ITALY: Serie A

Parma deducted five points, Calaio given two-year ban for texting opponents



Emanuele Calaio has been banned for sending "suspicious" texts to Spezia players, while Parma start next term with a points deduction.

Parma will start the 2018-19 Serie A season with a five-point deduction along with a €20,000 fine as a result of player Emanuele Calaio - who has received a two-year ban - sending "suspicious" messages to Spezia players last term in what has been deemed attempted match fixing.

FIGC announced that the club would remain in Serie A after being promoted last season but they will start off the new season with a serious handicap. The club, who went out of business effectively and had to restart their journey back to the top in Serie D, achieved three back-to-back promotions but it appears their run of luck has come to an end.

The player involved, Calaio, reportedly sent messages to former teammates at Spezia, Filippo De Col and Claudio Terzi. He enquired about a potential lack of effort from the pair in an effort to secure the outcome of the game and Parma's return to the top flight. Parma won the game 2-0 and the messages were said to have been a joke by the club, who claimed the messages didn't "contain any sort of irregularity or malice", but the powers that be didn't seem amused.

Parma plan on appealing the five-point deduction that would possibly see them as favourites to return to the second division in one season.

C.Ronaldo will make his debut today! However Juventus will play away match against Chievo and I think that it is not going to be easy for them but we should goals. I would guess the result Juve 2-1, what do you think?

Always hard to expect someone from Serie A to score against Juventus. I think that Juventus could have big problems in the opening game and simple 0-1 result in their favor looks right to me.

Quite amazing that Chievo managed to make it 2-1, but a great comeback by Juve in the end

Yeah, we had a great time to watch such a game

Napoli-AC Milan, Juve-Lazio

We're in for a treat tomorrow. Napoli and Juve to come out with wins in my opinion

Bakayoko comes on for Milan. 10 minutes later his clearance leads into a Napoli goal. The guy cant catch a break lol

Unbelievable game. 2nd straight turnaround by Napoli against a big team. 0-2 down after 53 mins, now lead 3-2.

2' Roma 1-0 Atalanta
19' Roma 1-1 Atalanta
22' Roma 1-2 Atalanta
38' Roma 1-3 Atalanta
60' Roma 2-3 Atalanta
82' Roma 3-3 Atalanta

Another beautiful game between two top sides in Serie A

Serie A 2018-19 – AC Milan vs AS Roma Match Preview



Biggest clash of the weekend in Serie A. AC Milan take on Roma at San Siro. Milan will be looking to bounce back after losing their first game of the season to Napoli 3-2 after shockingly blowing a 2 goal lead meanwhile for Roma this is their third game and after a tough away win at Torino, they came back from 1-3 down to draw Atalanta 3-3. Already having played Torino, Atalanta and now facing Milan, you’d have to say this is an incredibly tough start for Roma.

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Man, Milan stole it right at the death. what a win

Roma had a 2-0 lead against Chievo and now it's 2-2. Wow Serie A has been entertaining this season

Ronaldo finally scores his first Juve goal

What a silly action from Douglas Costa. He got red card for spitting on his opponent face. I mean it's disrespectful action from him. Hope so he will be fined by Serie A and club.

Atalanta are in such horrible form and by the way what an incredible start for Spal being second atfer 4 games!

Douglas Costa Handed 4-Match Ban for Sassuolo Spitting Incident

Sassuolo to beat Empoli @2.10

Worth a look. Sassuolo been on fire at home while Empoli are a relegation candidate it seems

Nicely done, slow start but eventually turned it around. 4th straight time they put 3 past Empoli at home

Inter do love a late winner 😄