The Italian Serie A started this weekend with a series of matches, which paved the way for an exciting and unpredictable season. The league started off with the Milan Kingpins, AC Milan traveling to the Stadio M. A. Bentegodi to face the newly promoted Verona. With Milan having a wealth of experience in the Serie A, they were expected to be the superior team. The only difficulty was that the beautiful game is not played on paper.
The Italian Serie A started this weekend with a series of matches, which paved the way for an exciting and unpredictable season. The league started off with the Milan Kingpins, AC Milan traveling to the Stadio M. A. Bentegodi to face the newly promoted Verona. With Milan having a wealth of experience in the Serie A, they were expected to be the superior team. The only difficulty was that the beautiful game is not played on paper.
Milan pressured the Verona’s backline with successive attacks. Balotelli came close in the 6th min with a shot just a few meters outside the 18 yard box but Verona’s keeper Bittencourt, was not ready to concede just yet. As Milan kept up the Pressure, a beautiful tru ball from Italian talisman Balotelli, played in Poli who slotted pass Bittencourt in the 14th min to make it 1-0. The inexperienced and underestimated Verona team led by former League Top scorer and super star Luca Toni was in no mood to lose. Toni found himself at the end of corner kick to level the scores in the 30th min. It was clear through-out the game that Verona was going to exploit the air to secure the 3 pts and that they did to good effect. Verona secured all 3 pts from what turned out to be the winner with another signature header from vintage Luca Toni which sent the home fans into a frenzy in the 54th min and registered the first major upset of the season.
Two time defending champions of the Serie A’s , Juventus was also on the road, securing all 3 pts at the Stadio Luigi Ferraris with a 1-0 win over Sampdoria. Swift, decisive, one touch passing between Vidal and Pogba was converted into a goal by Tevez in the 58th min to give Argentinean his 2nd goal in as much appearance for his new club. Juventus dominated the game and had numerous chances but was not able to convert. The game ended with a single name on the score card.
Napoli entertained Bologna at the San Paolo with a 3-0 win. Napoli started purposefully with former Madrid winger Callejon, seeing his beautiful volley hitting the right upright and running across the face of the goal. However, his persistence paid off when he converted a deflected shot into the back of the net to make it 1-0 in the 32th min. Hamsik then made it 2-0 on the stroke of halftime. He later pushed Napoli further in the 64th min to make it a comprehensive 3-0 win over Bologna.
In other matches:
Inter Milan 2 – 0 Genoa
Livorno 0 – 2 AS Roma
Cagliari 2 – 1 Atalanta
Torino 2 – 0 Sassuolo
Writer: Dean Beezer
Photo: Luca Toni (Getty Images)
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