After two seasons in Serie B, Cremonese secured their promotion to Serie A following a long and gruelling 2024/2025 campaign, which saw them defeat Spezia in the play-off final. It is essential to emphasise that Spezia were ahead of Cremonese in the standings by five points. Still, despite this, Cremonese managed to...
Filippo Inzaghi has led Pisa to their first promotion from Serie B to Serie A in 34 years, a massive achievement for the club and their fans. Before this, Inzaghi did not have very successful periods with the clubs he coached after he retired from playing football. He coached Milan,...
Palermo FC have emerged as one of the most intriguing set-piece threats in European football, as their efficiency from corners has become impossible to ignore. Paramount to this threat is Filippo Ranocchia, whose average of 0.196 set-play xA per 90 minutes ranks as the second-highest in the world—trailing only Miro...
For a number of years now, Alessandro Bastoni has been an established part of Inter Milan’s defensive unit and looks to remain a key player for the club for years to come. Bastoni has garnered attention in recent months for his consistently high-quality performances for Inter and is regarded by...
Serie A currently has some serious high-value talent playing in it – Kvicha Kvaratskhelia, Nicoló Barella, Rafael Leão, and Victor Osimhen are all players worth over £65m currently, according to Transfermarkt (TM). But the most valuable player in Italy’s top tier is Inter Milan’s talismanic striker, Lautaro Martínez – the...
Who Is Alessandro Nesta? Last summer, Lazio and AC Milan legend Alessandro Nesta returned from a two-plus year break from football management to take charge of AC Reggiana 1919 in Serie B, with i Granata taking on the second tier having been promoted from Serie C the season before. Nesta...
In early 2023, I produced an FC Como 1907 Analysis and their failure to adequately defend set plays. Relegation was a possibility, although a good run to end the season allowed them to finish in the middle of the table. Fast forward 15 months and many things have changed: Chelsea,...
Como 1907 had been promoted to the Seire B in the 2021/22 season, finishing both last couple of seasons in 13th place, which is a safe position away from the relegation battle, considering they are newly promoted. This season, under both Osian Roberts and Cesc Fàbregas, Como FC occupies the...
US Catanzaro are one of the most interesting teams making an effort to utilise set-pieces in Italian football this season. The movements they make inside the penalty area are exciting to experience, with a large variety of routines used that make the 'Aquile del Sud' an enormous threat in their...
Who Is Paolo Vanoli? Though he’s only in his second first-team managerial role, Venezia boss Paolo Vanoli is no newcomer to coaching. The 51-year-old Serie B manager is a former Italy youth coach and assistant manager to the senior Italian national team, as well as having served as Antonio Conte’s technical...
Parma are currently sat second in Serie B, following an undefeated start to the season. Current head coach Fabio Pecchia led Parma to a 4th place finish in his first season with the club and narrowly lost in the semifinals of the playoffs to return to the Serie A. The...
In recent years, we have been treated to a nice batch of nostalgia in the form of former players trying their hand at management. From the Bundesliga to the Premier League to the Serie A we’ve seen names like Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard, Wayne Rooney, Xabi Alonso, Mikel Arteta, Albert...
32 long years after moving on to bigger and better things within the game, Claudio Ranieri is back in Sardinia at the helm of the 1969/70 Serie A winners Cagliari. Fans from an older generation will have fond memories of ‘The Tinkerman’ with Gli Isolani, rising from Serie C to...
Serie A has become somewhat of an old boys club — not that it ever wasn’t. Italy’s top-flight division has been less open to appointing talented coaches from abroad compared to the rest of the top-five leagues. While financial disparities have played a massive part, the Premier League is a...
There is a worldwide sweep of retired players who reached the peak of their powers from the late noughties to the mid-2010s, moving into managerial slots. In recent months, Carlos Tevez took the leap into management, becoming the head coach of Rosario Central, while Ruud van Nistelrooy was handed his...
Lorenzo Lucca is a 21-year-old centre-forward currently playing for Pisa in Serie B, having moved over the summer from Palermo. He is also an Italy U21 youth international. Lucca is 2.01m, or 6’7” in height, and is yet to fill out this impressive frame with an almost gangly appearance. Despite...
Rolando Mandragora has been highly touted for several years. The midfielder has been tipped as a possible first-team player for Juventus. After a strong season at Crotone, there has been growing support for the youngster to be part of the squad already next season. Given his performances at FC Crotone...
