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Ac Milan, Inter, Roma
Tuesday, September 26. 2006
Francesco Totti celebrated his 30th birthday with a goal against Valencia, but Roma still lost 2-1 at the Mestalla. The Giallorossi got off to a great start in the Champions League, hammering Shakhtar Donetsk 4-0, but missed the injured Rodrigo Taddei, Amantino Mancini and Mirko Vucinic for this trip to Spain.
Luciano Spalletti was impressed with Roma’s performance in Valencia and insists they’re still in the running for qualification. “This was a wasted opportunity because I didn’t see Valencia play any better than we did and we failed to take our chances,” he said after the 2-1 defeat.
Inter's Champions League hopes are in tatters after Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Fabio Grosso were sent off in a 2-0 home defeat to Bayern Munich.
“I think the game changed after we went down to 10 men. We had planned to take no risks in the first half and then push after the break, but unfortunately there was this dismissal and a mistake on the opening goal,” Mancini said of the 2-0 home loss.
Kaka, Alberto Gilardino and Clarence Seedorf had the best chances, but Milan were held to their second consecutive goalless draw - held by French side Lille. Following their 0-0 at Livorno on Saturday, they again fail to hit the back of the net.
"We had scored a goal and it looked valid to me,” Ancelotti said after Milan’s 0-0 draw in France - he was angry that a Clarence Seedorf goal was incorrectly disallowed.
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Catania, Palermo
Friday, September 22. 2006
Palermo fought back to win an incredible eight-goal thriller that had action, drama and some comical goalkeeping errors.
Corona 27 (C), Tedesco 28 (P), Fabio Simplicio 47 (P), Mascara 64 (C), Corini pen 69 (P), Amauri 74 (P), Barzagli 81 (P), Spinesi 93 (C)
Palermo: Agliardi; Cassani, Zaccardo, Barzagli, Pisano; Tedesco (Guano 60), Corini, Simplicio; Bresciano; Amauri (Caracciolo 86), Di Michele (Diana 76)
Catania: Pantanelli; Silvestri, Stovini, Sottil, Falsini (Vargas 78); Baiocco, Biso, Caserta; Mascara (Del Core 87), Corona, Colucci (Spinesi 72)
Ref: Trefoloni
Sent off: Fabio Simplicio 90 (P)
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Friday, September 22. 2006
Outspoken Lecce boss Zdenek Zeman has attacked the Calciopoli verdicts.
Honestly I don't think things have changed at all," said the Czech tactician. "I've read the Calciopoli verdicts and I have the impression that they tried to cure cancer by using an aspirin. You only need to look around and see that many of the individuals who were handed a ban are still working as if nothing happened. I think this could have represented the opportunity to totally renovate football. We have all lost a good chance and now things are destined to remain just like they were."
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Ac Milan, Ascoli
Friday, September 22. 2006
Milan are delighted at wiping out their points penalty after just three games.
"I am very happy with the result, we struggled at times but also created many clear opportunities," said goalscorer Marek Jankulovski.
Brazilian star Kaka was also pleased with the result but did concede that it wasn't a classic performance from the Rossoneri. "In the first half we played too far apart from each other, there was never a teammate nearby, but then things changed," said the 24-year-old. "But we won again and that is what counts, and what is more important is that we finally removed the minus sign from the standings."
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Inter, Roma
Friday, September 22. 2006
Hernan Crespo secured a potentially decisive away win in the Scudetto race at Roma's Stadio Olimpico
Roma strung together an excellent team move made up of one-touch football that eventually had Amantino Mancini chip the goalkeeper, but the finish was cleared off the line by Marco Materazzi. The Brazilian suffered a thigh injury during that move and made way for Montella.
Inter took the lead in this exciting game on the stroke of half-time. Crespo ran past Mexes down the left flank and his fierce shot ricocheted in off the inside of Doni's legs. Lucky.
In the second half Inter had a dubious penalty awarded but Doni managed to keep it out. Viera sent off for dissent and that is not a surprise.
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