Total Italian Football Podcast

With the six teams fighting over three Champions League qualification spots all facing each other, it was sure to be an important weekend of action in Serie A. Whilst AC Milan, AS Roma and Juventus secured vital wins, things are starting to look bleak for Spezia at the bottom.  There was also more racial abuse in the stands to discuss, this time concerning Dusan Vlahovic and the Atalanta fans...

Napoli could and should have sealed their third scudetto on Matchday 32 of this Serie A season, and Inter’s win over Lazio put it on a plate for the Partenopei. Needing just a win at home to Salernitana, Napoli conceded late to put the champagne back on ice… not that the city of Naples got the memo. Back from the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, Conor Clancy hosts Euan Burns and Kevin Pogorzelski to talk t...

Napoli are now just a step and a half away from getting their hands on their first Serie A title in over 30 years afte their dramatic late 1-0 win over Juventus on Matchday 30. The Partenopei now need to beat Salernitana and hope Inter stop Lazio from winning on Matchday 31 to be crowned champions on Sunday morning.  To talk through all of the weekend’s games, Conor Clancy is joined by Euan B...

It’s starting to look like nobody in Serie A wants to finish in the top four and qualify for next season’s Champions League, and Matchday 30 again saw everybody but AS Roma slip up in pursuit of the remaining places behind Napoli and Lazio. Juventus lost at Sassuolo, AC Milan drew at Bologna and Inter lost at home to Monza. Napoli themselves drew 0-0 at home to Verona and Lazio beat Spezia 3-0 in...

Matchday 29 of Serie A wasn’t quite as action packed as some of those that came before it, but we saw plenty of twists all the same over the Easter weekend. At the top, Napoli won narrowly at Lecce and Lazio beat Juventus in a great game in Rome. AC Milan slipped up at home to Empoli, as did Inter at Salernitana, and Atalanta lost to Bologna. AS Roma took advantage to go third by beating Torino aw...

There was one particularly stunning result in Serie A on Matchday 28 which saw AC Milan win 4-0 away at runaway league leaders Napoli.  That is where much of the focus lies but with all of the other teams chasing a Champions League place also winning except for Inter, we look at how long Simone Inzaghi has likely got left in the job.  It was an undramatic set of wins for Atalanta, AS Rom...

It was a truly historic and emotional night in Rome for all those connected with AS Roma and Italian women’s football on Tuesday. The Giallorosse played host to the mighty Barcelona in their first-ever Women’s Champions League knockout round, and they did so in front of an incredible crowd of 39,454 fans. On the pitch, it ended 1-0 to the Liga F leaders but Alessandro Spugna’s side put in a superb...

It was a weekend of huge derbies in Serie A, and both Lazio and Juventus were celebrating wins over their respective rivals AS Roma and Inter on Matchday 27, coming out on top in the Derby della Capitale and the Derby d’Italia.  Things got heated in both of those games on Sunday, finishing off a good weekend of Serie A action that saw Napoli extend their lead at the top to 19 points and putti...

Napoli’s lead at the top of the Serie A table has again extended and is up to 18 points after Matchday 26, with just about everybody else at the top of the table dropping points. Napoli took care of business with an impressive 2-0 win over Atalanta.  Inter stumbled to a shock loss away at Spezia to open the Matchday 26 action, Lazio were held to a goalless draw at Bologna, Sassuolo beat AS Ro...

Matchday 25 of Serie A proved to be full of twists and surprise results as runaway leaders Napoli lost to an excellent Lazio, in-from Juventus fell to defeat at AS Roma, and a recently resurgent AC Milan were beaten on the road at Fiorentina. Fortunately, we’re here to talk through it all and attempt to make sense of it. We had Alasdair Mackenzie at the Olimpico to see Roma’s defeat of Juventus, A...

Serie A produced another fun weekend in Matchday 23, and for nobody more so than runaway leaders Napoli who won at Sassuolo on Friday night and were able to enjoy their weekend safe in the knowledge that their 15-point lead at the top would not be shortened. Conor Clancy, who was at Sassuolo 0-2 Napoli, hosts Kevin Pogorzelski, Euan Burns and Vito Doria for this week's pod. The guys discuss the ch...

After another weekend of fun in Serie A, the pod is back to chat through the best bits - and the worst bits - of Matchday 22 as Napoli continue to storm their way toward their first Scudetto since the days of Diego Maradona. The leaders beat a still-winless Cremonese at the Maradona, and AC Milan even got a win themselves! Atalanta beat Lazio to take advantage of AS Roma's slip at Lecce as well. T...