Saturday, April 11, 2009
All About Genoa-Juventus
Juventus.com brings you some useful information to better follow the match this evening at the Ferraris stadium. Many are the former Juve players involved.
GENOA AT HOME
Nine victories, four draws and a defeat. The progress of Genoa at home is decisively better then that away from the Marassi: In their stadium, Gasperini’s team collected 31 points as opposed to the 23 collected away. The substantial difference seems to be mostly due to a high attacking tendency as if the public’s support is decisive to enhance the attack’s effect.
In Genova, the rossoblu scored 27 goals. Just over twice as much as they did away from Liguria (13). Genoa did not manage to score at home only on one occasion and this coincides with the only defeat, suffered on the 27th match day at the hands of Inter.
THE PROGRESS
Genoa started off on the wrong foot in the championship with the debut against Catania ending in a 1-0 defeat. But as from the following week, the round 2-0 victory against Milan helped the double personality of the team to emerge with the squad decisively more brilliant at home, so much so that the team managed to establish a regular and rather interesting progress in the first seven match days: defeat away and victory at the Ferarris.
The series was interrupted on the 8th match day with the excvellent 0-0 obtained at the San Siro against the Inter, in what was one of the tactical masterpieces of Gasperini. The decisive twist came at the end of the first round with three consecutive wins against Chievo, Torino and Lecce which allowed to go to the next round in the fourth place. This spot was abandoned momentarily on the 23rd match day following the heavy 3-0 defeat suffered against Spalletti’s Roma. Genoa won the right to access to the Champions League preliminaries during the month of March thanks to a victory against Cagliari.
Another two consecutive exploits were the ones against Udinese by 2-0 at the Marassi and in Reggio Calbria with a goal scored by Thiago Motta, reinforcing the position in the table. The team can currently boast of a two point advantage against Fiorentina and five on Roma, the most terrible opponents in the race to the most important European cup.
FORMER PLAYERS
There are no less then 5 players of Genoa who wore the Juventis jersey and who will make Saturday’s match even more tasteful especially since their Juve experience dates back to the youth sector. Domenico Criscito played 9 times ofr Juventus last season: he was transferred to Genoa in January where he had already played during the previous season emerging as one of the best defenders of the Serie B. Ruben Olivera spent 5 seasons with Juventus beginning in the 2002/03 season with 4 goals scored during the 2004/05 season (his best period) convincing Fabio Capello to utilize him on quite a few occasions.
Matteo Paro made his debut with Juventus in kiev, during a match valid for the 2002/03 Champions League. Four seasons later, during the season spent in Serie B, the midfielder made it to the starting line-up starting from the first match against Rimini against whom he scored a goal which in its way was a historical one. Raffaele Palladino made his first appearances during the 2004/04 season and became one of the protagonists of the promotion back into the Serie A and of the first championship of Claudio ranieri as Juventus coach. He scored 10 goals made even more precious by a hat-trick against triestina. Finally, Giuseppe Sculli only played in the youth teams of Juventus and can only count call-ups with the first team without however having been fielded ina an official match.
VISTORIES IN APRIL
There is a favourable tradition with regards to Juventus when the team plays in Genova against the rossoblu during the month of April. Certainly, the start was far from brilliant and was to be decisive for the assigning of the championship title. In 1903, in fact, genoa beat Juventus in the final by 3-0 winning their 5th scuidetto during a time in which the tournament lasted a few weeks (that edition began on the 1st of March and ended on the 29th of April).
In 1934, Borel II and Varglien II allowed the bianconeri to win 2-0 during a period which coincided with the dominion of the Vecchia Signora, who were just about to win their 4th out of 5 consecutive titles. In April 1943 the Juventsu victory is harder to achieve: the decisive goal was scored during the dying minutes of the match and it is once agin Borel II who scored the match winner capable of breaking the equilibrium materialized thanks to the goals by Sentimenti III and Sotgiu. It was an exciting match, even from the disciplinary point of view with a player being sent-off for each team: Trevisan for Genoa and the legendary Carletto parola for Juventus.
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