The championship hasn’t finished yet and the total coaching has already begun

The results of the 36th day of Serie A

Rome-Salernitana 2-2 12′ Candreva (S), 47′ El Shaarawy, 54′ Dia (S), 83′ Matić
Empoli-Juventus 4-1 18′ penalty, 48′ Caputo, 21′ Luperto, 85′ Chiesa (J), 93′ Piccoli
Sassuolo-Monza 1-2 45′ +6 pens D. Berardi (S), 60′ Ciurria, 93′ Pessina
Cremonese-Bologna 1-5 14′ Arnautović, 27′ Ferguson, 45′ +1 Posch, 62′ Orsolini, 80′ Sansone, 91′ Ciofani (C)
Atalanta-Verona 3-1 11′ Lazović (W), 22′ Zappacosta, 53′ Pašalić, 62′ Højlund
Milan-Sampdoria 5-1 9′ Rafael Leão, 20′ Quagliarella (S), 23′, 29′ penalty, 68′ Giroud, 63′ Brahim Díaz
Lecce-Spezia 0-0
Turin-Fiorentina 1-1 48′ Jovic (F), 66′ Sanabria
Napoli-Inter 3-1 67′ Zambo Anguissa, 82′ Lukaku (I), 85′ Di Lorenzo, 94′ Gaetano
Udinese-Lazio 0-1 61′ pen. Still

The Serie A standings after 36 days

Naples 86; Lazio 68; Inter 66; Milan 64; Atalanta 61; Rome 60; Juventus 59 (-10); Monza 52; Bologna, Turin and Fiorentina 50; Udinese 46; Sassuolo 44; Empoli 42; Salerno 39; Lecce 33; Spice 31; Verona 30; Cremona 24; Sampdoria 18.

Because the waltz of the benches takes on absurd connotations, but nothing will move in Milan

With a clear sky or almost, it is taken for granted that Luciano Spalletti will abandon the leadership of Napoli after leading him to the third championship, his personal first of his coaching career. Whatever the unofficial reasons (and specious, if it is true that among them there is mutual susceptibility and acting without their knowledge), only the hypothesis that the team is not reinforced for the triple commitment in the league and cups has some importance, even before foundation. What is certain is that, if it were to happen, it would be a blow to those who are still celebrating the tricolor: but great calm, as long as there is no official the coach has a nice say that everything is decided. Even if there is already talk of his successor, who could be Gian Piero Gasperini: the Atalanta coach has had his day in Bergamo, and would bring at least Rasmus Højlund as a dowry. Who, for his part, as soon as Ademola Lookman returned to the field to assist him, immediately found the way to the net: it can’t be a coincidence. Still the rumors give Antonio Conte repatriated to Rome (José Mourinho to Paris Saint Germain) and Ivan Jurić in Gasperini’s place, while Juventus will be tempted by Raffaele Palladino and Thiago Motta or even Zinedine Zidane, but probably will remain with Massimiliano Allegri, Juan Guillermo Cuadrado and Alex Sandro… And in Milan? The results are with Simone Inzaghi, gratitude with Stefano Pioli: everything suggests that they will stay where they are.

Because it is always said to value young people, but when they are there and they win they go quietly

The great victory of Italy under 20 at the World Cup against Brazil (with a 3-0 run) went quite unnoticed in the media and in popular consideration. And yet, in their debut, Tommaso Baldanzi and Cesare Casadei’s Azzurrini practically knocked down the greatest talent forge in world football: a pity that the time of the television broadcast did not attract a high number of spectators, otherwise we should talk about it now as and more than domestic successes in club cups. Who, moreover, understand the hint and begin to deploy them in series: just think of Juve and Roma, who along their respective right-wing bands in the season finale are giving space to Filippo Missori and Tommaso Barbieri. Not to mention Salvatore Esposito, who was entrusted with the keys to the Spezia midfield, repaying Leonardo Semplici with excellent performances. Over all Edoardo Bove is exploding, to whom Roma owes the passage of the round in the semi-final of the Europa League against Bayern Leverkusen: the boy, born in 2002 and raised in the Giallorossi youth team, has already been tested as a winger in the five-man midfield and even as a starting defensive “arm in arm”. Great signs, but great calm: they will have to be confirmed in other situations, since Mourinho seems to have “fallen in love” with him, and doesn’t hide from declaring it.

Because “young and Italian” is a trademark, but almost only for ambitious provincials

Speaking of young players, it does not escape the fact that Raffaele Palladino’s Monza (also a rookie coach and not yet forty years old) is eighth and represents one of the most beautiful realities of the season. To think that he had started very badly, but the assembly of the many new elements required time as well as adaptation to the category. Today the team from Brianza carries forward the flag of the game, Dezerbian and “anti-nostalgic”: yet very Italian, like Luigi Cagni’s antithetical Piacenza in the 1990s. And Empoli himself already saved in advance, which fills the national youth teams, demonstrates how home talents can be preferred to trawling in Football Manager: can it only happen in the province to speak Italian even without Italian? Great calmsince the demoralized Juventus of -10, which sank right at Empoli, next year Nicolò Rovella will recover from Monza and thus find a director who has been awaited for years, between the interiors Nicolò Fagioli and Fabio Miretti, to rediscover for years the inheritance with the blue thread of one’s past.

Because two important matches from almost 25 years ago explains something about today’s football

May 1999, one week later, Alberto Malesani’s Parma (with champions such as Juan Sebastián Verón, Hernán Crespo, Enrico Chiesa and an impenetrable defence) first won the UEFA cup, beating Olympique Marseille 3-0 in Moscow , then the Coppa Italia in the double confrontation with Fiorentina, thanks to the away goal. It was scored by Paolo Vanoli, who had already scored in the European final: a left-back, meteor of the national team, who today drew Venezia from the shallows and projected them into the Serie B playoffs. In the last match of regular season, right in Parma it was Gianluigi Buffon, class of 1978 and infinite class, who opposed the lagoon conclusions, who needs no introduction. Even the ducals will compete for access to the top flight, and Fiorentina – which also belonged to Malesani – will play two finals, the first in Rome against Inter and the second in Prague, against West Ham. How many intertwining with history, while Fabio Quagliarella scores again in Serie A at the age of forty. But great calmbecause this time the Italian team (in this case, Parma at the time) is not the favorite to win both finals.

Because probably Italy could take home “only” one of the three European cups

While we’re at it, and that the predictions – said Giannibrerafucarlo – are wrong only those who don’t make them, we venture that the purple troop will emerge victorious from the confrontation with the Londoners in the beautiful land of Bohemia. The prediction regarding Roma is a little more difficult, engaged in Budapest against a Sevilla season ticket holder for the Europa League finals and with a lot of experience, as well as a goal man like Youssef el-Nesyri who Mourinho is missing at the moment. Inter’s task is very difficult, not to say improbable, in the presence of Manchester City in Istanbul: it is useless to hide it, even the Nerazzurri fans know it “even if it is a final”. Two days before the end of the championship, however, the Cremonese greets the company and two places remain to save themselves between Lecce, Spezia and Verona: perhaps the calendar favors the Apulians. In the Champions League area, Lazio and Inter already have one foot inside: the Rossoneri are the favorites for fourth place in the sprint between Milan and Atalanta. But great calmbecause the results of the European finals could add or remove seats at the table.