The secret blitw: Serie A 2013/14

Ooh Inter have bought Hernanes.

Pirlo with a sumptuous pass to Lichsteiner. 1-0. PIRLo my God!

Wait, Napoli lost 3-0 to Atalanta. WTF?

Juve so far above the rest of this league. Bayernesque.

Eh, so Vucinic didn't actually leave in the end. So Juve have Tevez, Llorente, Giovinco, Vucinic, and Dani Osvaldo. How unnecessary.

P sure Pirlo didn't miss a single pass during that 45 mins.

Two points from a possible 9 against Bologna, Chievo and Atalanta. Hope Napoli step it up a bit soon, I'm planning on picking up a ticket tomorrow for the game against Milan next weekend, and they haven't exactly been flying recently either.

Napoli are p exciting to watch this season. V little defence especially considering it's a Rafa team. Reina with a howler today, not sure why he was reinstated to the team.

Ho ho, commentators speculating that Osvaldo has been bought solely for the Europa League. The ignominy!!

Taraabt scored eight minutes into his debut for Milan.

Balotelli

Luca Toni has 13 in 21 appearances this season - one fewer than Tevez, one more than Higuain.

A team that pours players frwd (Napoli) vs a team that's deadly on the counter (Roma). I fancy Roma but as ever will be rooting for Rafa.

Ah man I hope Strootman hasn't done his achilles. Just when down in apparent agony with no other player anywhere near him.

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those luca toni stats reflect poorly on serie a, but then he is one of my least favourite players ever

Napoli's transition D is awful, especially on their right side.

Higuin given offside from a throw-in. Seen it all now.

Napoli have been awful so far. Constantly giving the ball away.

Lucky to be 0-0 at half time. Trying to play frwd too quickly. Need to drop Hamsik a little deeper to both work the ball thru midfield better (he's too far apart from Inler atm) and to disrupt Nainggolan some cos he's bossing this so far.

Great header from Callejon. He's been terrific this season.

Napoli have conceded a lot of late equalisers this season, doubtful that they'll see this out.

Napoli hold on for the win.

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2014/0406/soc_a_destro_kh_576x324.jpg

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comes to mind

exactly

Roma are getting smashed 4-1 by Catania so Juve will be champions in about ten minutes.

seems legit

The noise in Naples last night was very impressive, don't think I've ever really been in a city on the night their team won something. Shame about the shenanigans before the match though

What are you in Naples for?

Shootings before a game is a pretty bloody terrifying development, but I've half a memory of guns & football not being a new thing in Italy?

Been living here for a bit. Not got along to as many matches as I would have liked tbh, the ones I have been to see weren't very good performances at all. Was skint before the Juve match so couldn't go, fucking 2-0 win and Napoli's best performance of the season, typical.

From the very few people I've spoken to about it today the atmosphere here with regard to the shootings seems to be "I wish someone could control the animals doing this kind of thing" rather than "WTF someone got shot at the football" as the response would be over here. Also this is probably tempered by the fact that the whole city is just buzzing off the win

Not over here. Over there. Was back home over Easter and I've started confusing myself.

https://vine.co/v/Mg5ggPPlwt1

tony fuckin christmas

Retires today. With a hat-trick. Including this goal.

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Hold on, that's not from today. The rest is true though. What a player, I wish I'd seen more of him.

very seldom watch serie a now but is goalscoring over the last few years has been absurd, before he was 30 he was reliable, since then he has been prolific to the sort of rvn/shevchenko level

might not retire now? comments a bit vague

102 points and winning 33 out of 38 games is monstrous.

Torino just missed a 93rd minute penalty after a shocking dive that would have put them in Europe next season.

Parma are in, justice is done.

Massimo Maccarone has scored his seventh and eighth league goals of the season, Toni has nine, Di Natale eight. Combined age of 109.

5 teams in the last 16 of the Europa League. Napoli FTW.

Salah has been unbelievable for Fiorentina. Six goals in seven matches, including two vs Juve last night, and a couple of assists.

Another nice goal for Salah this evening.

Luca Toni got his 14th and 15th of the season, putting him one behind Tevez and Menez.

Toni now capocannoniere with one round to play. Assuming Juve rest Tevez it's only Icardi (one behind) who can catch him. He will be 38 on Tuesday.

icardi and toni share it.

amazing game between lazio and napoli: lazio up 2-0 at halftime, napoli comes roaring back higuain scores two then misses a penalty and then lazio score two late goals to win 4-2. two players sent off somewhere in there too.

Juve fifteen minutes away from losing their two opening matches for the first time in history. Excellent Pjanic free kick.

Evra has just been sent off.

Looks like they haven't worked out what to do with Mandzukic.

Dzeko makes it two!

today was a good day

Juve losing again - behind against Chievo inside five minutes.

All four early kick-offs ended 2-2. You could have got odds of about 70,000 to 1 on that. It being Italy, I wouldn't be shocked if someone did.

MATCH-FIXING!

Napoli 2-0. If it stays like this Juve will be 10 points behind Inter, having played one game more.

Delighted for them.

Scott McTominay, Serie A Player of the Year