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Match Analysis: AC Milan & Lille Streaks End

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Match Analysis: AC Milan & Lille Streaks End Milan tasted defeat at the San Siro for the first time this season as Inter made it six straight wins and climbed up to fifth in Serie A. A 2-0 loss at Marseille saw Lille beaten for the first time since early August as the champions dropped 7 points behind Carlo Ancelotti’s PSG at the top of ...

Feature Focus: WhoScored.com’s Match Forecasts Analysed

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Feature Focus: WhoScored.com’s Match Forecasts Analysed We all try and predict what is going to happen in football matches. But part of the difficulty (and beauty) of doing so is the sheer unpredictability of the game itself. Without it, Wigan would not have bowed out of the FA Cup at the hands of fourth-tiered Swindon last weekend. Nor would Lazio have ...

The Milan Derby: City Rivals By The Numbers

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The Milan Derby: City Rivals By The Numbers Sunday evening will see two of European football's grandest clubs meet in one of the most high profile matches of the year as Milan face Inter in the 205th Derby della Madonnina. As rivalries go it is also one of the closest; Milan have won on 72 occasions, just one more than their city cousins, wit...

Derby d'Italia: Inter Not As Bad As Advertised

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Derby d'Italia: Inter Not As Bad As Advertised It is the one fixture many Juventus fans look for before any other, particularly with Torino struggling in Serie B, the so called Derby of Italy between Inter and Juventus. The term, like most in Italian football, was coined by the great Gianni Brera to note the two teams never relegated from Serie ...

Europe's Underachievers: Serie A - Inter Milan

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Europe's Underachievers: Serie A - Inter Milan Our look at Europe's top underachieving clubs leads us to Italy, where two of Serie A's giants are flailing low down in the bottom half of the table. While Inter fans will be delighted with AC Milan's slow start to the season, they will be more concerned with their own demise having racked up just 4...

Last Gasp Defeat Opens Door for Ranieri at Inter

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Last Gasp Defeat Opens Door for Ranieri at Inter It was meant to be the dawn of a new era. With Leonardo’s departure to PSG this summer, Inter turned to Gian Piero Gasperini after a disappointing 2010/11 campaign saw them lose their Serie A crown to Massimo Allegri’s Milan. Five games into his tenure and the former Genoa boss was gone;...

Inter-Roma: Golden Gloves?

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Inter-Roma: Golden Gloves? The opening weekend of Serie A saw an incredible thirty-five goals and featured some wonderfully open attacking football, quite at odds with the tactical and methodical reputation of Italy's top flight. Even the first match, a marquee match-up between two of last seasons best teams saw Milan and Laz...

Are Inter and Gasperini going the right way?

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Are Inter and Gasperini going the right way? “Non Vincete Mai! (You never win)” Was the chant that Inter Milan’s opposition fans, especially those from AC Milan, sang to Inter at every match before the 2006 Calcio scandal. Fourteen titles later, including the 2010 Champions League, that same chant is only but a mirage, but In...

Gasperini and the 'New' Inter

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Gasperini and the 'New' Inter Gian Piero Gasperini's appointment to Inter has sparked a lot of headlines. Half of the headlines were about how he was Inter’s fifth choice, and the other half was about his 3-4-3 tactical approach. There is not much sense debating whether Gasperini was fifth, or fourth choice because that is...

Statistical Weak Points for the Top Three in Serie A

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Statistical Weak Points for the Top Three in Serie A This years transfer season is about to officially open soon and there is a lot of movement predicted this year, especially in Serie A. From a statistical point of view there are a few ways to find out what area's a team is weak in and where they should improve. One way is to look at player performan...