Sixteenth day of the 2024/25 Serie A championship with our inevitable top and flops with a pinch of malice and irony the best and worst grades of the Serie A round
Once upon a time there were the seven sisters. Which are no longer there. Neither the concept of the late 90s when the Italian championship was the best in the world, nor the revival of recent weeks. The stop of Fiorentina e Laziothe chronic difficulties of Juventus e Milan they narrow the field to 3 protagonists of Sunday, the only ones to win up there: Atalanta, Napoli e Inter strictly in order of ranking but all authors of small or large enterprises in a tricolor racing key, for the moment their business.
So fasten your seatbelts and enjoy our highly anticipated ones top and flop of the sixteenth matchday of Serie A. Always with a bit of malice and a pinch of irony. Which never hurts, after all we are in the Christmas mood, we are all, or almost all, better… except us!
Top and Flop of the sixteenth day of Serie A:
- Adams TOP 8: Gialappa’s would be defined as brilliant. The goal that punishes Empoli is for all intents and purposes.
- Carnesecchi TOP 8: he understands that Atalanta won’t score goals in bunches at least for a day and so he willingly puts on his gloves, no he already has those, and gets them dirty, gets them dirty, oh how he gets them dirty. He takes them all. Magnificent.
- Dorgu FLOP 4: What went through his head when he decided to lighten up like that, perhaps towards his goalkeeper, only he knows. Lucky stars grace him, Lecce wins anyway. Phew (sigh of relief).
- Ferguson TOP 7: finally they will say in Bologna, here is someone who has been waiting for a long time and does not disappoint expectations. He comes in and changes the game, perhaps even the Bologna season. Welcome back!
- Nicolussi Ankle TOP 7.5: Allegri with him, on the pitch, starter, he won us an Italian Cup. On the pitch against Juventus he designed the parable of Venezia’s second goal. Core ‘nggrateful!
- Gabrielloni TOP 8: he went through the whole process, he doesn’t play for Como, he is Como, the one with the rise. Who doesn’t stop, continues, continues just like him, always faithful.
- Provedel FLOP 4: as the maxim goes, which in this case is the minimum: “better to concede many goals all at once than to concede one goal at a time and always lose one to zero”. Yes, okay, but put yourself in poor Provedel’s shoes last night.
- Marusic, Crazy FLOP 4.5: they see Nerazzurri shirts everywhere, but so many that it makes your head spin. A fee and everything goes away.
Top flop Coaches: Thiago Motta alarm, Inzaghi as Sinner
- FLOP THIAGO MOTTA – we knew it wasn’t easy but for his Juve to go backwards instead of forwards is a bit like going to play blind man’s buff on the motorway. It doesn’t come out very well. Impromptu victories, distant fluidity. More than an experiment, Juve is an esperanza, to put it in Spanish, in the sense of “let’s hope it goes well this time”. Discontinuities hut facts. Other than Max, this Juve goes to the “minimum”
- TOP GASPERINI – The Orobic coffers are always full after each transfer market session, so he will take care of making ends meet on the pitch. And the players who came out of Bergamo? I often disappear as if around the Goddess there was a sort of bubble created by this alchemist. Who now wants to make one last magic, tricolor.
Supertop sixteenth day: Dumfries overflowing
He scores, he scores, he does everything or almost everything. An embarrassing excessive power that suddenly those of Lazio thought there was an extraterrestrial at the Olimpico. But even those at Inter thought that the one wearing the Nerazzurri shirt wasn’t the real one Dumfrieslump sum. And yet it was him, without any fundamental errors. State of grace!
Superflop day 16: Koopmeiners, what happened to you?
The second wait… ok, for good things you have to have patience, you have to know how to wait for them. But maybe this big Dutch guy there Juventus he’s already waited too long for it. A summer waiting for him to be released or to be released by Atalanta with a no-brainer ransom, 60 cards and now an antechamber that still hasn’t finished, just a stone’s throw from Christmas and the end of the year. Shy, awkward, almost never decisive. It seemed that the Bologna goal had unblocked him and instead he continues to play as if it wasn’t the biggest investment of Giuntoli last summer. A little self-love Koop!