Andrea Ranocchia has suffered a knee injury
Inter Milan center back Andrea Ranocchia has suffered a knee injury that will keep him out of Italy’s European Championship qualifier from Slovenia and friendly match with Ukraine.
Ranocchia Andrea began to be an important player for Italy national team after the appointment of Cesare Prandelli as coach and also once with the transfer to Inter Milan. This injury is a loss for Italy but can be replaced because there are other quality Italian players.
The main favorite to take his place in the team is Leonardo Bonucci from Juventus Turino.
Those from Inter Milan still hoping that Andrea Ranocchia will recover for important match from the Serie A against rivals AC Milan.
Will Inter qualify in the quarters of the champions league?
Inter Milan will play tonight perhaps the most important game of the season, against Bayern Munchen.
Although Bayern are the favorites, playing at home and also have 1-0 from the first leg, Inter can return the result. Inter must win by 1 goal difference, but not 1-0 because at this scor the match will go into extratime.
After the weekend draw at Brescia, Inter players will want to prove that it was a mistake and they will be more motivated than ever.
Inter will also try to save Italian football, especially that Inter is the only team left in European Cups from Italy.
Inter Milan is the only Italian team left in European Cups
After all Italian teams who were in Europa League have disappointed, narrowly missing qualification in the latter stages of the competition, came the turn for teams which played in Champions League to disappoint the Italian fans.
Although they were favorites in their matches, Milan and Roma, failed to qualify in the Champions League quarterfinals.They were defeated by Tottenham Hotspur from England and Shakhtar Donetsk from Ukraine.
The only Italian team left in European Cups is Inter Milan. Everybody expects that Inter will save the Italian football from the shame and will qualify for the quarter-finals.
But things would not be so simple for Inter Milan. Although started as the owner of the trophy and also as big favorite for winning the trophy, Inter have disappointed the fans into the knockout round, losing with 1-0 at home against Bayern Munich. Everything will be decided next week in the 2nd leg, where Bayern starts with the first chance, but Italians hope that Inter will go through into quarters.
Inter Milan-Cagliari 1-0
Inter continue tracking their rivals AC Milan.
Inter managed to win the match against Cagliari with 1-0,through a goal scored by Italian defender Andrea Ranocchia from a clear offside position.In the 7th minute Kharja shoot, the ball was initially divert by one of Cagliari defenders and then the ball hit Andrea Ranocchia, and enter the net. Ranocchia was in clear offside position.
The referees have not noticed this gap and validated the goal, although Cagliari players have protested against the decision. Until the end of the game nobody scored and Inter won the match. After this decisive error in winning the three points, the Italian press began to call into question the influence of arbitration, especially as Inter Milan also benefited from referees.
Also AC Milan profited from a arbitrary decision as Robinho, the first Milan scorer touched the ball with his hand before putting the ball into the net.
After this match Inter remain at 5 points from Milan rivals who are on the first place.
Luca Castellazzi
Luca Castellazzi was born in 19 July 1975. Castellazzi started his youth career at Monza.
After that the italian goalkeeper played five years in Serie B and Serie C1 and serie C2 at some team with low reputation.
In 1999 he went to Brescia and after just 1 year Brescia promoted to Seria A. Castellazzi made his Serie A debut on 21 January 2001, against Vicenza Calcio.
In the next season he was the starting keeper for the Serie A team, but Castellazzi lost his place in the team in season 2002-2003 and he was loaned to Reggina and Catania. In season 2004-2005 he played all 38 Serie A games.
In summer 2005 after Brescia were relegated to Serie B, Castellazzi joined Sampdoria on a free transfer. At Sampdoria he played over 100 games during five years.
In june 2010 Castellazzi joined Inter Milan on a free transfer where he played only 10 games.