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Team Focus: Mancini Hoping for Perfect Start on Inter Return in Milan Derby

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Team Focus: Mancini Hoping for Perfect Start on Inter Return in Milan Derby Sulley Muntari is developing a reputation for, if not underestimating his opponent, perhaps taking them a little too lightly. Remember last season, for instance, when he told Il Corriere della Sera before the draw for the last 16 of the Champions League: “I hope we get Atletico Madrid. On pape...

Player Focus: Palacio at Home at Inter

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Player Focus: Palacio at Home at Inter As he drove through the gates at Inter’s Appiano Gentile training ground for the first time, Rodrigo Palacio must have felt a sense of trepidation, not because of the history about the place but for fear that his new captain Javier Zanetti would be waiting for him with a pair of scissors.&ldqu...

Team Focus: Old Saying Rings True for Attacking Almería

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Team Focus: Old Saying Rings True for Attacking Almería You wait ten games for a win…then suddenly two come along at once. Almería’s season was never going to be easy, but even they probably didn’t expect to suffer quite so much so early.In their last two games however, they are showing their most promising signs yet of standing...

League Focus: Serie A's Top 5 Summer Transfers

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League Focus: Serie A's Top 5 Summer Transfers The start of the new Serie A season is almost upon us, with Italy’s top flight set to return to action this coming weekend. In a summer transfer window which has seen six of the previous campaign's top twenty performers (according to our own WhoScored.com ranking system) changing clubs, we dec...

Hot Shots: Serie A's Magnificent Seven

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Hot Shots: Serie A's Magnificent Seven Serie A has long been famed for it's defensive abilities and tactical organisation, it's gifts to the world deemed to be tacticians such as Giovanni Trapattoni and Arrigo Sacchi, breeding defenders the likes of which other countries could only look on in envy of. Yet, as a byproduct of coming up aga...

Clinical Finishers Key to Europe's Shot Shy Sides

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Clinical Finishers Key to Europe's Shot Shy Sides Last week’s article on the lowest-scoring team in each of Europe’s top five divisions had us thinking. Rather than do the obvious and analyse the top scorers in each of the leagues, WhoScored picked out those clubs who are racking up the goals almost in spite of themselves.Here, we focus...

WhoScored Serie A All Star XI - Gameweeks 3-4

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WhoScored Serie A All Star XI - Gameweeks 3-4 The previous week saw two rounds of Serie A matches as Italy catches up following a belated start to the season. Inter began the first batch of fixtures with one manager and finished them with another, as Claudio Ranieri made the perfect start to his tenure with a 3-1 win at Bologna. Rodrigo Palacio...

Serie A Player, Performance & Young Player of the Month (September)

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Serie A Player, Performance & Young Player of the Month (September) The Serie A finally got under way this month after player protection arguments had delayed its initial kick-off, and there have been some interesting developments already; none more so than the quick turnaround of coaches at a faltering Inter Milan.Having only been employed as a replacement to Leona...

WhoScored Serie A All Star XI - Gameweek 2

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WhoScored Serie A All Star XI - Gameweek 2 With two rounds of fixtures completed, both Inter and Milan sit on one point apiece. It’s been an unexpected start to Serie A, with Massimo Allegri’s champions doing their best to take the heat off Gian Piero Gasperini with an equally shocking start, though Milan at least have the luxury...