The International Break begins
Arena won his first cap for Italy and I send him congrats!
April
6th – Away at Juventus – Uh oh
10th – Home vs Roma, Champions QF
13th – Home vs Sampdoria
16th - Away at Roma – Champions QF
19th – Champions SF Draw
21st – Away at Palermo
24th – Home vs Salernitana
28th – Away at Bologna
30th – Champions, SF 1st Game
Wow that’s a busy month
Roma are growing into our big rival. We faced them in the Super Cup, we’ll face them in the finals of the Italian Cup and now two games in the quarters of the Champions league.
Lirola and Rubio in Team of the Month
Good Training – Donnarumma, Arena, Gautier
Arena wants a new deal and I agree and offer him one
Serie A Game #30- Away at Juventus, I begin countering. If we win today we’ll move into 1st.
Vengeance!
Notes
Thiago for a carded Vicente
Adjapong for a carded Lirola
29th Minute – They tackle Burgzorg and score a 1:1 opportunity
36th Minute – Mendez feeds Berardi on an attack run to tie it 1-1
HALF – I’ll take a 1-1 tie at the end, or a 5-5 tie for that matter.
55th Minute – They score again
64th Minute – Mendez intercepts a back pass for their GK and sinks a 1:1 opportunity to tie it back to 2-2
Ghoulam for Burgzorg
90th Minute – Thiago feeds Politano for goal and we are up 3-2!
Four Minutes for them to grab the tie back
93rd Minute – Politano feeds Mendez for goal! That’s his 50th goal for us. That seals it
Game! MOM is Mendez. That’s only my 2nd win against Juve in the last 7 games.
Wanna see?
They had almost 2x as many shots as us and 2x as much shots on target and possession, but we were more clinical in front of goal. That win moves us to first place for the first time this year
We qualify for the EURO
Here is the table after 30:
Palermo, who won the Serie A our first year here, are back to 3rd with a point over Udinese. We are first by 2 points over Juve, we each have 24 wins in 30 games. With 8 games left, we’d need 5 to beat last year’s 28 win total.