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Team Focus: New Look Roma Seem Set for Success

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Team Focus: New Look Roma Seem Set for Success It's been another summer of change thus far for Roma, with former Lille boss Rudi Garcia taking the reigns to become the club's fifth manager (including caretakers) since Claudio Ranieri left the club in 2011.The Frenchman has been busy in the transfer market already, and may not be done yet with Ro...

Team Focus: The Same But Different: What's Behind Inter's Revival?

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Team Focus: The Same But Different: What's Behind Inter's Revival? During the early 1960's, New York Yankees legend Yogi Berra watched two other greats - Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris - repeatedly hit back-to-back home runs and commented; it's déjà vu all over again. While Inter's black and blue shirts could never be confused with the Bronx Bombers fa...

The Milan Derby: City Rivals By The Numbers

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The Milan Derby: City Rivals By The Numbers Sunday evening will see two of European football's grandest clubs meet in one of the most high profile matches of the year as Milan face Inter in the 205th Derby della Madonnina. As rivalries go it is also one of the closest; Milan have won on 72 occasions, just one more than their city cousins, wit...

WhoScored's 2011 Serie A Player and Young Player of the Year

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WhoScored's 2011 Serie A Player and Young Player of the Year In the penultimate edition of the WhoScored Player of the Calendar Year in each of Europe's top 5 leagues we analyse the top performers of Italy's Serie A since the beginning of 2011.While there are a number of predictable inclusions in our top 10, there is also a selection of high-profile absentees...

Serie A All Star XI, Season 2010/11

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Serie A All Star XI, Season 2010/11 Our Serie A All Star Team hosts five players from the top two, with Inter contributing three to Milan’s couple. With four of those five being defensive players, only one of our more attack-minded options comes from either of the Milan sides. Lazio are the only other team to supply more than on...

Leonardo’s Home League Form Offers Inter Plenty Optimism

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Leonardo’s Home League Form Offers Inter Plenty Optimism Having lost their grip on the Champions League and Serie A, Inter will be hoping to end the season on a positive note by clinching some silverware in the Italian Cup Final against Palermo later in the month. It’s been a topsy-turvy campaign for the Nerazzurri with Jose Mourinho departing for M...