Serie A - Weekend Recap

Andrea Pirlo of Juventus

This weekend the Serie A competition continued, following the mid week European leagues which featured a number of Italian clubs. Juventus hosted Chievo, full of confidence after an amazing turn around against Chelsea, down 2-0 to recover 2-2. Juventus were too strong for the small club, continuing their unbeaten run which has lasted more then 12 months. Fabio Quagliarella, after scoring againest Cheslea maintaining his dream week, scoring two superb goals to give Juventus a 2-0 win, and keep them on top of the standings. Juventus just seem to keep getting stronger and stronger, with a number of Italian national team representatives, including Pirlo and Buffon, leading this team to regain it's former glory. Fiorentina after starting the season strongly, gave up a 1-0 lead to draw 1-1 with Parma.

Napoli v Catania

Napoli had an 100% win record heading into this round, traveling to Sicily to face bogey team Catania. Napoli with the loss of Lavezzi to PSG during the summer, still had a number of star players including Hamsik, Maggio and Cavani, but failed to capatalise on an enorumous amount of chances, drawing 0-0. Sampdoria, another team which has started extrmley brightly, follwing their promotion from Serie B, grabbed a last minute equaliser to draw 1-1 with fellow newcomers Torino.  Lazio lost 1-0 to Genoa, and Palermo continue their poor start with no points losing to Atlanta 1-0.
 

Cassano on the attack

Inter were stunned 2-0 at home to bottom placed Siena. The Italian giants were easily expected to get the three points, but struggled to put away their chances. Inter's consistenty this season has something has been questioned a number of times, and with young manager Andrea Stamaccioni having never experienced football at the highest level until now, their is no doubt people's attention will begin to increase. Inter have spent quite big in the transfer market this season, and with still having their superstars such as Sniejder and Militio, expectation is at it's highest. Match of the round saw Udinese face AC Milan, with Milan coming off one of it's worse season starts in its history. Udinese took the lead early, with Milan fighting back to drag it to 1-1, before a Antonio Di Natalie penalty sank Milan hopes and continued their awful run.