Wow what a Lady! Serie A in Review

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The Old Lady (Juven­tus) did the num­ber on AC Milan win­ning 3 — 2 and Del Piero as the most in form player in Serie A does seem to be the man of the moment indeed. More…

The fol­low­ing is a game review from a fel­low blog­ger, Mehdi at soccer-europe.com, who I reg­u­larly dis­cuss Serie A news with on the World Soc­cer Daily chatboard.

Juve took the lead with a won­der­fully worked move. Sal­i­hamidzic hit a pass into Trezeguet and the French­man flicked the ball out wide to Camoranesi, he vaulted over Favalli’s slid­ing tackle and angled a pass to Del Piero who ran between Mal­dini and Simic and from a poor angle slot­ted into the bot­tom left cor­ner. Pirlo sent Kaka’ clear down Juve’s right flank, he ran into the box, teased Chiellini before accel­er­at­ing away and cen­tred for Inza­ghi to tap-in. Juve blew two chances to clear a cor­ner, Bon­era played a one-two with Ambrosini on the edge of the box, run­ning onto his vice-captain’s delight­ful lobbed pass, Buf­fon advanced off his line to close him down but Bon­era kept his com­po­sure and squared for an off­side Inza­ghi to put Milan 1–2 up. Del Piero caught Mal­dini nap­ping on the left touch­line, tack­ling him from behind, the ball broke to Camoranesi, he hung a cross upto the back post and Kalac could only parry Trezeguet’s point blank header against Salihamidzic.

Grygera drew a great save from Kalac with a bril­liant long range effort. Sis­soko skipped over another despair­ing Favalli tackle and put in a great cross from the right but, with the goal at his mercy, Sten­dardo headed embar­rass­ingly wide. Bon­era was sent off for a crim­i­nal, leg break­ing foul on Sis­soko who mirac­u­lously wasn’t hurt. An unmarked Sal­i­hamidzic headed in the win­ner from a Camoranesi free kick. Del Piero should have made it 4–2 but failed to pun­ish a mis­take by the wretched Simic, vol­ley­ing straight at Kalac.

Dario bloody Simic epit­o­mises every­thing wrong with the clubs trans­fer pol­icy in recent years. This use­less, injury prone 32 year old midget (for a cen­tre back), rarely plays, is rub­bish when he does yet had his con­tract extended in 2006 because like Cafu, Serginho, Favalli and Broc­chi he’s become part of the fur­ni­ture. Gal­liani you are crap.

JUVENTUS 3 (Del Piero 12, Sal­i­hamidzic 45, Sal­i­hamidzic 80)
MILAN 2 (Inza­ghi 14, Inza­ghi 30)

Atten­dance : 45,000
Assists : Camoranesi, Kaka’, Bon­era, n/a, Camoranesi (fk)

For high­lights and all the goals see the video below:

Match­day 33 Results
Sat­ur­day April 12th
Palermo 1 — 0 Cata­nia
Juven­tus 3 — 2 AC Milan

Sun­day April 13th
Empoli 1 — 1 Parma
Genoa 3 — 0 Torino
Lazio 1 — 1 Siena
Livorno 1 — 2 Cagliari
Napoli 2 — 0 Ata­lanta
Reg­gina 1 — 0 Sam­p­do­ria
Udi­nese 1 — 3 AS Roma
Inter Milan 2 — 0 Fiorentina