Genoa Club Amsterdam

Especially just before and right after halftime Genoa played very good and had big chances (Palacio twice and Chico) to open the score in San Siro. In the 49th minute a long ball of Pirlo behind the Genoa-defense was touched by Ibrahimovic inbetween Dainelli and Ranocchia who both were not agressive enough. Because also Eduardo was too far out of the goal Zlatan scored the undeserved openinggoal. During the rest of the match Genoa did everything to try to score the equalizer, which gave Milan the biggest chances in the contra-attack. Our goalkeeper Eduardo saved us several times, just as Criscito, but at the end we only got the compliments and not the points: Milan-Genoa 1-0.

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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.

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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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.

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

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 ?!

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.

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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 !