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Hello and welcome back to another episode of Seria Spotlight, this is episode 85 and

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today I'm your host Matt, riding solo as Jake finds himself in Poland where he's watching

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Queens of the Stone Age throughout a torrential storm.

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Quite random, I've never heard him speak about Queens of the Stone Age before but hey, turns

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out he took a liking to them at the age of 28, who am I to stop him, I hope that I will

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be so enthusiastic and eager to learn about new things at the age of 28.

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This episode guys is the first of its kind on Seria Spotlight, I'm not here to bring

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you any news, rumors, updates or any special guests but rather to bring you guys our first

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Seria interactive quiz.

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So Jake and I put together some questions regarding Seria's 2022-2023 season which I

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will be asking each and every one of you in this episode.

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I give you 10 seconds to come up with an answer before I provide you with the correct one

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myself along with some further information and statistics.

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You can keep score and let us know how you've gotten on and as always let us know if you

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would like more episodes of this nature.

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One question that will not be included in this quiz guys is who scored the goal of the

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season this year?

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Because you've just heard it in our intro, it was Kvichak Varatskelya for his fantastic

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solo strike against Atalanta.

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The Georgian turned Ladea's defense inside out before rifling into the roof of the net

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to top off a magnificent debut season for Napoli, a season which brought so much joy

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to the Neapolitan's after they sealed their third scudetto in their history.

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Further to this guys, on behalf of Jake and myself, I would like to thank all of our listeners

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for helping us reach 10,000 downloads on Spotify, 11,000 TikTok followers and 1,000 Instagram

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followers.

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Whether you're a day one or you're new here, we appreciate you taking time out to listen

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to our work, we put a lot of hard work into this, so really truly guys, I do appreciate

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that we do appreciate it rather because Jake will literally kill me if I don't mention

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him in this podcast.

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So without further ado, let's get into it guys.

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Question number one, who was the only team to occupy first in Seria the season apart

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from Napoli?

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The answer to this one is Atalanta, they led the charts in matchday 4 and 5 after Napoli

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had drawn to Fiorentina and Lecce and the first 5 games of the season, whilst Atalanta

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had only dropped points to Milan where they came 1-1, therefore Atalanta were above Napoli

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in matchday 4 and 5.

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It was at that moment where Gianluigi Buffon got a little bit carried away and went on

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to say that Atalanta will go on until the end of the season and win the league, not

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only did they not win the league, Gianluigi my love but they finished in 5th place, not

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even in the top 4, they did have a much improved season from last season, however.

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So well done to whoever answered that question correctly, 9 to go.

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So question number two guys, who was the goalkeeper who had the most clean sheets this season

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inside of Seria?

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The correct answer for this is Lazio's very own Ivan Provedel who kept 21 clean sheets

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this season which is insane, considering that's a 55% clean sheet rate, he kept 8 clean sheets

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at home and he kept 13 clean sheets away from home.

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In second was Alex Maret with 16, in third for Czesne with 15, in fourth for Patricio

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with 13 and in fifth Vanya Milinkovic-Savic with 11 for Torino.

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It's very good to see a goalkeeper join from a smaller club like Spezia going all the way

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up to Lazio and doing so well for them, really solidifying that back line along with the

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new acquisitions they made as well with Ciasale and Romaniolli.

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But fantastic stuff, obviously he got the opportunity to play after Luis Maximiano got

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a red card 6 minutes into his debut and was never played again in Seria that season so

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a stroke of luck for Ivan Provedel but that did really give him the opportunity to prove

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himself as one of the league's finest goalkeepers.

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Moving on to question number 3 guys, who got the most assists in Seria this season?

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The correct answer for this is Napoli's very own Gvica Gvaratskelya who got 10 assists

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in his debut season in Seria.

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He was followed by another 5 individuals who each have 8 assists this season with Rafael

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Leo, Sergay Milinkovic-Savic, Musa Barrow, Piotr Ziellinski and Filip Kostich.

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I think it goes without saying that Gvica Gvaratskelya had an insane season this year,

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not only did he get those 10 assists but he also got 12 goals in Seria all in his debut

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season, fantastic stuff.

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Naturally it helps a little bit that someone like Viktor Ossimen is up front, finishing absolutely

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anything and everything that comes his way but they do make one hell of a partnership,

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one of the most dangerous partnerships in Seria.

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So if you're 3-4-3 at the moment guys, well done, I highly respect your ball knowledge,

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we are gonna turn it up a little bit and make it a bit more difficult for you guys.

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So here we go on to our fourth question, name the 4 Milan players who won a Goal of the

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Month award this season, who are they?

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They are Rafael Leo, Brahim Diaz, Alexis Salimacers and Theo Hernandez.

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It was Leo's solo goal against Inter in Milan's only win against Inter this season, it was

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a 3-2 win in the opening games of the season, he did score 2 that games but this one was

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his second goal in that game, it was a lovely solo run and a finish into the far post.

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Brahim Diaz for his goal against Juventus in Milan's 2-0 victory, he did the whole

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messy celebration over there, he took on literally the entire team, there was a loose ball I

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believe by Danilo, a very uncharacteristic error by him but Brahim Diaz capitalized,

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really sad boon for getting to see him in Serie A next year but hopefully he'll be ripping

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up in La Liga next year for Real Madrid.

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Salimacers scored a phenomenal goal when Milan ran rampant against Napoli with the

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score of 4-0, I remember the Arabic commentator was losing his absolute nut in this one,

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Salimacers, Salimacers, Salimacers, Salimacers, and rightly so I would have lost my nut too

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if I was the commentator for that game, brilliant stuff by Salimacers there.

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Teo Hernandez with another coast to coast goal, this season last season it was against

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Atalanta, this season it was against Lazio, he ran the full length of the pitch before

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just fucking firing the shot into the top corner from distance, beating, Providell,

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funnily enough you guys now know that he had the most clean sheets this season so no easy

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task for Teo Hernandez but yes those are the four of them guys, Leao, Brahim, Sally,

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and Teo Hernandez.

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Ok now with your 4-4-4 I'm starting to respect you a little bit more, we might have you on

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the podcast sometime soon but let's jump to question number 5, who is the only player

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in Serie A this season to have scored 2 hattricks?

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So it's not Ossimen, it's not Guevara, it's not Leao, it's not Lautaro, it is in fact

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Cope Miners, Atalanta's very own, he got a hattrick as Atalanta beat Torino, 3 goes

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to 1 and towards the end of the season when Atalanta beat Monza 5 goals to 2, quite random

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to come from midfielder but a very versatile midfielder, we see him playing as a Regista,

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as a track whiteista, as a box to box, he fits the mould anywhere and one thing he can keep

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is his eye for goal, he's a very intelligent player, he can read the game superbly and

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that means that at times much like for example Pasalic, we get to see him in goal scoring

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opportunities, he's always in space, he's always available and he's always reading

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the game, so amazing feat by Cope Miners, he scored 10 goals this season and 6 of those

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were made up in these two games.

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But we will move on now to question number 6, please name this Serie A manager who got

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sacked twice this season, not once but twice the poor fuck.

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The answer is Davide Nikola, the famous miracle worker who saved Salernetana from survival

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at the end of last season where Salernetana were lost for the majority of the season and

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then they overtook Venetia and then they overtook Calieri and it got really exciting from them

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and he actually did manage to build quite a formidable side and he even had a solid

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start with Salernetana this season.

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However after a slightly negative spell followed by a massive 8-2 defeat to Atalanta he was

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initially let go, however the 49 year old coach said he managed to convince club president

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Daniele Jervolino to rehire him during a phone call and he was officially rehired after

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two days.

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Now since Nikola was reappointed as the manager in January, Salernetana had won one and lost

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three in the league including defeat by relegation rivals Helas Verona which led to his second

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sacking in 31 days replaced by Paolo Sousa, the rest is history Paolo Sousa has done

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a fantastic job now for Salernetana, everything happens for a reason and all of that cornish

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shit.

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And if you guys are some of those people that worry about losing your jobs and stuff just

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look at Davide Nikola, I mean he seems fine no?

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He produced one of the best miracles that I've ever witnessed and say yeah and following

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that just a bit less than a year later he got sacked twice in the space of a month so

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life is full of ups and downs guys you just have to keep bouncing back and keep trying

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okay we move on to question number seven.

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Now this if you guys watch the podcast closely you know that Drake and I always struggled

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with this however we did get used to it towards the end of the season.

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All you have to do for this question is name five players who play for Cremonese.

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Okay so if you mentioned carne secchi, lasciò scvili vasques, chiriches, bonaiuto, meite,

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castagnetti, piquel, valeri, deses, ocareque, afenajan, sagiu, so on so forth you get the

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gist then you did get this question right if you missed any of those the chances are

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that you didn't mention their reserve players around the 21 so that is the list that you

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guys can work off of.

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Jake and I always really struggled when Cremonese affairs got promoted to pronouncing the player

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names I remember they had an attacking midfielder named Ascasibar which is when you think of

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it it's quite a sexy name but Jake and I just called him Ascasibar and he remained Ascasibar

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until I believe he left the club in January and they brought in some reinforcements with

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like sagiu for example and yeah Cremonese they fought until the very end and then but

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unfortunately all those losses that accumulated at the beginning of the season yeah they had

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accumulated towards the beginning of the season so there was absolutely nothing they could

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have done to turn the tide over there albeit they did try their best but we move on to

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question number eight I wonder how you guys are finding this if it's difficult if it's

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easy we went for like a medium difficulty for the first one and then we can assess according

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to how difficult you guys are finding it but question number eight guys all you have to

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do is name three English players in Serie A

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so if you did get this question right you are likely to have said Fikayo Tomori, Tammy

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Abraham and Chris Smalling which are the three most famous English players to play

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in Serie A however there are two more which you may have mentioned I don't know with Lewis

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Binks who plays for Bologna and Ronaldo Vieira who plays for Sampdoria so those are the five

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English players that played in Serie A this season hopefully you managed to guess at least

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three of them but we move on now to question number nine who was voted the best young player

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of the season in Serie A

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the answer is Juventus' 22 year old Italian central midfielder Niccolò Fagioli who came

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into the team alongside Miretti this season to deal with injuries and inconsistencies

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and he proved himself worthy to say the least he grabbed three goals and three assists throughout

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the season but it was more the impact he had on the fluidity of the team who had been struggling

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with their midfield for the majority of the past few seasons since their dip which is

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why they got Pares, which is why they brought in Pogba which is why they also brought in

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a player like Di Maria who can also link play very well through an attacking midfield position

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but Fagioli was thrown into the deep end last season he was on loan at Cremones and helped

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them get promotion to Serie A and this season he ended up playing quite a pivotal role in

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a very very difficult season for Juventus where you needed players with a strong character

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and a strong will to help the team get out of a situation that they find themselves in

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which was not easy for Juve players we saw some of them with the likes of Di Maria who

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in turn against the club during the season but then someone like Fagioli who was so loyal

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so helping so trusting for the team he managed to do a fantastic job for them so rightly so

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Nicola Fagioli is the best young player of the season in Serie A 2022-2023.

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On to the final question and we're kind of setting this up for the new season over here

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guys who are the three newcomers in Serie A next season?

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The answer for this is Frozinoe Genoa and Calliari Frozinoe who finished first in Serie

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A but last year under their manager at the time Fabio Grosso since they got promotion

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Fabio Grosso has agreed to move on from the club to take over another Serie A bird team

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in Sampdoria who just got relegated this season as well and they will be hiring apparently

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Eusebio Defrancisco so that's going to be quite interesting to see Defrancisco getting

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another shot in Serie A for a club like Frozinoe and obviously we wish Grosso the best of luck

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with Sampdoria and hopefully we'll be seeing them back in Serie A next year.

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Genoa got promoted with their manager Alberto Gilardino who decided to stay at the team

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and help them stay in Serie A next year.

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The Italian legendary striker all of us remember Alberto Gilardino especially for his days

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at Fiorentina and Milan especially for that goal for Milan against Manchester United to

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see LaTreda victory.

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Very exciting stuff guys to see such a legend in Serie A next year as a manager and Calliari

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obviously they got promoted through the playoffs after defeating Bari in the final thanks to

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the Tinker man Claudio Ranieri who also seems to be staying on for another season in Serie

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A for him.

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Ok so that's the end of this episode our first interactive quiz do let us know how you got

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on whether or not you're fans of this segment and how you felt about the difficulty of the

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As always we will be back next week with another one of our weekly episodes with more

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for the next episode we will be seeing you then.

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Take care.