The second day of Serie A ends, which confirms, like the most important European tournaments, to be really great again. Naples and Milan, despite suffering, respond to the Juventus-Inter couple who had launched the sprint on the day of advances and together with the surprising Sampdoria which, although "orphan" by now of its star Schick, breaks through Florence and enjoys, in the company of the big players, the first place in full score.
For Napoli, which hosted Mr. Gasperini's “mangy” Atalanta, it was bad. The Orobics appeared concentrated and determined had even gone ahead with Cristante and had managed to harness the Azzurri but in the second half with a test of strength and character in 5 minutes overturn the result with Zielinski and the usual Martens. A few minutes from the end, the contest closes Rog brings the result to the "repeat offender" 3-1, following the rule of three inaugurated a week earlier in Verona, where he had won with the same score. To signal the tearful greeting to the Neapolitan people of the goalkeeper Reina who now seems destined for the "scroungers" of European football, the "take-all" Paris Saint Germain.
Even Milan's ever more surprising Baby Cutrone (fourth goal in six official races) struggles more than expected to have the best on a Cagliari that he did not demerify in the face of the Rossoneri battalion. Milan's step back then, played in the game and in the game's management. Saudi Cagliaritan, on the result of 1-0, had already shaken at San Siro, striking a pole. Then the Spanish Spaniard thinks about Joao Pedro to balance the accounts. Suso's spell on punishment removes the so-called chestnuts from the fire at Montella and brings Milan back to the top of the standings and not shining as he had used to this season's start, he answers!
We were talking about the surprising fifth leaders Sampdoria who puts three other very heavy points in the safe by conquering the Franchi di Firenze thanks to goals from Caprari and the "evergreen" Quagliarella who on a penalty brings his personal booty to 3 in the top scorer classification. Badelj's goal was useless in the second half. Fiorentina goes to the stop of the championship with an embarrassing ranking that sees them last in
Zero points.
Behind the magic quintet settle the willing Lazio of Simone Inzaghi, the very tough Turin of Sinisa Mihalovic, the concrete Bologna of Donadoni and the surprising newly promoted Spal of Mr. Semplici who savors the first success in the photo finish after 49 years of absence from Serie A Lazio plays well, the obstinate Chievo suffers, but manages to take 3 gold points away from the Bentegodi thanks to the goal in the Cesarini area of the increasingly mature Milinkovic Savic who scores the 1-2 final goal. The blue-and-white bomber Immobile opened the scoring to which the clivense Pucciarelli had responded with his first goal in the top flight. From that moment many scoring actions created by the two teams up to the final seal of Milinkovic Savic. The Turin of the “very bad” Mihalovic who pushes even his staff guilty of not having understood the player to be replaced, rules Sassuolo with a dry 3-0. From the film library, in the true sense of the word, the reverse with which he, the cock Belotti, opens the scoring. The other two goals, scored in the last 10 minutes of play, bear the signature of Ljajic and Obi. Spal, driven by the record bomber Borriello, who scored in Serie A with 12 different jerseys, returned to win a Serie A match after almost half a century. Borriello opens the scoring, doubles Lazzari but Udinese sells his skin dearly and even catches the draw with 3 minutes from the end thanks to a penalty by Théréau after he had shortened the distance with Nuytinck. It now seemed made for the first point of Udinese when in the fourth minute of recovery Rizzo thinks to spoil the party and bring the glorious Spal in triumph that is positioned 4 points behind the big names of the tournament. Boredom wins instead in Crotone-Hellas Verona who are satisfied with a dull 0-0. The new exclusion from the starting line-up of the striker Pazzini by Pecchia, who seems in the mood to complicate his life in the long and hard road towards a salvation that today would represent a huge result for the Scala, who in Serie A deserve to stay there for tradition and importance of the square.
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