The flabby bull has finally, if only by the smallest of margins, been squeezed from the summit of Serie B. After a run of 114 days as league leaders, Torino's second 1-1 draw with Cittadella was enough to see Sassuolo claim top spot on goal-difference and il Toro pushed back into the pack. It's taken brilliant consistency from the Neroverde and Verona and another blast of victories from Pescara.

The flabby bull has finally, if only by the smallest of margins, been squeezed from the summit of Serie B. After a run of 114 days as league leaders, Torino's second 1-1 draw with Cittadella was enough to see Sassuolo claim top spot on goal-difference and il Toro pushed back into the pack. It's taken brilliant consistency from the Neroverde and Verona and another blast of victories from Pescara.

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Tales from Tier Two is a series on Just Football in partnership with @tiertwofooty, in which we assess the promotion chances of the clubs in tier two of Europe's major leagues at the midway point of 2011/12.

Chasing the Big Leagues Sassuolo (Serie B) is a post from: Just Football

Tales from Tier Two is a series on Just Football in partnership with @tiertwofooty, in which we assess the promotion chances of the clubs in tier two of Europe's major leagues at the midway point of 2011/12.

There are reports this morning that Arsenal are one of a few teams (including Manchester United) that are watching the Italian U21 striker Insigne Lorenzo, who has been impressing watchers while on loan from the Serie A giants Napoli. Lorenzo scored 19 goals in just 31 games at Foggia last season, and has already scored [.

The Italian defender was born in Bari, 28th June, 1971. He began his career at local club, Bari, in 1988 who he went on to make 75 appearances for, scoring 8 goals. Amoruso spent 1991-1993 on loan at Mantova and Pescara, but only featured intermittently. In 1995 he secured a move to Fiorentina, becoming club captain and making 54 appearances.

The Italian defender was born in Bari, 28th June, 1971. He began his career at local club, Bari, in 1988 who he went on to make 75 appearances for, scoring 8 goals. Amoruso spent 1991-1993 on loan at Mantova and Pescara, but only featured intermittently. In 1995 he secured a move to Fiorentina, becoming club captain and making 54 appearances.

The Serie B seesaw has tipped and the slow descent to the end of the 2011/12 season has begun. Most onlookers had Torino pegged as certain for automatic promotion if not the title after ten wins, two draws and a solitary defeat cemented their position at the summit of the table. The superstitious amongst us might gape at the beginning of their demise, after the thirteenth game, and puzzle over.

Serie B: notte fonda per il Livorno, il Principe vince e si dimette Renato Cignoni PESCARA-GROSSETO 1-2 PESCARA:Anania; Zanon, Brosco, Capuano, Balzano; Gessa, Cascione, Nicco (63' Petterini) Sansovini (63' Maniero),Immobile, Insigne.A disposizione: Pinsoglio, Petterini, Romagnoli, Soddimo, Maniero, Giacomelli, Corsi.

Da oggi parte BINOCOLO, uno spazio piccolo ma ricco di grandi emozioni, tutto dedicato alla Serie B, a quella cadetteria che, dalla qualit dei suoi giocatori e dal pathos delle sue partite, sarebbe meglio chiamarla SERIE A2. Il torneo è cresciuto di livello negli ultimi anni ed è anche più ricco da quando, come dall'Continua a leggere .

While Serie A takes its third break two months into a delayed season, teams in Serie B are double yoked, with a full set of fixtures on matchday 15 and the league's bright young stars fleeing to Istanbul for a hit on the international hookah pipe. Fifty-two sides are battling it out for a mere seven spots in the 2013 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship in Israel.

Sampdoria thought it had left the Wild West of Campania behind when the players boarded the plane to Liguria; the in-flight meal a digestion of the 4-2 thrashing meted out by Nocerina. But after arrival, when passing through the Christopher Columbus Airport they were met not by smiling wives and girlfriends, but an aggressive mob intent on violence.

"But age, with his stealing steps, Hath claw'd me in his clutch, And hath shipped me intil the land, As if I had never been such." I don't think the Clown in Hamlet was singing about a footballer's career, but in the same way age steals away life's vigour, so it diminishes the speed and skill that creates quality players.

Serie B: 11° giornata. Analisi e commento. Di Stefano Lazzarato Continua la crisi di Brescia ed Empoli che non vincono da cinque gare (2 punti), e dell'Ascoli che non vince da 7 gare. Continuano ad essere a punteggio pieno in casa Padova e Pescara alla quinta vittoria casalinga consecutiva. Perde l'imbattibilit il Torino e la classifica in testa si accorcia.

We've got the Champions League, the much maligned Europa League but if there was a knockout competition comprised of the top XI's from Europe's second divisions where would Serie B finish? As the first quarter of the season ends the column selects the stand out performers and those to compete in the inaugural Second Best League.

We've got the Champions League, the much maligned Europa League but if there was a knockout competition comprised of the top XI's from Europe's second divisions where would Serie B finish? As the first quarter of the season ends the column selects the stand out performers and those to compete in the inaugural Second Best League.

It's official, qualifying for the European Championships in the Ukraine and Poland next summer is over, well almost. 240 games have been played by 51 national teams across 403 days with 648 goals scored. So far the tournament has 12 sides confirmed, Italy topped group C and finally we can get on with a few weeks of uninterrupted domestic football; about bloody time.

On the 11th of October of this calends, two teams full of what Juventini call Great Champions will convene in the once beautiful seaside city of Pescara to give an exhibition of football of the highest quality. Yes, contain your excitement, Italy will play against the famed galacticos of Northern Ireland in conditions that usually bring out the finest in Italian national teams, a game that doesn't matter to anyone, as not only have Italy qualified, but Northern Ireland have failed to.

Per l'Inter una pausa salutare Di Mauro Giordano Un momento di riflessione in casa nerazzurra era necessario. Così la sosta di campionato per gli impegni della nazionale, il 7 ottobre fuori casa contro la Serbia e l'11 a Pescara contro l'Irlanda del Nord, potrebbe essere molto salutare per gli uomini di Ranieri.

After five games of SerieB there's a predictable feel to the top of the table with Padova, last years' losing play-off finalists undefeated along with two of the relegated sides Brescia and Sampdoria. Torino , under the stewardship of old hat Giampiero Ventura look likely to feature as do Reggina. Only three points separate the top nine places with Zdenek Zeman's unpredictable Pescara bringing up.

Chutzpah. It sounds a little like a table sauce for cold meat. ‘Make thanksgiving with Chutzpah' or, ‘Would you like Chutzpah with that?" Would I?! However, it turns out it's not a bottled condiment at all, but as Leo Rosten defines in The Joys of Yiddish,"Chutzpah-gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, incredible guts, presumption plus arrogance such as no other word and no other language can do.

Il Lecce, con 66 reti subite nel corso dell'ultimo campionato di Serie A, si è confermata per la quarta volta squadra con la peggior difesa del massimo campionato italiano. Grazie a questo risultato negativo l'undici pugliese (che comunque è riuscito a guadagnare la salvezza nel finale) aggancia al vertice della graduatoria storica Palermo, Pescara ed [.

Inter Milan have announced that Gian Piero Gasperini will serve as manager next season. What Gasperini lacks in experience, he makes up for in success. As manager of Genoa, Gasperini earned promotion to Serie A before leading Genoa to a Europa League qualification. Gasperini signed a two-year contract with Inter today.

There was a time, back in the summer of 1991, when Massimiliano Allegri was "the other guy" in a deal that took Frederic Massara from Pavia to Serie B Pescara. As then-Pescara sporting director Pierpaolo Marino wrote last March in a column for Italian website Tuttomercatoweb, the Pavia owners had already promised Massara to Venezia (then owned by Maurizio Zamparini, the current Palermo chairman), but adding another player and valuing him at nearly half a million lira would increase the total value of the transfer and thus allow Pavia a good excuse to back away from the verbal agreement with Venezia.

On Friday, Livorno and Pescara squared off in Serie B at the Stadio Adriatico in Pescara, Italy. While both teams have had decent seasons and sit in the top half of the table, neither team has enough points to challenge for a promotion spot. That being said, Livorno coach Walter Novellino couldn't contain himself and he got too close to the sideline, resulting in his being run over by the linesman.

Serie B: Il Punto su Livorno e Grosseto Di Renato Cignoni NOVELLINO RINGRAZIA PINNA E PORTA A CASA I TRE PUNTIIL GROSSETO PRENDE IL PUNTICINO CHE VOLEVA PESCARA – LIVORNO = 0 - 1 PESCARA : PINNA, ZANON, DIAMOUTENE, MENGONI, PETTERINI, DEL PRETE (MANIERO), CASCIONE, VERRATTI, BONANNI (GANCI), SODDIMO (TOGNOZZI), SANSOVINI ALL:DI FRANCESCO LIVORNO: DE LUCIA, SALVIATO, MIGLIONICO, KNEZEVIC,

Calendario e Risultati 32° Giornata Serie B: 18/03/2011 20.45 Sassuolo - Modena 1 - 119/03/2011 15.00 Portogruaro - Albinoleffe19/03/2011 15.00 Cittadella - Ascoli 19/03/2011 15.00 Livorno - Grosseto19/03/2011 15.00 Vicenza - Novara 19/03/2011 15.00 Pescara - Padova 19/03/2011 15.00 Atalanta - Piacenza19/03/2011 15.