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Serge Cosmi returns from wilderness to restore pride at struggling Crotone
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It ought to have been the most predictable result of the weekend. Fifth-placed Napoli against last-placed Crotone, two teams separated by42 points in the standings and trending even further apart. The Partenopei were ...
Inside No 9: no hexes yet for Giroud as Verona lose voice in Milan again
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For almost an hour, it had seemed as though a curse was about to be broken. Hellas Verona have never won a game at San Siro: not even in that magical 1984-85 season when they became champions of Italy. Sixty-eight tim...
Pirlo is exposed again but others are really to blame for Juventus’s troubles
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Pippo Inzaghi put his arm around Andrea Pirlo’s shoulder before kick-off at the Allianz Stadium. It was an instinctive moment of reconnection between two men, who played together for a decade at Milan. They were broug...
Milan and Juventus facing real threat of missing out on Champions League
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Was Fabio Paratici still in denial on Monday night? Before Juventus kicked off away to Fiorentina on Sunday, their chief football officer insisted nobody at the club was even considering the possibility that they migh...
Álvaro Morata, a happy accident of fate, rescues Juventus again
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With their title hopes hanging by a thread, Juventus turned once more to their Iberian saviour. You know the one: tall, dark hair, a repeat Champions League winner from his time at Real Madrid. A forward who has lifte...
Ronaldo embraces perfection as he declares himself ahead of Pelé
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Cristiano Ronaldo achieved perfection on Sunday. One goal with his head, another with his right foot and finally a third with his left. A perfect hat-trick, in the language of football. Perhaps it felt a little less f...
Juventus thank their lucky stars as ‘Fatal Verona’ hand them a lifeline
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Renaissance man: how Mancini turned Italy from mess to winning machine
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Roberto Mancini has never been content to just take part. Aged nine, he became so frustrated at losing a table tennis game that he threw a bat at his cousin’s head. A 24, he was part of a Sampdoria side that won Seri...
Chris Smalling’s return gives Roma hope for Manchester United clash
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As Paulo Fonseca watched relegation-threatened Cagliari score against his Roma team for the third time, he chose to see the glass as half-full. This had been another grim Sunday afternoon in a spring packed full of th...
Giovanni Simeone writes own story as Verona leave Juventus on the canvas
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Giovanni Simeone gets tired of every conversation coming back to his father. All through his development as a youth player, he had to put up with the suspicions of strangers. People who might have never seen him play,...
Inter fail to knock Juventus out as top-four fight goes the distance
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The weekend began with a boxing match. “Let’s get ready to rumble!” roared Romelu Lukaku as he introduced Antonio Conte and Lautaro Martínez to a makeshift ring at Inter’s training ground. The manager and his striker ...
Tearful Donnarumma lays marker as Italy’s heir to Buffon
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Giorgio Chiellini took the cup to bed with him on Sunday night. Bene, it would be more accurate to say Monday morning. Italy’s captain insisted he was only continuing a tradition established by Fabio Cannavaro after t...
Juventus suffer another humiliation as Milan halt their own slump
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If a single image could capture how far Juventus’s sights have fallen in this catastrophic campaign, it might be the anguish on Paulo Dybala’s face after he fired wide at the end of their defeat to Milan. There were s...
Roberto Mancini honours promise to make Italy champions of Europe
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The England fans sang “It’s Coming Home”, but a banner at the blue end of Wembley begged to differ. “Football’s Coming Rome” might not be good grammar, but a little artistic licence must be allowed when your team is m...
Lorenzo Insigne’s stunning goal a defining moment for the new Italy
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If we needed one moment to sum up Italy’s transformation over the past four years, it arrived in the 44th minute at the Allianz Arena. Lorenzo Insigne’s goal was a thing of beauty, cutting in from the left and curling...
Mancini’s Italy plot to overtake Spain after following in rival’s footsteps
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The article in Gazzetta dello Sport was only laying out the facts, but it read like an audible groan. “Spain again,” ran the opening line in Italy’s pink-paged sports daily. “Always Spain. We’ve been facing them since...