When looking at the schedule of the 5th Giornata, all eyes had to be on Milan-Inter. The Derby was important not only for fans of those teams but for fans of other teams, as everyone had to hope Inter were stopped. And they were stopped, as the Rossoneri prevailed with a thunderous header from Ronaldinho, who scored his first goal in a Milan jersey.

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The third giornata of Serie A had less drama and surprises then the last two weeks, but it was interesting and exciting nonetheless. All the big teams won (including Milan for the first time): Inter swept aside Torino, Juventus won a tricky away game vs. Cagliari, Roma ended their "crisis" by soundly defeating Reggina 3-0, Milan finally won with a 4-1 victory over Lazio, and Fiorentina keep chugging along (with Gila scoring goals) with a win vs.

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MEXES E PANUCCI TORNANO A DISPOSIZIONE.PIZARRO,JUAN,TONETTO E PERROTTA SONO OUT.DONI STRINGE I DENTI

Totti c'è, ma per la panca

Francesco ha un'infiammazione al tendine rotuleo. Brozzi: «È tutto a posto»

Di GIANLUCA PIACENTINI
E' un bollettino medico, ma sembra un bollettino
di guerra, quello relativo agli infortunati
giallorossi. Click to continue reading...

LA PARTITA DI SABATO POTREBBE ESSERE QUELLA GIUSTA PER IL RIENTRO DI PHILIPPE. SIMONE DEVE ATTENDERE

Contro la Reggina torna Mexes

Il professor Mariani: «L'ho visitato, sta bene». Perrotta aspetta l'Atalanta

Di GIANLUCA PIACENTINI
Perrotta no, Juan forse, Mexes
sì. Click to continue reading...

EMERGENZA INFORTUNI

Perrotta,Mexes,Totti:out

Anche Juan è ko. Ci sarà invece la Bestia, pure lui
appena tornato dal Brasile. Doni stringe i denti e
va tra i pali. A destra ballottaggio Cicinho-Cassetti

Di GIANLUCA PIACENTINI
«Il calciatore Philippe Mexes non è
partito per la trasferta di Palermo a
causa di una distrazione collaterale
mediale al ginocchio sinistro a seguito di trauma
contusivo riportato durante l'ultimo incontro
disputato con la Nazionale». Click to continue reading...

GLI ALTRI E IL CAPITANO

Anche Totti fra i rinnovi

Francesco vuole giocare almeno fino al 2014
Nell'agenda di Trigoria pure Pizarro e Cassetti

Di GIANLUCA PIACENTINI
«Il contratto scade nel 2010, tra
un po' voglio rinnovare e spostare
la data di altri due o tre
anni. Click to continue reading...

La lista integrale consegnata dalla Roma alla Uefa per la partecipazione alla Champions League 2008/2009.

PORTIERI

12 Pipolo Pietro
25 Artur
27 Julio Sergio
32 Doni

DIFENSORI

2 Panucci Christian
3 Cicinho
4 Juan
5 Mexes Philippe
15 Loria Simone
17 Riise John Arne
22 Tonetto Max
77 Cassetti Marco

CENTROCAMPISTI

7 Pizarro David Marcelo Cortes
8 Aquilani Alberto
11 Taddei Rodrigo Ferrante
16 De Rossi Daniele
19 Júlio Baptista
20 Perrotta Simone
33 Brighi Matteo

ATTACCANTI

9 Vucinic Mirko
10 Totti Francesco
23 Montella Vincenzo
24 Menez Jeremy

LISTA B – GIOVANI

Brosco Riccardo
Bertolacci Andrea
Crescenzi Alessandro
D'Alessandro Marco
89 Okaka Chuka Stefano

Da Romanews. Click to continue reading...

Önce kadrolar:

Inter (4-3-3): Julio Cesar; Maicon, Burdisso (45' st Rivas), Cambiasso, Maxwell; J. Zanetti, Stankovic, Muntari; Figo (21' st Balotelli), Ibrahimovic, Mancini (26' st Jimenez). A disp. Toldo, Pelè, Crespo, Cruz. All. Mourinho
Roma (4-2-3-1): Doni; Cassetti, Mexes, Juan, Riise (33' st Tonetto); De Rossi, Pizarro; Perrotta (41' st Totti), Aquilani (43' st Okaka), Baptista; Vucinic. Click to continue reading...

(Fabio says hi to Abidal)

Barzagli Down & Out

When Donadoni released his squad list with only 7 defenders, I simply thought "alright, whatever". When Canna went down and Gamberini was forced into the fold I thought "Shit, calling up 7 defenders, 5 of whom are into the Geritol stage of their careers wasn't too brilliant, was it?

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The "biscuits" are only Scandinavian. The miracle of bern repeats itself, but this time it is Italian and not German, like in the 1954 World Cup. Italy gets rid of the Portuguese nightmare and advances to the second round. Italy was great against France and while they beat the French team coached by Domenech 2-0, something they have not done in regular time since the 1978 World Cup, The Netherlands beat Romania 2-0, allowing us to advance to the quarterfinals that will be played on Sunday, the 22nd, in Vienna, against Spain. Click to continue reading...

Azzurri - Les Blues! Do or die! The World Cup finalists on the edge of elimination.

France: Coupet, Clerc, Gallas, Abidal, Evra, Govou, Toulalan,
Makelele, Ribery, Benzema, Henry.
Subs: Mandanda, Frey,
Boumsong, Vieira, Malouda, Anelka, Nasri, Thuram, Squillaci,
Gomis, Sagnol, Diarra. Click to continue reading...

The score was 1-1 in Zurich. A good Italy, that is not able to beat Romania despite dominating the field. Lobont, the Romanian goalkeeper, was able to save just about everything and in the final minutes Buffon was able to black a penalty kick by Mutu after a foul that only the referee saw, the same referee that in the first half had annulled a regular goal to Luca Toni. Click to continue reading...

Well we've now seen all of the teams play and after a slow start the tournament seems to be coming to life with the quickest teams packed full of relative youngsters, Holland, Portugal and Spain, showing the value of fast, counter-attacking football and winning relatively comfortably (although both Italy and Russia were slightly unlucky to end up on the wrong side of absolute gubbings). Click to continue reading...

Netherlands 3-0 Italy
And the answer to the question of how Italy would cope without Fabio Cannavaro is: Not well at all. I can't remember the last time they lost this badly. Maybe they should have just put Cannavaro out there anyway, crutches and all.

The game turned to shit for Italy in the 25th minute, with Ruud van Nistelrooy scoring a goal that at first appeared to be blatantly offside. Click to continue reading...

Highlights from the Holland vs. Italy match on Day 3 Footytube Holland 3 - 0 Italy Van Nistelrooy 25 (H), Sneijder 31 (H), Van Brockhurst 80 (H) Holland: Van der Sar; Ooijer, Mathijsen, Bouhlarouz (Heitinga 77), Van Bronckhorst; De Jong, Engelaar; Sneijder, Van Der Vaart, Kuyt (Afellay 81); Van Nistelrooy (Van Persie 70) Italy: Buffon; Panucci, Materazzi (Grosso 54), Barzagli, Zambrotta; Click to continue reading...

Tonight was a good night for Italy but not in the conventional sense. I loved Donadoni as a player and i have no doubt he will one day make a good manager but he is out of his depth right now.From playing people in the wrong spot (Zambrotta at left back instead of Right back,Panucci on the left) To choosing the 4-3-3 against a nation that has mastered its intricacies in the least is naive. Click to continue reading...

France Raymond Domenech's squad on paper is definitely Euro final material & the frogs will want to get one over the Italians after The World Cup Final (nut)-cracker. France posses a fantastic team with plenty of depth. They conceded just 5 in qualifying and would probably be at better odds for the trophy if it weren't for the group of death draw. Click to continue reading...