Month: September 2020

Serie A team of the Week- Round 1- 2020/21 season | Italy

Italy’s Serie A kicked off over the weekend, and here’s a look at the team of the week after Round 1. Seven games were played, with three (Benevento-Inter, Lazio-Atalanta and Udinese-Spezia) postponed because Inter, Atalanta and Spezia all finished their 2019/20 campaigns late.

All seven games produced goals, with the highest scoring game being Genoa’s 4-1 win over Crotone. Napoli were the only away team to register a win (2-0 away at Parma), and have two representatives in this TOTW (Koulibaly and Lozano). The other teams were two representatives are Juve (Ronaldo, Bonucci) and Fiorentina (Biraghi, Castrovilli). The only player in the Team of the Week from a losing side is Torino goalkeeper Salvatore Sirigu.

Serie A Team of the Week GW 1 2020/21: Sirigu, Biraghi, Koulibaly, Bonucci, Faraoni, Locatelli, Badelj, Nandez, Cristiano Ronaldo, Castrovilli, Lozano

Serie A Team of the week Round 1

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Thiago Alcantara Pass Map vs Chelsea 2020 on Debut- Record for most passes in a half of football

Liverpool’s new signing Thiago Alcantara made his debut over the weekend against Chelsea, playing the second half after replacing Jordan Henderson at the interval. The Spaniard made 75 passes- a record for the highest number of successful passes made by a player in one half of football (45 minutes) since records began to be kept for the metric in 2003/04.

Thiago LFC debut- Thiago pass map vs Chelsea September 2020

Thiago Pass Map v Chelsea 2020

Thiago 75 passes breakdown- to whom did Thiago pass the most against Chelsea?

Thiago to Alexander Arnold- 14 passes
Thiago to Andy Robertson- 13 passes
Thiago to Mohamed Salah- 12 passes
Thiago to Wijnaldum- 8 passes
Thiago to Milner- 6 passes
Thiago to Fabinho- 5 passes
Thiago to Firmino- 5 passes
Thiago to Van Dijk- 5 passes
Thiago to Mane- 5 passes
Thiago to Naby Keita- 1 pass
Thiago to Minamino- 1 pass

Record for most successful passes in 45 minutes of football (Premiership)

Thiago set a new record for most passes in 45 minutes, beating the previous one held by Andreas Christensen

75 passes- Thiago Alcantara (Liverpool) vs Chelsea (September 2020)
66 passes- Andreas Christensen (Chelsea) vs Sheff Utd (July 2020)
62 passes- Jose Fonte (Southampton) vs Bournemouth (November 2015)
61 passes- Paul Pogba (Man Utd) vs Newcastle (December 2019)
61 passes- Yaya Toure (Man City) vs Stoke (October 2017)
61 passes- Paul Scholes (Man United) vs Blackburn (May 2011)

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