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Gasperini with 22 players + 2000 fans to Lille

Stadium Lille

Genoa plays tomorrow at 21.05 hours the important match in Group B of Europa League in and against Lille. The French have just like Valencia 4 points after 2 matches, which means that Genoa (3 points) at least has to draw tomorrow. Thursday 5th November the return-matches are programmed which means that Lille arrives in Luigi Ferraris in 2 weeks. Mr. Gasperini flew this afternoon with 22 players towards Lille, including the returned Criscito, Juric and Rossi. Let’s hope these 3 line-up players will start tomorrow in the little stadium with a capacity of 18.000 fans. The following 22 players get the support of 2.000 (including 6 of Genoa Club Amsterdam) Genoa-fans tomorrow:

GOALKEEPERS: Amelia, Scarpi, Russo

DEFENDERS: Bocchetti, Criscito, Esposito, Moretti, Sokratis, Tomovic 

MIDFIELDERS: Juric, Mesto, Milanetto, Modesto, Raggio Garibaldi, Rossi, Sculli, Zapater

STRIKERS: Figueroa, Floccari, Palacio, Palladino, Sculli   

Genoa misses the injured players: Biava, Crespo, Fatic, Jankovic and Kharja who can watch the match on tv, just as all Genoa-fans in and around Amsterdam in Satellite Sportscafé in the city-centre (Leidseplein) of the Capital of Holland.

Genoa was without any chance against Inter

Diego Milito is back home with Inter and waves to his fans in Luigi Ferraris

For the first time in 26 years Genoa lost a homematch with a difference of 5 goals. Last Saturdaynight Inter played one of their best matches of the last years and beat Genoa by 0-5. Unless the ball-possession of 53% Genoa shot only 1 time on the goal of Inter goalkeeper Julio Cesar. Omar Milanetto scored, but the goal was dubiously annulated because of off-side. The black and blue of Milano with a fantastic Wesley Sneijder shot 6 times on the goal of Amelia and scored 5 times, 3 goals in the first half and the other 2 after the tea-break. With 13 points in 8 matches Genoa is now 6th in the standings.

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Hands off our Luigi Ferraris Stadium !!

Hands off Luigi Ferraris

This picture is made by Grifoni in Rete (many thanks !!)

Everybody with a red and blue hart is furious. Both the city of Genova and the president of Sampdoria want to build a new stadium elsewhere in Genova to substitute the famous Luigi Ferraris stadium, home of Genoa since 1933. Italy wants to organize the European Championships in 2016 and Genova wants to be one of the cities that organizes some matches. Because Luigi Ferraris stadium is close to a prison, does not have enough parking-facilities and is located next to the Bisagno-river it should not be good enough to use during the European Championships. Bullshit of course, if you reconstruct the stadium as done before in 1990 and you break down the prison you can construct many parkingplaces behind Gradinata Nord and the stadium is ready to use during Euro 2016.

Fridaynight there is a protest at 21.00 hours in the city-centre and Saturday the Genoa-supporters walk together to Luigi Ferraris to protest against the demolish of our loved stadium. Hands off Luigi Ferraris stadium, home of Genoa since 1933 and monument of the city with the oldest football-club in Italy !!  

Genoa ruins 100th birthday of Bologna: 1-3

Genoa-players celebrate the victory in Bologna: 1-3

After 3 matches with only 1 point (2-2 against Juventus) Genoa was yesterday special guest at the 100th birthdayparty of Bologna with master of ceremonies referee Gervasoni. Stadium Renato Dall’Ara was filled with 30.000 enthousiastic fans waving with their red and blue Bologna-flags. The hometeam played in beautiful old traditonal shirts against our team with Esposito, Kharja, Milanetto, Modesto and Palladino in the line-up.

Bologna started the match very agressive and goalkeeper Amelia already had to make some saves in the first minutes. In the 10th minute Floccari ran inside the penaltyarea of Bologna and was irregulary stopped by Portanova: penalty ! Since Floccari missed the penalty against Chievo little playmaker Kharja is our new penaltyman and he realized the opportunity very calm: 0-1.

Kharja scored the opening-goal against Bologna

After the goal Genoa was the better team in the field, Bologna was clearly shocked they were 0-1 down while they played so good in the opening minutes. In the 35th minute Genoa doubled the scored with a great goal after a fantastic combination of Modesto and Palladino at the leftside of the field, Modesto played the ball towards Floccari who’s cross was realized by Sculli: 0-2, halftime.

In the 2nd half referee Gervasoni did everything to help Bologna in their birthdaymatch. In the 9th minute he gave Mesto his second undeserved yellow card, so Genoa had to play with 10 against 11 the rest of the match. Every free-kick was given to Bologna and finally in the 85th minute he also gave the hometeam a ridiculous penalty that was realized by our ex-striker Marco di Vaio: 1-2. Of course Bologna did everything to score also the equalizer, but it was our substitute Nenad Tomovic who decided the match. In the 90th minute he received the ball a few meters over the halfwayline and he started to run towards the Bologna goal and passed 4 defenders, crossed the ball towards the other substitute Zapater who easily scored: 1-3, game over! We now are 5th in the standings with 13 points in 7 matches. The next match against Inter is Saturday 17th October.

Alberto Zapater celebrates his deciding 1-3 goal in Bologna   

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Great Genoa down in Valencia by penalty: 3-2

Over 4.000 Genoa-fans were present in Mestalla

After the most difficult match in Europa League we still can be more proud of our team. Genoa lost the spectacular match in Valencia by 3-2 after a deciding penalty in the 82nd minute. We now are 3rd in the standings with 3 points, 1 behind Valencia and Lille that both have 4 points after 2 matches. The next match is in Lille at 22nd October.

To be honest Valencia was the best team in the first half and it was clear that Genoa missed important players like Biava, Criscito, Rossi and Juric. By surprise the openinggoal in the 41st minute was scored by Sergio Floccari who shot a header of our best player, Giandomenico Mesto, in the net: 0-1. Halftime !

Sergio Floccari watches the Genoa-fans in top of Mestalla   Genoa-players celebrate the openinggoal of Floccari

In the 2nd half the expected Spanish storm arrived. Within 12 minutes the score was 2-1 by goals of Silva and Zigic. Everybody who thought the match was over was totally wrong. Genoa returned in the game and deserved a penalty in the 64th minute when Sokratis fell down in the penaltyarea. Houssine Kharja realized the opportunity: 2-2. Of course we all hoped the score wouldn’t change anymore, but the expected penalty on the other side of the field arrived in the 82nd minute when Esposito blocked Villa who realized the penalty himselves: 3-2. A defeat after a great match against one of the best teams in Europe. 

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incomplete Genoa with 3.500 fans in Valencia

Mestalla-stadium of Valencia

This afternoon mr. Gasperini and his staff flew towards Valencia with all 21 players in the team that are able to play. Also the 3 youngsters of the primavera-team: Russo, Grea and El Shaarawy are inside the team. Genoa misses the 5 injured players: Biava, Criscito, Jankovic, Juric and Rossi, while Fatic is not on the Uefa-list. The 21 players are:

GOALKEEPERS: 32 Amelia, 1 Russo, 73 Scarpi

DEFENDERS: 26 Bocchetti, 16 Esposito, 41 Grea, 24 Moretti, 15 Sokratis, 40 Tomovic

MIDFIELDERS: 5 Kharja, 20 Mesto, 77 Milanetto, 23 Modesto, 14 Sculli, 21 Zapater

STRIKERS: 9 Crespo, 11 El Shaarawy, 30 Figueroa, 33 Floccari, 8 Palacio, 10 Palladino 

Valencia-Genoa in Satellite Sportscafé A’dam

Genoa-fans celebrate the qualification after the play-off round against Odense BK

Thursdaynight at 21.05 hours Genoa plays the second match in group B of Europa League in and against Valencia. Our red and blue boys get the support of 3.000 fans in the orange-city of Spain. Genoa-fans in and around Amsterdam can watch the match in the Satellite Sportscafé in the city-centre of Amsterdam (Leidseplein, next to Bulldog).

Undeserved loose of Genoa in Udine: 2-0

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With so many matches in such a short period nobody expects you to win them all. After the 2-2 draw in the battle against Juventus last Thursday it was clear that it would be difficult in Udine today. Till the 81st minute Udinese and Genoa were equal unless the fact that Genoa “lost” Biava and Criscito with injuries during the match. In the first minute of the 2nd half Genoa deserved a penalty when Domizzi touched the bal with his hand inside the penaltyarea and referee Trefoloni whistled and decided to give us only a freekick outside the penaltyarea. In the 81st minute happened we alle were frightened for: topscorer Antonio di Natale scored the openinggoal: 1-0. Of course Genoa tried everything to score the equalizer, but the 2nd goal was made in the 89th minute by Pepe of Udinese. Genoa is now on the 6th position of the standings with 10 points in 6 matches. Next week we play in Bologna, but first Thursdaynight in Valencia.  

Criscito back in the team against Udinese

The Genoa-players celebrate goalscorer Criscito with the 1-1 equalizer in Odense

Because of his red card against Napoli one of our best players in the beginning of this season: Mimmo Criscito was banned for the 2 matches against Chievo and Juventus. Tomorrow against Udinese our Italian National team player returns in the line-up probably to substitute Marco Rossi who stays in Genova because of an injury. These 21 players get the support of the 300 Genoa-fans (3000 Genoa-supporters travel to Valencia this week!) tomorrow in Stadio Friuli:

GOALKEEPERS: Amelia, Russo, Scarpi

DEFENDERS: Biava, Bocchetti, Esposito, Moretti, Sokratis, Tomovic

MIDFIELDERS: Criscito, Kharja, Mesto, Milanetto, Modesto, Zapater

STRIKERS: Crespo, Figueroa, Floccari, Palacio, Palladino, Sculli