Coppa Italia

May 8th, 2008

Throttling Catania, Ludovicious & The King

By: chris | Comments 738 Comments

Catania 1 v Roma 2
Formality over, and that’s precisely what it looked like: a formality. The game was as much terrible as it was painfully boring, especially towards the second half - at least for me. I’ve had more exciting prostate exams. And, quite frankly, it had the feel of a friendly. (Just like […]



May 8th, 2008

Coppa Catania Liveblog: Ambien Disguised As Calcio

By: chris | Comments 218 Comments

Roma Through. Hooray.
Catania 1 (1) v Roma 1 (2)

GAME
89′ Another foul on Espo. Somebody needs to check that stat. He gets fouled at least 2-3 times every game he comes on.
88′ Curci catching crosses like he’s shagging flies before a baseball game.
87′ Antunes fires one wide. He did quite well today for what was required […]

May 7th, 2008

Coppa Italia Non-Preview

By: chris | Comments 92 Comments

So there’s a semi-final cup game tomorrow. Against Catania. Against a team in very serious danger of relegation which has a game in three days. Against Juventus.
Color me shocked they didn’t call up the women’s team. They’ve got about as much depth as the Vatican City national team and a Coppa Italia final run […]

Category Category: Coppa Italia
April 16th, 2008

Who Loves Coppa? Mancini Loves Coppa.

By: chris | Comments 291 Comments

Roma v Catania
Let’s get this straight off the bat, shall we: The Primavera should walk through Catania on the way to the final. On paper, this isn’t even a contest. This is reminiscent of the opening legs against Torino when Roma was down 3-1 on aggregate after 135 minutes then spent 3/4 of an hour […]

April 15th, 2008

Peruvians & Evil-Doers, But No Peruvian Evil-Doers

By: chris | Comments 138 Comments

Who Wants A Vargas?
Pietro Lo Monaco, Catania’s sporting director, has been saying for quite some time now that when Juan Manuel Vargas gets sold, the preferred destination is Roma. Not really sure why, could be that he has a school-boyish crush on Mama Rosella, or could simply be that he’s an intelligent, well-reasoned man and […]



January 30th, 2008

Coppa, Amantino, Dead Guy & Stuff

By: chris | Comments 125 Comments

Coppa!
Good stuff. Sure as hell was a lot less exciting than the second leg against the Granata, though. Anyway, I’ve had my fill of Torino and Sampdoria to last me until next season and beyond. So we’re moving on. Today we will find out the opponent who will succumb to the wrath that is CoppaRoma […]

January 29th, 2008

Liveblogging The Coppa, Return Leg Style

By: chris | Comments 139 Comments

Since Roma just sprung this game on me and didn’t tell me it was today and not tomorrow (which I don’t appreciate one bit), I’ll Liveblog the game in lieu of any sort of preview.
As we know, Roma put in a helluva performance last week to take a nice little lead into the return leg […]

January 23rd, 2008

10 Things We Learned From Sampdoria

By: chris | Comments 96 Comments

Since it’s the first leg of a Coppa matchup and I liveblogged it, I’m cheating and going the easy route.
Roma can play some footy with 10 men.
For much of the game, Roma was the better side. They fell victim to the fact that they had one less man at times, but as much is […]

January 23rd, 2008

Liveblogging The Coppa, Samp Style

By: chris | Comments 133 Comments

Samp - Roma
Here we go, into the darkness that is illegal streaming from the jungles of Asia. I always get my feelings for the liveblogs via my coffee purchasing experience just before the game starts (I have no idea whether it works out, but run with it), and let’s just say I’m not feeling good […]

Category Category: Coppa Italia
January 22nd, 2008

The Day We’ve All Been Waiting For: Roma v Cassano

By: chris | Comments 43 Comments

Sampdoria - Roma
Last Wednesday evening, around 9:30 Italian time (I think), things on the Coppa side of town looked pretty dire to say the very least. It was halftime and the score was nil-nil, with Torino leaing 3-1 on aggregate. Flash forward 45 minutes and Torino was walking off the field as though they were […]






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