Italian Football 2018/19

[<<reed>>]

Icardi is so underrated outside Italy, elite striker.

 

[NieThePiet]

Handanovic saves everything against Napoli.

 

[BobP]

Pescara under Zeman are doing quite well. Things are very cluttered up top so they're only a point away from the top spot. After a high scoring start to the season, things have quietened with a string of low scoring wins.

Unsurprisingly, the main striker, Stefano Pettinari, has scored 8 goals in 10 and is the 2nd highest goalscorer in the league.

In typical fashion, Zeman has blooded youngsters, some who have come through the Pescara academy, some who are loan from other clubs, some who have been plucked from the relative obscurity of Italian, something Zeman is particularly good at. Although Coulibaly was bought by Udinese, he's been loaned back to Pescara and has been utilised. He's also played the likes of Palazzi and Valzania, whose an FM15 legend. There are also the likes of Del Sole, who whilst a Pescara product is now owned by Juventus, and Christian Capone, two talented attackers. Just recently Pescara brought in a young kid by the name of Franck Kanoute, who was plucked from the Juventus academy, and he looks quite good, the quintessential Zeman pivot in midfield. I'm sure plenty more will be blooded

Hope they get promoted back into Serie A, if they pick up some strong momentum, they just might do it.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

What a player higgy is 2 wonderful goals against Milan

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

Also that was the 101 goal from Higgy in Italy that average 25 goals a season since 2013 impressive stuff.

 

[Tir Na Nog]

Immobile was on fire then got a move to Dortmund before fading for a while but now he's at Lazio and back this best. 14 goals in 11 league games for the sky blues.

 

[Tir Na Nog]

Really like Candreva, playing as an orthodox right winger today but I feel he'd also be great as a wing-back too, has so much about his game.

 

[BobP]

I jinxed Pescara FFS, two losses since my last post about them.

 

[Tir Na Nog]

Saw that Juve conceded 3 goals today, unusual for them, I wonder who was in goals for them?

 

[Rumour]

May not be the best time to post this, on the heels of Italy's failure to qualify for next year's World Cup, but all the criticism of Ventura had me thinking of an excellent feature by Paolo Bandini from earlier this year about the country's school of football management - figured this is as good a place as any to put it...

Every aspiring manager in Italy must pass through here. It is the only place in the country where it is possible to obtain either a UEFA A licence—a pre-requisite for anyone who intends to coach at a professional level—or the subsequent UEFA Pro—mandatory for first-team managers in the country's top two divisions.

The Scuola Allenatori, though, long predates either qualification. Managers have been learning their craft here for more than half a century. It is a place that unites all those Italian tacticians presently leading the way across Europe and many more who came before them. Conte, Carrera, Ranieri and Ancelotti all studied here, but so, too, did the likes of Arrigo Sacchi and Giovanni Trapattoni.

So, was it the education they received at the Scuola Allenatori that set them up for such success? And if so, what might other nations learn from the model established here?

To put it another way: What is Italy's big secret?

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...re-conte-ancelotti-and-allegri-learned-to-win

 

[<<reed>>]

Montella got a sack and was replaced by Gattuso. You can see the difference between Dortmund and Milan: the former were ready to fire Bosz, but didn't find a better candidate and stuck with him, meanwhile Milan just gave it Gattuseh till the end of the season.

 

[carter777]

 

[<<reed>>]

Napoli - Juve, the biggest game of the week is in 15 minutes.

 

[<<reed>>]

fat bastard scores

 

[Windowlicker]

Should have signed Gonzalo Higuain ffs

 

[GeorgiaGunner]

Should have signed Gonzalo Higuain ffs

 

[krengon]

That's their first point in serie a too

 

[BobP]

Zeman about to get the sack, one more loss will probably do it.

Pescara have dropped a ridiculous 10 points from winnable positions so far this season. Nearly all of those dropped points have come in games where they were already 3 or 2 goals ahead. If they'd seen out all of those games, they'd be on 34 points, a point behind the league leaders.

Guy just has no chill.

 

[NieThePiet]

Szczesny is incredible, game saver against Roma in the nearly last minute. 0 errors, saves everything.

We let him go for 10mio.

 

[BobP]

Szczesny is incredible, game saver against Roma in the nearly last minute. 0 errors, saves everything.

We let him go for 10mio.

He's been phenomenal for them so far.

Speaks volumes about the state of our coaching department.