Parma Calcio 1913 - An Italian Journey

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April

The month does not make pretty reading. WE get off to a decent enough start against Trapani as we race to a 3-1 victory. In the Europa League Quarter final 1st leg Napoli they were just too much for us as Insigne gets the only goal of the game in the 55th minute. The 2nd leg will be tricky going away from home.

Our players seem to be suffering now we're getting to the end of the season and rotation is a must now to try and make it to the end in the Champion League spots. Against Sassuolo Caouto gets the only goal of the game to cost us 3 points. Next is the 2nd leg against Napoli. We get the only goal of the 90 minutes from the penalty spot from Almada to take the game to extra time. 6 minutes into extra time though Hirving Lozano got the breakthrough for Napoli to see them into the Semi Finals.

Next up in the league is Roma who again we take the lead from the penalty spot in the 27th minute through Almada and we looked good value for a big win until Veretout scores from the spot in the 80th minute before Under grabs the winner for Roma in the 85th minute. Out legs went and we couldn't get back on top.

Next is our first cup final against Lazio and they get off to an early start with Immobile getting the opener after 9 minutes. Varnier then pulls it back after 16 minutes. Marco Asensio then grabs a brace across 4 minutes to put Lazio in a very stong position. After giving the boys a bollocking at half time and Bettella gets the 2nd goal in the 51st minute. Things then look to be going our way as Marusic gets a red card in the 55th minute. We jut can't get the goal though as Lazio win the Coppa Italia.

I wouldn't of wanted to be the team who we played after the cup final as we absolutely smash Sampdoria with the big surprise being Cuenca who grabs 4 goals in the first half to double his tally for the season.

League

May

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May

The month gets off to an amazing start as we continue our fight for Champions League football and Moussa Wague gets the only goal of the game in the 30th minute with a well placed finish from outside the box. Next up is Juventus which was always going to be a tough game and we were extremely unlucky as Ronaldo was brought down in the box and converted the penalty to allow Juventus to leapfrog us in the table.

I wouldn't of wanted to be the team who faced us after playing Juventus as it was never going to be an easy game for them and boy did we take it out on Udinese. Esposito got a qucik fire brace with two well placed finishes in the 41st and 43rd minute. Tonali then gets in on the action in the 71st minute. Baro then adds another in the 78th minute before Almada finishes it all off in the 83d minute and this means we will be playing Champions League football next season which is massive.

Finally we then come up against Cittadella who are already relegated so we can change it up a bit to give other people a run out. It takes right up until the 44th minute for us to get the breakthrough as Vignato makes the breakthrough with a darting run off the right wing. Cuenca then gets a quick second in the 4th minute of injury time of the first half. Marin then puts us 3 ahead in the 59th minute with coming in on the left wing. We then get a bit complacent as they pull 2 goals back in the 64th and 73rd minute. It was a nervy final 17 minutes but we hold onto the win and get the 3 points.

League Table

End of Season

Budget

We use this budget straight away to make the signing of Esposito permanent. This does mean we will need to sell players though if we want to bring anybody else in.

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