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Genoa easily handled by Fiorentina
By: j |Fiorentina easily handled Genoa in route to a 1-0 victory that marked a large series of roster changes by the Rossoblu’s manager Gian Piero Gasperini. After a dreadful 3-0 loss to Lazio the Viola came out and played fundamentally sound Football and won the match with a Alberto Gilardino strike off a corner at the [...]
week 4: Fiorentina match preview
By: j |With the success of the Roma match in the past, the Rossoblu face the Viola in Firenze on Saturday. In repeat of the prior match Gian Piero Gasperini must certainly realize he is gifted with very fortunate scheduling. Like Roma heading into complex period, Fiorentina’s manager Cesare Prandelli is not only dealing with a poor [...]
Roma v Genoa match review
By: j |Heading into the Giallorossi’s visit to Stadio Luigi Ferraris I was expecting a “unique” match where tactics and the peculiarity of scheduling weighed heavy on the outcome. Along with the some rather unfortunate injuries on Roma’s part, Gian Piero Gasperini’s Rossoblu might never be in a better time to face them. This proved to be [...]
week 4: Roma match preview
By: j |Later today, Luciano Spalletti leads the Giallorossi to Stadio Luigi Ferraris to face Genoa in what is already turning out to be a very important match for both clubs.
Throughout the course of arduous Serie A campaign, the league schedules two mid-week matches, one each in September and October. These are quite “unique” matches as they [...]
Palermo hands Genoa a tough 2-1 defeat
By: j |On the heels of last weeks glorious victory, the trip south to Sicily brought Il Grifone back to reality with a 2-1 loss. In many ways that scoreline was flattering as Palermo’s manager genius Davide Ballardini frustrated the Genoa’s attack and rarely provided sufficient scoring opportunities.
With Palermo definitely pushing the attack forward from the start [...]
Palermo match review
By: j |Il Grifone travel to Palermo with both clubs riding a wave of emotion after brilliant victories last week. The Rosanero rebounded from a disappointing loss to Udinese with an astounding victory over Roma in front of their home fans that marked Davide Ballardini first match in-charge. While Mr. Ballardini is still a young coach in [...]
AC Milan match review
By: j |With Genoa’s extraordinary 2-0 victory over AC Milan behind us, I’m going to cut right to the chase and reaffirm my earlier comments that I felt this was a very opportune time to play them. Not only have their new players not gelled as a team but they were obviously dealing with tremendous fatigue from [...]
AC Milan v Genoa match preview
By: j |Genoa’s opening home match of the Serie A campaign welcomes Carlo Ancelotti’s star-studded cast to Stadio Luigi Ferraris. Quite obviously the Rossoblu face a stern task at controlling the Brazilian beat of Milan and it won’t be any easier with Kaká ready to return.
The opening match of the season for Genoa saw them stymied by [...]
Il Grifone in international duty
By: j |With the international break nearly over, the Rossoblu attention will be turning to the weekend task against A.C. Milan. The Rossoneri will certainly be dealing with fatigue on Sunday’s match as a number of there players are off on in international duty. Additionally midfielder Gennaro Gattuso suffered a peculiar injury in training and will be [...]
the Diego Milito effect
By: j |Clearly as Diego Milito returns to Genoa, his immediate impact will be swift. As Gian Piero Gasperini considers the lineup to face AC Milan after the break, I wanted to open the conversation up to readers of changes to the lineup.
First of all, I should come clean and state that I have a soft-stop [...]






