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Again a victory of Genoa! After 41 minutes Giuseppe Sculli scored the first goal and 15 minutes before the end Borriello decided the match by scoring the second goal from the penaltyspot. Our topscorer is now alone on top of the scoringslist with 16 goals. Genoa has 35 points and shares the 7th place with Sampdoria that lost against Atalanta by 4-1. The only negative aspects of tonight are the 4th yellow card of Konko which means he can not play next Sunday against Cagliari and the knee-injury of Paro after only 19 minutes.    

Tomorrow-evening the red and blue train only misses passengers Rubinho (banned because of his 4th yellow card) and Wilson (injured), so coach Gian Piero Gasperini selected all the 20 other players:

Goalkeepers: Scarpi, Lanza

Defenders: Bovo, Criscito, De Rosa, Konko, Lucarelli, Santos

Midfielders: Danilo, Fabiano, Juric, Milanetto, Paro, Rossi, Vanden Borre

Strikers: Borriello, Di Vaio, Figueroa, Leon, Sculli

Over 25.000 tifosi will be in the stadium to see the friends of Genoa and Napoli play to stay in zone Uefa-cup.

Till today Genoa scored 8 goals in 11 away-matches, today in Udine the Gasperini-boys scored 5 goals. After 9 minutes it was Leon that scored our first goal and after 43 minutes Giuseppe Sculli scored the other Genoa goal in the first half. Inbetween these 2 goals also Udinese scored twice from the penaltyspot, so the score at halftime was 2-2.

In the second half our topscorer Marco Borriello scored just like in the homematch 3 times, while Udinese scored only 1 goal, so Genoa booked the 3rd away-victory of the season. A fantastic result of the Rossoblu that are now on the 8th position in the standings, while Marco Borriello is just as Trezeguet topscorer of Serie A with 15 goals.

 

Despite the distance of 506 kilometers over 500 Genoa-fans support the team tomorrow against Udinese, number 6 in the standings with 36 points. Last September the match in Luigi Ferraris was very spectacular with an unfair red card of Rubinho and 3 goals of Borriello giving Genoa a 3-2 victory. Besides Borriello also Leon was one of the best players in the field, so maybe our king of the dribble plays tomorrow. Saturday-afternoon Mr. Gasperini took the following 19 players with him in the airplane to Udine:

Goalkeepers: 83 Rubinho, 73 Scarpi.

Defenders: 3 Bovo, 18 Criscito, 25 De Rosa, 24 Konko, 16 Lucarelli, 33 Santos.

Midfielders: 29 Fabiano, 28 Juric, 77 Milanetto, 19 Paro, 7 Rossi, 68 Vanden Borre.

Strikers: 22 Borriello, 21 Di Vaio, 9 Figueroa, 11 Leon, 14 Sculli

Genoa misses banned Danilo and injured Wilson, while Ghinassi and Masiero today played with the Primavera.

Genoa Club Amsterdam member of honour Johnny van ‘t Schip is next season together with his friend Marco van Basten and Rob Witschge the new coach of Ajax Amsterdam. Our 44 years old ex-player signs tomorrow a contract of 4 years with the club of Johan Cruijff, since a few days the new technical brain that has to bring the Dutch club back at the top. Before the new technical staff starts with Ajax, they first want to make the Dutch national team European Champions this summer in Austria and Switzerland. Let’s hope that after his years with Ajax friendly Johnny comes to Genoa, just like he did as a player.

Andy, Bart, René and Hans had a fantastic weekend unless the unfair result of the match. Of course we prefered a victory, but that’s football: sometimes you lose while you did not deserve it. On the other hand we can be happy that we do not have an irritating player like Ca$$ano, because at the end teamspirit always beats the individual fool.

    

                           

Saturdaynight we had a great dinner with 30 friends (including 7 weeks old Pietro, see leftunder on the 1st foto) in the fantastic Genovese restaurant: Locanda Spinola. The (regional) food was very good, just as the atmosphere. We thank Luca and Federica to organize the very nice party, A.C.G. because of the beautiful present, photographer Andy and all the friends to show up !!

 

Despite the fact there was only a choreografie at Distinti the atmosphere in and around the stadium was perfect. Unless the late goal in the 87th minute all the fans respected each other and stayed friendly. This makes the Genovese derby one of the best in the world and is the reason why Genoa has fans all over the planet! The best player in the field was without any discussion Abdoulay Konko, our 23 years old allrounder. He was the only one that could stop Ca$$ano and with him almost every attack of Genoa started.

As you can see on the picture Genova is completely red and blue. After the 0-0 draw in the first derby of this season, this weekend is the return with Genoa playing at home. Like our friendly coach Gian Piero Gasperini already said this morning: in the field we have to play to be the best team, but with the fans it is sure: Genoani are the best !!

Genoa surely misses banned Santos + Sculli and it is almost sure that also Milanetto and Wilson can not play because of injuries. It will be a problem to Mr. Gasperini to decide which strikers he puts in the line-up. Borriello for sure, but who is the other one or are the other two: Figueroa (scored against Atalanta the winning goal), Di Vaio (scored last week against Livorno) or the returned Leon? Problems of a good coach with a good team !

This weekend also Genoa Club Amsterdam celebrates their 10th anniversary in Restaurant Locanda Spinola in Genova. Let’s hope with the dinner starts a fantastic weekend, being for at least 6 months the boss in the city and in the field.     

This afternoon Marco di Vaio saved Genoa in the 83rd minute by scoring the equalizer at the moment we played only with 10 players after the red card of Santos. In the first half Genoa was the best team in the field, but in the 15th minute at the only moment Livorno went forwards Tavano scored: 1-0. Already after 28 minutes Mr. Gasperini brought De Vaio in the team and in the second half also Sculli and Figueroa, raising the number of strikers in 4. Genoa also in the second half was the best team in the field, but after Santos got his second yellow card in the 75th minute we all were frightend that Genoa would return to Liguria without points. Genoa is now on the 9th position in the standings with 29 points.

Genoa coach Gian Piero Gasperini won’t feel alone tomorrow in Livorno. Our very friendly coach selected 22 of his total 24 players to go to Livorno, which means that 4 of them have to watch the match in the stadium tomorrow. Only 3rd goalkeeper Lanza and Brasilian striker Wilson (injured) are not selected. The 22 players:

Goalkeepers: Rubinho, Scarpi

Defenders: Bovo, Criscito, De Rosa, Ghinassi, Konko, Lucarelli, Santos

Midfielders: Danilo, Fabiano, Juric, Masiero, Milanetto, Paro, Rossi, Vanden Borre

Strikers: Borriello, Di Vaio, Figueroa, Leon, Sculli    

Around 2500 Genoa-supporters travel 187 kilometers on the A-12 tomorrow to reach Livorno the team of old-Genoa president Spinelli. Both Rubinho and Sculli have to keep their minds cool, because a yellow card of referee Romeo means that they have to miss the derby next week.

Our topscorer Marco Borriello yesterday played the last 20 minutes with Worldchampions Italy against Portugal in Zurich, Switzerland. It was Marco’s first match in the Italian national team and he deserves it being the Italian player with the most goals in Serie A. Italy did win the match by 3-1. The last Genoano in the Italian team was Gennaro Ruotolo (our Genoano of the year 1998-1999) 17 years ago. Besides Borriello also Mimmo Criscito (Italy) and Anthony Vanden Borre (Belgium) played this week with their national team below 21 years against Holland and Germany .