Juve and Inter out of the top 5 after 10 days: it hadn’t happened for 55 years

1995-96 season, ninth day. Inter were stopped in Marassi at 0-0 by Sampdoria, Juventus fell in Udine, beaten by a goal by Oliver Bierhoff. The classification sees the protagonists of the Derby d’Italia out of the top five: Nerazzurri even eleventh to 9 points from the leading pair formed by Milan and Parma, bianconeri seventh at -6.

At the end of the championship the championship will go to the Diavolo of Fabio Capello, that of Weah and the last Donadoni, with a wide margin (8 points) over Lippi’s Juve, while Inter who saw Ottavio Bianchi, Luis Suarez and Roy Hodgson alternate on the bench , will close in 7th place. That was the last season which, after nine days, saw a ranking without Juventus and Inter players in the top five. Until this year.

Parma and Fiorentina

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Even then in the magnificent five there were Milan (20 points), Lazio and Napoli (both at 16). In place of Atalanta and Udinese, currently second and third respectively, in 1995 there were Parma (20) and Fiorentina (18). The Friulians were there, one step away, sixth with one point behind Naples and Lazio, with the Bergamo players eighth at an altitude of 14. Three then managed to close the championship in the same band: Milan, as said tricolor, Lazio (third) and Fiorentina (fourth), with the inclusion of Juve (second) and Roma (fifth), who took the place of Parma (sixth) and Naples, even slipped to 12th place. Last year the Milan-Napoli duo were in the lead with 25 points, followed by Inter at 18, Rome at 16, Fiorentina, Juve and Atalanta at 15. At the end of the season, as in ’95 -96, the championship Rossoneri, and the first five completed by Inter, Napoli, Juventus and Lazio.

to the tithe

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Given that between the fifth of the current standings, for goal difference Milan, which have 20 points like Udinese and Lazio, and Inter (15) and Juve (13), there are more than three points, we can already say that not even in the tenth day we will find the two big names in the top 5. And then we have to go further back to find a season in which after 900 minutes neither of them occupied one of the top five squares, given that in the aforementioned ’95 -96 in the tenth place Juve went up to the fifth placed in cohabitation with Napoli thanks to the one to zero on Fiorentina signed by a header by Alex Del Piero. Almost to football “prehistory”, or the 1967-68 championship. At the time the ranking was in tenth place: Milan and Napoli 13 (obviously two points were awarded for the victory), Varese, Turin and Rome 12. Juventus and Inter were paired in eighth place with 8 points. After the 30 days of that 16-team championship, the tricolor went to the Rossoneri (recurring theme …) of Nereo Rocco, dragged by Rivera, Prati, Sormani, Anquilletti, Schnellinger, Lodetti, also winners of the Cup Winners’ Cup thanks to the 2-0 against Hamburg in the final in Feyenoord with a brace from Hamrin.

Juve finished third, Inter fifth. From now until the end of May, the road is still long, but in the meantime a page in the history of our football has already been written. Fifty-five years without the two queens in the top 5 after 10 days are not few.