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56 minutes ago, Brummie Clyde said:

Boooo

They still might not qualify if Napoli win the Champions League as well as Roma winning the Europa League, as each country is only allowed a maximum of five CL qualifiers. That is a very unlikely situation though.

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couple more issues resolved after last night's round of matches in Serie B:

second automatic promotion spot secured by Crotone, who go up with Benevento; they were relegated together at the end of 2017/18

Spezia are guaranteed a play off place, and there are five further spots to allocate from twelve teams still in the race to join them

Cittadella - who won their first three games after lockdown to grab an automatic promotion spot - have since lost five straight and are barely hanging on to a play-off berth

Trapani either go down automatically, or - at best - have to endure the relegation play off where they could face one of eight different teams

 

 

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Watched Parma v Atalanta before watching Inter v Napoli tonight - Atalanta once again got a win but struggled at first. Conceded just before half time but a wonderful free-kick by Malinovskyi and a wonderful solo goal by Gomez put them ahead with less than 10 to go. Not the most stellar performance - in the first quarter of the game Parma were on top and should have scored twice in addition to the goal they did score - but their win coupled up with Inter reclaiming second spot sets up a brilliant final match on Saturday. Really looking forward to seeing who comes out on top in second place - if only Atalanta had a slightly larger squad to match the bigger teams I genuinely think they'd have had a chance at the scudetto. All the teams in second to fourth must be cursing their luck that the weakest Juve side for a while have pipped them to the title.

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...and an appalling 0-5 capitulation by Genoa at Sassuolo - alongside Lecce's 2-1 win at Udine - means that the last Serie A relegation place will not be decided until the final day; Lecce have to beat Parma at home and hope that I Griffoni do no better than draw against Hellas Verona at home; if the teams finish level on points (Lecce draw and Genoa lose), Genoa will stay up on the season's head-to-head record; both games kick off at 19:45 on Sunday evening...

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Dzeko grabs an equaliser for Roma v Torino , having been behind for barely two minutes. He's now joint fourth top scorer in the club's history, five off third place.

Roma dominated the first twelve minutes before torino went ahead.

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Serie B's last round of matches:

Cosenza completed their 'great escape' from relegation last night, winning the showdown with Juve Stabia for a fifth successive win, and relegating their visitors in the process

Trapani beat promoted Crotone, but results elsewhere (notably Cosenza as above) saw them relegated automatically

Followers of Italian football may remember brighter times for both Pescara and Perugia in Serie A (with the latter playing in europe, and having both Muammar Gadaffi's son and Jay Boothroyd playing for them !); they now face each other in the play-off for the last relegation place

Pisa and Frosinone were essentially playing each other for the last promotion play off place and drew 1-1 - the second draw between the teams this season; Pisa therefore missed out by having a goal difference which was one worse off than their opponents; Empoli, Chievo and Cittadella nicked the other play off spots, joining Spezia and Pordenone who had already secured their places

to go up, Chievo face Empoli and Cittadella play Frosinone in one-off matches, the winners of those will then play Spezia and Pordenone over two legs with the winners then having another home and away matchup to decide the final place in Serie A - the season will end on 20th August !

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2 hours ago, Herman Hessian said:

Pisa and Frosinone were essentially playing each other for the last promotion play off place and drew 1-1 - the second draw between the teams this season; Pisa therefore missed out by having a goal difference which was one worse off than their opponents; Empoli, Chievo and Cittadella nicked the other play off spots, joining Spezia and Pordenone who had already secured their places

Empoli, Frosinone and Pisa all finished on 54 points. Pisa missed out because they had the worst head-to-head-to-head points (Empoli 9, Frosinone 5, Pisa 2). Also, Pisa had a better goal difference than both. ;)

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46 minutes ago, Allan Jacobsen said:

Empoli, Frosinone and Pisa all finished on 54 points. Pisa missed out because they had the worst head-to-head-to-head points (Empoli 9, Frosinone 5, Pisa 2). Also, Pisa had a better goal difference than both. ;)

hah - bloody hell - didn't even look at the points totals for the two teams above Frosinone !

deciding positions only on cumulative points, two-team head to head and then goal difference would have been so un-Italian though - should have realised there was more to it than that - Pisa need to push for 'degree of inclination of host city's most significant landmark' as a primary deciding factor and then hope they never have to use that to resolve a tie against Bologna or Venezia 😂

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