Author: Hans

Tomorrow at 18.00 hours: AC Milan – Genoa

The playerscoach of Genoa at Piazza de Ferrari (Genova-centro)

The same 22 players as in the selection against Fiorentina are with the playerscoach on the road towards Milano to play tomorrow at 18.00 hours in San Siro. With Milan play this year 3 ex-Genoani: Marco Amelia, Sokratis Papastathopoulos and Kevin Prince Boateng, who is still owned by Genoa and rented to Milan. Both teams have 5 points in the standings and draw 1-1 last Wednesday against Lazio and Fiorentina. The match is on Saturday because Milan plays Tuesday in Amsterdam against Ajax in Champions League.

Great Genoa stopped by goalkeeper Frey: 1-1

Goalkeeper Frey again saved Fiorentina

In this 4th match of the season we saw why Genoa was named as the “King of the tranfermarket” this summer. With the 5 new players Eduardo, Chico, Ranocchia, Veloso and Toni in the line-up Genoa played a fantastic match and deserved a victory against Fiorentina. Only goalkeeper Frey and a lots of luck brought Fiorentina a point in Luigi Ferraris. Also the goal of Forentina was lucky because Gilardino could never have scored if the cross did not hit the back of Mesto. Our midfielder had his revanche a few minutes later: a fantastic combination with Veloso brougth “Joey” Mesto already his second goal of the season: 1-1.

Giandomenico Mesto celebrates his goal against Fiorentina

In the rest of the match Genoa tried everything to score the deserved winning goal. Goalkeeper Frey and some luck kept the 1-1 draw on the scorebord after 90 minutes, but if Genoa keeps playing like this the victories are coming soon!

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Genoa draws in Parma: 1-1 (first goal Toni)

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After the unexpected defeat against Chievo there were a lot of rumours in the newspapers. Mr. Gasperini was blamed for his substitution of defender Ranocchia by midfieldplayer Kharja and also our president Mr. Preziosi was not so happy. He spend nearly €50 million this summer and was especially unhappy about the mentality of the players against Chievo. Because of  all of this the team was a little under pressure against Parma. Just as against Chievo our Rossoblu played a fantastic first half an hour. Already in the 2nd minute defender Zaccardo of Parma got a yellow card because he could not stop our forwards regulary. In the 26th minute the same Zaccardo made a handball in the penalty-area and referee Rizzoli whistled for a penalty, but “forgot” to give Zaccardo his second yellow, so red card.

Zaccardo made a handball that gave Genoa a penalty, but the referee forgot the yellow card

Luca Toni realized the penalty and scored his first goal in the world’s most beautiful shirt.

Luca Toni celebrates his first goal with Genoa 

In the 2nd half Parma was the most dangerous team in the field, while Genoa played a lot better then last week. In the 71st minute Zaccardo (the man of the 2 yellow cards!) headed the equalizer behind Eduardo who saved Genoa with an incredible reaction a few minutes later. After all the draw was right, but what if Zaccardo got his deserved second yellow card in the 26th minute ?!

Genoa lost against Chievo: 1-3 (goal: Destro)

Mattia Destro celebrates his first goal in his first match with Genoa

Despite the openinggoal of Mattia Destro in the 6th minute and half an hour of fantastic football, Genoa lost the first homematch of the season by 1-3 against Chievo Verona. In the 45th minute Moscardelli scored the equalizer with a lucky shot against the leg of Dainelli. After the teabreak there was only one team in the field: Chievo Verona, that scored another 2 times (Marcolini and Pellissier) and deserved the victory. After the great start in Udine a little deception to Mr. Gasperini and the team. Chievo Verona now is on top of the standings and the only team with 2 victories in Serie A.

Moscardelli of Chievo Verona celebrates his equalizer while Ranocchia is not so happy

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Genoa-Chievo with Kaladze but without Toni

Kaladze our new experienced defender in the shirt of his old club: AC Milan

On the last day of the transferperiod Genoa bought Kakhaber Kaladze the experienced defender of A.C. Milan who could choose between Genoa and Juventus and made the right decision: our Rossoblu shirt! The Georgian defender is inside the list of 20 players that play against Chievo in Luigi Ferraris tomorrow:

GOALKEEPERS: 

Eduardo, Scarpi

DEFENDERS: 

Chico, Dainelli, Kaladze, Moretti, Ranocchia

MIDFIELDERS:

Criscito, Kharja, Mesto, Modesto, Milanetto, Rafinha, Rossi, Veloso, Zuculini

STRIKERS:

Destro, Palacio, Rudolf, Sculli

Genoa misses the forwards: Jankovic, Palladino and Toni. 

Mesto brings Genoa 1st victory in Udine: 0-1

Giandomenico “Joey” Mesto scores with a bicycle-kick in the 81st minute

Genoa won the openingmatch of the season 2010-2011 by 0-1 against Udinese. The only goal was scored by Mesto in the 81st minute. A cross of Rafinha was headed by Dainelli to Mesto, but the ball was too high and just below him so he could only try to touch it with a bicycle-kick. Mesto succeeded and the ball went besides goalkeeper Handanovic inside the goal at the far post: 0-1.

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Genoa started the match with the following players: Eduardo; Rossi, Dainelli, Ranocchia; Rafinha, Milanetto, Veloso, Criscito; Palacio, Toni and Sculli. Unfortunately Luca Toni had to leave the pitch during the 1st half with an injury and was substituted by Palladino. In the 2nd half Mr. Gasperini also brought Zuculini and Mesto in the field. As often Gasperson made the right substitutions with Mesto as the only goalscorer. In the last minutes Genoa played with only 10 players because of the injury of Palladino, but our defense was strong, very strong. The first 3 points are ours !

  Genoa-players celebrate the goal of Mesto in Udine: 0-1

20 Genoa-players in Udine, except Bocchetti

Sassa Bocchetti scores his first goal in Serie A

Trainer Gian Piero Gasperini and his staff selected the following 20 players to open the Serie A season today against Udinese:

3 Goalkeepers: Eduardo, Scarpi and Perin

5 Defenders: Criscito, Dainelli, Moretti, Ranocchia and Tomovic

6 Midfielders: Mesto, Milanetto, Rafinha, Rossi, Veloso and Zuculini

6 Strikers: Destro, Palacio, Palladino, Rudolf, Sculli and Toni

Genoa misses Sassa Bocchetti (99% sure leaves to Russia: Rubin Kazan) and the injured Chico, Kharja, Fatic and Jankovic.

Also Veloso and Rafinha in Rossoblu

Miguel Veloso

Mr. Preziosi again bought 3 players with international experience, 2 of them (Veloso and Rafinha) play in the team of Mr. Gasperini this season, the 3rd Kevin Prince Boateng of Ghana is rent by Genoa to A.C. Milan. 

Miguel Veloso is a 24 years old midfieldplayer of Sporting Lissabon and the National team of Portugal. After goalkeeper Eduardo another Portugese player in our team who played at the World Cup in South Africa. 

Márcio Rafael Ferreira de Souza is born at 7th September 1985, so he is almost 25 years old. The Brazilian defender plays under the name Rafinha and was bought of Schalke 04 in Germany which team he joined the last 5 seasons. Rafinha also played once in the Brazilian National team.  

Rafinha

In the friendly match against Athletico Bilbao (Spain) last week which gave Genoa the Tropheo Spagnolo (1-0 by a goal of Luca Toni) Giuseppe Sculli said goodbye to the fans because of his dreamtransfer to Inter. Happily for all Genoa-fans the transfer never became definitive, so Beppe stays another season with us.