🇮🇹 5 causes it’s essential to watch Serie A this weekend

🇮🇹 5 causes it’s essential to watch Serie A this weekend

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The Easter weekend sees Serie A golf equipment getting back from European exploits and there’s no scarcity of subplots to get pleasure from throughout the nation’s high flight.

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Listed here are 5 causes to tune into the motion.

An actual relegation six-pointer

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Empoli’s bid to drag off back-to-back relegation escapes is hardly going to plan.

Briefly, it seemed like Roberto D’Aversa’s facet would possibly keep away from the necessity to repeat final season’s final-day heroics however have reverted to kind this time period with one other nosedive.

Contemporary from a defeat to Napoli, the Azzurri Empolesi face a equally daunting activity to arrest their 17-game winless streak in dealing with fellow strugglers Venezia on Sunday.

The groups cancelled one another out in January’s assembly with a 1-1 draw however their contrasting fortunes since then provide Eusebio Di Francesco’s facet an higher hand.

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I Leoni Alati sit above their hosts solely on aim distinction but are coming off the again of a win over backside facet Monza and a run of only one defeat from their final seven.

If Lecce drop factors in opposition to a mid-table Como, a win for both facet would see them transfer out of the underside three and provide a combating probability within the battle for survival.

Gasperini’s newest audition

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Gian Piero Gasperini is formally Serie A’s new managerial flavour of the month.

Already, the Atalanta head coach has been linked with a number of status positions since revealing that he won’t renew his contract with the Europa League holders.

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However whereas that announcement coincided with an outdoor shot on the title falling away, he stays sizzling in demand, reportedly together with with La Dea’s subsequent opponents,  Milan.

Issues are fairly bleak for San Siro’s pink contingent with Sérgio Conceição below stress after exiting the Champions League and falling 20 factors off the tempo.

For Atalanta, in the meantime, Gasperini nonetheless has his critics to silence after lastly arresting a hat-trick of Serie A defeats by overcoming Bologna final weekend.

A win for his facet in opposition to the Rossoneri would go some solution to doing that whereas additionally providing a attainable audition for his reverse quantity’s function on Sunday night.

Journey-sick Inter face title take a look at

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Inter confirmed themselves because the Champions League’s darkish horses after edging out Bayern Munich in Wednesday’s pulsating quarter-final second-leg affair.

However their quest to defend the Scudetti threatens to be removed from plain crusing with Napoli snapping at their heels regardless of being unable to briefly leapfrog them.

A superior aim distinction ensures Simone Inzaghi’s males will stay high of the pile regardless of the end result of Sunday’s journey to Bologna, even when their rivals win at Monza.

The Nerazzurri’s less-than-stellar away file, nonetheless, makes their newest assembly with Vincenzo Italiano’s facet on the Stadio Renato Dall’Ara a possible banana pores and skin.

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A solitary win from their final six video games on the highway, coupled with the Rossoblù holding them to a draw at San Siro in January, may make issues tight on the high.

Lazio have to salvage season

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Lazio’s season is in peril of crashing and burning after their Europa League quarter-final exit to Bodø/Glimt that proved to be historic for all of the incorrect causes.

The hosts overturned a two-goal deficit from the primary leg for the one time of their historical past however fates nonetheless conspired in opposition to them with a penalty shootout exit.

Now, the Aquile should mud themselves right down to keep away from an underwhelming marketing campaign with Monday’s journey to a Genoa facet that’s more and more comfy in mid-table.

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Patrick Vieira has long-established a staff which performs largely to its defensive strengths and remarkably conceded simply 15 objectives in 18 home outings below his tutelage.

With Roma solely two factors behind within the battle for a Convention League place, Marco Baroni wants his gamers to place their Euro heartache behind them and quick.

Sliding doorways derby in Emilia-Romagna

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Soccer historical past is plagued by sliding doorways moments and Serie A is not any totally different.

When Parma parted firm with Fabio Pecchia in February, each Igor Tudor and Cristian Chivu had been the early favourites to succeed him earlier than the latter was picked.

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The Croatian might contemplate his earlier misfortune a blessing in disguise as he prepares to enterprise to the Stadio Ennio Tardini with Juventus on Monday evening.

Again within the day, Tudor and Chivu had been among the many Italian high flight’s most formidable defenders and adopted an analogous path in administration with their respective employers.

With Juve at present within the field seat for the ultimate Champions League qualification spot, Tudor has further motivation to indicate the Crociati what they missed.

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