Roma-Catania was a match where both teams came in focused on other objectives. Roma, of course, are still alive in the battle with Inter for the Scudetto, while Catania are in relegation trouble and are focused on saving themselves from the inferno of Serie B. Roma came into the game...

For another consecutive year, Inter will be in the final of the Coppa Italia. The game finished 2-0, with goals coming from Pele and Cruz. Inter started the game with a 4-5-1, with David Suazo as the lone striker and and a young central midfield pairing of Francesco Bolzoni and...

Cassano and Del Piero can still hope for call-ups to Euro 2008. Why? Because players going to Euro 2008 need an anti-tick vaccine (haven’t they ever heard of bug spray?), so the FIGC has contacted the clubs of 48 players that Donadoni has on his possible selection list and...

Here is todays main news from around the Peninsula:

- First let’s start off with news that can severely hurt two teams. The Disciplinary Committee handed out it’s weekly suspensions and it doesn’t look good for Livorno. Livorno, who will most probably be relegated on Sunday, had a few players suspended...

Hey Italy Offside Readers, this nice post comes from Steven of the Palermo Offside. He writes about the decline of storied club Hellas Verona.

The Hellas Verona Tragedy

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There is no denying that Christian (Bobo) Vieri in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s was one of, if not the deadliest striker in the world. The Aussie-born striker was a goalscoring machine, and scored with such ease. He would just power past defenders and put the ball...

Week 36 (I incorrectly said it was Week 37 in the preview) turned out to be an interesting week in this last part of the 2007/2008 season. Here’s what happened this weekend:

Milan-Inter: 2-1

In the match everyone was...

Sorry guys for the late post, but my internet has been down all day (Stupid Time Warner Cable!). So here’s the weekend preview:

As you can see by the picture, the main event of Week 37 is the Derby della Madonnina between Milan and Inter. This derby...

Interesting article today from goal.com. It says that if Alex Del Piero’s name is on Donadoni’s 23 man final roster this May, he will equal a record. What is this record? The number of final tournaments played by an...

After hearing news that Zenit St. Petersburg had demolished Bayern Munich 4-0, La Viola had to like their chances if they reached the final. However, they could not surpass the final hurdle. Fiorentina quite simply dominated the game (15 shots on goal), but they...

Apologies all around. Unfortunately, due to other crap on my schedule, I can’t liveblog the matches today as I did last week. However, I did want to point out that currently, we are in the 57th minute of Zenit v. Bayern, and Zenit St. Petersburg leads 3-0, 4-1...

Here are the latest scores and events from today’s quarterfinals. Check back or refresh for the latest.

Results:
Zenit St. Petersburg 0-1 Bayer Leverkusen
(Zenit advances on 4-2 aggregate) (Bulykin [BL] 18′)
Bayer needed four away goals to pull even. They got one. The Russian international Dmitri Bulykin...

Now that, once again, we’ve gotten the Champions League out of our systems, with one great game in England, and then that other one, it’s time to decide who will be the Final Four in the UEFA Cup. Here are the matches, and who needs what to progress:

Zenit St....