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Many events not to be missed with the European championships during the football weekend which starts today, Friday 26 April 2024.

Frosinone and Salernitana open the 34th round of Serie A to all intents and purposes at 8.45pm, but the cadet series is also played with two matches: Pisa against Catanzaro and Venezia against Cremonese. Without forgetting the Women’s Serie A, which offers an inviting Juve-Inter, and foreign tournaments, above all La Liga, Bundes and Ligue 1.

A league
8.45pm – Frosinone vs Salernitana

B series
8.30pm – Pisa vs Catanzaro
8.30pm – Venice vs Cremonese

Women’s Serie A – Play-Offs Championship
8.30pm – Juventus D vs Inter D

LaLiga
9.00pm – Real Sociedad vs Real Madrid

Bundesliga
8.30pm – Bochum vs Hoffenheim

Ligue 1
9.00pm – Montpellier vs Nantes

Liga Portugal
9.15pm – Gil Vicente vs Arouca

Super League
19:00 – Adana Demirspor vs Galatasaray

Saudi Professional League
5.00pm – Al-Hilal vs Al Fateh
5.00pm – Damac vs Al-Taawon
8.00pm – Al-Ittihad FC vs Al Shabab

There is not only Roberto Goretti as a possible successor to Pietro Accardi in the role of sporting director of Empoli. The current sporting director of the Azzurri has been talked about for some time and it seems the time has come for him to make a leap: rumors have been going on for months, from Napoli to Fiorentina and even alternative possibilities such as Genoa for example. According to the specialized portal Pianeta Empoli, a new path opens up for Monteboro’s desk and he is looking at Serie B.

One candidate, we learn, is Paolo Bravo, South Tyrol’s current transfer man and the one who contributed to the stabilization of the South Tyrolean team in the cadettry. Despite a contract that would tie him to the red and whites for another sporting season, many think that he could be ready to make the leap. Bravo is one of the most appreciated sports directors of the club led by president Corsi. Goretti, now at Reggiana, is also in the running.

On 26 April 1998, Juventus-Inter was played at Delle Alpi. The Scudetto match par excellence which, at that moment, was worth three quarters of the title. Because Juve are at plus one, while the Nerazzurri find themselves with Ronaldo in great form. However, the lead was scored by Alessandro Del Piero, with a beautiful goal, in a first half that was anything but extraordinary. However, many controversial episodes in favor of Juventus had already occurred over the months. So it’s normal that in the second half, in the twenty-fifth minute, an uproar breaks out. Ball contested by Zamorano and Birindelli on the edge of the penalty area, Ronaldo enters and anticipates Iuliano by moving the ball to him.

Inevitable clash, even harsh. For the referee, Ceccarini from Livorno, there was no foul. The action restarts and West collides with Del Piero. This time it’s a penalty: all in a period of sixty seconds. What would have happened with the VAR? It’s a question that would be nice to ask ourselves twenty-six years later, but it’s impossible. Del Piero makes a mistake, Juve wins 1-0 and will then reach the Scudetto.

This is the black jacket’s last comment on the contact. “I’ve already said it many times: the defender was stationary and the attacker was moving. I have one regret: if I had called a foul in attack, the action wouldn’t have restarted and there wouldn’t have been so much controversy. Instead I found myself in the middle to the vortex, for months, for me and for my family. I, my children and my wife suffered insults and contempt, for no reason, that episode damaged my career after retiring”.

Obviously the controversies became very heated after the match. Ronaldo and Simoni tell the referee to be ashamed. Moratti leaves before the end of the match. Sports director Mazzola calls the championship distorted, while Luciano Moggi talks about “breaking through”, as in basketball, while Iuliano says he is “still”, as Ceccarini himself said. Points of view, but reviewing the images it wasn’t really a statue of Madame Tussaud…

Once the championship has been awarded, many verdicts remain that the championship A league has yet to be decreed. We start from the exciting race to the European competitions, especially the Champions Leaguewhich will feature at least five teams in Serie A next year.

The Champions race. In the following sections, we have tried to consider and compare the calendars of the teams arithmetically in the running for qualification for the top continental competition. With big differences, obviously: al Milan, for example, two points are enough for arithmetic certainty, given that (by virtue of the direct clash between the two) the Rossoneri cannot be reached at the possible 71 mark by either Roma or Atalanta. At the Juventus Seven points are missing, excluding Monza who could arithmetically catch up with Roma but are behind in direct clashes with both the Giallorossi and the Roma. Goddess. Away games are capitalized.

Milan – 69 points – 33 games played

34th matchday: JUVENTUS
35th day: Genoa
36th day: Cagliari
37th day: TURIN
38th day: Salernitana

Juventus – 64 points – 33 games played

34th matchday: Milan
35th day: ROME
36th day: Salernitana
37th day: BOLOGNA
38th day: Monza

Bologna – 62 points – 33 games played

34th matchday: Udinese
35th day: TURIN
36th day: NAPLES
37th matchday: Juventus
38th day: GENOA

Rome – 58 points – 33 games played

34th day: NAPLES
35th matchday: Juventus
36th matchday: ATALANTA
37th day: Genoa
38th day: EMPOLI

Atalanta – 54 points – 32 games played

34th day: Empoli
35th day: SALERNITANA
36th day: Rome
37th day: LECCE
38th day: Turin
To recover: Fiorentina

Lazio – 52 points – 33 games played

34th day: Hellas Verona
35th day: MONZA
36th day: Empoli
37th matchday: INTER
38th matchday: Sassuolo

Napoli – 49 points – 33 games played

34th day: Rome
35th day: UDINESE
36th day: Bologna
37th matchday: FIORENTINA
38th day: Lecce

Fiorentina – 47 points – 32 games played

34th day: Sassuolo
35th day: HELLAS VERONA
36th day: Monza
37th day: Naples
38th day: CAGLIARI
To recover: ATALANTA

Turin – 46 points – 33 games played

34th matchday: INTER
35th day: Bologna
36th day: HELLAS VERONA
37th matchday: Milan
38th matchday: ATALANTA

How does Carlo Ancelotti to always keep everyone on track? It’s one of the questions asked Toni Kroos in an interview for the German podcast Einfach mal Luppen. The midfielder, a Real Madrid legend, enjoyed telling some recent anecdotes: “The interesting thing is that Carlo last week, before the match in Mallorca, said: ‘If we play the match in Mallorca and win, it’s over’. And then after winning in the Balearics he revealed to me: ‘I lied to you, we’ll win next week, it’s over!’

Now, that Real Madrid won the Classic, Carletto he did it again. “After the last match, now, he said three things – continues the former Bayern Munich player – “First of all, congratulations. Second: it will end when we beat Real Sociedad on Friday. And third: “two days of rest,” says Kroos, laughing.

Latest on the Rossoneri defense from the portal MilanNews.it: Pioli goes to Turin to play against Juventus without half a defense. Not that it’s new this season, since injuries have often forced the defensive department to a minimum, but it’s still a problem that hasn’t arisen for at least a couple of months. Added to the injuries of Kalulu and Kjaer, whose recovery will need to be assessed in the next few hours, are the heavy, and also very naive, suspensions of Fikayo Tomori, Theo Hernandez and Davide Calabria. Other unfortunate legacies of the derby played on Monday evening.

And so Milan will present themselves at the Allianz Stadium with forced choices in a match that serves to confirm second place but above all to avoid the possible abyss in the event of a new defeat. In this sense Pioli has two paths ahead of him. As for the central defenders on the pitch, Matteo Gabbia and Malick Thiaw will most likely go.

While waiting to find out more about Kjaer, Caldara will be there but also, probably, the Simic spring. On the flanks, however, Florenzi will almost certainly play: on the right if Terracciano is chosen for the left winger, on the opposite side if Musah is dropped back. The latter seems to be the most accredited solution at the moment.

L’Inter has returned to work, even if between now and the end of the season the Nerazzurri could enjoy a two-star catwalk. The team of Simone Inzaghi resumed training at Pinetina on the day just ended: relaxing for those who played against Milan, “normal” work for the others. The match against the team is scheduled for Sunday at 12.30pm Turinwhich will be the appetizer for the championship celebrations, destined to continue until the night in the setting of Piazza Duomo.

Any news against Juric? Possible, not obvious. With five days to go in the season, one of the main issues is linked to Inzaghi’s choices, which should give more space to some elements of the squad that have been used less so far. It is reasonable to think that the coach will use the balance, also because Inter have no intention of exposing themselves to stumbles and then out of due respect to the teams still in the running for their respective objectives.

Then the market. Inzaghi’s future will be the central theme of the classic end-of-season summit, which will be celebrated in Viale della Liberazione around mid-May, slightly earlier than usual. At that meeting, the priorities to focus on in August, which could be at the extremes, will also be defined. The first could in fact concern the door: Bento of Atletico Paranaense is the name identified some time ago by Marotta, Ausilio and Baccin. In attack, the name of takes center stage Joshua Zirkzee, which Juventus and Milan also like. In any case, the hypothesis that leads to this does not fade away Albert Gudmundssonan Icelander who is also particularly popular with the Bianconeri.

“I always think that when someone looks at their past with a certain degree of acrimony it means that they are not living the present very well. I hope that this is not the case with Maldini.” The words of Paolo Scaronipresident of Milan, they could not go unnoticed. And in fact they didn’t. Through the pages of Corriere della Serathe response, short but vitriolic, was not long in coming Paolo Maldini: “If I look at my past, I can’t stop smiling”, commented dryly the former technical director, as well as obviously a legend, of the Rossoneri club.

Braida is with Maldini. Also commenting on Scaroni’s exit was another icon of AC Milan’s past Ariedo Braida: “I can evaluate from the outside because I don’t know the internal dynamics. Paolo, with Massara, had become a point of reference – said the former Rossoneri sporting director, who with Galliani contributed to the golden years of the Berlusconi era – represents the history of Milan. They seem like intangible factors, but they are key issues. It’s surprising to see that there are no longer those who understand football.”

The latest from Pioli. On the pitch, Milan returns to prepare for the big match against Juventus, crucial to securing second place. The Rossoneri coach will have to do without Simon Kjaer as well as the suspended Calabria and Theo Hernandez. In defense Musah should go on the right and Florenzi on the left, while Giroud should return to acting as a centre-forward. For the future, once the hypotheses of Xavi and Sergio Conceiçao have faded, who will remain in Barcelona and Porto respectively, one of the ideas leads to Paulo Fonseca.

The future of Massimiliano Allegri remains one of the main questions at home Juventus. The divorce with the coach from Livorno seems quite obvious, however the modalities are to be defined. In fact, it has emerged from Turin that Max has no intention of giving up his contract if he reaches his seasonal goal – qualification for the next Champions League – which is arithmetically around the corner. It will have to be the club, if it seems to want to, to proceed with the dismissal of the coach: it would be the third consecutive, after those of Sarri and Pirlo.

Camp here: Kean returns. At Continassa, Allegri meanwhile prepares the challenge against Milan. Compared to the lineup seen in the Italian Cup, Szczesny in goal and Gatti in defense will return. On the day just ended, Moise Kean also returned to training with the group: the forward born in 2000, still stuck with zero goals for the season, must therefore return to the list of players called up for the match against the Rossoneri.

Here market: the move for Di Gregorio. While waiting to understand which coach will lead the new Juventus project, sporting director Cristiano Giuntoli is looking at potential targets. In fact, in the last few hours there was a meeting with Adriano Galliani: he would be the object of Juventus’ desire at Monza Michele Di Gregorio, extreme defender identified as the potential post-Szczesny. As for the attack, Juve would have communicated to Matias Soulé his intentions: the Argentine will return to Turin at the end of the season and could be part of the technical project of the future, unless an offer of 35-40 million euros is received.

Fabio Cannavaro’s first as coach of Udinese is bitter. It wasn’t an easy debut, lasting just 18 minutes plus injury time and against a tough opponent against Roma: in that period of time situations arose which could have swung the result one way or the other and ended up rewarding the Giallorossi and punish the Friulians: corner kick, Cristante in the 95th minute, goal, 1-2.

A few turns of the clock before, Azmoun had also tried, stopped by a Okoye who is confirming himself as a reliable goalkeeper for a season finale in which it will be necessary to be lethal and not make mistakes. Message also intended for Lorenzo Luccaon whose left foot the ball of the possible overtaking fell and author of a somewhat soft marking against the match winner Cristante.

Mister Cannavaro, speaking post-matchtries to find the right interpretation: “Certainly even in twenty minutes it has emerged that there is some nervousness, there are inattentions that are paid for. I said that they have to stay calm, if I send them onto the field and they make a mistake It’s not their fault, it’s mine, it’s normal that if you’re in this situation it means that we make a lot of mistakes. From two days ago onwards I’ve been trying to limit these costly mistakes.”