Conte contro Ferrara. Dopo aver intrapreso una sana e combattiva sfida per la panchina della Juventus, vinta da Ciro, insediatosi alla grande nel club bianconero, ora arriva quella (sarà rivincita?) di Campionato. Stasera, in Serie A, di fronte Atalanta-Juventus, ma soprattutto due tecnici giovani e brillanti, tutti e due protagonisti, da calciatori, con la maglia bianconera. Click to continue reading...

Its a busy day of matches in Europe with many of the top clubs in action. These include Real Madrid, Barcelona, Juventus, and Paris St-Germain. Our other site, Free Live Sports TV will be providing live coverage of all these matches. The links are listed below with the match times.

FC Barcelona v Mallorca LIVE Spanish Primera Division (La Liga) Saturday, November 7, 2009 19:00 GMT, 14:00 EST

Atletico Madrid v Real Madrid LIVE Spanish Primera Division (La Liga) Saturday, November 7, 2009 21:00 GMT, 16:00 EST

Atalanta v Juventus LIVE Italian Serie A Saturday, November 7, 2009 19:45 GMT, 14:45 EST

Paris St-Germain v Nice LIVE French Ligue 1 Saturday, November 7, 2009 18:00 GMT, 13:00 EST

Sochaux v Lens LIVE French Ligue 1 Saturday, November 7, 2009 20:00 GMT, 15:00 EST

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A few nice goals this week, but nothing extraordinary. Giuseppe Mascara scored one of his trademark wonder-goals, and Marco Borriello got back on the scoresheet with 2 goals (the second a nice scissor kick) after almost a year. Diego Milito got back to his scoring ways as well after being absent through injury, and Mirko Vucinic finally scored his first goal of the season.

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Napoli won vs. Juventus in Torino for the first time since November 20, 1988, when Maradona's Napoli won 5-3. Since then, there had been 11 wins and 5 ties, and Napoli hadn't scored in Torino since March of 1998. This Napoli side has been rejuvenated under Walter Mazzarri, and they have shown they have a never say die attitude that keeps them working for the full 90 minutes.

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(video gol highlights di Cagliari-Atalanta)
CAGLIARI: Marchetti; Canini, Lopez, Astori, Agostini; Biondini, Conti, Lazzari (31′ st Barone); Cossu; Nenè (18 st Larrivey), Matri. (Lupatelli, Dessena, Brkljaca, Jeda). All: Allegri.
ATALANTA: Consigli; Madonna (21′ st Layoun Prado), Talamonti, Peluso, Bellini; Padoin, Radovanovic (6′ st Caserta), Guarente, Valdes; Doni (18′ st Ceravolo), Tiribocchi. Click to continue reading...

It is becoming hard to know what to expect with Milan this season. The side is enjoying a five match undefeated run and have beaten the likes of Real Madrid and Roma. But, the same side has incredibly lost to Zurich and has struggled against modest sides like Atalanta and Bari. In addition, given the [. Click to continue reading...

31/10/2009Juventus - Napoli ore 18.00Milan - Parma ore 20.4501/11/2009Roma - Bologna ore 15.00Sampdoria - Bari ore 15.00Fiorentina - Catania ore 15.00Siena - Lazio ore 15.00Chievo - Udinese ore 15.00Cagliari - Atalanta ore 15.00Livorno - Inter ore 15.00Palermo - Genoa ore 20.45Iscriviti all'RSS per essere sempre aggiornato! Click to continue reading...

Although we are only 10 games into the season, Klaas-Jan Huntelaar is starting to look more and more like a big flop. 15 million euro were spent on the Dutch striker, and even if he reaches 5 goals this season it would seem like a big achievement. Sure you can say that he needs time to adapt to a new style of play, new language, new culture, but it's already November almost and we still have not seen Huntelaar's name on the score sheet.

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(video gol highlights di Livorno-Atalanta)
LIVORNO (3-5-2): Benussi, Diniz, Knezevic, Miglionico, Raimondi, Pulzetti, Candreva (42'st Moro), Filippini (43'pt Marchini), Pieri, Tavano, Lucarelli (13'st Danilevicius). All.: Cosmi.
ATALANTA (4-4-2): Consigli, Garics, Talamonti, Peluso, Bellini, Padoin, Barreto (22'st Radovanovic), Guarente, Valdes, Doni (26'st Ceravolo), Tiribocchi. Click to continue reading...

A measly six days ago, Bobo Vieri a man without a club since he terminated his deal with Atalanta because fans "expected too much from him" announced his retirement by unequivocally stating:

"I don't want to play anymore and I'm not even tempted to play abroad."

And now, just SIX DAYS LATER he's about to sign with Brazilian minnows Botafogo.

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28/10/2009Catania - Chievo ore 20.45Genoa - Fiorentina ore 20.45Parma - Bari ore 20.45Bologna - Siena ore 20.45Udinese - Roma ore 20.45Napoli - Milan ore 20.45Livorno - Atalanta ore 20.45Lazio - Cagliari ore 20.45Juventus - Sampdoria ore 20.4529/10/2009Inter - Palermo ore 20.45Iscriviti all'RSS per essere sempre aggiornato! Click to continue reading...

With the biggest game probably being at the Artemio Franchi between Fiorentina and Napoli, Serie A did not present too much interest this weekend. However Sampdoria were hoping that Inter would drop points to jump above them to the top the table. Juventus needed a change in fortunes after not winning in four while AC Milan wanted to continue their two game winning streak against Chievo.

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I didn't put up a Weekend Round-up yesterday because I figured with the midweek round tomorrow, it would be pointless to update everything twice. So we'll dive in straight to Goals of the Week. Not as great as last week, but still some good goals, especially Daniele Mannini's one-time volley vs.

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(video gol, 1-0. Valdes su rigore)
(video gol, 2-0. Tiribocchi)
(video gol highlights di Atalanta-Parma)
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The Top 6 Keep This Week Interesting

Inter, Sampdoria, Juventus, Palermo, Fiorentina and AC Milan all won this weekend to raise the stakes for the mid-week matches: Genoa v. Fiorentina, Napoli v. AC Milan, Juventus v. Sampdoria, and Inter V. Palermo (29th). Clear your schedule Wednesday and Thursday for some great calcio.

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It's official: Bobo Vieri has retired. Vieri was a great striker, perhaps even the best in the world when he was at Inter from 1999-2005. He bagged an amazing 103 goals in 144 appearances during that time. He's been to many clubs since, including stints and Fior and Atalanta, but in Click to continue reading...

This is going to be a good goals of the week post. There are many nice goals, and in particular the goals from Stankovic and Dessena are awesome to watch. Goals after the jump.

Dejan Stankovic vs. Genoa Stankovic notices that Amelia makes an error on the clearance and moves to the right, hitting the ball on the volley from way out and it sailed over Amelia and into the net.

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The picture on the left is the photo sequence of Dejan Stankovic's 54 meter long strike vs Genoa on Saturday. Marco Amelia messed up his clearance, and Stankovic coordinated a beautiful volley that sailed over Amelia and bounced into the net. Goals from midfield are always nice to look at.

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(video gol, 0-1. Tiribocchi)
(video gol, 1-1. Lodi)
(video gol, 1-2. Valdes)
(video gol, 1-3. De Ascentis)
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17/10/2009Juventus - Fiorentina ore 18.00Genoa - Inter ore 20.3018/10/2009Napoli - Bologna ore 15.00Parma - Siena ore 15.00Udinese - Atalanta ore 15.00Livorno - Palermo ore 15.00Lazio - Sampdoria ore 15.00Chievo - Bari ore 15.00Catania - Cagliari ore 15.00Milan - Roma ore 20.45Iscriviti all'RSS per essere sempre aggiornato! Click to continue reading...

Come sempre, ci ritroviamo il martedi a commentare le decisioni del giudice sportivo, in merito alle gare di Serie A. Domani sera Italia in campo contro Cipro per una pura formalità , visto che gli azzurri di Lippi hanno già ottenuto il pass per il Sudafrica nel rocambolesco match di Dublino (2 a 2, gol qualificazione di Gilardino al 90'). Click to continue reading...

Sorry I didn't get up a weekend round-up yesterday, it was a really busy day. However I don't want to disrupt the weekly order so I'll go straight to Goals of the Week. Last week was probably the worst goals of the week post of all time. I think this week made up for it with some quality strikes.

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Here we are seven league games into the season and with Juve, Inter and Sampdoria the early pace setters,who will be top of Serie A. Can Milan improve after a very poor start to the season and Roma will be hoping for a victory over Napoli to push up the table.

Bari 0-0 Catania

Inter Milan 2-1 Udinese

Roma 2-1 Napoli

Bologna 1-3 Genoa

Siena 0-0 Livorno

Atalanta 1-1 Milan

Cagliari 1-2 Chievo

Sampdoria 1-1 Parma

Fiorentina 0-0 Lazio

Palermo 2-0 Juventus

Inter Milan gained a creditable victory against Udinese although Di Natale continued his rich vein of form by netting his ninth goal of the season.

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(video gol, 1-0. Tiribocchi)
(video gol, 1-1. Ronaldinho)
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Milan take on Atalanta in Bergamo tomorrow night in what will be a tricky task for Leonardo. Atalanta started the campaign poorly and as a result recently appointed the young Antonio Conte who is thought to be a very promising manager after guiding Bari to Serie A last season. Well we all know that the club [. Click to continue reading...

Before the climax, the anticlimax. Battered beyond the point of collapse by Roma's thug tactics, we crawled toward the end of the league season leaving bloody handprints all over the linoleum. If we won just one of our two remaining matches against Atalanta and Bologna, 16th and 14th in Serie A we'd win the title, but we were in no shape to practice, much less to play a competitive game.

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Oguchi Onyewu's official AC Milan debut finally came on Wednesday, but the result of the match itself overshadowed any good feelings that might have come from Onyewu's first official appearance for the Italian club.

The U.S. national team defender played the final 30 minutes in AC Milan's 1-0 loss to FC Zurich, a loss that came just days after Milan's surprising draw vs.

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Oguchi Onyewu's official AC Milan debut finally came on Wednesday, but the result of the match itself overshadowed any good feelings that might have come from Onyewu's first official appearance for the Italian club.

The U.S. national team defender played the final 30 minutes in AC Milan's 1-0 loss to FC Zurich, a loss that came just days after Milan's surprising draw vs.

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I'm just going to throw it out there: this might be the worst goals of the week post of all time. Nothing spectacular at all this weekend, most goals were very plain and ordinary. Of the 18 goals scored this weekend, about 3 are top goal worthy. But let's see this week's goals of the week (hoping that Giornata 7 brings us better ones):

Massimo Maccarone vs.

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After midweek fixtures in Italy as well as this weekend's results, all of the Serie A clubs have played two more games and we are left with surprise leaders of Serie A.

Midweek results:

Palermo 3-3 Roma

Lazio 1-2 Parma

Udinese 1-0 Milan

Siena 0-0 Chievo

Fiorentina 2-0 Sampdoria

Bari 0-1 Cagliari

Bologna 2-0 Livorno

Atalanta 0-0 Catania

Inter Milan 3-1 Napoli

Genoa 2-2 Juventus

A late equaliser from Totti saved Roma a point at the Renzo Barbera while the dark days at AC Milan appear to be getting ever darker as they slumped to a 1-0 defeat to Udinese.

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Sampdoria are top of the table alone for the first time in 18 years. A week ago I wrote an article saying that Sampdoria could be the surprise of the season, and right now that hypothesis is still holding up. While it's almost impossible for them to win the scudetto and considering the fact that Gigi Del Neri's teams usually suffer a drop in form after the winter break, they should be challenging for a spot in Europe next season, whether that be Europa League or Champions League that remains to be seen.

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by CARL ELDRIDGE Theo Walcott is on the verge of an Arsenal comeback against Olympiakos in the Champions League at the Emirates tomorrow night.

That's according to this morning's Sun, which backs up the claim with quotes from Arsene Wenger on Walcott, who has been out since June after hurting his back on England U-21 Euro duty. Click to continue reading...

Petulance cant be defined as moved to or showing sudden, impatient irritation, esp. over some trifling annoyance: a petulant toss of the head.
Synonyms:irritable, peevish, fretful, pettish, touchy.
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I always like to watch videos of bloopers, and this time I've found a Serie A blooper video from the early 2000's. Always entertaining, and it includes a mistake from Buffon!! (how often do you see those?)

Video after the jump.

And since we're on the topic of Buffon mistakes, here's another one I remember from a couple of years ago:

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26/09/2009Sampdoria - Inter ore 18.00Livorno - Fiorentina ore 20.4527/09/2009Udinese - Genoa ore 15.00Chievo - Atalanta ore 15.00Juventus - Bologna ore 15.00Lazio - Palermo ore 15.00Catania - Roma ore 15.00Napoli - Siena ore 15.00Parma - Cagliari ore 15.00Milan - Bari ore 20.45Iscriviti all'RSS per essere sempre aggiornato! Click to continue reading...