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After A.C. Milan (2-0), A.S. Roma (3-1), Napoli (3-2) and Siena (1-0) this time we beat Cagliari (2-1) by goals of Sokratis Papastathopoulos and Thiago Motta. Genoa now is on the 7th (Uefa-cup) position in the standings with 16 points in 9 matches.

With Andrea Gasbarroni in the line-up as substitute of banned Ivan Juric the Gasperini-boys started agressive. In the 25th minute after a corner Mesto brought the ball again in the penaltyarea and by the 2nd post Sokratis scored his second goal of the season. After 10 minutes in the second half Thiago Motta scored his first Italian goal out of a very difficult position besides the goal. We all hope the match was over now, but Cagliari did not want to give up and went stronger and stronger. In the 66th minute Bianco scored the 2-1 out of a freekick and it was clear that Genoa still was tired of the match with 10 against 11 in Giuseppe Meazza. But luckily we have Diego Milito that passed the ball after a corner of Cagliari besides Fini who kicked him and got his 2nd yellow, so red card. With 11 against 10 we saved the 2-1 score and did win also our 5th homematch.

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Genoa is qualified to play in the 1/8 finals in San Siro against Inter. Cupfighters Ravenna took the lead in Luigi Ferraris in the 58th minute by a goal of Pettinari: 0-1. Mr. Gasperini immediately reacted and brought Diego Milito in the field to substitute Jankovic and 11 minutes later he also changed Vanden Borre with Raffaele Palladino. The substitutions were succesful: in the 80th minute Milito scored the 1-1 equalizer and in the 94th and last minute our Prince also scored out of a cross of Palladino the winning goal: 2-1.   

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Mille grazie to Danygrifo and Zenarossoblu for making the video of the goals !!

Mr. Gasperini did it again ! After the selection of Marco Borriello last year in the Italian national-team now his substitute Diego Milito is selected to play again in the Argentinian national-team. The Southamerican team plays at Saturday 11th October in Montevideo against Uruguay and Wednesday 15th October in Santiago against Chili. Our 29 years old central forward (who already joined Genoa from January 2004 till August 2005) played already 14 matches and scored 4 goals in the Argentinian team.

Genoa bought Milito at (or just after) the last minute of the transfer-period. The door of the office of the Italian Football Association was already closed at the moment the signed contract arrived by fax, but Genoa’s technical director Fabrizio Preziosi waited for the contract inside the office of the Football Association while the manager of Milito: Federico Pastorello through the contract over the wall towards him.

See the video: http://www.sportmediaset.it/calcio/video/video1962.shtml

Last year Genoa played a fantastic first season in Serie A after 12 years in B and C-1, only a victory against at least one of the 4 big clubs (Inter, Roma, Juventus and Milan) failed. This season Genoa had to play the first 2 homematches against 2 teams of the big 4: Milan and Roma. A very difficult opening of the season also because Genoa has a lot of new players that have to learn the typical Dutch way of football of Mr. Gasperini, but we also have Diego Alberto Milito back in the team ….

As published on our website Tuesday Mr. Gasperini also selected the not completely recuperated Andrea Gasbarroni, the motor of Genoa against Milan. Everyone including coach Spaletti of Roma was surprised that Gasbarroni not only was inbetween the selection of 18 players, but also started in the line-up. Within 3 minutes the very fast and technical player sent a beautiful cross towards Giuseppe Sculli who surprised experienced defender Riise and goalkeeper Doni and scored the first goal. 

Of course Roma was awake after the goal and they honestly were the rest of the first half the best team in the field. In the 28th minute Daniele de Rossi scored the deserved equalizer by heading in a very dubious free-kick. Till half time Genoa saved the 1-1.

In the second half Genoa played a lot more pressure and did not longer walk back towards the own penalty-area if Roma attacked and so a very nice match on a high level with 2 equal teams was created. After 55 minutes Andrea Gasbarroni was substituted by Raffaele Palladino who showed why he is one of the biggest talents of Italy. In the 61st minute Milito scored the leading goal: 2-1 when he reacted perfectly on a header of Juric. As a real goalscorer Milito was at the right moment at the right place and he scored this difficult opportunity easily. Only 5 minutes later everyone thought that Panucci (again an ex-player of Genoa) scored the 2-2 equalizer but the goal was irregular annulated by the linesman because of off-side. Roma was frustated which was the sign to Palladino to dribble around Daniele de Rossi who kicked him and got his 2nd yellow, so red card. The match still was not played, but in the 87th minute a perfect cross of Palladino was scored by the Prince of Baires (Argentina): Diego Milito, again at the right place at the right moment: 3-1. The match now was over and Genoa booked the 2nd victory against a team of the big 4 and Milito is the topscorer of Serie A: 4 goals in only 3 matches.

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