Football Update: Serie A findings- Round 17 – What we learned from this week’s fixtures (Part 2)
Palermo to lose out on Champions League football
US Palermo started the season in an impressive manner and even managed the prized scalp of perennial Scudetto contenders Juventus FC in the early goings. However, consistency has been severely lacking in Rosanero campaign and that will hurt them dearly towards
the end of the season.
For all the eye catchy, tiki-taka and counter attacking football; http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Roma-c31603 fixture was a prime example, which Delio Rossi expects from his troops, Palermo have shipped in a staggering 22 goals in the campaign. Such a poor defensive record clearly does not merit
Champions league football. Palermo’s away record has been woeful to say the least and that is dealing some serious damage.
As things stand, Palermo have played eight away games and they have tasted defeat in four of those matches. Worse still, the goal difference reads -1 for away games. This weekend, Palermo were guilty of dropping points yet again. This time to AS Bari; relegation
favourites and bottom placed team in the league rankings. Delio Rossi must take drastic measures to cure the woeful away form or kiss Champions League football goodbye.
Rafa Benitez was right in his outburst against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Inter-c39567 Milan
The Spaniard was having a season to forget until he won the club world cup over the weekend. While the trophy would have been a pleasant change, Rafa knows the ‘Mickie-Mouse trophy’, as it is often called, has little worth and his rapport with the club will
not improve tiny bit because of this victory. Champions league and the Serie A are much bigger concerns.
Following the CWC final victory over TP Mazambe, Rafa Benitez launched a scathing verbal attack on his employers and blasted them for not delivering upon their promises. Apparently, Rafa was promised three arrivals in August, only that they never arrived.
Many would say Nerazzurri had a perfect squad as shown by Jose Mourinho’s treble. However, going deeper into the case, Rafa has a point.
The squad available to Rafa was weakened by the sale of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Mario-Balotelli-c23937 – temperamental yet prodigiously talented – and now replacement was sought. The Lucio-Samuel partnership might be world-class but both the players and in twilights of their respective
careers. Add more to the misery, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Diego-Milito-c11166 and Maicon look a shadow of their world-beating selves. No coach could have anticipated such a steep dip in form. Add the world-cup jadedness for majority of the squad and Rafa has a genuine case.
For too long, Rafa was made the scapegoat while it was Massimo Moratti’s reluctance to spend in the summers that has arguably cost Inter Milan everything this season. The Spaniard has spoken the truth but unfortunately, that is going to cost him his job.
While Morratti has refused to comment on the issue, one can sense the silence that precedes the storm.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Clarence-Seedorf-c9275, please leave AC Milan!
Rossoneri have been tagged ‘the retirement home’ by a vast majority of fans and media over the years and the writer only agrees with such statements. The author wrote an editorial earlier this season about ‘Clarence Seedorf’s inability to handle top level
football’ and clearly, AC Milan CEO Adriano Galliani did not read the article.
On the weekend against AS Roma, Clarence Seedorf was put on the bench by Massimiliano Allegri as http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Andrea-Pirlo-c5702 who was taking the game to Gilarossi.
However, the diminutive playmaker got injured and Seedorf was brought in – much to the disappointment of many.
The Dutchman was on the pitch for 80 minutes and could not must one moment of genius, not one pass praise worthy. Rossoneri number 10 was too slow on and off the ball as the likes of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Matteo-Brighi-c24784 and Simplicio had a field day against him. The AC Milan legend
is simply too old and too slow to make an impact and Allegri will only be hitting himself in the foot should ‘Slowdorf’ make any further first team appearances.
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