🇮🇹 Five reasons to watch Serie A on OneFootball this weekend 📺 | OneFootball

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Padraig Whelan·22 August 2024

🇮🇹 Five reasons to watch Serie A on OneFootball this weekend 📺

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Serie A Made in Italy is available to watch LIVE with Serie A Pass on OneFootball to users in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Streams will be available to watch live on mobile and desktop, simply by tapping the match cards below or navigating to the Matches tab and following the on-screen instructions. All matches are also live-streamed on the OneFootball TV app, available on connected TVs from Apple TV, Google TV, Samsung, LG and Fire TV.


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The live stream will begin 15 minutes before kick-off.

We look at five reasons you cannot afford to miss any of the action on matchday two of the new season.


Perfect records on the line

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There has only been one matchday of the new Serie A season but already, there is little to separate sides.

Incredibly, only four of the 20 teams emerged from the opening weekend with a victory to start off – and two of them put those 100% records on the line this weekend.

Both Juventus and Hellas Verona kicked off with 3-0 victories, the Old Lady giving Cesc Fàbregas’s Como a rough welcome to the rigours of top flight football, while the Mastini stunningly thrashed Napoli in Antonio Conte’s first game in charge.

It is, of course, early days in the Thiago Motta era at Juventus but if he can replicate the kind of performances witnessed in leading Bologna to Champions League football last season, they’ll be captivating viewing – something that wasn’t always the case under Massimiliano Allegri.

But they’ll have to watch out for danger man Daniel Mosquera here, who last time out became the first Verona player to score a brace on his debut since the iconic Luca Toni 11 years ago.


Can Fonseca fix early issues?

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Milan’s opening game didn’t go to plan as they needed to mount a stirring late revival to come back from the brink at home to Torino and rescue a point – something that didn’t look likely on 89 minutes at 2-0 down.

Individual errors, giving up too many chances to opposition forwards and a lack of ruthlessness in front of goal were problems which plagued last season and were on show again last weekend.

They will have the opportunity to put things right on Saturday evening when they travel to Parma, whose presence in the top flight is always welcomed.

Attention now turns to ensuring that new coach Paulo Fonseca can bed Álvaro Morata, Youssouf Fofana, Emerson Royal and Strahinja Pavlović in as quickly as possible, with none of them starting last week and only the Spaniard appearing (and scoring) off the bench.

There’s no better place to get back on track and see what Milan’s shiny new toys have to offer.


Will Conte get a response?

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To say that Antonio Conte was angry in the wake of Napoli’s surprise 3-0 loss in Verona during his debut in the dugout would be an understatement.

“After [the first goal] we melted like snow in the sun. What I feel like saying is that we should apologise to the Neapolitan supporters, who follow us with such passion,” Conte told reporters in the wake of the defeat the Bentegodi.

“I humbly apologise. The second half was unacceptable. It shows we need to work hard in every aspect. The problems we have must be faced head-on but they aren’t necessarily easy to fix.”

They welcome Bologna, who registered more xG (3.25) than any other team on matchday one of the big five leagues (but scored just once) as Conte aims to bounce back from losing his first match of the season in Serie A for the first time in his career.

If he doesn’t see swift improvement, expect more interesting soundbites to follow…


Lautaro’s long wait must end

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Whisper it quietly but Inter captain Lautaro Martínez is going through a bit of a drought in front of his own fans.

He hasn’t scored in his last five Serie A games at San Siro, last finding the net there against Atalanta back in February.

Only once before in the Italian top flight has the Argentina international had a longer barren spell on home turf, when he went 11 games without a goal between January and September in 2019.

But Lecce will provide the perfect opposition to celebrate under the Curva Nord once more, with Inter winning all four of their games against them in the past two seasons, scoring 10 and conceding just once in that span.

It would also be the ideal occasion for him to enjoy inking his new contract in front of his adoring public.


Will Roma’s new look attack click?

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Nobody can say Daniele De Rossi doesn’t have some exciting attacking talent at his disposal.

In their opening game, captain Lorenzo Pellegrini featured just behind new boys Matias Soulé and Artem Dovbyk. Paulo Dybala, Tammy Abraham and Stephan El Shaarawy all appeared off the bench.

And yet, they could only leave Sardinia with a scoreless draw against Cagliari to show for all of those avenues to goal in their arsenal.

Dybala is now on the brink of leaving for Saudi Arabia which ups the ante for Dovbyk and Soulé to justify the considerable fees that were forked out for their services when Empoli visit the Stadio Olimpico this weekend.

The good news for the Giallorossi in that regard? On the Tuscans’ visit there last season, Roma inflicted their heaviest ever Serie A loss on them in a 7-0 victory.