Coppa Italia 2012-13; Third Round – Fiorentina v Novara
By: slakas | August 17th, 2012
La Viola’s fight for The Coppa Italia and the Coccarda starts this weekend.
Meaningful games are here as the Third Round of the 65th edition of the Coppa Italia, now known as the TIM cup, starts this weekend as Novara comes to the Franchi Saturday at Noon Eastern Time.
Winners of the tournament get a trophy and the right to wear a tri-color cockade, or Coccarda, on their jersey, as well as an invitation to the Europa League, assuming that the winner doesn’t qualify for that tourney, or the Champions League, by way of League finish.
The format is knock out with a single match at each stage, until the semi-finals, which are two legged, home and away. Until 2007-2008, the final was also two legged, but now is a single match at Stadio Olimpico in Rome.
History
The Coppa was first held in 1922, but was not held again until 1935-36. The inaugural winner was F.C. Vado, who defeated Udinese. Since that time, the most prolific winners have been AS Roma and Juventus, each with 9 trophies, followed by Internazionale with 7 victories.
Our Viola are fourth on the list of most victories, having lifted the Cup 6 times, in 1940, 1961, 1966, 1975, 1996 and 2001, respectively. Fiorentina have reached the Finals 3 other times, in 1958, 1960, and 1999 and lost in the Semi finals 9 times, in 1936, 1964, 1971, 1972, 1976, 1978, 1985, 1986, and 2010.
Fiorentina’s first win in 1940 was over Genoa. In 1961, they beat Lazio. 1966 was a victory over Catanzaro and 1975 was a match up with AC Milan.
In 1995–96, Fior beat Atalanta with a goal from Batistuta at the Franchi and two goals at Atalanta, the first from Lorenzo Amoruso and another from Batigol, as La Viola won the Coppa with a 3-0 aggregate.
Fiorentina’s most recent Coppa came in 2000-01. In the early stages, Fior beat Salernitana, Brescia and Milan, before advancing to the Final against Parma. The first leg was played at Stadio Ennio Tardini, and Fiorentina won that 1-0, with a goal from Paolo Vanoli. The return leg at the Franchi ended 1-1, with Parma striking first to even up the aggregate with a goal from Savo Milošević a few minutes before half-time. Parma held the lead until the 65th minute, when Nuno Gomes scored to put La Viola ahead on aggregate and win the Coppa.
This Weekend
This weekends match up is against Novara at Stadio Artemio Franchi and will be officiated by Davide Massa.
Fiorentina, in their history, have played Novara in Serie A 24 times, with 11 wins, 7 losses and 6 draws. Novara have reached the final of the Coppa only once, in 1938-39 losing to Ambrosiana Inter. Fiorentina have never lost to Novara at the Franchi in league play, winning 8 times and drawing 4 others.
Fiorentina faced Novara twice last season in Serie A, the first, a 3-0 win at Novara, with 2 goals from Stevan Jovetic, one a PK, bracketing a goal from Riccardo Montolivo.
The return match up at the Franchi was a frustrating event for Viola fans as Fior came into the match fighting for Serie A survival and were down by 2 goals before the match was 30 minutes old.
Fireworks ensued as then coach Delio Rossi removed Adem Ljajic from the lineup. The young Serb, obviously disturbed by the removal had words with the coach and it degenerated into a brawl on the bench, which resulted in Rossi’s eventual firing. Two goals from Montolivo in the second half rescued the draw, and the point.
The result ensured relegation to Serie B for Novara, while Fiorentina went on to finish 13th, 10 points above the relegation zone.
Novara looks to have more problems this weekend as they have three defensive players out for injury and will have to field a patchwork lineup. The Tuscan heat might play a factor as well, as the forecast is predicting temperature over 100 degrees.
Probable Lineups
Novara (4-3-1-2) Bardi; Alborno, Lisuzzo, Ghiringhelli, Alhassan; Buzzegoli, Pesce, Marianini; Motta; Gonzalez, Piovaccari. Bench: Tonozzi, Sorrentino, Jensen, Faragò, Rubino, Libertazzi. Coach: Attilio Tesser
FIORENTINA (3-5-2): Lupatelli; Roncaglia, Nastasic, Rodriguez; Cassani, Valero, Pizarro, Aquilani, Pasqual; El Hamdaoui, Jovetic. Bench: Neto, Viviano, Hegazy, Olivera, Fernandez, Cuadrado, Lazzari, Romulo, Ljajic, Cerci Coach: Vincenzo Montella.
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Comments
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Totally missing this match, sounds awesome.
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2-0 final result…hahaha good ball possession from the lads, viola looks like man.city in some aspect in terms of the way they posses the ball, needs the tranquility in the opponent’s box….considering they are the new group so the game itself today was really satisfaction, altogether…forza viola
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Well Passarella did play for Fiorentina longer than any club besides River, we were linked with Funes Mori and Cirigliano before but it might just be a personal visit. Would like to see River and Fiorentina on good terms personally considering my own allegiances.
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Acosty and Seculin starting for Juve Stabia, De Silvestri and Munari on the field for Sampdoria
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can someone post a link for where the game is being shown
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which game? ours is over….
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Cesare Borgia would make a nice striker (Machiavelli humor).
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Juve stabia and sampdoria scoreless at the half
LDS with a yellow card. still 0-0 with about 15 minutes to go.Maxi lopez puts doria ahead, but Juve Stabia tie it up in stoppage.
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Damn. Samp score at the death, looks like it will finish 1-0
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nope, its in extra time
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Wow! Lets go Juve Stabia!!!
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start of the second extra time, still 1-1…
another Fior product, Daniel AGYEI came in for Juve stabia right before extra time.goes to penalties
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PKs to decide it…
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Juve Stabia wins the shootout 4-3, and will face Fiorentina at the Franchi this November!
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Seculin blocks Maxi Lopez to win it.
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That goal will do Ljaic’s confidence some good.
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Genoa crash out on penalties to Hellas Verona as well.
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working on review now, up later tonight…
Genoa crash out? Serie A is back.
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Nice, hopefully we can give some guys some rest on that November fixture now vs. Stabia!
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Seculin Agyei Acosty Iemello Carraro, it’ll be like Fiorentina vs Primavera
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Sounds like a good first competitive game of the season! Granted this was against a Serie B team but the fact that we handled the game the entire time like we should have really means a lot. A game like this last season would have been really tough for our team and it really shouldn’t be. Good for Ljajic! I think he will have a great season under Montella. And good for Pasqual! We haven’t scored on a free kick in a while.
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yeah, i wanted to watch our game but i got my times wrong and woke up too late, shame.
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Yeah it was just Serie B, but Genoa and Samp lost to Serie B teams.. so good job not screwing it up.
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