan.
Yes, yes, when it starts to go badly, it can go very badly. That's one of Milan's kryptonite. Okay, bro, so let's look at Rafael Leal, a fantastic player. We all know he's a fantastic player, probably the best player in the league, arguably. I mean, it's not as close this season as it was last season. But he's proven himself and say, yeah, he's one-eth, he's one MVP, whatever. Do you think he still needs to prove himself on an international stage, on a European stage?
For example, let's look at the Newcastle game, for example. Yes, because the culture of football that we live in at the moment puts competitions like the Champions League naturally on a pedestal. That's number one. Number two is Serie A's not on a pedestal at all, and the Premier League is. And to an extent, La Liga more than Serie A, because you do it for Real and you do it for Barça. Barça, and then it's like you made it. You know what I mean?
Yes, to answer your question, he's not going to be relevant to the world of football until he goes on a crazy showing in an entire Champions League campaign. But then I would argue with you, Grant, it was an all-Italian semifinal, but he did it against an all-Italian quarter-final, rather, sorry. But he did do it on an international stage against Napoli. Yes, but he did it once, right? That's it. Yeah, but the thing is, Rafael Laos should be considered as one of the greatest places in the world.
There's no words, right? At the moment. My question is essentially. I'm not talking about our opinion. It's about a lot of normies that consider themselves football fans, but don't watch or at least don't research a lot of leagues and just focus on one, which is fine, you can focus on the league that you love, but then don't tell me whether or not Laos is a good player if you're only watching league on or whatever. The thing is, that was my question, mostly, worded terribly with preparation.
Nice one. What's stopping people from mentioning Laos and their top fucking five players, top ten players in the world? It's that easy. The fact that he hasn't made himself cemented a starting spot in for the Portuguese team, hasn't really made the difference in Champions League consistently yet. That's probably it, right? Yeah, it has to be. It has to be. And there's also all this is a case of relevancy. And at the moment, relevancy comes with the money. And you know what has the money?
The Premier League doesn't have the money, Serie A. So at the moment, naturally, the reach and the marketing that certain leagues have is far, far more superior than the one that's available at Serie A. Bro, you see John Stone scratches balls and it's a TikTok. Like there are TikTok compilations of John Stones looking left to right and scratching his nuts. You know what I mean? And then you can't find anything about certain Serie A players or Serie A teams or Serie A managers.
And then they head over to the Prem like there's air be that a couple of good games. And suddenly they're kind of even overhyped. It's this crazy, crazy thing that they do. They hate him or they love him. It's wicked, man. That's it because extremes are what get clicks. Exactly. They're not going to get clicks going being level headed. But anyway, anyway, whatever, let's get back to the game. Adley Regista thoughts. I'm good, good, solid. But is it good as in? Good as in he's getting as in good.
It's possible or is it good as in all right for me? It's not the solution. Dortmund tomorrow. Adley Regista. Is that the way it is? So no significant worries over there. Still a big loss to still be losing out on someone like Ben Aser or Kronechusso used to it and is used to that stage. Adley is still green, but you could see very significant glimpses of insanity. He does certain things that that is beautiful. His ball control, his close ball control is insane.
The way he attracts pressure and then releases the ball and creates space for his teammates by hanging on to the ball for an extra second, which also results in exhausting his opponents is very, very good. He's very calm. He's clearly very liked by the team and he raises the morale of the team. Not polished. No, not refined. And that's exactly the main point. I do like the audacious balls that he tries to play. And I haven't seen those balls.
Of course, excuse the hyperbole since Perilov, of course, because of course, Adley is nothing compared to Perilov, but watching a six at Milan play balls over the top, over the wings like that so consistently was reminding me of him. Fuck you, we disagree. No, the weird to say about the pitch looked bigger with Adley. Yeah, you can stretch it more. Now, of course, he is rusty. Of course, he is definitely not polished and I don't think he's exactly ready for certain matchups.
He did impress against Lazio and he did play very well. To me, it was almost a perfect game. I like how we spoke because naturally Milan fans who all love Adley, Milan typically love Adley because he's such a character kind of thing. And they would naturally get very carried away about his performance, but he spoke after the game and he was like, this is just the beginning. I'm not celebrating anything like I still have so much work to do. I'm not happy. Everyone is happy, but I'm not happy.
Yeah, totally. Bro, before we move on to Lazio, Calabria or Florenci? No, Calabria. Calabria. I agree. I heard otherwise on certain platforms and I wanted to know your opinion. What a great vice to have. But Calabria. Yes, I think Florenci has been very solid. And to be honest, this is the best I've seen him in a Milan shirt. I'm not a big fan of the player. I don't think he's quite as refined as he should be for someone who's in his 30s.
You know, I don't think he inserts himself and he inserts himself well enough into games. But yeah, I mean, he had long term injuries. He's a former Roma player. He has a lot to kind of try to get. And he's unique with his long range shooting and all that. Yeah, I'm telling you, budget, demarc, demarc from Wich. 100%. Yeah, nice to see, of course, Milan's new signings doing well, Pulisic scoring is third of the season.
Ruben Loftus-Rick played the very, was playing well until he was forced off through injury. He will be back after the break off, Ocophore scoring his second goal of the week. Funnily enough, we always contrast the Ocophore with Jiru. Due to the fact that the Ocophore can search defenses and you can try to play him in behind where Jiru is more of a fox in the box type of player. And both Ocophores two goals where Fox in the box poacher. Yeah, that's true.
That's so funny to me, you know, like so, so ironic. But anyway, nice to see that he can actually do that, because that was my main concern. Can Ocophore be useful in these tight situations in the box? Is he good in the box? Yeah, he's good in the box, man. He's a very good poacher. 100%. But yes, lots of your struggles, brother. Yeah. Let's go, man. What's the problem? Is it the mobile, is it the system? What's the problem with Lazio, man?
Oh, man, what's the day of Celtic in the Champions League yet? You know, it's a tough one for them. What's going on? I mean, I don't know what's going on. I look at their lineup and naturally there seems to be some kind of, obviously, yes, again, oh my God, yes, they lost a sem-s and Jiru's out. That, that, bro, that is literally the issue. You get a team, the team that Lazio were last season, with 11 men that have been playing together for ages.
And then you lose out on your Kymid fielder, and actually Sergey by moving to Saudi. And Imoblaz aged another year, and it does seem like that this year was way more significant. So you take those out of the equation. Naturally, the team gets weaker and what that does is it makes the manager react.
So the manager brings in Rovella, the manager brings in Guendouzi, the manager brings in Tati Castellanos, the manager brings in Camada, and suddenly you've got a team that is weakened and they're trying to compensate with bringing in new players that aren't used to it yet, which is fine. It's what you have to do, but you need to suffer for a season or so. Now, are Napoli going to be a mid-table team all season? No, absolutely not. But let them get their footing together.
They can't go up against Milan at Sun-zero and get a point, or even more so get three points over there. It's just the stage that Wotlacio are in right now, and that stage is growth. They had, they came second last season, which is one of their greatest achievements in the past 10 years, barring the Coppa. And if they don't match their greatest achievement, then it's suddenly a failure.
But if you look at the entire story and where Wotlacio are right now, they have to get their shit together this season, and they'll be better next season. It's as simple as that. Look, I view Sarri's time at Wotlacio as very temporary. Like, if you look at this Wotlacio team over here, and you look at the players who have grown accustomed to Sarri ball, right, his philosophy, let's take a look. So we have... Hisai hasn't been there for too long, but let's count him.
Romanio Littrasale, Mara Susham Prabhide, okay, they're all used to it. Now, how many of those players are actually average or above average? Let's say how many of these players are actually above average. Provedal. Three, exactly. So the people, Romanio Littrasale. The full backs are average. Put anyone there instead of them. Exactly. Like, it's okay, they're sound defensively, hisai and Mara Sush, they can put in a shift, they'll work tirelessly.
They're kind of like the mold of that, the raw do's of back in the day, and there was another one I can't... His name escapes me right now. There was, at the same time of raw, he had blonde hair. No, no, no, he had an itch. Red dark-skinned gentleman with blonde hair, for a while he had gone to Fiorentina, though he was a right back and a left back. Dalbers, what are you talking about? God, God. I'm talking about an itch. Lulic, Lulic, Lulic. Okay, Lulic.
Yes, they're that type of mold, that type of average defender who is good against a small team when you have the lead, like, and you need to maintain, you know what I mean? Okay, so let's move on to the midfield, Rovel and Gwendoos in New. Luis Alberto, great player, fantastic player, has been with Sarri for a few years now. However, a bit difficult to manage, and maybe when things aren't going perfectly his way, he doesn't comply. Perfectly, and maybe he does his own thing ever so slightly.
Or maybe he's not a perfect example. He doesn't share the same philosophy as Sarri or he doesn't believe in Sarri's philosophy. He's more of a libero. He's not going to play these dynamic fucking possible moves. Yeah, he's one of those players that like, he would appreciate not being told what to do and let his creativity shine on the pitch.
But with a manager like that, all respect to the manager and the player, the manager tries to get them to play a system, while the player is like, but I perform best when I'm given freedom. And then you have Zakan, who knows it, Anderson who knows it, and then Castellanius who's new. Or a mobile who knows it, but is a year older. Now the problem over here is that, okay, so Sarri is implementing his system into a team, which is losing its best players.
And the players that he's actually feeling don't know his system very well. Now I don't know how much of a say Sarri has when it comes into the recruitment of the team, but knowing Metallion teams and the way they operate, and Lotito's personality, I'm sure he just gives him whatever he fucking wants to give him. Probably. But anyway, my thought Milan deserved this. His victory, and I thought it was quite convincing, and they looked great, quite frankly.
Yeah, there's an update on Loftus Cheeks' injury. I know I mentioned it in the beginning, but it seems fitting to say it now that we've covered the game. He's going to be missing the Dortmund game. He's going to be missing the weekend game, and I can't seem to remember, bro. Who Milan are playing next weekend? It's Genoa. It's Genoa away, which is frightening for Milan. It's very frightening.
But he'll be missing those two games, and he'll be back in time for the Uwe game, which is massive for Milan. Totally. At what point in the season do you think we should start reading out positions in the league table? Should we start it now? I would say in three matchdays' time, matchday 10. Yeah. We're at matchday 7, I say we could hold off. What should we do with it from the next? Let's do it from now. Let's do it from now. Fuck it. Why not? I mean, sure, bro. Fuck it.
Milan currently sit in second with 18 points, while lots currently sit in 16th with 7 points. Not a 16th is wild, eh? Tough start. Tough start. Yeah. And the next game we're going to be covering is Atalanta Nyl Juve Nyl at the stadium of Ladea. Atalanta were coming off a 1-0 away victory against Helas Verona, while Juventus were coming off a 1-0 victory at home over Lecce.
Now, under Gasperini management, which is basically from 2016, Atalanta have only lost four of their 14 matches against Juventus in Serie A, where they won two and drew eight. So predominantly this fixture does end up in a draw. This was a head-to-head for third place, as Sharzak Eitelare recovered from a muscular issue to start the game with Scamaca and El Bilaltore. Still out of action. You make that mistake as well. El Bilaltore. El Bilaltore.
It feels more of a ring to it, but El Bilaltore is the name, apologies to him. Duzan Vlaovic, Milik Aleksandro and Matjade Shilio did not make the trip, with Paul Pogba naturally still suspended for failing a doping test, but Mois Keane actually returned to partner Federico Chiesa up front. For the lineups, it was a 3-4-2-1 for Atalanta with Juan Musson-Gol and a backline of Skalvini, Jim City and Toloi.
Ruggeri was out on the left, while Zappa Costa was out on the right, with D'Gon and Ederson in the midfield. Cope Minersh as the left winger, technically left attacking midfielder. Lukman as the right attacking midfielder, and Sharzak Eitelare playing up front. For Juve, it was a 3-5-2 formation with Vojcek Szczesny in goal, coming off a nightmare game against Aswolo. Gatti Bremer and Danilo at the back with McKenney on the right, Kambiazo on the left.
Fajoli Lokatelli and Rabio formed the midfield three with Chiesa and Moisekeen up front. Now in the 14th minute, Cope Minersh's cross fell perfectly for Zappa Costa to volley in, but his mishit shot was blocked by Danilo, and his follow-up, which Juve should have went in, skimmed wide three years ago, I think it would have absolutely nailed the first shot, not only the second one.
Juve had a good chance through Chiesa in the 50th minute, but Musson tonight has powerful yet central strike very well. In the 69th minute, Ederson attempted a bicycle kick. Sure, in the 73rd minute, Muriel's free kick was close to unstoppable, but somehow Vojcek Szczesny managed to tip the accurate and powerful strike onto the crossbar. Best save of the season so far, in my opinion, it was an absolutely astounding save.
The ball bounced off the ground, so he tipped the ball onto the crossbar, which then bounced on the ground behind Szczesny on another day. It really could have deflected off the back of the keeper, according to how he was falling back. Good to see that maybe he had the spirits and the stars aligning for him in this moment, because they really weren't aligning for him earlier this week. Great save by him, shout out to Szczesny, that was the best moment of the match.
The rainbow, no, after the rainfall. Exactly, there you go, there you go. He celebrated that like a goal as well, it was good to see. Even his teammates around him celebrating it, it was good to see goal-teapers obviously. Of course, I'm all for that, I even love when, I believe this match day as well, Viu Danez, no, the Fiorentina fullback cleared the ball of Kaiode. Oh yeah, it was Kaiode. Yes, you're right, it was Kaiode.
He celebrated, not like he scored the goal, not to that extent, but it is nice to see players so passionate about their trade. A good tackle allows the tackleer, a clearance of the line, or a wonderful save deserves a celebration. A game is made of players carrying out their duty to the best of their abilities, when they do something that could affect the outcome of the game. In an impressive fashion, they should definitely celebrate it.
It was good to see Shesney, naturally again, making a pulling off that save. His teammates as well, gathering around him, that was really sweet. Over then, the 87th minute, Shesney was back to his earlier form. After his spilled Muriel's long-range strike, thankfully for him, Kuk Meiners, very uncharacteristically, mishit the follow-up and it went over the bar, he could have really scored the rebound over there, again, stars aligning for Shesney.
Oh wait, it could have been Batja, but with a chuckle after that as well, like, shit, I thought this was a good game. It happened again. It happened again. In the 91st, Bakker did well, because we did get to see Bakker in this match, he did well to cross the ball to Koop, but once again, the Dutchman overcooked his shot. Safe to say, in the final third, Koop Meiners was a bit wasteful in this game. Yes, yes, uncharacteristically, sure.
But he did find himself in certain positions, in a home match against Juve, sure, but he did find himself in some positions that maybe surprised him, I think. Oh yeah, I think so. Typically though, you would see Koop Meiners score those, but I think he's more interested in scoring the odd-worldie. Yes, yes, yes. And the odd-hatter. I think that Koop Meiners, of course, is one of the best midfielders in the league.
I know I said that about Goodminton earlier, like does this guy think everyone's the best midfielder in the league? They're two of the best. Two of the best attacking midfielders in the league. There are two top-tier players in their position in the league this season. And Koop Meiners, even this season prior, is very, very possibly top-two. Yeah, very possibly top-two. But anyway, what I noticed from this game was that, first of all, it was a KGF, where both sides primarily didn't want to lose.
Yeah, yep. And I think Juve took that to another extreme, to be honest, when you look at their statistics, stylistically, it's difficult to defend a legria in this game, to be honest, like two key passes. And you know who delivered these key passes? I don't, and I prepped for this game. So let's guess. The first one's an easy guess. Who made the key pass? Yeah, the first key pass. Who made the first key pass of the game? Who was it? Is it stupid to say he has? No, it was actually KGF.
Nice, okay. It's perfect, you're good. But then the second player who gave a key pass, I'll give you three guesses on the Juve team. Okay, I'm gonna start off by saying Chesson. Yes, you're fine. Oh my God. Yes, I'm so good. I've been doing trivia at Freshers all week, and I know the tricks of this game. Hit me with a good one, now. Quickly. Okay, here's 1G. Who won the first ever Eurovision Song Contest? Was it A. Italy, B. France, C. Switzerland, or D. Sweden? Okay, bro.
This is, say, a spotlight. I'm gonna vote Italy. Well, it's Sweden. Switzerland. Switzerland, yes. It's quite close, anyway. Yep, congratulations to the Swiss. But yeah, that's the trivia round over. We tried, we tried. But yeah, Juve left a lot to be desired. Of course, nice to see that defensively they were more sound and there weren't as many howlers. I mean, typically, Chesney's very good at controlling his line.
Gatti Bremer and Danilo are more than competent defenders to keep a clean sheet against many teams, to be honest. So nice to see that they're keeping everything tight at the back. However, one should not write Juventus off at the moment. Allegri has said that top four is their objective, but Allegri always diminishes the actual objective. Always. The objective is top four. He will say that the objective is Europa League, right? European football is our priority right now.
They currently have won four games, drawn twice and lost once. So bad, man. Which teams have won the league with more. It's still so early. It's so early. No, I think anyone that's already counting any of the top seven, well, okay, maybe there are two that you can count out. The Roman ones. But anyone writing anyone off so early on in the season, it's just a little bit bold already.
Especially a club like Juventus, who have literally won it the most times in Serie A. And in this day and age where you have a fixture list that's so crammed that lots of your head coach, Sarri, is threatening to quit because he doesn't like the game anymore. Because he doesn't have time to instill his tactics, is what he's saying. Juve play once a week. That is a massive advantage for them.
When you look at Napoli, Milan and Inter, who will probably be competing alongside them, they all have European competition and they have tough European competitions as well, because they're in the fucking Champions League. Yeah, absolutely. And I think you look at Juve starting 11 as well. And that's enough as well. Yeah, enough for once a week. Yeah, I think the way this game went is essentially, like you said, very well. Juve left a lot to be desired. They played a very defensive game.
They primarily focused on a defensive approach and then shoot on the counter attack through utilising Chiesa, who carried the ball forward a lot in this game. Juve did seem to have that kind of control off the ball in the first half. In the second half towards the latter stages of the game, Atalanta did go for that late push, where they had a couple of Shesney saves, a couple of Cope Miners misses. And over there, you started to see the Tijiri shift towards Atalanta.
And if you only watched the last 15-20 minutes of the game, you'd say Atalanta deserved the win over here, especially when there was such goalkeeping heroics through Juve, which is what saved them. But I think it's interesting to see the earlier statistic that I mentioned that they've drawn eight out of their last 14 matches this season, which really says something about the history between these teams.
One thing that we've noticed is these things aren't coincidence, but it's an actual pattern that takes place for a reason. And these two teams are teams that like to take more of a pragmatic approach nowadays. These are teams managed by Gasperini, a modern Gasperini, and Allegri. So it's no surprise that this game ended up in an ill-kneel, and I think we can conclude over here. What do you think? Yeah, I mean, we're on a tight schedule. So I think it would be best not to linger too much.
I do think that Juve's tactics have this game at least resorted back to solidity, defensive solidarity, and then play Kiesa through. Yeah, that's it. And Juve are actually looking more fluid recently. So I wonder if this is kind of a change that he made, because he felt like Atalanta were a tricky opponent, maybe superior, opponent in their stadium at the Jewish stadium. But I enjoyed watching Juve play nice football, to be honest with you.
Yeah, they play decent football when they actually have. Nowadays, it seems like you're saying they do have more fluidity. Before it was more like static defend, and then let's pass around and try to figure it out. Now it's with intent. And like you said as well, Kiesa up front on the counter, and typically they would have Lovic over there who was out for this game. Typically that is another avenue, because you play the ball through to Lovic.
He's got good pace, he's got good finishing, he's good in the air, he could link up with his teammates. So yeah, I do want to highlight real quick the performance of Martin Dehoun, who very often goes under the radar as an absolute workhorse, a very industrious player in the midfield for Atalanta. He's not just a player that passes the ball laterally, but he's a player that wins the ball back a significant amount, has a tremendous work rate, is great off the ball and on the ball.
They just really want to tie the item. I don't think we do it enough. Shout out to Skalvini as well, who is always so impressive, playing the ball out from the back and linking up with his midfield teammates. It does such a great job. And yeah, the best way to describe him for any Prem heads listening, or anyone who just started listening to us or following Seria, he is literally the Italian John Stones. And keep in mind Skalvini is a fucking baby man.
Skalvini is literally early twenties, if I'm not mistaken. Yes, Skalvini is only 19 years old brother. That's a joke. He's the best young centre back in the world. 19 years old. It's not a bold claim to be honest. Okay, the best teen centre back in the world, definitely. 19 years old. And he offers something. A top tier teenage centre back for sure, because you look at Skalvini, you're not only seeing a youth product, but you're seeing an experienced defender, right? Of course, Atalanta team.
You can compare him to maybe Bastoni. For example, and Bastoni is 24, which is fucking young, at least five years older than him dog. So yes. Skalvini is super, honestly, a freak of nature. Yeah, let me just let you know where these guys stand. In the table, Juve are in fourth on 14 points, while Atalanta are in sixth, just one point behind Juve with 13 points. Cheers, but I don't recall asking. The next game we're going to be covering is Salernitana. Nill, in third four.
And there's lost defeat against Salernitana, came back in 1999. In April, to be precise, Francesco Oddo was a Salernitana manager, no, it's not that Oddo's. It's a different one, because the timeline doesn't add up. The two goals were scored by David, the Miquela and Federico Gianpaolo for those of you. Oh, wow. Who remember those days? Bro, very classically hitting us up with these sick stats. Yes. We don't know. If you've heard this, remember, these guys do text us.
This is the first time Salernitana have not won any of their first four home games in Serie A. Oh, oh. Yes, and prior to this game, just a separate stat that I found very interesting about Jovan Cabral, he was the only player in Europe's top five leagues to have hit the woodwork in each of his first four games. Oh, my God. He was denied by the post every game, the first four games. I don't believe he hit it against him though.
If my life ever depends on a crossbar challenge, at least I know who to call. Salernitana lined up with the three, four, two, one formation with Guillermo Ochoa in goal, Danilo Litch, Gionber and Lovato at the back, Castanos out on the right with Brother Litch out on the left, Legovsky and Bohinen were in the middle. Martagani and Cabral were playing behind Boulaye Dia. Boulaye Dia, a quoi. For Inter, it was Jan Summer in goal as they deployed their usual 3-5-2.
Achereby De Vry and Pavard were at the back, all looking solid. Augusto was out on the left, Danfries out on the right with Davy Klassen making his debut over here, his first start. Hakan Cialano-Gluhan, Barella were also in the middle with Alexis Sanchez and Marcus Thuram partnering up front. Now Inter started the game strong, they had chances from Marcus Thuram and Denzel. Danfries early on, Boulaye Ochoa kept Salernitana in the game, how many times have we said that before?
Salernitana, despite being when Lissand Seria put up a notable fight, players like Cabral and Castanos put up a fight testing interest, defence, Castanos even forced the save from Jan Summer with a rising shot. Simone Insagi brought on Lautaro Martinez in the 55th minute and that was pretty much game over. Martinez's impact was immediate. Prior to that, before Martinez actually came on, I was looking at players like Gionburn saying, wow, he's really playing well here.
There was a moment where he recovered the ball brilliantly, had a great burst of pace, Gionburn recovered the ball, everyone applauded him and said, wow, Salernitana looking solid. But apparently it took one man from Argentina with a particularly large forehead to change mine. He probably just hates Pink Floyd, and he just had a bit of a chip on his shoulder. He's like, fuck these ovaries. The dark sides of the moon is better than the wall. He's like, you think this is music? Reggaeton, baby.
But yes, Martinez's impact was immediate and he delicately chipped the ball over the keeper and very tight space after our Marcus de Ramprecise crossed to score the first goal for Inter. And that goal was underrated. The amount of time he had to get between the defender and the goalkeeper and onto the ball. And the keeper practically had the ball in his hands. Well, not practically, almost. And he just tripped it perfectly, and he just pinked it over him. Amazing goal.
There is one way he could have scored that goal and in one manner that he could have executed that and it was the manner which he used in a split second. Yes, and then Salernitano thought they had equalized a goal in a similar fashion, to be honest. The ball played between the goalkeeper and the defender.
And Matusz Legowski just charging between the defender and the goalkeeper and finishing quite cleanly, but he was in an offside position and it did not count enough that this Inter's defense held firm. Martinez sealed Inter's victory with a well taken volley followed by a penalty conversion and a close range goal.
This incredible four goal performance was indeed the highlight of the match and potentially the highlight of the week they secured convincing four and it went bouncing back after their loss to Sa Swolo. There's a crazy stat on that, no? About a substitute scoring four goals in Serie A. Yes, it's the first time in modern day football that in Serie A that a substitute has scored four of the bench. And in 30 minutes it's mental. That's crazy.
Now that we've reviewed the match, let's discuss a little bit. Lotta Romaitina's brother. You know what, yeah, similarly to Leo, I don't know if this is a seo, I think, but you don't really hear people mentioning him as a top striker, yeah? There was a time where he was being very hyped and he was close to moving to Barcelona, but this is around three, four years ago, you know what I mean? He's much better nowadays, yeah.
I don't know if, maybe, you know how sometimes there are certain people who are so obviously in a relationship that no one bothers flirting with them. I think that's, I think that maybe that opens up. Who, me, bro? I think sometimes that's the case in football, if I'm being honest. But yeah, it's the same thing. But Inter just made the Champions League final, man, to be honest. Yeah, they're a good place to be right now, despite the financial woes Marotta keeps cooking. It must be said that...
It would make them a lot of money to sell him, man. Of course, that Lautaro has totally taken on the role of a leader, though at the centre team, and it can be seen, you know, the way the fans respond to him, the way that he... He just, he has an aura about him nowadays, Lautaro. You know, like the aura of a great player, he's so confident in his trade, and I don't think we'll be seeing these long, dry spells for much longer from Lautaro. I think mentally he's better nowadays, you know?
It could very much be the case. I don't want to get too carried away, naturally, insane performance from an insane player. One of the best strikers in Serie A. We typically speak about Ossimen and Vladovic, and we typically don't give him the cake because he's not exactly a lone striker-bomber, but he's typically providing to another striker, playing alongside Lukaku or playing alongside someone else. But he's off to a very strong start.
He's been in the conversation of Capocano Niere for the past few years. But I don't want to discount the fact that he can get quiet at times. He scored a hat-trick last season or the season before, I don't remember which one, and he still, January-February-March, had a bit of a dry spell. Yeah, it's the fact that his dry spell was lost season halfway through, and since then he's been firing, and he hasn't looked like he's going to stop.
He was quite wasteful in the Champions League without being seen. But anyway. Yeah, we can't discount the fact that they will have a dry spell, but nonetheless. Strikers do suffer from confidence, of course. If they don't score goals, they do get in their head many times. But yeah, we did see Stewart speaking of strikers today. He did not have his iconic hairstyle, however. He didn't. And it pissed me off. Fucking lame. I know, I know. I didn't even recognize him at first. I hope it didn't.
But it was like Stewart coming on from the Jamaican league. I hope we didn't fucking make himself conscious about his hairstyle. Well, his Wikipedia literally says he's six foot with his hair. Yeah. You remove his hair, and he's no longer that tight. That's why he doesn't, we're just in there. Yes, Simone and Zaghi's game management was great. Of course, starting with Lautauer of the Bench, resting him and then bringing him on and blowing up his confidence.
Alex Sanchez played a pretty good game to be on and showing us that he should not be taken for granted as a player. He did have a goal contribution every other game for Marseille as well, despite his age nowadays. But yeah, Inter, solid as ever, Salah and Atana looked like they were in control. Nothing in control. It looked like they were hanging in there for the vast majority of the game.
But eventually they came undone, and I think they stopped trying towards the end because Lautauer, they didn't even bother to pick him up as he moved back away from two central defenders while they were flabbergasted. Well, they had an equaliser cancelled, and then they conceded shortly after that. It could have very much been a tunel victory, but it's foreign, because they were probably so demoralized after getting their goal cancelled and then conceding another one straight after.
Now, there's a tunel or a foreign, you know, that didn't make too much of a difference for them over there. Also, bro, before I conclude this game, it is worth noting football is a hilarious sport, because you've got people of all shapes and sizes from different parts of the world, right? And you can have two people stood right next to each other. You can have, for example, let's you say, an example, you can have Luca and Streffetza stood next to each other.
Now imagine you're at a bar and you meet these two guys, and you're having a chat with them. Jesus, what is this? A freak show? But it's crazy that they play the same sport. In basketball, everyone's the same size. Rugby, they do have kind of a similar structure. There are body types. Football, you can have pretty much any body type, and it's crazy to watch these body types go head to head. You had in this game, you had Denzel, Danfries, and Brotherage.
Going head to head on the wing and really battling it out. And you can see Brotherage really trying to win this 50-50. But he simply couldn't. And he's just shrugging and pushing and pulling and tugging at Danfries. And he just couldn't dispossess him. Danfries eventually just drove past the bottle of the RON, scored whatever. But it is funny seeing these people, you know, football. You don't see them in many other sports. It's true, man. Even I was thinking rugby.
Sure they've got winger and whatever they call those people. Quarterbacks? Yeah, quarterbacks and all those. It's typically if you're the tackler in that sense, you're a bit bigger. If you're a winger, you're a bit more frail, you're a bit smaller. But not too notable. Like you say, a 6'7 look up against a 5'3 strefetza. It's like pro clubs. You're a winger, just cross it to me, bro. Let's show the nezzar would be pro clubs. It's all the crazy hairstyles, the short band very tall, man.
Literally. Okay, yeah. But that concludes it. As for their position in the table, notice how slow I am speaking. As for their position in the table. To buy myself some time to put it up. Rix on AI bought. I just never told you guys. This is my podcast. Exactly. And he is Jake Fennec. Now, Inter are first with 18 points while Salah Netana sit in 18th with 3 points. Fun fact about Salah Netana. They are actually thinking of recalling Simi in Wankwo.
And for the OGs and the loyal listeners of this podcast, you would know that I have a very special place in my heart for Simi in Wankwo. I think he's a very fun footballer to watch ultimate underdog. Six foot six, lanky, Nigerian should have no business playing at the top level. And he did so and he thrived for that one season with Proto and Aparto. The highest scoring. Well, rather, let me say top three highest scoring African strikers in Syria in a singular season.
I'm not sure if Osiman overtook him. I'm not sure if he has more than at all in a singular season, but he's in the top three. Yes, yes, I'm not sure which word they're in, but they're definitely those three guys. Yes, they're thinking of calling him up again because Dia isn't quite himself and he's not in the best condition at the moment, plus the whole drama with him. Trying to force a move to Wolves last minute.
And the fact that Ikumwe, as the other striker, is currently injured, which puts him in a bit of a crisis. They'll be calling up Simi in Wampo and that'll be fun. Not saying he's going to be good, but it'll be fun to watch. No disrespect to Ulvar Amton Wanderers. Very important club. Anyway, the next game we're going to be covering is, you remember Letre's great start. They've had a bit of a collapse. Letre and Nile, Napoli four.
If there's one team naturally that you lose by that margin to Napoli are strong contenders to take that position. Letre were coming off a 1-0 loss against Juve during this tough spell for them where they're facing some of the best teams in the league. While Napoli were coming off a 4-1 victory against Odinez and Napoli can't stop scoring right now. Thrilling match against Real Madrid yesterday. Oh my God. They were unlucky to lose the game over there.
Great goal by Valverde that went down as a meret own goal. Coming into this game, Letre had lost four of their last six matches against Napoli and Serie A. No massive surprises over there. Hezus and Rahmani were still injured while Lindstorm got his first start and Ossiman was rested ahead of the Real Madrid match. The host missed Lamaq Banda, Kastjod Dermaku and a suspended Mohamed Kaaba. As for the lineups, it was a 4-3-3 formation for both teams starting with Letre.
It was Falcone in goal and a backline of Gallo, Basquerotto, Pongracic and Jean Dre. They had Blin, Ramadani and Rafia in the midfield with Strefetze and Almecifist flanking Christovic. The 4-3-3 for Napoli featured Meret between the sticks and a backline of Di Lorenzo, Ostegaard, Natan and Oliveira and Guisalo Botkanzi-Elinski in the midfield with Lindstorm and Gvarracchelia flanking Giovanni Simeone.
On the 16th minute, the scoring was opened by Ostegaard who actually also scored against Real Madrid this week. Zielinski crossed the ball in with an in-swinger to the far post from a free kick and Ostegaard rose highest heading in, great in the air. Good finish over there by the Norwegian man, shoutout Alen. In the 39th minute, Simeone almost scored a wonder goal.
He linked up with Zielinski outside the box with a quick one-two before his powerful strike curled just wide in the last second, Falcone was absolutely glued to the spot over there. It would have been a wicked goal and a contender for goal of the week. In the second half, Ostegaard made a 2-0 for Napoli. Quaradona was so fast on this counterattack that he took the eye out of Ramadani.
He beat the Albanian for a pace down the flank before fainting across and killing Ramadani once again before his in-swinging cross was headed by Victor Ostegaard. Ostegaard won his bullies nil. In the 88th minute, Napoli youth product, Gaetano Sportes... Hey! Don't call Taano that. Gaetani, Gaetano... my god, I can't say his name. You just called him Gaetano. Fuck you, you did this to me.
In the 88th minute, Gaetano scored his first goal for Napoli after coming up through the ranks at the club that he loves and it was a wonderful goal at that, making it 3-0 after linking up with Raspidori. Raspidori found Gaetano down in space, in space down the middle, rather, and the hometown boy did well to faint a shot and smashed the ball into the corner from the edge of the area, leaving Falcone rooted to the spot. This, in my opinion, was a contender for goal of the week.
Yeah, it was great. We forgot to mention it. It was similar to the attempted strike of Giovanni Simeone earlier. Bam. In the 93rd minute, Poletano put the final nail in the coffin of Lecce. He sent Falcone the wrong way from the spot making it 4. The penalty was won by Gaetano, who was wrested to the ground by Rammadani. Bit of a mere for Rammadani in this game, huh? He didn't have a great time, huh? It must be said. He was at the centre of this Lecce team that was facing an Alpolite team.
That's furious at the moment. He's going to be, you know, his main competitor, this game, his direct opponent in 2-4-3-3 formations was Lobotka, so he didn't really stand a chance at the end. Lobotka was flanked by Anguissa and Zilinski. So, yeah, he didn't really stand much of a chance for Rammadani over there. Yeah, man, tough gig, tough gig for him. I want to highlight naturally, Ostegard's two goals in two games for Napoli, obviously scoring midweek against Real Madrid.
There's no joke, albeit they didn't manage a victory over there. And a good goal over here to open the scoring. He actually opened the scoring in both of those games, that's what we did. But good in the air, he's still quite a young centre-back. He's played in the Premier League before. And with Kim leaving, with Rahmani injured, Napoli had to make do with a new centre-back partnership of Ostegard and Natan. Yeah, 22-year-old and a 23-year-old. They both looked good, man.
Natan's looked good, it's true as well. Natan's recovery is very good. He has good pace getting back, which allows him or Ostegard to push forward. More typically, you see Ostegard joining the attack for the aerial duels and Natan is really capable of dropping back and stopping any kind of counter-attacks over there.
I also wanted to point out, brother, that this was particularly uncharacteristic of Lecce, because Lecce, last season, we went on earlier about how they never conceded more than two goals up until the last match there, when they conceded three, I believe it was. But yeah, this time they have been blown out of the water four-nil against, Annopoli's side was weaker than the Annopoli's side of last season. Granted, they're no walk in the park still.
But in a season where Lecce looked like they could give any of the big teams a hard time. So this result did surprise me. It was definitely a real little check for Lecce, and I think Annopoli scoring early really disrupted the flow, because the rest of the half, sure, Lecce were cautious. They didn't concede again, but then in the second half, they had to go for something, and that's when they opened themselves up for Rosé Mente score in the 51st minute.
Two early goals, one early in the first half, one early in the second, and then at the end they were just trying to get something, and Annopoli basically got them in the 88th and the 93rd. Yeah, I mean, they pretty much, well, they scored before Rosé Mente even came on, which obviously is great for Annopoli.
I think the early goal did wonders for Annopoli rather than it did negatively to Lecce, because we've seen Lecce get back into games and do this and that, but what Annopoli really managed to do over here is start with a bang, and once you see Annopoli get an early goal over there, then their fluidity goes up, they start linking up and attacking and attacking and attacking, and then they brought Ossimenon with a bit of a chip on his shoulder over there.
Gvara Dona seems like he's back on it as well. He had a good game over here. He had been a bit quiet for a while, seems like he was a bit in his head. We are starting to see last year's version of him slowly, slowly coming through. The last thing I want to highlight for Annopoli is essentially Gaetano, because he got his first goal, it was a very impressive fashion.
He's a player whose profile I'm not too aware of, because we haven't seen much of him in the past, but he did look very good in this game. He did, and he's been waiting for his opportunity, and he's most definitely a talented player, so it is nice to see him getting his well-deserved goal over there, Gaetano, only 23 years old. He looks solid, you know? It's difficult to break into a team like Annopoli.
But he'll get his opportunities under this new management, who is rotating the team quite a bit, making all of his substitutions, essentially in every single game, bringing on Gaetano, bringing on Raspadori, bringing on Elmas, bringing on Giovanni Simeone. He's really, really introducing all of these players into the team. Fuck me, in this game he started Lindstrom ahead of Poletano. Just one last thing, actually, that I want to mention. I have one as well, so two.
Two things I want to mention about Napoli. Ossimen seems to be off penalty duties. Yes. The Elinsky, Poletano, who saw the Elinsky step up against Real Madrid and in the game earlier, to this against Odinesa. And Poletano stepping up in this game in the 1930s. I mean, even when he was Capocano near, Ossimen was never on penalties. I think it's only natural now that you give penalties to your top scorer, and he keeps confidence high, his numbers high, he keeps his value high.
You know what I mean? Yeah. Of course, I'm sure Ossimen said, listen, I'm going to stay here. I have many offers, I'm going to reject them, but I need penalty duty. I think I want to be on penalty duty. I think at that point, anyone in the right mind will tell me, yes, Victor, no problem. But after the whole thing that happened, it's obviously natural that maybe he won't want to be on them, especially in the Champions League, when the whole world is watching after what happened.
Man's gone over, I think, appealing up and like, give me penalty, please. He's going to be like, are they going to make fun of the way I'm asking? But the point that I wanted to make was that Gvarnatskélias hadn't scored or assisted in seven months. Seven months it had been. And this game, he both scored and assisted. So this game, to me, can be viewed as a game of relief for Noppen.
A weight lifted off their shoulders because they were away to a letreside, who once again never concedes more than two goals. A letreside that has been giving the top teams a hard time this year and has broken into the top four early on this season, so they were no walk in the park. The manager was manager of the month. They have Krzysztof, who was on fire, Alam Wist and Strefetsa, who looked dangerous, with Lechri and that defense. So yeah, you have Ozzyman scoring after the drama.
Granted, he didn't celebrate as usual, crazy self. But it was probably a relief for the Noppen fans to see Ozzyman scoring, to see Gvarnatskélias getting on the score sheet as well, plus providing an assist. And then, you know, a youth product scoring a goal as well. It was a game of relief for Noppen. Yeah, and a new centre-back partnership doing well, keeping a clean sheet.
Very clean victory for Noppen, who find themselves in third place on 14 points, whilst Lechri find themselves down in seventh on 11 points. Down in seventh, I said, because they were third last week, literally. Next up, Roma 2, Frosinone Nill, Roma secure a vital 2-nil victory at the Stadiolimpo, after a challenging start to the season. They needed a response and they got it in style against the Frosinone side, that simply won't bend over. And even in this game, these guys are here to play.
They don't give a fuck with these. You think this was a clean and easy 2-nil victory? No trust. Clean maybe, but it wasn't easy at all. In their previous match against Vincenno, Roma faced an unpredictable set-back, conceding four goals in newly promoted sides, so when they faced an informed Frosinone, a positive reaction was crucial, because you cannot have two upsets in a row, without calibrated to newly promoted sides.
Roma have faced Frosinone five times in Serie A, winning each time with an aggregate of 14-3. Oh wow, okay. So Roma, 3-4-2-1, Rui Patricio, Mancini, Cristante and Dica, Carzorpe, Bovee, Paredes, Penazzola, the Balapelle, Grini, Locapu. I'm not gonna say any words, just players. Frosinone, 5-4-1. The Rati was in gold now. The Rati was in gold, Marquitta was out on the left, Oghana was out on the right, with three centre-backs, Coli, Roma, Newoli and Monterizzi, Sule was out on the right again.
Jame Baez was out on the left, Mazzatelli and Berence were in the middle with Cuni up front. Alright, then interesting wave, pronouncing Berence and I'm curious to see if we're butchering it or not. What did the commentator call him again? Berenchia? I can't remember. But anyway, Frosinone threatened early on with Marvin Cuni, narrowly missing the target after rounding Rui Patricio, providing an early scare for Roma.
However, it was big Rome who would seal the show for Roma just four minutes after Cuni's near miss. Locapu found himself one-on-one with Frosinone, a defence thanks to a clever assist from Paolo de Bala. Locapu demonstrated his composure, clinical finishing, everything, his experience. He slotted the ball into the bottom corner to give Roma a one lead. Boyed by this breakthrough, Roma pressed to extend their advantage before half-time.
Surprisingly, it was Frosinone who looked more threatening in the final third, despite their impressive play, Frosinone struggled with finishing as Cuni and Mazzatelli missed promising opportunities. Locapu almost came close to scoring a second as well, but he was denied by the talented Stefano Turati. In the second half, Frosinone, unbeaten in their first five games, refused to back down and sought an equaliser.
However, Roma had a chance to double their lead when Eduardo Bova's shot was saved by Turati. The game remained on a knife's edge with Roma searching for a decisive second goal. Rasmus Christensen nearly made an immediate impact of the bench with a header, but Roma's Lorenzo Pellegrini would ultimately secure the victory, honestly seconds after Mati lost for it, because he had some un-fantasy with Bala. Give me a Pellegrini goal, please, and he got it immediately.
Yeah, I have Pellegrini in the other one, so you won't see him in my team. But I won this one in our six-one, so I didn't need anything. Well, it was a Pellegrini goal to win that one. I'm telling you, it's for bringing up the other one. Yes, the other one, Shant, we mentioned again. In the 75th minute, of course, this was Pellegrini capitalised on a superb delivery from the Bala, tapping the ball into the back of the net. This goal sealed the win for Roma, providing a much needed moral boost.
So what can we talk about over here, bro? Let's start off by praising Paulo Dabala, who's been run to the ground and this tight fixture is playing every game, and he still managed to get to assist and looks quite sharp in this game. Yeah, well, thankfully he's fit in this tight period, because Lukaku looks fucking good. And I think a large reason to that is Paulo Dabala.
I think the striking partnership of Dabala Lukaku is one that I really see working under Morinho and with the team around them. It's the classic, you've got a small creative one that's going to create space for Lukaku, for the big guy, he's going to feed him. He's great around the box and inside the box and that's carrying the ball forward. Whilst Lukaku is there for aerial prowess, a lot of power back towards goal, laying it off to him. It is perfect, it's a match made in heaven.
They compliment each other really well and they showcase it really well in this game. Yeah, totally, totally agree with you. I must say as well that Frosinone tactically were set up pretty well because they did have their opportunities. However, of course, the lack of quality was evident, especially in the final third. Kuni didn't quite cut this game. I prefer Kedira, but lack of quality to an extent, yes.
But it's just, I don't want to be harsh on Frosinone because a way to Roma, it was like two top seven teams played against each other. They gave them a fucking heart. Roma needed to fucking take it up a notch to beat Frosinone. They did, they had a spectacular game, Roma. This was their best game yet this season. Yeah, they even have 50% ball possession, which is crazy.
11 shots, 5 on target, of course Frosinone didn't have any on target despite having a clear cut opportunity to be honest with Kuni over there. But yes, let's hope that this does not demoralize Frosinone. Let's hope that, if anything, I think they can hold their heads high that they managed to give Roma such a good game at the Olympics. They'll be happy with that performance, not sure no one's ever happy with a loss, but they'll be happy with the performance. They gave them a game, man.
Playing against each other, that's a struggling, amazing opportunity, but they're going to try even harder to beat you. And it becomes a scrap. So Roma find themselves in 13th with 8 points, while Frosinone find themselves in 9th with 9 points. Yes, the next game we're going to be covering is Fiorentina 3-Kaliari-Nil. Fiorentina coming off a 1-1 away draw to Hoade than Frosinone, while Skaliari were coming off a 3-1 home loss against AC Milan.
Fiorentina are unbeaten in their last 6 matches against Kaliari in Serie A, where they won 3-3 and drew 3, conceding just one goal across this period, which came in a 1-1 draw in January 2022. There were some unfortunate incidences that happened pre-match to this game. There was some violence next to the Francki Stadium. It was an altercation that occurred near the stadium.
Around 30 to 40 visiting Kaliari fans unleashed tear gas, wielded bars and damaged vehicles, leading to a very volatile atmosphere between the two sets of fans. The enforcement were in riot gear and intervening to this quite a big deal. Do you know who was leading the charge in this Kaliari protest? It's the guy from the video we posted. Which one? Oh, you know the one. So yes, that created quite a hostile atmosphere. Don't think that shit doesn't affect the players.
Go watch a conference league final and see. Injuries. Fiorentina had Cassovilli, Dodo, Mina and Pierrozi out whilst Kaliari had Youngto, La Padula, Mancozu, Rogue, Capra, Dossi and DeSorgus. Whoever those last two are. It was a 4-2-3-1 formation for Italianos men with Terra Ciano and Goal and a backline of Parisi, Martinez, Quarta, Milenkovich and Cahjode on the right, Duncan and Arthur in the double pivot with Brecalov, Bana Ventura and Nico Gonzalez playing behind Beltran.
4-4-2 for Kaliari, Radunovic in goal. Christ be with me, give me a second. Hatsi Diacos on the right with Vietesca and Dossena as the centre-backs with Augello on the left, Zappa on the right midfielder, Nandes on the left midfielder, Deola and Makhumbu on the centre midfielder with Shomorodov and Petania up front. That was the least sexy way I've ever said a line up ever. That was horrible, not mine was better when I said the names. It's true, I'll just start doing that.
In the third minute Gonzalez opened the scoring, I also asked for that. Radunovic failed together across as he collided with Dossena the centre-back and the ball fell to Gonzalez who finished into an empty net, very easy goal for him. But you know what, right place, right time, man's on hot form. In the seventh minute, Milenkovic won the award for the stupidest back pass in history after passing it directly to Nandes.
Without even looking up, he wasn't looking up, he just passed it, softly, like he's gonna pass back to his keeper. Bro, if I was the manager, I would have killed him. It was so laxid, easy, it's frustrating to watch. Nandes was cleaned through on goal and despite rounding Terraciano, he was unable to score as it was Cajote who cleared the ball off the line. In the 21st minute, Dossena put the ball into the back of his own net, making it too near for Fiorentina.
He failed to react to Cajote's low crossing time as the ball struck his leg and hit the back of the net. Nightmare for him, he was also the one that collided with Radonovic in the first goal, so very unfortunate game of football for him over there. Fiorentina held on to position for the majority of the rest of the game over here, which is an observation we really showcase to the girls, being like, look, you think they're attacking right now because the girls are on Zalag.
They got it in the 93rd minute, wasn't enough for them, but great to see on Zalag at on the score sheet. It was Mandragora who hoofed the ball upfield from very deep into his own half, and in Zalag did very well to use his strength and the pace of the ball to round Vietesca before chipping the ball over Radonovic. Look kind of emotional about his first goal for the club.
I think in Zalag as a player that has had many a high and many a low, I think Fiorentina's strikers for some reason do tend to struggle, but good to see him get off the mark because maybe opening seven matches without a goal as a player that scored so many with a struggling Spetsia before was starting to get a little bit concerning, but good to see that over there. Kalliari are struggling naturally. They are one of the few teams who haven't gotten a win yet.
I believe the other ones that there are Kalliari, there's Odineze and there's Salernitana. Three of the top of my head, but they're struggling and Fiorentina on the other hand are flying at the moment. They've had a very, very strong start to the season. They have three wins and two draws in their opening six matches. They do have one loss that came against Inter. Very identical start to Juventus over here who also have three victories,
two draws and a loss as you mentioned earlier. But their only defeat being against Inter is very much like Milan. I do think that the Fiorentina team is being underrated this season and how good is Nico Gonzalez and what a start he's had. Four goals in six games for him. Gonzalez is fantastic and his bounce back has been remarkable as last season at this time. He was nowhere to be seen and Italiano was criticising his mental states.
He's mentally unavailable Gonzalez. So nice to see that whatever he was going through he's put behind him and that he's displaying his phenomenal skill quite frankly. Because he's even been sought after from the Premier League as well because he's a fucking good player. Let me tell you what Nico 10 is the way to go for his shirt. We've seen him sporting a different number. We've seen him sporting Gonzalez at the back of the shirt. Nico 10 is a really, really nice kid and Fiorentina.
And he took the 10 from Castrovilli, an active player. That's fucking strange. That's weird. But he's also the... That's probably some negotiation. I'll stay but give me Castrovilli's 10. It's a little quick conversation to have with Castrovilli. Can you please explain to me what's going on with Jorco 11 by the way? Ah, Iconi. He was coming and I'm like who on earth is Jorco? Who is bro? But Iconi has Jorco on his shirt. I'm sure it's part of his name. His name is Jonathan Iconi.
Oh my god, it's like Jama when we're like Jacob, our soap company. When we were kids, we were in Jama. We're like next door. Our neighbour's place is Doorwell because it's Doreen and William. And if you're listening... Hello? And that's your dog in the background. One of their 19 dogs in the past 26 years of my life. Snowy, snoopy, all of them. I remember them all. It must be said that Calliari are super static. And even their players who are meant to be dynamic don't quite show that show more.
It was looking a bit leggy. Zappa isn't quite that burst of pace that you can hit on the counter. So the thing is if Lovumbo isn't playing and Lovumbo did pick up an injury by the way, that's why he did not feature. You can attack this Calliari side and you don't have to worry too much about them getting behind you if Lovumbo is not there. If Lovumbo is there, be very, very scared because they will counter you hard.
But that's what you lack when you have Petania, Pranth, Pavoletti coming off the bench, when you have a 4-4-2 formation with Zappa and none of these outwired hard workers but not particularly good at bursting. You know what I mean? No, I think long stretches aren't there. The way you beat an offensive team, so the way you draw to an offensive team is sitting back playing low block. That's how you beat Fiorentina. Sorry, that's how you draw to Fiorentina.
That's how you draw against Milan. You pile 11 men behind the ball very, very, very deep into your own half and you make their life a living hell. The way you beat them is by playing defensively but countering with a significant burst of pace. After playing out of the press. Exactly. Ball to Midfielder. Midfielder first time ball over the top to a winger type of thing. But what they don't have here is the resources to do something like that.
You have someone like Nandes that could give Petania a good ball, Shumorodov a good ball. But when you're up against the Pacey Martinez, Quarta and Melenkovic and Parisi and Coyote and the rest of these guys, it's a mismatch. At the moment, Kalyari are the worst team in the league. I don't think they're a particularly creative team. They're playing a 4-4-2, showing around the Aries' Prem colours a little bit over there. Very, very Premier League. Brexit football. Brexit football.
Two big boys up front, you know what I mean. They leave a lot to be desired. They have a lot of key pieces out. I really, really hope we see Kalyari pick things up because the way things are going, it's not looking too good for them. Where they're standing in the tables, so Fiorentina are in 5th on 14 points while Kalyari dead last on 2 points. Bro said where they're standing in the tables. Bro, I just spit bars. Sa Swolo nil Monza won.
This was expected to be a favourable matchup for Sa Swolo, particularly after this membering inter. But the final score had a surprise in store as Monza actually got an away victory thanks to a goal by none other than Lorenzo Colombo. His first goal for Monza and his third goal in a row in Seiya. Is it last season he was at Lecce and he did score a few? The season before he was at Spal, never mind. His second season in a row in Seiya. He scored a mental war last season against Naal.
Oh my God, after missing a penalty. Crazy. As for the lineups, Sa Swolo had their 4-2-3-1 formation with Andrea Concili in goal, Tolian on the right, Vignan on the left, Erlich and Rouen at the back with Boloca and Henrique in the holding midfield positions, with Berardi out on the right wing, Laurenta out on the left wing, Thordesvet in the pocket and Pinamonti up front. It was a 3-4-3 formation with Digre Goryeo on goal, Carbone, Marri and Calderola at the back.
I was going to say the three Cs, but there are only two. Giorgio's Chiricopoulos is out on the left, Patrick Truia out on the right, Galliardini and Pesina forming a midfield duo, while Danimo Tau was out on the left wing, Colpani was out on the right wing, Lorenzo Colombo was up front as the lone striker. As the match began, Sasuolo, fresh from their impressive victories over Juve and interlocked Poiz to continue their winning streak.
Early in the game, Armand Laurenta had a golden opportunity to put Sasuolo ahead, but his effort was saved following a brilliant run. This would prove to be a theme this game, as Laurenta did miss a couple of sitters, not only him to be honest. Domenico Berardi, the legend, played a crucial role, of course he did. He forced a smart double save from Michela Digre Goryeo early on in the first half. Perhaps not early on, but in the first half.
Monza's Patrick Truia had a couple of opportunities to break the deadlock, but he failed to convert, leading to a goalless first half. After the break, the momentum shifted as Sasuolo, the Giorgio's Chiricopoulos, fired over from a promising position. Now it makes sense, Bro, why Anthony Locassio, or excuse the pronunciation of his name, listens to us. He's Greek. There we go.
Bro is Greek, Australian and Italian. He'll find a few players to follow, I think. Shout out to him, by the way, what a guy. He must die, Bro. He's gonna die when... Must die, Bro! He must die! Death to him! Fuck you! No, what I was meant to say is he must have died at your pronunciation of that Greek write-backs name. Hatsi di Acos, I think. Thank you, because I'm tight.
Yeah, so Lorenzo Colombo, wearing the Monza colours on loan from Milan, tested Sasuolo's Andrea Constioli with a well-placed shot. However, Sasuolo faced a setback when their own number nine, Andrea Pinamonte, had to leave the field due to injury. Monza were growing into the game at this point and found the breakthrough they were looking for. Lorenzo Colombo took matters into his own hands when he won a 50-50 on a long ball out wide.
He drove, he cut inside and he calmly slotted the ball into the net opening, his scoring account for the season. I didn't know he had that in his locker. Running down the wing, cutting inside, showing good technique. Colombo's an exciting player. He had a goal every 30 minutes for Milan's Primavera. The stats don't always mean you're going to be a great player. Patrick Petrone was the leading goal scorer for Milan's Primavera for quite a while.
Yeah, there's a 15-year-old right now scoring like seven goals again. Come on, man. Wanted by City, wanted by the best team. They can all fuck off. They can all fuck off. We haven't had a youth system striker come through the ranks and be the best in Italy in way too long. The last one was fucking what? Davideh Talabria. He's not a striker. He's the best in Italy. But a path, what kind of thing.
I know they didn't come up through the ranks. From a young age, 17 years old, 18 years old, like that. Come on, you're the one, bro. Please do it. We'll see. It's always complicated with you. This guy's 15 and scoring with the Primavera. It's crazy. I mean, in two years, I'll be seeing him in the first team for sure. Just a little bit.
Yes, Monsa had opportunities to extend their lead but struggled to capitalise, substitute Sanweale, Birendelli, Mr. Trons, to double the advantage while La Oriente also missed another golden opportunity to equalise. This time, Colombo himself was denied a brace by the offside flag late into the game. So this basically was such a small demonstrating how truly wasteful they can be. And Monsa demonstrating how if you hang in there and things don't go quite well for your opponent,
they will get frustrated. You will be able to get an opportunity. You will get your opportunity eventually. And you can win games if you are tight enough. Yeah, and they showed classic Monsa they're so good at attacking down those flanks.
Naturally, when you play a 3-4-3 formation, you've got so many wide players, Churi and Colpani on one side, Kiria Coppolis and Dani Mota on the other, who saw a lot of attacks coming down the left-hand side over here through Dani Mota, very, very involved in the game, maybe not too clean up front, but does a lot of damage alongside Kiria Coppolis out on that left-hand side. What a shame it is to see Pinamonti come off injured. He's had such a good spell of form. Fuck that, man. That's amazing.
I'm not quite sure about his condition or how bad the situation is, the injury, but let's hope that he has a speed recovery because he has started the season quite well. This game was also a display of how good Consigli and Di Gregorio can be, particularly Di Gregorio. Of course, Consigli, we do know that he's passed his prime, but Di Gregorio had a phenomenal game, and he often does, for Monsa, and I'm sure that he has a bright future.
Since Vicario has left the league, I think that the underrated goalkeepers that should be grabbed at the moment are Di Gregorio and possibly Montepo, from the ones who are ready. And Falcoone. Falcoone, yes, as well. Those three, I would say. Those three, and then you have slightly younger, like Turati. Turati is looking very good, yes. For the big step yet. But yeah, Falcoone and Di Gregorio, actually, in particular, bro, are super. I would put Montepo slightly.
Even Montepo. At all Montepo, this hand would most saves in this area, which is probably because he plays for Verona, so he's got a lot of shots, but hey man, you need someone to stop them. Exactly, yes. So Osasvolo are 11th with 9 points, while Monsa are 12th with 9 points also. The next game we're going to be covering was the nil-nil draw between Torino and Verona. Torino were coming off a 2-nil loss away to Lazio as Verona were coming off a 1-nil home loss to Atalanta.
Torino have lost just one of their last 14 matches against Helas Verona and Seria, so they really do have their number discounting this game, naturally. Torino's injuries were Buon Giorno, Gigi, well rather Buon Giorno and Gigi, while Verona's injuries were Braf, Kabal, Doig, Roustic and Imbula. When it comes to the starting lineups, it was a 3-4-1 formation for Torino, with Vanya and Gold on the back line of Ricardo Rodriguez, Schoers and Sazanov.
Lazaro on the left, Sopi out on the right with Ricci and Illich in the midfield, with Radonic on the left, Sek on the right and Duvan Zapata up front. Also a 3-4-2-1 formation for Verona with Montepo and Gold on the back line of Manjani, Davidovic and Amione, Terraciano on the right, Lazovic on the left, Duda and Folloruncio on the middle, Dutting-Gonj and Suslov playing behind Cruz. We should go on one. Our mother is on one right now. That was great, yes.
Youngster brought in from Argentina, making his first appearance further on and his first appearance in Serie A. Torino actually, the team that looked more positive in the first half, getting close through Sek and Lazaro, but Montepo was on top of it, and he complimented him and rightly so, he had a great match over here. Verona threatened in the 68th minute as a Falcone, hit the crossbar, however it was meant to go to Juric.
Juric hit a bicycle kick from close distance in the 75th minute, but it went straight into Vanya. Not much else happened in this game, it was a tight NKG FA, however Torino are showcasing that they do struggle to secure wins despite their positive performances. Do you agree with that? Yes, I totally agree with you and it's also worth noting that Verona can really shut up shop well. These are my two teams and I shut up shop very well. Yeah, that's it.
Yeah, a lot of defensive battles and aggressive play over here. You saw both teams trying to utilize their physicality and their strength, they are two very physical and strong teams, and naturally when two very physical teams collide, well, it gets physical. An interesting stat from this game is that both strikers, which are Cruz and Duvanz Apaata, didn't get a single shot away. So that pretty much tells you how this game went down, brother.
Yep, the big men up front were more tightly and the supply was cut quite frankly. Yep, I think both teams will take a point and run over here after both not having the best performances, however they did fight to the nail in order to secure the point. Looking forward to the two rinder be this weekend where Torino will take on Juventus. Torino find themselves in 10th place on 9 points, while Verona find themselves in 15th place on 8 points.
I'm also going to be doing the next game that we are going to be covering, which is Udinese 2, Genoa 2. Udinese were coming off a 4-1 loss against Napoli, whereas Genoa were coming off a 4-1 victory over Roma. Udinese are unbeaten in their last 13 matches against Genoa in Serie A, winning 6 and drawing 7, however they have now drawn each of their last 4 matches.
The Gryffone were coming off a shock 4-1 win over Roma on Thursday evening, but Badalj, Sturtman and Sabelli did not make the trip due to injury, whilst Aaron Martin returned from suspension. Udinese were still without a victory and the absentee list included Ezebue, Bosse, Dellefeu, Brenner, Cabacele and Semedo, and a couple of other Pokémon too.
It was a 3-5-2 formation for Udinese's Investigin goal, Christensen, Bujol and Perez at the back, with Camara on the left, Ebosello on the right and Amitviltri of Sandilov, Rich Wallis and Pereira, Success and Luka formed the front too.
It was a 3-5-2 formation also for the visitors, with Martinez in goal and a backline of Dragosin, Bani and Vasquez, De Wintour on the right, Haps on the left and Amitviltri of Torsby, Frendrup and Malinovsky, Gudmetsen and Retegui started alongside each other up front. In the 14th minute Gudmetsen opened the scoring and he smashed the ball to the top corner from the edge of the area. Frendrup provided the pass after collecting the ball from a mid-placed Sylvesterie pass.
In the 23rd, Luka made it 1-1, the Italian Giants smashed a half volley into the back of the net from point blank range after Haps failed to deal with a cross. In the 28th minute Gudmetsen slotted into the bottom corner, but Haps was offside throughout the build-up, leaving the score at 1-1. Just before the half-time we said in the 41st minute Gudmetsen made it 2-1 for the away side.
Retegui got the assist, it was a 2v3 situation, Retegui played the ball to Gudmetsen, who cut inside, passed the defender and slotted the ball into the near corner after a deflection of Christensen's stroke of luck, but good combination from the two strikers. In the 91st minute and then after a second half of Genoa hanging on for this victory, their substitute Mattouro put the ball into the back of his own net. A corner was whipped in by Samardzic and Sylvesterie failed to claim the ball.
There was an open net and the young Eureguayan, Moutaro headed the ball into his own net minutes after coming on. Very unfortunate for the youngster who obviously got an opportunity over here and it just didn't go his way, it happens and we hope he bounces back. A good game of football over here, 2-2 was the final result. Obviously Gudmetsen getting both goals there for Genoa, he now has three goals this season, 18 successful dribbles, nobody has more.
He's the first player from Iceland to score two goals in a single Serie A match and he seems to be getting well with his teammates and especially his manager Alberto Gelardino who he said he looks up to a lot and they share a lot of well. Gelardino shares a lot of advice to Gudmetsen who listens like a good student. He also, Gudmetsen comes from four generations of footballers, both from his mother's side and his father's side which is cool to see that he's managed to keep that up.
Odenezs still haven't gotten a victory this season and they struggled to get a point. They got a point through a last minute Genoa own goal. Needless to say, Odenezs are struggling, what do you make of them so far? I think they're the type of team that has to grow into the season. Things aren't really going their way at the moment. They will have growing pains. Lukka is a young striker, he just scored his first goal right now.
This game, Pereira has only just come in after attempting to leave so some odds it was pretty much their only creative outlet up until that point but now they have a few members who can actually make a difference together and I think that they can improve. I think time will be their best friend in the season, correctly said. Naturally, we do need to move on from this game, guys, because we spent a lot of time actually discussing the previous match.
Odenezs do find themselves in 17th place just out of the relegation zone on four points. Why is Genoa find themselves in 14th on eight points? The next game, the final game, that we're actually not going to be discussing because we're going to hand over to our friend Lukka from Bologna. Bologna beat Ampoli 3-0 and Rossellini scored a fantastic hat-check over here. Before we hand over to Lukka, brother, I just want to ask you, does Rossellini deserve a spot in the national team?
Absolutely, and I don't think it's a debate. They've got their left-hand side sorted with Chiesa and their right-hand side is competition between Berardi and Rossellini. It doesn't necessarily have to start, but you should totally be there. Bologna lined up their usual 4-2-3-1 formation with Skorupski and goal. Karotza as the right-back, Christensen as the left-back, Bokehma and Kala Fiori at the back.
Moron, Froyler were in the middle with Rossellini, Ferguson and Doyon, Zergzi playing up front. For Ampoli, it was their 4-3-1-2 formation with Berisha and goal. Kakak, Ciel, Luperto and Valukevic, along with Ebuahi at the back. Mali, Rannokki and Maron were in the middle with Baldanzi as the trequatista. Kambi again, Taputo were up front. Now over to Lukka, guys. Thank you for listening because we're not going to see you again. We love you and see you next week.
Hey guys, what's up? As you imagine, I'm going to send you a quick voice note about Bologna Football Club because I think we need to highlight what we're doing in this season. We started with a loss against AC Milan, that is probably one of the favourites to win the Serie A this year. Only lost one game against Inter and that's the only game we lost throughout all these first games.
The really important thing is that every game we played we were not dominating, but the majority, yes, but we had the control of the games. We already played against Milan, we already played against Naples and Juventus and we are eighth in the tables. The last four games we didn't even concede a goal. I think if you watch how Bologna is playing, it's really a very...
Yes, I was saying we are a very good team and we need to consider that unfortunately the legacy in the A's told us four points and I'm not talking about random things, I'm talking about clear facts because against Juventus everybody said that when Ndoya went down that was a clear penalty, we were one nil up. Against Juve we would have gone 2-0 probably and with a red card for them and so the game would have been ours.
And then against Monza last game they stole another goal from Ferguzon with an assist of Zirgze that was not comprehensible what they did. I have no idea why they disallowed the goals and there were two goals done. We would have been in fourth place with Naples by now. Thiago Mota is expressing the real football.
In every game we played we showed good football, never holding back, never only defensive and I really think Bologna is playing great football and I know you guys always taking consideration every small team. Unfortunately big TV shows never talk about Bologna and so here is to share with you that I know that taking consideration every club in the CDA. Have a good one guys!