Three Italian teams move on in the Champions League, but none avoid the playoffs: Antonio Conte’s Napoli are out In the end, three Italian teams go through, and the one left out is the most representative of Italian football itself: […]
Read in Italian on ilNewyorkese After 22 matchdays, the Nerazzurri already look clear favorites for the title, with no real challengers in sight. Serie A seems to have definitively found its dominant force: Chivu’s Inter, who over the past two
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Today’s Inter are the exact snapshot of Italian football: the values expressed in Serie A are relative rather than absolute. There was a time when Serie A was able to express absolute values, because the best players in the world
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This is a Serie A season in which anything can happen, every single matchday. The only real certainty seems to be Inter’s breakaway. There’s a phrase that has become iconic, spoken years ago by popular Sky Sport Italia commentator Fabio
Allegri’s Milan win away at Como in Thursday night’s rescheduled fixture widens the philosophical gap between “result-first” football and “play-first” football. Last night delivered a very entertaining match between Fabregas’ Como and Allegri’s Milan. In the first half, Como dictated
Inter–Napoli was exactly the match Italian football needed at a time when the game desperately needs stories and heroes. Football is going through a major transition, one in which its very future as a mass-market spectacle is under discussion. In
While Chivu comes into the head-to-head clash with a +4 cushion and a full-strength squad at his disposal, Conte’s Napoli are ravaged by injuries and are putting all their faith in Højlund. Antonio Conte was harshly criticized a few days
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Matchday 19 of Serie A completely wiped out home advantage: no home wins at all—something that had happened only three other times before. It was supposed to be a “quiet” transitional round for the teams at the top of the
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Inter, Milan and Napoli: a brutal run of three matches in seven days starts today, due to the rescheduled Matchday 16, which could already prove decisive. It’s only early January, yet the feeling is that the season is about to
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Matchday 18 of Serie A goes into the books by consolidating established certainties, confirming trends and sidestepping surprises. It’s no longer news that Allegri’s Milan grind out another “short snout” win, unbeaten in 16 straight league matches and now fully
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