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Catania and Roma game went to hell thanks too the rain but Catania did come`on very strong and opened the score when Lodi crossed the ball which found the head of Nicola Legrottaglie. Nicola Legrottaglie has been great with the club so far with 3 goals this season. But Roma would fight back, when Totti crossed from the corner, the ball found De Rossi who headed it leaving the score 1-1. Gonzalo Bergessio had a number of chances to put Catania in the lead but had no luck whatsoever. There were 3 times in the game where Catania did look to foul inside their box but no calls by the ref. There was 25 minutes still left to play that will be continued on February 7, 2012.
Udinese 2-1 Catania
Udinese did out class Catania, we were out played over all but were able to close Di Natale down for the most part but we could not stop Pablo Armero, his pass got hit by a Catania player which went into the Catania net when he tried to pass the ball to Di Natale. Later on in the game, Pablo Armero would make the nice cross to Di Natale who blasted it in and looked to be like a heart breaker for Catania. Catania pushed& pushed but found nothing until the 91st minute when Andrea Catellani won a penalty in the box for Catania and Lodi took the shot and beat Samir Handanovic to get at least one goal for the team.
What went wrong:
Francesco Lodi did not start until the 2 half by that time it was to late. The team could not find any kind of weakness of the other team. Andrea Campagnolo shouldn’t have been the starting goal keeper. Everything went wrong.
We play Parma tomorrow at home thank god. Our next 3 games Catania will have to pick up points as the team are the same skill or less. Parma, Siena, Cesena and Catania only have one home game against Parma.
Its finally time again that David Suazo can play again and his name is one the list of players tomorrow game but I don’t know who the starting 11 is at this time.Vincenzo Montella has been using both Alejandro Gómez and Pablo Barrientos as the left and right forwards and Gonzalo Bergessio playing as the centre forward but I think its time to use Andrea Catellani and David Suazo as left and right. In the summer both Andrea Catellani and David Suazo looked to have played very good together. Its time for Catania to push their way back up the table.
As for Parma this team is pretty close in skill and have a good team with some really good players; Sergio Floccari, Sebastian Giovinco and Cristian Zaccardo. They have got some new players as well. It will be a fight just like the last game which ended in a 3-3 tie. Both teams will push for that win as they are both close in the table and need as much points as they can get.
With Pablo Martìn Ledesma sold and Mariano Andújar gone on loan, and Maxi Lopez that could be going AC Milan its up in the air for him.
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I have been the Catania blogger now for a whole year. I have seen a lot of change with in the site and how much it went down from when I started. I do admit I started strong as when I first began writing for this blog but as time went on I slowed down but it was all due to personal reasons, so I do apologize if so weeks I did not write as much. Its been wonderful writing for this blog and really got to see Catania grow from the team last year to the team that we have this year.
I would like to thank everybody who reads the blog week to week and for your comments. I know Catania is not the biggest or best team in Serie A but I love them & love writing about them.
I have just started my own blog for Catania on Tumblr; http://cataniablog.tumblr.com/ which there is more things I can do with the blog, I am thinking about doing audio previews and not too much writing them, also being able to put pregame and after game comments. So check it out, I do not have much on there right now but I’ll be doing more with it in the next coming days or weeks.
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It has been a long wait to play Roma, with Vincenzo Montella getting to play against his old side and a match that I have been waiting for even if they look better than us. This is a huge test for Mr.Montella as we need every point that we can get if we want to stay close to Roma in the table; a win for us would be what we need. We are lucky since Roma’s top goal scorer, Pablo Daniel Osvaldo is out due to an injury. He has 7 goals this season and Roma also just loan out their other good forward Marco Borriello.
Leaving forwards like captain Francesco Totti who can be the best player on the field or not be able to have any impact on the game,some other forwards are Stefano Okaka, Bojan Krkic, and some young forwards making it look like we are playing Roma and they don’t look 100% dangerous, but we all know what Totti can do from set prices. Their midfield is what makes me worry with Erik Lamela, Fernando Gago, Daniele De Rossi with 2 goals and Miralem Pjanic with 5 assists this season. It looks to be there strong side to this Roma team. Their ackline looks strong and will make Catania work for everything.
Catania will be the home side and will need the fans to help boost the team. The Catania forward are lacking heart and will need somebody to go all out for the club try to test Roma keeper. I pick Gonzalo Bergessio to lead the attack, while David Suazo is finally ready to play again after be out for so long a wasting some much time, he better play and have a good game but Montella with not even pick him. Campagnolo will most likely play, I don’t think he is good but Catania think because he has played in other 200 Serie A games, he is the man for the job.
If I was coaching this would be my formation:
Maxi Lopez-LF Gonzalo Bergessio-ST David Suazo-RF
Gomez-cam
Sergio Almiron-LDM Francesco Lodi-RDM
Ciro Capuano,Nicola Legrottaglie,Nicolás Spolli,Giuseppe Bellusci
Kosicky-GK
These Catania players have to step it up:
Maxi Lopez
Gomez
Pablo Barrientos
Lodi
Gonzalo Bergessio
Campagnolo
The last time we played them in Catania we did beat them 2-1 but its a new year and new teams. Lets see how it goes, good luck AS Roma and may the best team win.
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There was not to much to get in to, It was for sure one of are wosrt games so far this season, we could not get anything started and took a beating, It was not fun to watch your team look not alive with only 8 shots on the night and only 2 of them hitting goal and we only won 1 coner kick the whole game!! and 29 fouls later you get your self a 2-0 lost. Not a funn way to start the new year, Nicolo Cherubin gave his team the lead in the 50min, Catania had some chances to tie but in the 90min Marco Di Vaio put the game away when he scored.
WHAT WENT WRONG:
1. I forgot to say in the 78min our captain Marco Biagianti had two yellow cards, He came on for the second half and still some how got a red card in the half that he played. As Captain your job is to lead the team not be careless off the ball.
2. Andrea Campagnolo just leave already, I don`t know why he plays on the team, he has played he has only won 2 times in Catania and has lose 4 times, he is not very good and I don`t want to see him playing when we have to play Roma this weekend.I want Catania to play Tomáš Košický, He is 6′6 and 25 years old, I think its time he makes a name for him self in Catania.
3. Catania are missing a playmaker and need to buy one or somebody will have to stand up and be a hero cause we need one aboout now.
4.We need to play Gonzalo Bergessio and not as a sub, He is a starter and is a big part of are team.
Vincenzo Montella is in hot water and has to have two strong games, are both games are very big games against hard teams. As well Catania are 8th in the table but from the 8th to 14th spot any team can take Catania spot if Catania done get points and can keep a spot in the table.
In other News Fabio Sciacca and Sergio Gontan Gallardo have went to U.S. Grosseto on loan.\
David Suazo Is finally ready to play if Vincenzo Montella will pick him, he has only played 3 games this season but has had injury problems which has made him missed over 14 games, It was a problem that we all knew could happen as in his history, his body is not like it use to be, the 32 year old has a lot to prove in Catania and hopfully can show what he can do, cause he is looking like a waste of money. I would like him to sub on for the second have of the roma game.
So I have pick a huge list of plyers from Serie A that I would like to come to Catania and players that we can aford for Catania.
Marco Marchionni
Daniele Bonera
Luca Toni
Marco Storari
Pablo Armero
Diego Fabbrini
Giuseppe Sculli
Cristiano Lucarelli
Fabio Borini
Rodrigo Taddei
Cesare Natali
Mauricio Ferreira Pinilla
Giandomenico Mesto
Matias Schelotto
Raffaele Palladino
Daniele Galloppa
Emanuele Calaiò
Juan G. Cuadrado
Rubén Olivera
Marco Rigoni
Mattia Destro
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Happy New Years everybody. So now that Christmas has just started in Serie A, I will tell you the latest news that I know.
Catania players that could leave:
Maxi Lopez could go to AC Milan if they don’t get Tevez and also Wolfsburg are another team that have their eyes on Maxi Lopez, as well Everton and Tottenham.
Pablo Ledesma is wanted by Boca Juniors.
Mariano Andujar, our keeper, who has been great for the last couple of years; looks like he has had enough and will leave this transfer window. Catania’s asking price is 6 million.
Keko could be leaving on loan.
Adrián Ricchiuti is looking to be sold this transfer window.
Coming to Catania:
Ezequiel Carboni could be coming back. As well as, Giuseppe Mascara, let’s hope he does.
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Hope everybody had a great Christmas!
Lets get back to business! Catania tied Parma 1-1 in our last game before for the Christmas break, it was Catania having to beat the odds of being two goals down and having to try to win or at least tie to pick up some points and thats what happen on this day.
Game started and it only took 5 minutes for the home side to take the lead when Daniele Galoppa crossed in the ball to an open Francesco Modesto in the box who would put it away. No man was covering him and it was not something you want to see so early on as we were the visitors. It would take 16 minutes from the first goal to see another this time coming from Catania when Catania won a corner, the ball found it’s way to Sergio Almiron who would tie the game for Catania.
When I was starting to feel good about this game Mr.Giovinco who was not suppose to play in this game really made sure I would double think it. Two minutes after Catania got the tieing goal, Giovinco would pass the ball to Jonathan Biabiany who would make no mistake and would put his team back in front, it was an great pass and a great goal. So then I just wanted the half to end but 44 minutes in to the game and before the half, Mr.Giovinco would make another great pass but his time to Sergio Floccari who would put the ball in the back of the net and would give his team 3-1 going into the second half.
When it was half time, I wondered if I should even watch or play Fifa 12 but I stayed watched it all the way. When the second half started it looked that Catania found their feet and would have some chances, well so did but Parma. But it would be a changing moment in the game when Alejandro Gomez was took down in the box by Fabiano Santacroce, letting Francesco Lodi take it for the team and would make sure to put it in the back of the net. Making it 3-2 and Francesco Lodi would go to the leading goal scorer on Catania with 4 goals. There were ten minutes to go and I was started to feel really worried. When Andrea Catellani came on for Pablo Barrientos in the 82nd minute, it was a very dangerious move by Vincenzo Montella, due to the fact Andrea Catellani has had a hard time adapting to Serie A. I put alot of trust in him and even said this about him:
”If Catania give him the chances he will not let the team down, if we keep him and play him in at least 15 games he will score at least five goals. These are big words coming from me, so don’t let me down Andrea Catellani. Now let’s look at 3 out of 4 goals he scored in this 2010-2011 season. I could not find the 4th goal.”
He has played in 10 games and has 1 goal, not going the way I planned in my head. So when Francesco Lodi crossed the ball in the 85th minute, Andrea Catellani would kicked the ball out of the air and would tie the game. No one had seen it coming but all the critic goes to Vincenzo Montella to even sub him on in a time of need. The game ended; Catania got one point and Giovinco had 2 assinsst on the night.
It was crazy to think that Andrea Catellani scored in the last game before the break. There was rumors that he was going to leave back on loan again but with a big goal and the own team buzzing about him, he might just stay. His comment after the game was,”I am just starting, meaning that first goal was just the start of what is to come.” When you say something like that, its like they have to keep you and he will surly have alot of pressure on him now, if Catania keep the young man.
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Sergio Almiron is having an outstanding season with Catania so far with 3 goals for the club and has played in 15 games this season. He will have 2 more years after this season on this contract.
Fabio Sciacca could be leaving on loan to Brescia.
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So the game started and both teams wanting to win for their fans. Both teams had good chances from Sergio Almirón, Alejandro Gómez, Fabrizio Miccoli and Francesco Lodi all took good shots but they were blocked but when Francesco Della Rocca fouled a Catania player outside of the box giving Francesco Lodi a chance to take a free kick. He kicked the ball in the top left corner, great goal! Francesco Lodi is so dangerous on set plays and his free kicks are so dangerous, this would be his 3 goal of the season.
There was so many other chances before the half ended but no goals. When the second half started Catania would push for another goal and when ex Catania captain took Maxi lopez down in the box, it would give Catania a penalty kick. Maxi Lopez would take it and would put it in the back of the net, giving his team the the extra goal to help the lead. Palermo pushed for a goal but our defense played great and were able to close Palermo down.
When Maxi Lopez came off in the 67th minute, he was crying and no one knew why. So I did some research and it was because that game could of been one of his last home game in Catania. If the rumors are true, he could be going to Milan on loan or be sold this transfer window. He has wanted to leave and this time he might just get to go. He had all the fans on their feet when he came off. It will be a huge loss if we loan him away and I would rather sell him so we could replace him. But I know that players have told him to stay but I don’t know what is going through his head.
Player Rating:
Mariano Andújar:7
Giuseppe Bellusci:7.5
Nicola Legrottaglie:7.5
Giovanni Marchese:7
Pablo Alvarez:7
Francesco Lodi:8
Sergio Almiron:7.5
Gennaro Delvecchio:7
Alejandro Gómez:7
Gaston Maxi Lopez:8.5
Pablo Barrientos:7.5
Catania vs Parma Preview
We take on Parma who have 5 wins, 3 ties and have lost 7 times. Catania really have to try to stay in Serie A and I hope they can stay in the top ten and not make their way down the table since it is all very close with all the teams in the mid table. Catania will be coming off a win at home and Parma will are coming off a tie to Lecce where Parma scored the tieing goal in the 90th minute to save a point for themselves.
Catania have always had a hard time with Parma, so it makes me worry knowing that. But we have Maxi Lopez trying to show that he is a top player in Serie A and hopefully can carry on his from his great performce from last game and bring it again for this game. Parma will want to win, to get out of that spot in the table and make their way up with 18 points. A win would bring them to 21 points and maybe in the top ten.
Catania are in 9th in the table and if we win, we could be 6th on the table and that would be great. I do know what to think about Parma if Sebastian Giovinco is playing then we could be in big trouble as he always plays great against us. and has been able to score goals on us in the past. Catania long to be the stronger table on paper but as we are the away side that could chance.
Ok everybody enjoy this midweek game, as it would have been the first game of the season if their was not a strike.
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Catania will be taking on our rivals Palermo; I am not into the whole rival thing so much because I am a fan of Palermo as well and cheer for them when they’re playing teams other than Catania. I think out of the top teams like AC Milan as a rival, as we haven’t beat them for a very long time and I mean a very long time. Palermo are doing decent this year with 20 points, only 2 more then us. They will be a hard team to beat but we are at home and will have are fans to push us.
This is the kind of game that both teams want to win for bragging rights for their fans. It is a big game for Catania if they want to get out of the spot that they are in, 3 points is something a little bit better than if they were to stay in that position on the table. The last time Palermo came, we did give them a beating of 4-0 but the last time we played them in Palermo they beat us 4-1 or 3-1 but it still gave a us a beating. So what will happen tomorrow?
We will see our ex captain Matías Auguste Silvestre with his new club and hope that the defense men can stay off the score board as he has already gotten one goal this season. He is a good and strong player and can play a big role on the back line.
I think the way Catania should play is counter attack soccer, as Palermo’s backline like to use the wings and push up, so if we can use the counter attack it could really help.
Palermo players to watch out for are:
Fabrizio Miccoli
Mauricio Ferreira Pinilla
Abel Hernandez
Josip Ilicic
Federico Balzaretti
Matías Auguste Silvestre
Catania will have their hands full tomorow but it should be a great game; good luck Palermo and may the best team win.
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Catania hold on for a 1-1 tie against Atalanta, it was all back and forth until 14th minute when Sergio Almiron took a blast of a shot from outside and forced Andrea Consigli to make the save but that would give Catania a boost. Catania pushed and pushed until the 18th minute when Giovanni Marchese cross met the head of Nicola Legrottaglie who would give Catania the lead. Both teams would push for goals but no luck. In the 43rd minute Nicolás Spolli would get his second yellow of the game and would get a red card putting Catania in deep water swing with the sharks.
For the rest of the game Atalanta would pressure Catania and would not let us see much time on the ball for the rest of the game. Then in the 71st minute from the corner the ball found Simone Tiribocchi who kicked it in the net and would tie the game for the home side, he was subbed in the 50th minute; he’d be a hero on this day. Atalanta would have a number of chances to win it but had no luck in finding that goal. It feels good when its the other team not have the luck.
Over all, the red card played a huge part in the results and at least we came out with the tie. We were able to contain Germán Denis and got to see Nicola Legrottaglie get his second goal of the season. It puts us at 18 points and still in an okay position in the table but its still not a safe position.
Team Rating
Mariano Andújar: 6
Nicola Legrottaglie:8
Nicolás Spolli: 2
Giuseppe Bellusci: 7
Sergio Almiron:8
Gennaro Delvecchio:7
Francesco Lodi:6
Giovanni Marchese:7.5
Alessandro Potenza:6
Gaston Maxi Lopez: 6
Pablo Barrientos:7.5
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