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Pirlo, the LL Cool J of Serie A...Reader's choice: "Don't Call It Comeback" or "Doing it and doing it and doing it...well."

If there is any weekend to pick-up your Serie A match watching, this is the one.

None of the top five won at the weekend which meant Roma's impressive home win over Inter was all the more sweeter as they are moved to joint sixth with Napoli and just five points behind Inter with a game in hand. AC Milan were unable to overcome a plucky Napoli side in a match where Zlatan Ibrahimovic disgraced himself by earning a red card for fighting.

Inter and Palermo shared eight goals in a 4-4 thriller where Diego Milito netted all four for Inter at the San Siro. Roma's defence needs to be looked at as they were humiliated away at Cagliari. Lazio overcame AC Milan at the Stadio Olimpico and the weather managed to play its part as four games were called off due to the big freeze.

The Tevez-Pato "will he? won't he" questions ricocheted every which way this January as the musical chairs transfers song played at AC Milan, but at the end everyone retook their own chairs. Boring. Perhaps they were dating Berlusconi's daughter, or were on £200,000 a week slave wages that no one else could match, but whatever the reason, that anti-climax will be followed up by a busy February and early March.

Atalanta Guglielmo Stendardo joined Atalanta on loan from Lazio until the end of the season. The 30-year-old defender has spent most of past two seasons on the bench at the Rome club, and will be delighted to get the chance to feature for the first team in Bergamo. (+ve) Another experienced arrival is midfielder Alessandro Carrozza from Serie B outfit Varese.

In appreciation of the cat who made it onto the pitch at Anfield this evening I felt that it was about time I drew up another "Best XI". This time it's for players with "cat" in their name.

Cat XI

Between the sticks is Antalyaspor's 35 year old custodian Omer Catkic.

25 minuti. Sono quelli che restano da giocare tra Catania e Roma, in campo questa sera al Massimino. La gara di campionato, sospesa il 14 gennaio scorso dall'arbitro Tagliavento per le avverse condizioni metereologiche (campo completamente inzuppatodalla pioggia e impraticabile) al 65′, sulla situazione di 1 a 1 (reti di Legrottaglie e De Rossi), siContinua a leggere .

Trenta minuti di fuoco (25 più i 5 di extratime concessi da Tagliavento) non sono bastati per proclamare un vincitore. Catania e Roma (che a proposito di fuoco è stata costretta a passare la notte in Sicilia, a causa del risveglio dell'Etna, ed è ripartita alle 9 e 30 di stamani, ndr) chiudono sull'1 aContinua a leggere .

(Estadio Juventus cubierto de nieve)
11.02.2012 - Después de 4 aplazamientos en la jornada anterior (Siena-Catania, Bolonia-Fiorentina, Atalanta-Génova y Parma- Juventus), la Liga italiana suspendió ahora los encuentros de Bolonia – Juventus y Parma – Fiorentina (correspondientes a la fecha 23 del Calcio) debido a la incesante nevada.

E' stata una domenica di Serie A insolta, con appena tre gare in programma (a causa dei vari anticipi e delle sfide rinviate per neve, ndr) ma non sono mancate le emozioni e le sorprese, peraltro clamorose. La più grande arriva da San Siro, dove l'Inter cade di misura contro il Novara di Mondonico, fanalinoContinua a leggere .

Not the best of weeks for Claudio Ranieri at Inter as his team suffered yet another loss, this time to lowly Novara. The defeat capped of a miserable run of results for the Nerazzurri which has seen them claim just one point in their last four fixtures. Incredibly, after defeating Inter early in the season, the Biancoazzurri have claimed a most unlikely double over the 2010 Champions League.

A weekend of football that was curtailed by the weather with two games being called off, also a embarrassing weekend on the pitch for Inter as they were humiliated at home by Novara 1-0. What is next for both Inter and Claudio Rainer after a sticky run in the past two weeks? Here are the five best goals from the weekend 5.

Juve, se vuoi vincere devi fare il salto di qualit , contro il Catania un solo risultato a disposizione Di Alessandro Paparella Il secondo pareggio a reti bianche consecutivo impone una riflessione in casa Juventus, in particolare dal punto di vista tattico. L'accento, in un post partita molto concitato e nervoso, è stato posto sugli ultimi arbitraggi; a caldo una reazione del genere può anche

Italian Serie A Match Predictions 18 February 2012 - The 90th Minute Soccer Blog

Below are predictions for all the Serie A matches on February 18, 2012. Times listed are GMT or local UK time.

Italian Serie A Match Predictions

Saturday, 18 February 2012

Juventus v Catania, 19:45 Juventus wins 3-0

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Italian Serie A Match Predictions 18 February 2012 - The 90th Minute Soccer Blog

Italian Serie A TV Listings 18 February 2012 - The 90th Minute Soccer Blog

Below are television listings for all the Serie A matches on February 18, 2012. Times listed are GMT or local UK time.

Italian Serie A TV Listings

Saturday, 18 February 2012

Juventus v Catania, 19:45 Fox Soccer Channel (USA), ESPN (UK), Digi Sport (Slovakia/Hungary/Romania/Czech Republic), C+ (Finland/Spain/Denmark/Norway), NTV (Russia), Setanta Sports (Ireland), Sky Sport (Italy), Sport 1 (Israel), Sport TV4 (Portugal), SuperSport (Africa), Al Jazeera Sport (Middle East)

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The Serie A is shaping up to be a 2 horse race between Juventus and defending champions AC Milan especially after the Bianconeri's 3-1 home win over Catania last night that pushed them back into top spot in the table standings with 49 points, 2 above Milan who could go back on top with a Win at Cesena today.

Second-choice goalkeeper Marco Storari was very excited about Fabio Quagliarella's 81st-minute goal to put Juventus up 3-1 against Catania. He was so excited that he decided to dive-bomb his teammate's celebration, landing on their heads and smashing the goalscorer in the noggin.

Quagliarella did not appreciate this, so he shoved Storari away before tending to the bump on his head and wishing that Zlatan Ibrahimovic was around to slap Storari in the face again.

Champions League on Fox Soccer: Olympique Marseilles - Inter Milan at 2:30pm and Basel - Bayern Munich at 5pm (on Fox Soccer Plus at 2:30pm). Europa League on GolTV: Manchester City - Porto at noon. Serie A on Fox Soccer Plus: Siena - Catania at 12:30pm. Copa Libertadores on Fox Deportes: Velez Sarsfield - Chivas at 8pm.

Italian Serie A Match Predictions 22 February 2012 - The 90th Minute Soccer Blog

Below are predictions for all the Serie A matches on February 22, 2012. Times listed are GMT or local UK time.

Siena v Catania, 17:30 Catania wins 1-0

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Italian Serie A Match Predictions 22 February 2012 - The 90th Minute Soccer Blog

The UEFA Champions League knockout stage continues, with the finalists from the 2010 tournament looking to secure road results in the first legs of their Round of 16 ties.

The 2010 champions, Inter Milan, are stuck in a dreadful run of form, not having won in their last six matches (0-5-1 in that time).

Atletico Madrid's tactician, Diego Simeone, didn't left the pitch in rage after his team's defeat against Barcelona, especially with a rather controversial yet brilliant Lionel Messi's free kick which simply decided the end result.

Speaking to the press after the game, Simeone is content with the defeat and even hailed Messi as the genius that simply decided the end result on the Sunday fixture with his brilliance, more than anything.

Se l'Udinese si conferma la squadra più in forma in ottica terzo posto i bolognesi devono invece fare attenzione perchè sono solo 4 i punti di margine dalla zona calda della classifica, dove si registra, questa settimana, il colpaccio del Lecce al Sant'Elia di Cagliari. Ancora in rete il gioiellino Muriel (di propriet dell'Udinese), LarriveyContinua a leggere .

In the big game on Saturday night there was a bit of a controversial moment in the game when Sulley Muntari headed home from close range only for Gigi Buffon to claw it away. Replays showed the ball crossed the line by at least a yard. The referee pointed back to the centre circle but the linesman on that side didn't give it.