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Jacopo Fazzini: Empoli’s Hidden Gem
Club: Empoli Nationality: Italy Position(s): CM, AM Preferred Foot: Right Height: 5’10”/178cm Age: 21 Strengths: agility, dribbling, passing variance, duels, defensive work-rate, press resistance, athleticism Areas of Development: application, strength It seems like every year, there’s a new interior midfielder who’s leaving one of Serie A’s smaller teams and taking his talents to one…
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Mattia Zaccagni Flourishing with Bigger Responsibility at Marco Baroni’s Lazio
Lazio are enjoying a resurgence this season under new coach Marco Baroni and are sitting in fifth in the Serie A standings just one point behind Napoli, and level with Atalanta, Inter and Fiorentina on 28 points from 13 matches. One of the main players leading the spotlight in Lazio return into form is club…
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Fillu de Sardegna: How Nicolò Barella’s Midfield Excellence Ignites Simone Inzaghi’s Inter
Sardinian-born international Nicolò Barella came from humble beginnings, being a product of the youth system in the region’s capital Cagliari, who at the time were under the reign of Zdeněk Zeman, who rejoined the club after their spell with club legend Gianfranco Zola. First-team football for Barella was not on the cards for the young…
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Napoli v Lazio Bet Builder Stats & Predictions
Napoli v Lazio Kick Off: Sunday 8th December, 19:45 Competition: Serie A Watch Live: TNT Sports 1 For the latest and very best expert football betting predictions, covering leagues from all over the world, head over to Andy’s Bet Club. Aside from my daily football tips, you can take advantage of several free-to-use tools…
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Como v Monza Bet Builder Stats & Predictions
Como v Monza Kick Off: Sunday 30th November, 14:00 Competition: Serie A Watch Live: OneFootball Two Serie A upstarts meet on Saturday as Como face Monza in Italy’s top-flight. Neither club has experienced the campaign they would have wished. Indeed, both lie in the relegation zone heading into the weekend. A win in this…
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Moise Kean’s Redemption Season at Fiorentina
It has been eight years since Moise Kean became Juventus’ youngest-ever debutant as well as the first player born in the 2000s to play in one of Europe’s top five leagues and the UEFA Champions League, winning a domestic double in his first season before heading out on loan to Hellas Verona. Since then, Kean…
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Roma’s on and Off-The-Field Issues Set to Continue as Club Searches for Its Fourth Manager of 2024
We are only just coming into the third international break of the season in November, and AS Roma are looking for their third coach of the season. Ivan Jurić, who took over from Daniele De Rossi in mid-September, was fired thirty minutes after Sunday home to defeat Bologna via phone call. In fairness, it…
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Torino Captain Duvan Zapata Out for the Season with ACL Injury
From Rodri to Éder Militão, from Bremer to Dani Carvajal, we’ve seen an alarmingly high amount of big-name footballers suffer ACL injuries in the opening months of the season. The latest player to bid farewell to his campaign and head to the operating table is Duván Zapata. Zapata was 20 years old when he…
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Embracing the Kosta Runjaic Mentality – A Surprise European Charge for Udinese
Following an unimaginably frustrating campaign that returned endless talking points, Udinese find themselves nestled in the top half of Serie A and within striking distance of an unimaginable European position. To the football fan of a particular era, Le Zebrette is a perennial feature in Italian football’s top tier, previously showcasing household names like…
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Evan Ndicka: Roma’s Ivorian Rock at the Back
Born on August 20, 1998, in Saint-Malo, France, Evan Ndicka began playing football at a young age and joined Ligue 2 side AJ Auxerre at the age of 13, progressing through the club’s academy and making his professional debut on 27 January 2017, starting in a 1–0 win over Clermont Foot. Ndicka signed his first…
