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Re: L'Aeroplanino Lands In Tuscany
Serie A Match Day #6
30 September 2012
San Siro, Milan
Inter Milan 2-2 Fiorentina
Scoring Summary
25' Diego Milito(pen) - IM
30' Juan Cuadrado - ACF
41' Diego Milito - IM
51' Stevan Jovetic(pen) - ACF
Jovetic's First Of The Season Earns Montella Yet Another Draw
Inter's Diego Milito celebrates the second of his two first half goals
Having led Catania to a league high(tied with Juventus) 15 draws last season including road draws against the likes of Lazio, Napoli, AS Roma, and Inter among others, Vincenzo Montella was able to lead Gli Elefanti to a surprising and impressive 11th place finish, the club's highest placing since returning to Serie A after a 22 year absence in 2006-07. Now at Fiorentina, Montella has continued in that vein again, earning four draws in the club's first six games including back to back difficult road draws with Parma and now Inter whom the Viola held by a 2-2 score thanks to goals from Juan Cuadrado and Stevan Jovetic, who broke his duck with a match leveling penalty conversion at the 51' minute mark. Expectations however are a funny thing, and despite the fact that a completely revamped club with a new manager and a very difficult early season schedule has managed to go unbeaten in four straight as they try to figure it out, fans, and more importantly the board are beginning to get restless. What they see is that Montella has managed just one win in six tries and that the club sits in an uninspiring 11th place, already 9 points out of a Champions League place, simply not good enough for a club with lofty aspirations. With pressure mounting, Montella must now start to win, and with games coming up in October against Juventus, AC Milan, and Lazio, he has his work cut out for him.
Results From This Week's Serie A Fixtures
26 September 2012
Catania 2-2 Atalanta
Genoa 2-0 Parma
Pescara 1-2 Palermo
AS Roma 4-1 Sampdoria
Siena 1-2 Bologna
27 September 2012
AC Milan 2-0 Cagliari
29 September 2012
Atalanta 1-1 Torino
Parma 1-2 AC Milan
30 September 2012
Bologna 0-1 Catania
Cagliari 2-1 Pescara
Internazionale 2-2 Fiorentina
Juventus 2-0 AS Roma
Lazio 5-0 Siena
Palermo 1-1 Chievo Verona
Sampdoria 1-3 Napoli
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