The new season saw one of the biggest Italian clubs left without a manager already after first two rounds. Luciano Spalletti obviously had enough after his team was demolished in the derby against Juventus and right after the game he resigned from the post of Roma boss. New coach on Roma bench, Claudio Ranieri stated on his presentation that he will try to shake things up, so his team could contend for the title this season.

After 3 giornate, only 3 clubs are still at full points: Sampdoria, who defeated Atalanta 1-0 in Bergamo with a goal from Daniele Mannini; Juventus, who saw Lazio off with a 2-0 win thanks to Martin Caceres and David Trezeguet; and Genoa, who thumped Napoli 4-1 with Sergio Floccari, Giandomenico Mesto, Hernan Crespo, and Houssine Kharja all scoring their first goals of the season.

It was a weekend of some nice goals. First, let's just say that Fabio Quagliarella ALMOST scored the goal of the season (he did however score 2 goals on the night). You can watch that video here. Diego scored his first goals in Serie A, Julio Cruz scored his first goals for Lazio, Alberto Paloschi continues to look more and more like the new Pippo Inzaghi, Giampaolo Pazzini continues to score, and Antonio Cassano worked some magic again.

Catania general manager, Pietro Lo Monaco, claims that Sir Alex Ferguson is interested in their 21-year-old striker, Takayuki Morimoto. Catania are a small club in Italy, finishing sixth from bottom in Serie A last season, which leads Lo Monaco to believe they have no chance of holding on to the young star.

(video gol, 0-1: Morimoto)
(highlights di Udinese-Catania)

Some nice goals this week. We're still very early into the season, but two possible goal of the year candidates were scored this weekend. Samuel Eto'o's strike vs. Parma and Giandomenico Mesto's screamer vs. Napoli are joys to behold. Goals of the week after the jump.

After reports that Ronaldinho may be retiring, Milan needed a convincing victory against Bologna while Juventus and Inter wished to continue their good starts to the season.

So here are the results and to be honest, no great surprises in what occurred.

Napoli 0-0 Udinese

Juventus 2-0 Livorno

Catania 1-1 Lazio

Milan 1-0 Bologna

Sampdoria 4-1 Siena

Cagliari 1-2 Inter Milan

Parma 1-0 Palermo

Bari 4-1 Atalanta

Chievo 3-1 Genoa

Roma 3-1 Fiorentina

A good away victory for Inter sees them enter the top three for the first time this season.

Talento y clase argentina para la Serie A (I)Nombre: Mariano AndujarEdad: 26 años (30.07.1983)Altura: 1,94Posición: PorteroProcedencia: Estudiantes LPClub actual: CataniaCaracterísticas: a pesar de ser uno de los mejores arqueros de su país, Andujar tuvo muchas idas y vueltas hasta que pudo asentarse en Estudiantes, su último club.

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Three games in and it's time to take a look at what's happening in Serie A, by most pundits reckoning the third strongest league in Europe behind the Premier League and la Liga.

For those who spent Saturday and Sunday away from the television and internet, or were too busy watching the Manchester Derby, here are some lessons we have learned (or in some cases relearned) from this past weekend's Serie A action:

Gianluigi Buffon is the key for a Juve scudetto: Although he has some mileage between his numerous Serie A and international matches, and the Juventus attack is quite good, the 2-0 Juventus win over Livorno shows that Buffon still dominates matches for his team.

Here are the fixtures for the 2009/2010 Serie A season. Come back often for more updates about the Italian Serie A league. It should be a great season. Wednesday, 23 September 2009 Atalanta v Catania, 19:45 Bari v Cagliari, 19:45 Bologna v Livorno, 19:45 Fiorentina v Sampdoria, 19:45 Inter Milan v Napoli, 19:45 Lazio v Parma, 19:45 Palermo OFF Roma, 19:45 Siena v Chievo, [.

23/09/2009Fiorentina - Sampdoria ore 20.45Siena - Chievo ore 20.45Inter - Napoli ore 20.45Palermo - Roma ore 20.45Udinese - Milan ore 20.45Lazio - Parma ore 20.45Bologna - Livorno ore 20.45Bari - Cagliari ore 20.45Atalanta - Catania ore 20.4524/09/2009Genoa - Juventus ore 20.45Iscriviti all'RSS per essere sempre aggiornato!

Kolarov non l'ha passata liscia. L'espulsione rimediata durante il match dell'Olimpico, tra i biancocelesti e il Parma (incontro poi perso per un gol a due), per reiterate proteste nei confronti del direttore di gara, gli è costata ben due giornate. E' lui, dunque, il "cattivone" della settimana in Serie A.

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:

12/09/2009Livorno - Milan ore 18.00Lazio - Juventus ore 20.4513/09/2009Bologna - Chievo ore 15.00Inter - Parma ore 15.00Udinese - Catania ore 15.00Fiorentina - Cagliari ore 15.00Palermo - Bari ore 15.00Siena - Roma ore 15.00Atalanta - Sampdoria ore 15.00Genoa - Napoli ore 20.45Iscriviti all'RSS per essere sempre aggiornato!

Il primo anticipo della quarta giornata nella Serie A di Calcio vede impegnato, alle 18, il Napoli di Donadoni. Match da brividi per i partenopei, al San Paolo, contro la frizzante Udinese di Marino, soprattutto alla luce di un inizio di Serie A da dimenticare. Due sconfitte in tre gare di campionato, c'è sicuramente da invertire la rotta sotto il Vesuvio.

Here are the fixtures for the 2009/2010 Serie A season. Come back often for more updates about the Italian Serie A league. It should be a great season. Wednesday, 23 September 2009 Atalanta v Catania, 19:45 Bari v Cagliari, 19:45 Bologna v Livorno, 19:45 Fiorentina v Sampdoria, 19:45 Inter Milan v Napoli, 19:45 Lazio v Parma, 19:45 Palermo OFF Roma, 19:45 Siena v Chievo, [.

Lots of goals scored this week, with only one 0-0 draw (Napoli-Udinese) and many teams scoring 3+ goals. There were some nice ones this week. Goals after the jump.

Emanuel Rivas vs. Atalanta - The Bari midfielder scores a nice opening goal. Dribbles to the center and unleashes a laser strike from around 20 yards out.

(video gol, 1-0. Morimoto)
(video gol, 1-1. De Rossi)

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.

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.

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.