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The CIES Football Observatory revealed Hellas Verona are the Serie A team with most minutes played by under-21s and Milan have the fourth lowest average age in the top five Leagues.
Join us for all the build-up and action as it happens from today’s three Serie A games, Spezia-Crotone, Parma-Milan and Udinese-Torino.
It was a hugely-entertaining game with five goals and late drama, as Koffi Djidji’s acrobatic strike wasn’t enough for Crotone.
Vincenzo Italiano admits it wasn’t Spezia’s best game, but they ‘never gave up’ and managed to beat Crotone 3-2.
Serse Cosmi maintains ‘even a draw would’ve been very harsh’ on Crotone, so losing 3-2 to Spezia in stoppages was ‘shocking. There are no excuses.’
Spezia were twice trailing to Crotone, and 2-1 down at the 88th minute, but Martin Erlic created one and scored the last-gasp winner for 3-2.
The AIA has announced the referees for Serie A Week 30, with Fabio Maresca in charge of Parma-Milan and Luca Pairetto overseeing Inter-Cagliari.
Crotone's Nwankwo Simy is the best striker in Europe in the last month with eight goals in five games.
The Disciplinary Commission have given a one-match ban to four players after Serie A Week 29, whilst Federico Bernardeschi has been fined for diving.
Join us for live coverage of all the build-up and action as it happens from 10 Serie A games, including Milan-Sampdoria, Torino-Juventus and Bologna-Inter.
Watch the dramatic seven-goal thriller between Napoli and Crotone, when Giovanni Di Lorenzo scored the 4-3 winner for the Azzurri.
Napoli made life far more difficult than it needed to be in their dramatic 4-3 win over relegation-threatened Crotone.
Victor Osimhen, Dries Mertens and Lorenzo Insigne lead the way for Napoli against Nwankwo Simy and on-loan Adam Ounas, as Crotone fight for survival.
Check all the official line-ups from this afternoon’s seven Serie A games, including Atalanta-Udinese, Lazio-Spezia and Napoli-Crotone.
Napoli confirm Diego Demme is out, while David Ospina could play against Crotone despite a fractured finger, but Piotr Zielinski will likely be rested so Dries Mertens can take a new role.
Serse Cosmi conceded Crotone can ‘only hope’ when they play Napoli at the Stadio Diego Maradona. ‘Football has always been able to surprise’.
Napoli are anxiously awaiting news from Piotr Zielinski’s blood tests, as he tested first positive and then negative for COVID after international duty with Poland.
Napoli goalkeeper David Ospina will be out for a week after having suffered an incomplete fracture in a finger during training.
Napoli forward Dries Mertens seems set to miss the next match against Crotone but should be back for Juventus on April 7.
There continues to be confusion over the treatment of blasphemy, after Ascoli coach Andrea Sottil was only fined for 12 blasphemous phrases in one game.
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