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There is no shortage of football events on television today, Monday 20 May 2024.

The 37th matchday of Serie A ends with the two remaining matches, but not only that, because at the Barbera there is also the first leg of the Serie B playoff semi-final between Palermo and Venice. And for fans, the day also offers three events with the women’s Bundesliga.

3.30pm Cologne – Eintracht Frankfurt (Women’s Bundesliga) – DAZN
3.30pm Bayer Leverkusen – Werder Bremen (Women’s Bundesliga) – DAZN
3.30pm Hoffenheim – Bayern (Women’s Bundesliga) – DAZN
6.30pm Salernitana – Verona (Serie A) – DAZN and DAZN ZONE (Sky channel 214)
8.30pm Palermo – Venice (Series B Playoffs) – DAZN and SKY SPORT FOOTBALL
8.45pm Bologna – Juventus (Serie A) – DAZN and DAZN ZONE (Sky channel 214)

Piotr Zielinski he is not just a midfielder, he is something more. Not exactly an added striker, but we’re close. His footballing history starts from Lubin in Poland, but at just 17 years old he is already wearing the shirt ofUdinese. With the Friulians he only spent one year in the Primavera, then his qualities were too evident and he was promoted to the first team. In two seasons he tasted Serie A, showed signs of something, made 19 appearances, but still didn’t blossom and only managed to provide 2 assists in 19 appearances.

It is not little, at all, but for what he will demonstrate later and for what he is today we could imagine even better. From 2014 to 2016 he played on loan atEmpoli with Maurizio Sarri and Marco Giampaolo, two who try to teach football. There are 66 tokens in Tuscany with 5 goals, numbers in hand, another step.

In the summer of 2016 it was purchased by Naples for 15 million euros plus Zuniga’s loan, then transferred to Watford. In Campania he will win an Italian Cup and a historic scudetto, and currently boasts 364 appearances (41 in the Champions League, 21 in the Europa League, 2 in the Champions League preliminaries, 281 in Serie A, 2 in the Italian Super Cup and 17 in the Italian Cup) and 51 goals , to which we must add the 11 centers in 88 matches against Poland. Summing up what Zielinski represented for Aurelio De Laurentiis’s company is complicated, but it is certain that in all these years he has always been at the center of the project, the man capable of guaranteeing numerical superiority by overtaking the man and entering with the headlights off in passages that others can only imagine. At a certain point something breaks, he wants another experience and finds an agreement to move toInter, which in the meantime has dominated the championship and awaits him with open arms. He will not leave in the best possible way because the final job is not what he is used to, but he certainly says goodbye as a champion, as a leader and as a symbol of a cycle that reached his lowest point in 2023-2024. Piotr Zielinski turns 30 today.

Monday of football played in our country, with two matches valid for the 37th round of A league (Salernitana-Verona and Bologna-Juventus) and the first leg of the semi-final of the playoffs in B series (Palermo-Venice). The main theme? Definitely the debut of Paolo Montero on the Juventus bench, in the first post-Allegri match. Below is the football program for May 20th:

A league
6.30pm – Salernitana vs. Verona
8.45pm – Bologna vs. Juventus

Serie B – PlayOff first leg semi-final
8.30pm – Palermo vs. Venice

The Nerazzurri midfielder Hakan Calhanoglu was interviewed by Inter TV during the Nerazzurri celebration at San Siro for the victory of the Scudetto for Inzaghi’s team, which began after the 1-1 draw against Lazio: “Seeing our fans get so excited and have fun like this was wonderful. It’s true I’ve been waiting for this Scudetto for a long time, it’s number 20 and it’s beautiful.

The best moment of the season? The victory against Milan was something that God gave me. Our goal has always been to win the scudetto, we worked hard but always with positivity. We are a wonderful group, always like a family. Everyone saw it, the smile was never missing and it was important for our journey.”

Through their official channels, Spartak Moscow has announced that two important players will not renew their contracts. Victor Moses and Georgiy Dzhikiya they played their last home match with the capital club and will leave the club as a free agent.

The Nigerian, former Inter, Chelsea and Liverpool player, arrived in the summer of 2021 and scored 10 goals and 10 assists in 85 matches, while the Russian defender leaves after seven and a half years and 215 total games.

After ten years of Serie A, the Sassuolo fairy tale writes the saddest and most difficult chapter of its recent history. Relegation to Serie B is hard to digest, especially after everything the club has experienced in this long period. With the peak reached in the 2015-2016 season with Di Francesco on the bench: 6th place finish with 61 points, an absolute record with the first historic qualification for the Europa League preliminaries. Since that moment 8 years have passed and frankly the path didn’t seem to have foreseen something so negative. And instead Sassuolo, by virtue of the home defeat against Cagliari and the results of the afternoon, was relegated to Serie B a day before the end of the championship.

The next match against Lazio will be the last in Serie A after a long time. The numbers are merciless and there is little to complain about the sporting result: 29 points in the standings with a balance of just 7 wins, 8 draws and 22 defeats. 74 goals conceded compared to 42 scored. Many mistakes have been made. Even on the market. In the summer the departure of a player like Frattesi was not compensated in the right way and even in January perhaps something more could and should have been done. Although talking later is always easier.

Dilly-Ding Dilly-dong, Cagliari is safe. Stopwatch in hand, in an even more “comfortable” way than it was for the Sardinians to gain promotion to Serie A. A day early, nothing more than a handful of seconds at the end of injury time. Who knows without that paw from Pavoletti… On the bench, enjoying it a year ago like today, here is Claudio Ranieri, the baronet of Italian football.

It is difficult to compare Cagliari’s salvation to a feat like that of Leicester, which will remain in the history of the Premier League. The signature, however, is always the same: 73 years old on October 20th, don’t call him dean but the personal data tells us that the “greatest” lord of Serie A has struck again.

And to think that Ranieri had taken the Sardinians to 14th place in the Serie B table, taking over from Fabio Liverani just before Christmas, in a season that didn’t seem to promise anything good. Welcomed as a hero, after all it was there, in 1988, that his career as a coach had taken off: the double promotion from C1 to A, the fourteenth place which earned him an unexpected salvation after a thrilling first round. Thirty-three years ago, but in the end little has changed: relying on Sir Claudio is always an excellent choice.

The Frosinone conquer Monza in the match valid for the 37th round of Serie A and takes a good step towards salvation, while still awaiting the final against Udinese in the last round of the championship. At the U-Power Stadium the Ciociari won 1-0 thanks to the goal scored in the 9th minute by Cheddira assisted by Harroui. There was also a post on each side, in the first half that of Colpani and in the second that of Soulé.

The analysis of Mister Raffaele Palladino a DAZN
“We wanted to put in a good performance and finish well in front of our fans. It’s disappointing because today we weren’t able to bring out that little bit more that was needed. We knew we were facing a team that defended itself and tried to restart and in fact that was the case. I can get angry with the boys because I’ve been pushing them since July 7th and I really squeezed them like lemons, they really gave everything today too, they were disappointed. We had a good championship, football is also about motivation and today we didn’t have great motivation because we don’t have great goals for the standings. What I asked the boys was to give everything and they did.”

The analysis of Mr. Eusebio Di Francesco a Sky Sports
“On a tactical level we played an intelligent match. We cannot pronounce the word salvation yet, because it is not mathematics and because we still have a final to play at home against Udinese in which we will have to make use of our 12th man on the pitch. It will be a trap. We will always play to bring home the three points, with the intelligence and awareness that just one might be enough. We are not foolish.”

A victory that is worth sixth place and cancels, albeit partially, the elimination against Leverkusen and the defeat of Bergamo against Atalanta. There Rome wins 1-0 against Genoa thanks to Lukaku’s goal, probably the last with the Giallorossi shirt: a heavy goal that secures sixth place and gives hope to a team that could qualify for the next Champions League by entering through the back door.

The combinations
In fact, if Atalanta finishes fifth in the championship and wins the Europa League against Bayer Leverkusen, the Romans could obtain the European pass. But Daniele De Rossi he is already thinking about next season: “Keep Lukaku? I will do everything I can to make this team better. Every year the coach sits down and talks about improving the squad, Inter also tries to do so. There will be some limits and of the budgets to be respected, I don’t yet know what we will be able to do, but we will do it to make Roma a team with a higher ranking. In terms of values, Roma is a team that must try to finish fourth”, he reiterated to the microphones of Dazn.

Quality
However, applause must also be given to a Genoa team who played with high intensity despite having already been saved from several matches. Gilardino’s team put Roma in difficulty, left with ten men in the second half due to Paredes’ red, coming close to equalizing with Ruslan Malinovskyi’s usual poisonous left-footed shot: “We’re worried about conceding a goal like that in 10 against 11… we should have done better, but the boys were good with how they played the match against a strong team, with a high technical level, who were playing for an important objective”, highlighted the coach Griffin. The competitive malice is the right one: a further signal ahead of next season.

Penultimate day with many verdicts in Serie A. Rome, thanks to the victory obtained in the last season at the Olimpico stadium, secured sixth place: now the Giallorossi are hoping for Atalanta’s fifth place and the Nerazzurri’s victory in the Europa League to obtain a further pass to the Champions League. Great fight for salvation where today the arithmetic relegation arrived for the Sassuolo: Frosinone’s victory changes everything, Verona will win the three points in the Monday Night against Salernitana he can definitively get out of trouble.

The one at risk is Udinese, who will play for their stay in the top flight against Frosinone, but at the Ciociari’s home ground. Empoli must win against Roma on the last matchday available, which is not an easy situation but the Giallorossi at the moment have nothing left to ask of the championship.

The updated ranking

1. Inter 93 points
2. Milan 74
3. Bologna 67 *
4. Juventus 67 *
5. Atalanta 66 *
6. Rome 63
7. Lazio 60
8. Fiorentina 54 *
9. Turin 53
10. Naples 52
11. Genoa 46
12. Monza 45
13. Lecce 37
14. Cagliari 36
15. Frosinone 35
16. Hellas Verona 34 *
17. Udinese 34
18. Empoli 33
19. Sassuolo 29
20. Salernitana 16 *

*: one race less

Italian champion: Inter
Champions League: Inter, Milan, Bologna, Juventus, Atalanta
Europa League: Rome, Lazio
Relegated: Salernitana, Sassuolo