Serie A Chronicles

Get your questions in for Mina and Nicky for the Serie A Chronicles Q&A show. Each week we answer your questions tweeted to us at @serieAchronpod using the hashtag #ChroniclesQandA. This week's questions: Does the loss of Osimhen remove Napoli from the title race or does it just bring Inter more into it? Can Milan hang on over the duration? -Andy Heppel (Manchester) Considering that Milan, Napoli...

It was an amazing weekend of Serie A action with some exciting games. First losses for the top 2, including a Dušan Vlahović-inspired Fiorentina win over Milan. Then we saw Leonardo Bonucci's penalty prowess in Juventus' away win at Lazio, and Inter's toppling of top-of-the-pops Napoli to claw back some ground on the front-runners in another high scoring and entertaining affair. Elsewhere, Atalant...

Get your questions in for Mina and Nicky for the Serie A Chronicles Q&A show. Each week we answer your questions tweeted to us at @serieAchronpod using the hashtag #ChroniclesQandA. This week's questions: Would a world cup every 3 years be a fair compromise for those wanting it every two years? -Daniel Rodriguez (Waterford, Connecticut) In 2010 we saw one of the biggest World Cup snubs ever when M...

The Euro 2020 honeymoon... and Italy's sensational summer of sport... is well and truly over as Roberto Mancini's men failed to qualify directly for the 2022 World Cup. Draws with Switzerland and Northern Ireland saw the Swiss qualify as group winners, leaving Gli Azzurri needing the dreaded play-off pathway in March to get to Qatar. Nicky and Mina break it down for us. What are the problems? What...

Get your questions in for Mina and Nicky for the Serie A Chronicles Q&A show. Each week we answer your questions tweeted to us at @serieAchronpod using the hashtag #ChroniclesQandA. This week's questions: What would you propose as the best in-house solution for the Juve midfield? McKennie has knocked in a few goals lately but results haven’t exactly been positive. Is there any hope for the Locatel...

We got the band back together! Gabriele Marcotti is our special guest to discuss the Derby della Madonnina, a.k.a. the Milan Derby, which ended in a draw and saw a goal celebration by an ex; the complaints of Jose Mourinho after Roma's dismal performance losing away at Venezia; and Juventus. Gab also gives us his prediction for the final top 4 in Serie A, and the team previews Italy's coming World...

Get your questions in for Mina and Nicky for the Serie A Chronicles Q&A show. Each week we answer your questions tweeted to us at @serieAchronpod using the hashtag #ChroniclesQandA. This week's questions: Kessie and Bennacer had a really solid game vs Roma. Tonali stepped up this season big time. Krunnic also lowkey dropping big performances here and there. Does Milan have the best midfield in Ser...

We have a special guest this week as former Manchester United, Chelsea, Aston Villa and Australian goalkeeper Mark Bosnich joins us from Sydney to discuss the latest in Serie A and look at the Italian clubs in the Champions League. "Bozza" is a co-host of Stan Sports Australia's European competitions coverage. We find out from Mark how close he came to playing in Serie A, and for which club, as we...

Get your questions in for Mina and Nicky for the Serie A Chronicles Q&A show. Each week we answer your questions tweeted to us at @serieAchronpod using the hashtag #ChroniclesQandA. This week's questions: As a Newcastle fan what can I expect if Paulo Fonseca is appointed as our new manager? Clearly has a bit of pedigree (mainly from Shakhtar) but doesn’t strike me as someone who could fight throug...

In this week's episode, it turns out that you can't kick a player in the penalty box, as Inter found out after Juventus was given a late penalty when Denzel Dumfries missed the ball and kicked Alex Sandro. Hear what Nicky and Mina had to say about the Derby d'Italia drama at the San Siro. It was poker night at the Bentegodi as Giovanni Simeone was on fire, scoring 4 goals for Hellas Verona against...

Get your questions in for Mina and Nicky for the Serie A Chronicles Q&A show. Each week we answer your questions tweeted to us at @serieAchronpod using the hashtag #ChroniclesQandA. This week's questions: A comment on something you said in episode 4, and which others say about racism in sports. While I don’t like it, I believe punishing people for how they feel, even if it’s negative, doesn’t chan...

Controversy struck Serie A this past weekend (surprise surprise!) as Roma scored a goal that was disallowed for a penalty kick in their favour, which was subsequently missed and Juventus won. Nobody knew what was going on, especially when Jose Mourinho didn't rage about it. Then upon Simone Inzaghi's return to the Stadio Olimpico, Inter got mad over Lazio not kicking the ball out when their player...

Get your questions in for Mina and Nicky for the Serie A Chronicles Q&A show. Each week we answer your questions tweeted to us at @serieAchronpod using the hashtag #ChroniclesQandA. This week's questions: Question for Mina- Do you feel Juve’s current midfield depth is conducive to what Allegri is trying to do? For Nikki- I think Inter overpaid for Correa. I don’t see him being more than a spark pl...

This week we deep-dive on Italy's third place at the UEFA Nations League Finals held in Milan and Turin, particularly the semi-final match loss against Spain and the many talking points which arose from Mancini's Azzurri finally having an end to their unbeaten run. It was fun while it lasted! Some of the topics to come out of Italy's two matches: How did Roberto Mancini's men match up tactically w...

Get your questions in for Mina and Nicky for the Serie A Chronicles Q&A show. Each week we answer your questions tweeted to us at @serieAchronpod using the hashtag #ChroniclesQandA. This week's questions: Out of Chiesa and Zaniolo which one do you think can play more central? The trequartista role. Personally I think they both could and possibly should. -theangrycobbler @theangrycobbler I look at...

It was a week of the big teams winning away from home as a late Manuel Locatelli strike stole the derby della Mole, a.k.a. the Turin derby, for Juventus away at Torino, before the man of the moment later proposed to his girlfriend that night to cap off his winning goal exploits. In a nice touch, we learn a bit more about our hosts as Mina and Nicky begin the episode with something different, by te...

Get your questions in for Mina and Nicky for the Serie A Chronicles Q&A show. Each week we answer your questions tweeted to us at @serieAchronpod using the hashtag #ChroniclesQandA. This week's questions: Mina has spoken in the past about the mentality of certain clubs not being up to task (eg, Napoli…w/ last season’s finale as exhibit A). But is it possible to pinpoint where a culture like that s...

The podcast just keeps getting better as this week we have an exciting Serie A Chronicles after a high scoring round of Italian football which saw 35 goals in 10 matches. It was an enthralling Derby della Capitale which went the way of Sarri's Lazio. Mina and Nicky discuss the contrast between them and Mourinho's Roma, as well as the two managers themselves. We discuss the rise of Lautaro Martínez...

Welcome to the first Serie A Chronicles Q&A show. Each week we will answer questions tweeted to us at @serieAchronpod using the hashtag #ChroniclesQandA. Be sure to get your questions in for Mina and Nicky. This week's questions: What should Interisti be most concerned with, Handanovic’s play or the lack of depth in the CB position? These will be Inter’s two biggest roadblocks between them and get...

After some magical goals scattered throughout Serie A this weekend, and after 4 rounds of the season, Mina is still waiting for a Juventus victory, but is remaining hopeful. We start off with a deep-dive on the Juve v Milan draw, while also discussing Milan's encouraging performance against Liverpool at Anfield in the Champions League, and is Sandro Tonali a rising star for the future? Nicky tackl...

It's the first Serie A Chronicles show with Mina Rzouki and Nicky Bandini! It was a wild weekend of Serie A with some amazing goals, even the ones that VAR didn't agree with, goalkeeping spills, last-gasp winners, and a gold medal Olympic sprint by José Mourinho that even Marcell Jacobs would be proud of! After 3 rounds of the season it's Mourinho's Roma topping the table, together with Milan and...

Benvenuti tifosi! Welcome to the Serie A Chronicles podcast. Your hosts Mina Rzouki and Nicky Bandini are back with a new weekly podcast celebrating Serie A and Italian football. Each week we’ll discuss the drama, the controversy, the highs and lows of the round of Serie A, European competitions and of course Gli Azzurri as they build toward the 2022 World Cup. It’s the beautiful game, la dolce vi...