Total Italian Football Podcast

Matchday 14 saw Serie A 's big three all march on at the top of the table, with Inter , Juventus and AC Milan all winning to stay clear of the rest of the chasing pack. The Total Italian Football Podcast is here to chat through all of the weekend's action. Inter showed just how strong they are as they went away to Napoli and returned north with three points and a comfortable 3-0 win over the champ...

Serie A Matchday 13 's weekend action all felt like a gentle build towards the main event; the Deby d'Italia between Juventus and Inter . The teams looking to chase the league leaders down will be pleased at the 1-1 scoreline and the  Total Italian Football Podcast  is here to chat through it all. Dusan Vlahovic opened the scoring at the Allianz Stadium after a great assist from Federico...

Another weekend of Serie A has come and gone, and it’s looking increasingly likely that we’ll have a two-horse title race this season with Inter and Juventus pulling further clear at the top. The Total Italian Football Podcast is here to chat through it all. The two face off after the international break in what promises to be a breathtaking Derby d’Italia in Turin, after the Nerazzurri beat Frosi...

Matchday 11 of the 2023/24 Serie A season saw the possible title race take on a new complexion with the headline result being AC Milan 's 1-0 home defeat against an Udinese side who were yet to win a game this season. That defeat and victories for Inter and Juventus mean that things are starting to look a little bleak for Stefano Pioli and his side, albeit with a lot of the season still left to pl...

Matchday 10 of the 2023/24 Serie A season was filled with twists and big results, and at both ends of the table. To talk through all of the weekend's football, the Total Italian Football Podcast is here. Despite two huge games on Sunday evening, Cagliari demanded a lot of attention as they battled back from 3-0 down in the final 20 minutes to beat Frosinone 4-3 for their first win of the season. C...

Serie A Matchday 9 has come and gone and it left us with some big results and a couple of surprises as well, with no game taking more attention than Juventus ' 1-0 win away at AC Milan thanks to a Manuel Locatelli strike. The Total Italian Football Podcast is here to talk through the weekend's action. Juventus ' defeat of Milan allowed Inter to claim top spot as they had already beaten Torino 3-0...

Serie A Matchday 8 takes us into the second international break of the season, and AC Milan will spend it on top of the table after their win over Genoa followed Inter slipping up at home to Bologna. The Total Italian Football Podcast is here to talk through the latest Serie A results . As well as AC Milan , Juventus picked up a big win as they beat Derby della Mole rivals Torino at the Allianz St...

The 2023/24 Serie A season just keeps producing, and even if Matchday 7 didn’t throw up quite the same level of excitement across the board, there were a number of things to note from the weekend’s action. The Total Italian Football Podcast is here to chat through it all. Victor Osimhen let his football do the talking as he was back on the scoresheet to help Napoli win 4-0 at Lecce , while Lautaro...

Matchday 5 of the 2023/24 Serie A wasn't quite as action-packed as previous rounds, but events in Reggio Emilia as Sassuolo beat Juventus more than made up for what the of the games lacked, and the Total Italian Football Podcast is here to talk through all of the weekend's football. Beyond the Old Lady taking a tumble in Emilia-Romagna, Napoli, AS Roma and Lazio all slipped up again, while Inter m...

This 2023/24 Serie A season is thrilling already, and the Total Italian Football Podcast is here to talk through a Matchday 4 that saw Inter hammer AC Milan in the season's first Derby della Madonnina . The Nerazzurri continued their recent dominance of Milan in emphatic fashion with a resounding 5-1 win on Saturday, with Juventus enjoying a good 3-1 win over Lazio as well before Napoli slipped up...

This 2023/24 Serie A season is giving us a lot of early drama and talking points, and the Total Italian Football Podcast is here to talk through a Matchday 3 that saw champions Napoli lose for the first time at home to Lazio , while both AC Milan and Inter continued their 100% start to the campaign. Lazio appear to have Napoli 's number under Maurizio Sarri and that continued this season, with som...

This 2023/24 Serie A season is wasting no time at all in throwing up excitement, and the Total Italian Football Podcast is here to talk through a Matchday 2 that saw Juventus , AS Roma , Lazio , Atalanta and Fiorentina all slip up. Napoli and AC Milan remain the teams to beat, seeing off Sassuolo and Torino respectively. The Partenopei were again fired on by Victor Osimhen , while Christian Pulisi...

The 2023/24 Serie A season is finally underway, and we didn't need to wait long for surprises to be sprung. The Total Italian Football Podcast is here to talk through all of the Serie A Matchday 1 action. After Napoli had overcome an early scare at Frosinone to win and Inter subsequently saw off Monza , both AS Roma and Lazio slipped up on Sunday against Salernitana and Lecce respectively. There w...

The wait is almost over and the 2023/24 Serie A season is set to get going this weekend, with Napoli facing a tough task of defending their scudetto in what promises to be one of the most open title races in recent years. To preview the 2023/24 Serie A campaign, the Total Italian Football Podcast is here. AC Milan , Inter and Juventus , as the three most recent Italian champions before Napoli ende...

The 2023 Women's World Cup journey has come to an end for the Italy Women's National Team after they were beaten 3-2 by South Africa in New Zealand. The performance on the pitch was much the same as it had been throughout the tournament, with Italy having plenty of the ball and failing to do anything with it. Whilst the action on the pitch was bad enough, things have gotten even worse for Milena B...

It was a very bad day at the office for the Italian Women's National Team as they were beaten 5-0 by Sweden in their second Group G game at the 2023 Women's World Cup . Having decided to stick with her (seemingly) 4-2-3-1 formation rather than go to a back three which could be a five, Italy started the game fairly promisingly with Sofia Cantore showing a lot of willingness to run down the right. A...

The Italy Women's National Team got the start that was needed at the 2023 Women's World Cup on Monday morning European time as they beat Argentina 1-0 in New Zealand. Despite that, it is not all good news. It was crucial to get three points on the board ahead of the tough match against Sweden , as Milena Bertolini emphasised herself after the match, but there are still a lot of questions that rema...

It is almost time, folks. The 2023 Women's World Cup is just a few days away now and we are back with the full audio preview of the Italian Women's National Team ahead of the tournament in Australia and New Zealand. The Italy recently played a behind-closed-doors friendly against New Zealand which formed a part of the discussion, whilst a closer look is taken at 16-year-old Giulia Dragoni who coul...

The 2023 Women's World Cup is getting closer and closer and it feels even more real for Italy Women after Milena Bertolini named her 23-player squad. The announcement came just a day after the final friendly before the tournament in Australia and New Zealand, which saw Italy draw 0-0 with Morocco in Ferrara. It was an experimental team, and not everyone that started the game is heading to the Worl...

The 2022/23 season of Italian football has (finally) come to a close and it is fair to say it has been an entertaining one. We had a fourth different Serie A winner in four years, which was Napoli with their first title in 33 years. There was also an additional relegation playoff at the end of the season which was not expected, as well as an Italian team featuring in all three of the major UEFA co...

There were three games of significance in Italian football in a single night over the weekend, as Sunday saw the hastily-organised Serie A relegation playoff, the Serie B promotion playoff final second leg, and the U20 World Cup final which Italy had reached. The Serie A playoff saw Spezia and Hellas Verona do battle at the Mapei Stadium in Reggio Emilia, which was attended by Conor. The Serie B p...

The 2022/23 Serie A season is ove… nope! Before the curtain finally falls on this seemingly never-ending season, Spezia and Hellas Verona will have to do battle in a brand-new relegation playoff after both sides finished level on 31 points. That aside, the regular season has come to an end with everybody having played 38 games. There wasn’t too much to resolve on the final matchday with the Champi...

Matchday 37 of the 2022/23 Serie A season has now been played out, meaning just one remains. The penultimate round saw all of the Champions League places booked up with Lazio, Inter and, AC Milan joining Napoli. Now all eyes turn to the bottom with Spezia and Hellas Verona locked level on points ahead of their final games against AS Roma and AC Milan respectively. Should they end the season l...

Matchday 36 was action packed for issues both on and off the field, with Juventus’ 10-point deduction overshadowing everything else to have taken place over the weekend, even with Cremonese officially suffering relegation from Serie A to immediately return to Serie B. Juventus’ off-field issues might have played a part as they fell to a 4-1 hammering at Empoli, AC Milan thumped Sampdoria 5-1, Napo...

The Serie A season is so nearly finished… but not quite yet! We’re here to talk through all of the Matchday 35 action with the latest of our Italian football podcasts.  AC Milan, Lazio, AS Roma and Atalanta all slipped up in the race for the Champions League and the rest, with Juventus and Inter the big winners. Champions Napoli lost to Monza, too. At the bottom, AC Milan’s loss was Spezia’s...