ITALIAN SERIE A : SATURDAY – 28/12/2024 (PHOTO – LAUTARO MARTINEZ SCORES FOR INTER MILAN)

THERE WAS HIGH-OCTANE ACTION IN THE CAGLIARI VS INTER MILAN MATCH LAST NIGHT, WITH INTER MAKING 574 PASSES, WITH AN 87% PASS ACCURACY, AND CAGLIARI 291 PASSES, WITH A 72% PASS ACCURACY, WITH CAGLIARI HAVING 5 SHOTS, WITH 1 ON TARGET, AND INTER HAVING 20 SHOTS, WITH 5 ON TARGET, INCLUDING THREE CRACKERS WHICH SUCCESSFULLY HIT-THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET FROM INTER’S ALESSANDRO BASTONI AT 53 MINS., HIS TEAM-MATE LAUTARO MARTINEZ AT 71 MINS., AND A SUPERB PENALTY FROM HAKAN CALHANOGLU AT 78 MINS., MEANING THAT THIS EXCITING MATCH ENDED IN A 3 – 0 WIN TO INTER MILAN!

SERIE A : CAGLIARI VS INTER MILAN 28/12/2024

IT WAS ULTIMATELY ALL-SQUARE OVER AT THE LAZIO VS ATALANTA MATCH, WITH AN EARLY(ISH) GOAL FROM LAZIO’S FISAYO DELE-BASHIRU AT 27 MINS., WITH PLENTY MORE ACTION ALONG-THE-WAY, WITH 11 SHOTS, AND 5 ON-TARGET FOR LAZIO, AND 14 SHOTS, WITH 4 ON TARGET FOR ATALANTA, INCLUDING ATALANTA’S MARCO BRESCIANINI’S LATE CRACKING EQUALISER AT 88 MINS.. WHERE HE JUST CAUGHT THE BALL ON THE SIDE OF HIS BOOT, AND TAPPED IT INTO THE GOAL AS COOL AS YOU LIKE! CLASS!

SERIE A : LAZIO VS ATALANTA 28/12/2024

GENOA HAD A GOOD NIGHT IN THEIR MATCH AGAINST EMPOLI, WITH TWO CRACKING GOALS FROM MILAN BADELJ AT 46 MINS. AND CALEB EKUBAN AT 68 MINS., AND WITH EMPOLI’S SEBASTIANO ESPOSITO GETTING ONE BACK WITH A STUNNER AT 74 MINS., THE GAME ENDED IN A 2 – 1 WIN TO GENOA. INTERESTINGLY THOUGH, EMPOLI HAD 60% POSSESSION OF THE BALL, AND MADE 451 PASSES, WITH AN 80% PASS ACCURACY, WITH GENOA MAKING 316 PASSES, WITH A 72% PASS ACCURACY, SO LOT’S OF INTERESTING ACTION TO EVALUATE!

SERIE A : EMPOLI VS GENOA 28/12/2024

THERE WAS AN EXCITING BURST OF ENERGY EARLY DOORS IN THE PARMA VS MONZA GAME, WITH MALDINI TAKING FULL ADVANTAGE OF THE POSITION HE HAD FOUND HIMSELF IN, WITH HIS FIRST ATTEMPT ON GOAL, BOUNCING OFF THE CROSSBAR, AND BACK INTO HIS PATH, WHICH HE THEN ATTEMPTED TO BACKHEEL IN, (WHICH WAS CLEARED), AND THEN IT WAS PATRICK CUIRRIA’S TURN TO HAVE A GO, WHICH HE THUMPED INTO THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET, BUT IT WAS DISALLOWED BY VAR AS HE HAD ‘FAILED TO KEEP THE BALL IN PLAY ON THE PULL-BACK.’ THE ENERGETIC MALDINI THEN HIT-THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET AGAIN AT 9 MINS., BUT CAPRARI WAS OFF-SIDE BEFORE HE ROLLED IT ACROSS, SO IT WAS RULED OUT. A BIT LATER THERE WAS MORE DRAMA, (OF THE ARGEY-BARGEY VARIETY) WHEN PABLO MARI WAS GIVEN HIS SECOND YELLOW CARD OF THE MATCH AFTER A DUBIOUS TACKLE ON COULIBALY JUST INSIDE THE PENALTY AREA, WHERE HE SEEMED TO GET TO THE BALL FIRST, BUT ALSO SEEMED TO TREAD ON HIS ANKLE! SO THAT LEFT MONZA DOWN TO 10 MEN. CUE A PENALTY, WHICH WAS SUCCESSFULLY TAKEN BY PARMA’S HERMANI AT 56 MINS. AND THEN IT WAS OVER TO MONZA’S PEDRO PEREIRA TO SCORE A BEAUT AT 85 MINS., WITH PARMA’S LAUTARO VALENTI FINISHING THINGS OFF WITH A LATE CRACKER AT 90 +8 MINS. MEANING THAT THIS DYNAMIC MATCH ENDED IN A 2 – 1 WIN TO PARMA!

SERIE A : PARMA VS MONZA 28/12/2024