27-09-2007 Serie A Betting - Matchday 6 Preview

This weekend’s Serie A action is dominated by the clash between the league’s top two teams, champions, Inter Milan, and current leaders, Roma. The game has been moved to 5.00pm (GMT) on Saturday in recognition of the special significance and potential for crowd trouble. The fixture will certainly provide a fantastic spectacle for fans of Italian football, and intriguing prospect for bettors. As ever PinnacleSports.com will be offering up to 60% better Serie A betting odds on this and all the weekend’s game.

Favourites for Scudetto Clash in Rome

Roma’s domestic form from the end of last season, through to the start of this campaign, lends weight to the suggestion that they are now Italy’s most progressive football team, ahead of Scudetto holders, Inter Milan, who visit the Stadio Olimpico on Saturday. The Giallorossi overwhelmed Inter Milan in the two-legged in the Coppa Italia last term, defeated them in the Super Cup in August, and came out on top in the sides’ last league meeting.

European Golden Boot winner, Francesco Totti, has carried on his fantastic form, with four goals in as many games. The pivotal playmaker, is a doubt however having missed the midweek draw at Fiorentina with a hamstring twinge. Roma will try to take advantage of an Inter side suffering injury and suspension problems contributing to defeat by Fenerbache in the Champions League, and two dropped points last weekend at Livorno. However, though Patrick Viera remains sidelined, defenders Cristian Chivu and Marco Materazzi are back in training, while Zlatan Ibrahimovic is the league’s top scorer, with seven goals.

Turin Derby Returns After Four Year Absence

Football fans in Turin are generally divided into two groups. Those born and bred in the city, supporting Torino, and those immigrant workers from Italy’s south, who arrived in the city to work for Fiat supporting Juventus, both owned by the Agnelli family. The Turin Derby was first played in 1906, with the last renewal being in the 2002/03 season, when Juve recorded a 6-0 aggregate score. Torino haven’t won any of the last nine meetings.

Juventus have made an inconsistent start to the season, though the recent draw away to Roma suggested they are capable of raising their game when required. Claudio Ranieri’s biggest problem is a deepening defensive crisis which leaves him without three first choice stoppers. The Old Lady are yet to keep a clean sheet, in common with the Maroons, who ended an amazing sequence of four consecutive Serie A score draws with a midweek defeat at Parma. Some have blamed their poor form on the pressure this fixture has generated, though injuries haven’t helped boss, Walter Novellino, who has now lost striker Roberto Stellone to thigh surgery.

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