Highlights from three different recent important matches that Milan won by a score of 3-0

February 28, 2011: Milan 3 - Napoli 0

April 2, 2011: Milan 3 - Inter 0

April 16, 2011: Milan 3 - Sampdoria 0

Milan 4 - Lecce 0: Milan are in first place! Here are pictures.

Above: Thiago Silva scores.

Below: Inzaghi is excited after scoring late to make it 4-0.

Below: This photo is from last season, against Napoli, I believe.

Below: They haven't assigned Ibrahimovic a number yet. He got to watch the match up in the stands with Berlusconi and Galliani. Unfortunately, no photographs seem to be available at this time.

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Match report: Milan 1 - Napoli 1

• Goals scored: Campagnaro 13', Inzaghi 26'
• What happened: With Inter's 1-1 tie against Palermo yesterday, Milan would have moved into first place in the Serie A if they had won this match. They did not, however.
• Milan players who were unable to play today due to injury: Nesta, Bonera, Borriello, Abate, Beckham (there are more)
• Milan players who returned from injury to start today's match but were unable to finish the match due to injury: Pato
• Combined age of Milan's starting eleven: 336 years old (average age=30.545454 years old)
• Milan players who celebrated their birthday today: Ronaldinho
• Ronaldinho's current age: 30 years old
• Treatments commonly used by Serie A trainers to help injured players who are lying on the pitch: Pouring water on the affected area, spraying the affected area with magic spray, massage, slapping injured players lovingly but repeatedly in the face
• Milan's place in the standings: Second, one point behind Inter
• What this match teaches us: Milan are still in second place

Match of the day: Napoli 0 - Inter 0

One of the more exciting nil-nil games I have ever seen. Inter are still in first place. Napoli are in fourth.

2009-2010 Serie A Update #3

Here are the latest Serie A standings. I believe they include all of today's matches.

2009/2010 Italian Serie A
CLUB	P	W	D	L	GD	Pts
Internazionale	22	16	4	2	29	52
AS Roma	23	13	5	5	12	44
AC Milan	22	12	6	4	14	42
Napoli	23	10	8	5	5	38
Palermo	23	10	7	6	5	37
Sampdoria	23	10	6	7	-1	36
Juventus	23	10	5	8	5	35
Genoa	23	10	5	8	0	35
Cagliari	22	9	5	8	5	32
Bari	23	8	8	7	5	32
Fiorentina	22	9	4	9	3	31
Chievo Verona	23	8	5	10	-1	29
Parma	22	8	5	9	-6	29
Bologna	23	6	7	10	-7	25
Udinese	22	6	6	10	-3	24
Catania	23	5	8	10	-7	23
Livorno	23	6	5	12	-16	23
Lazio	23	4	10	9	-7	22
Atalanta	23	5	5	13	-13	20
Siena	23	3	4	16	-22	13

Roma and Napoli have made some of the biggest moves up the table, while biggest drops appear to be by Juventus and Parma.

More from yesterday's Serie A action

Yesterday when I posted the videos of Napoli fans and announcers watching their team play Juventus last year, I did not realize that Napoli was playing Juventus in Turin later that same day. A strange coincidence...and Napoli came from two goals down to beat Juventus 3-2.

Below: Datolo and Lavezzi celebrate a Napoli goal

In addition, I was able to find a photograph of Borriello's second goal against Parma yesterday. If you look carefully, you will notice that he scored with his left foot. In fact, both of his goals were scored with his left foot-- his far weaker foot, in my opinion.

2009-2010 Serie A Update #2

Prior to today's matches, here is the Serie A table:

2009/2010 Italian Serie A
CLUB	P	W	D	L	GD	Pts
Internazionale	10	8	1	1	17	25
Juventus	10	6	3	1	10	21
Sampdoria	10	6	2	2	5	20
Parma	10	5	2	3	0	17
AC Milan	10	4	4	2	-1	16
Genoa	10	5	1	4	-2	16
Palermo	10	4	3	3	1	15
Fiorentina	10	4	3	3	1	15
Bari	10	3	5	2	3	14
Chievo Verona	10	4	2	4	2	14
Udinese	10	4	2	4	0	14
Napoli	10	4	2	4	-2	14
Cagliari	10	4	1	5	-1	13
AS Roma	10	3	2	5	-2	11
Lazio	10	2	4	4	-4	10
Atalanta	10	2	3	5	-3	9
Bologna	10	2	3	5	-6	9
Livorno	10	2	3	5	-6	9
Catania	10	1	4	5	-5	7
Siena	10	1	2	7	-7	5
· Complete Table

Notice that, if Milan had held on and won last Wednesday's game at Napoli, they would now be in fourth place.

As an added bonus, here are a couple of videos. The first one appears to be one of a series in which we get to watch a group of men watching Napoli games on television. In the second, we get to watch an announcer calling the same game. Again, there appears to be an entire series of these videos. The match is Napoli-Juventus from last season, I believe.

Match report: Napoli 2 - Milan 2

• Goals scored: Inzaghi 2' (See photo above), Pato 6', Cigarini 90', Denis 90+3'
• What happened: Milan scored twice inside of six minutes. They then became casual and careless. Both sides started committing lots of fouls. Napoli scored twice in the last five minutes-- tie game.
• Milan players who left the game after ten minutes due to unspecified injuries: Nesta
• Milan players sent off: Abate
• Napoli strategy for the first ninety minutes: Appeal for penalties every time you get near the penalty area. Shoot the ball straight at Dida even if he is lying down in front of a wide open goal.
• Napoli strategy for the last five minutes: Score goals.
• Number of Milan goals correctly disallowed for offsides: Two-- one by Inzaghi and one by Borriello
• What this match teaches us: It is not possible to kill off eighty-nine minutes of a game.

Above: Cigarini scores.

Below: Dida looks at the ball after Denis has headed it into the net to tie the score.

Below: Leonardo looks sad as he walks off the field after the match.

Highlights:

Milan v. Napoli

Today Milan hosted Napoli. Before the game, the table looked like this:

Udinese 21
Inter 21
Napoli 20
Milan 19

Well, well, well... this game gave me a SEVERE headache. But anyway... the final score: Milan 1 Napoli 0000000000! An OWN GOAL at the end of the game...!!! And Kaka's PK was saved, and Pato missed a header, and Kaka' had a ball hit the inside of the post!!!! And there was a red card (for a Napoli player). And Fabio Cannavaro's brother, Paolo, plays for Napoli....!!! And Ronaldinho had a nasty gash on his leg............. And it was sooooo stressful, but sooooo cool!

I know this isn't a good report of the game... but OMG! forgive me.

Oh yeah, and the table now looks like this:

Milan 22
Udinese 21
Inter 21
Napoli 19
Lazio 19
Juventus 18
Genoa 17
Fiorentina 17

oh and ROMA with SEVEN points, ONE place from a RELEGATION spot....

BUT MILAN IS IN FIRST!
Pleeeeeeaaaasseee let the table look like this at the end of the year....

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!