ESPN FC's Gab Marcotti discusses Juventus' win over Inter on penalty kicks in the Coppa Italia semifinals.
The rain came down in Milan in torrents as the Nerazzurri welcomed the Old Lady in the Coppa Italia. In fairness, 2016 has felt like a constant deluge for Roberto Mancini as the Milanese have struggled for form, creativity and goals. Juventus have been torrid opponents beating them 3-0 in the Coppa Italia in Turin and in the same stadium 2-0 in the Derby D'Italia on Sunday. Inter had to produce the impossible and what is more, they needed to offer up a performance.
The first half saw the Nerazzurri…
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ESPN FC's Gab Marcotti discusses Juventus' win over Inter on penalty kicks in the Coppa Italia semifinals.
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Inter Milan failed to offer much resistance in their 2-0 defeat at Juventus on Sunday.
Former Inter Milan president Massimo Moratti has accused the San Siro side of giving up in the club's 2-0 defeat at Serie A leaders Juventus on Sunday, and called the capitulation a recurring theme this season.
Inter didn't offer much resistance in a comfortable Juve win at the weekend, and continued their sudden drop in the league table on which they sat atop earlier in the campaign.
Moratti, now an honourary president of the team, criticised the attitude of his former club ahead of their second-leg…
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NYCFC's Andrea Pirlo shares his thoughts on his first MLS season, new manager Patrick Vieira and his expectations for the 2016 campaign.
Andrea Pirlo said he is in New York for the long haul after becoming attached to the anonymity he enjoys there.
One of the biggest names in European football, Pirlo has blended in among a crowd of leading American sports figures in the Big Apple, and he told the New York Times that the contrast to what he was used to back on the other side of the Atlantic is convincing him to settle in the States.
"Just being able to go out to dinner at the trendiest restaurants — in Italy,…
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Juventus boss Massmiliano Allegri believes the win over Inter was important as it ends Roberto Mancini's side's title persuit.

In 1854 Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote the poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" based on the ill-fated cavalry charge initiated by the English at the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War. Here approximately 600 soldiers attacked against an impossible position. Their fate that day has lived on in history.

Inter Milan have seemingly already embarked on their own poorly planned attack on the Coppa Italia and have already been decimated in the first leg of the semifinals vs. Juventus, however, unlike…
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CSL side Hebei China Fortune introduce new signings Ezequiel Lavezzi, Gael Kakuta, Ersan Gulum, Stephane Mbia and Gervinho. Former Paris Saint-Germain winger Ezequiel Lavezzi has said he could have joined Chelsea, Inter Milan or Manchester United instead of moving to China.
Lavezzi, 30, ended a three-and-a-half year stay in the French capital when he joined Hebei China Fortune late last month.
The Argentina international would have been out of contract at PSG in the summer and he has now said that he turned down several major European teams to pen a lucrative deal with the Chinese Super League club.
"I could have signed…
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Juventus boss Massmiliano Allegri believes the win over Inter was important as it ends Roberto Mancini's side's title persuit.
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ESPN FC's Gab Marcotti discusses Juve's win over Inter, keeping them top of Serie A for now, with Napoli hot on their tails. Inter Milan's sporting director, Piero Ausilio, has told his players that the time has come for them to show what they are made of, after letting him and the club down on Sunday.
Speaking for Inter boss Roberto Mancini, who had lost his voice, during the post-match interviews after the Nerazzurri's 2-0 defeat by Juventus on Sunday night, he took the opportunity to remind the team of their responsibility, demanding that they turn things around immediately.
"We want everybody to take a look at themselves…
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ESPN FC's Gab Marcotti discusses Juve's win over Inter, keeping them top of Serie A for now, with Napoli hot on their tails.
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After having lunch with Jose Mourinho, ex-Inter Milan director Bedy Moratti claims he is set to take over at Man United.

Champions League football; that was the goal. The fact that Inter Milan were still chasing the Scudetto before Christmas was more eyebrow raising than a Carlo Ancelotti special. Even so, since New Year's Day, the Nerazzurri have been in free fall, and outside of excellent games against Chievo and Napoli in Serie A and the Coppa Italia, their form has been poor. On Sunday in the Derby D'Italia, they had one last chance to grab third place by the throat, but a 2-0 defeat to Juventus leaves in doubt…
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