Mario Balotelli scored his third goal in two games for AC Milan to snatch a share of the points in a 1-1 draw at Cagliari today as Roma's slump continued with a 3-1 defeat to Sampdoria.
Three straight wins had maintained Milan's hopes of earning a top-three finish, but Segundo Ibarbo flicked Daniele Conti's free-kick into the net in the final action of the first half to put Cagliari in front.
Serie A Weekly welcomes writer Kirsten Schlewitz to our Italian football frontpage For some reason,
when gearing up for Napoli's match last week, I was convinced that they were playing Cagliari.
Perhaps I simply had a premonition that the Partenopei were about to be beaten by Parma – at the
San Paolo, mind you.
Daniele Conti è un figlio irriverente. Gli piace così: altrimenti sarebbe rimasto a casa, da papÃ
Bruno. Ha scelto l'esilio di Cagliari per sfuggire ai paragoni, all'impossibilità di essere chi
non è: il campione del mondo ‘82, colui, cioè, che l‘ha messo al mondo. Imboccando uno dei
sentieri che la vita gli ha offerto si [.
The working relationship between footballers and ball boys was damaged last month when Chelsea's Eden Hazard tried to kick the ball out from under a time-wasting Swansea ball boy. It was an ugly incident for both sides, but in Italy, these situations are apparently avoided by employing the sons of footballers as ball boys.
