Atalanta – Palermo: The Shite Seems To Have Ended

By: Steven | December 18th, 2007

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Another fine Sunday, last Sunday: Atalanta thought they were going to end 2007 without losing at home, but that was without taking Guido & His Wonder Boys taken into account. A sweet 1-3 victory over the Polenta People, and with Fiorentina only getting one point, even closer to a CL-spot.

Palermo won their very first Serie A-match in Bergamo since 1953, and we definitely had Amauri to thank for that. Always just a little better than all the rest, always a little faster, and a little more smiling. Things could’ve even ended a lot better, but Cavani and Miccoli fired some perfect opportunities over the crossbar. But that doesn’t matter in the end: another fantastic game, and the good old Guidolin-magic seems to be back. Tomorrow we’ll be meeting with Udinese for the Coppa, and next weekend there is…Lazio!

Line-ups:

Atalanta: Coppola; Rivalta, Pellegrino, Capelli, Bellini; Ferreira Pinto (Tissone 57), De Ascentis, Guarente, Langella (Padoin 46); S Inzaghi (Defendi 32), Floccari

Palermo: Fontana; Zaccardo, Biava, Barzagli, Capuano; Guana, Migliaccio, Caserta; Cavani (Diana 75), Miccoli (Bresciano 64); Amauri

Ref: Pierpaoli

Goals

13′ 0-1 Cavani
35′ 0-2 Langella (autorete)
54′ 0-3 Amauri
63′ 1-3 Tissone

Standings

Inter Milan 40 16 12 4 0
Roma 33 16 9 6 1
Juventus 32 16 9 5 2
Udinese 28 16 8 4 4
Fiorentina 25 16 6 7 3
Palermo 24 16 6 6 4
Napoli 22 16 6 4 6
Atalanta 21 15 5 6 4
Sampdoria 21 16 6 3 7
Catania 21 16 5 6 5
Milan 18 13 4 6 3
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Empoli 14 16 3 5 8
Reggina 10 15 1 7 7
Cagliari 10 16 2 4 10

Ratings

Fontana 6.5: Another fine game.

Zaccardo 6: Did well defending things, but seems to get more and more insecure every week.

Biava 7: Kat, you were right: I AM too hard on him. One of the better players.

Barzagli 6.5: Our rock and our island in the defense. Did great.

Capuano 6.5: Another great game by ShitPants, seems a lot more confident than before.

Caserta 6.5: Calm match, but another good one. I love this dude!

Migliaccio 7: Had a foot in all the goals. Glad to have him back…

Guana 6.5: See Caserta, but without the love.

Amauri 7.5: He seems to have regained his shape of early last season. Zampa, please keep him?

Cavani 7: Is his talent finally coming to the surface? Nice!

Miccoli 7: He’s just fantastic as a trequartista. Superb force behind Amauri and Cavani.