The secret blitw: Serie A 2013/14

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.

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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.

2-1 immediately though.

Having conceded one goal in the previous five matches, Inter are 3-0 down to Fiorentina at home in the first half.

Two goals from Nikola Kalinic, ex of Blackburn Rovers.

Inter - Sassuolo has been great fun. Sass just nicked it with a 95th minute penalty.

serie a is confusing nowadays.
wee teams like frosinone and sassuolo kicking about that james richardson never talked about while eating a pastry in naples.
milan are terrible
inter were terrible for a couple of seasons but are back this season
napoli top of the league
high scoring games

fu Maurizio Sarri

Genius from nainggolan

i do feel v comforted by inter being inter. eder, soriano, banega, no reasons just keep that numb shopaholic ache ticking

Wonderful goal from El Shaarawy. Pjanic's was pretty sweet too.

Seems absurd that Juve should be back in this at all after the start they had but it's difficult to see anyone stopping them from this point on.

Juve's first ten games of the season - 10 points
Juve's last twelve games of the season - 36 points

Dybala / Morata / Pogba is beautiful to watch.

Should have been 12 from first ten^

maybe overreacting but pjanic to juve seems somehow a worse omen for the competitive health of italian footie than juventus being champs yet again.

Juve are becoming Italian Bayern. Ugh.

£25m is a steal.

De Boer off to a flyer - lost 2-0 at Chievo last week, losing 1-0 at home to Palermo with 25 to go now.

^^^^ sacked

Poor bastard didn't stand a chance tbh.

tbf, he inherited a squad that probably under-performed in finishing 4th last season and spent £112m on players over the summer. I'm not sure why it fell apart so horribly.