Serie A, the precedents with two teams in the lead on equal points

Five days at the end of the championship, two teams at the top. Inter and Naples command the ranking at 71 To find the only precedent in Serie A we have to go back until 1964, when Bernardini’s Bologna imposed himself on the Nerazzurri of Herrera. But how many times in the history of our football two formations have found themselves with the same points to five shifts from the end? Spoiler: two … and a half.

Juve and the bull

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The last precedent is that of the 1971/72 season. It was another Serie A: 16 teams, two points in Vittoria. The Inter -champion Inter found himself dealing with a Juventus revolutionized by President Boniperti. After the premature death of peaks, the number one of the bianconeri entrusted the bench to Cestmír Vycpalek: Zeternal uncle of Zeman. He had played in Turin in ’46, he had returned to train the youth. At the beginning of the year someone who knew the environment well was needed, he was chosen. In the group, the young Causio and Bettega had the team, the team closed the first leg of winter champion keeping Rocco’s Milan at a distance and the Cagliari di Riva. Then five days from the end the surprise Turin completed the attachment to the top. And the next round also took the first place alone. They were the grenades led by Giagnoni with the emerging halls and Pulici. The group, however, did not hold the impact, collapsed against Milan at San Siro on the 27th day and delivered the Scudetto to Juventus to the advantage of a single point after the peer with Fiorentina at 180 ‘from the end. For Mr. Vycpalek it was a bitter triumph, a few days after the victory in Punta Raisi’s air tragedy, his son Cestmir Junior died. The title was dedicated to him.

The triumph of the bolt

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The Almanac of Serie A and the black and white images give us the other precedent of a championship so fought a few days after the end. That of 1953/54, of the Inter of Foni and the trident pronounced by heart: Skoglund, Nyers, Lorenzi. Also of the Nerazzurri bolt, so criticized, yet winning: he had dragged the team to the title even the year before. Throughout the season it was three fight together with Juventus and Fiorentina. The Bianconeri tried to make his way with the goals of the Italian-Argentino Ricagni, while the Viola flew with the new Swedish purchase Gren. Indeed, on January 17 the three formations divided the title of winter champion. In the second half of the season, however, the real confrontation will only be with the bianconeri. In the direct confrontation of April 4, the Nerazzurri imposed themselves 6-0: the wider victory in the derby in Italy. The 4-2 against Triestina in the last round delivered the seventh title – and the second in a row – at Inter. The bolt was served.

Turone’s goal

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Leafing through the historical pages of Serie A, there is another curiosity that immediately jumps to the eye. In 1980/81 to fight for the Scudetto when there are 450 ‘in the end there are three teams with the same points: Naples, Juventus and Rome. It is a championship marked by the Totonero scandal, without Milan and Lazio. Revolutionized by the opening of the borders: after 14 years the Italian clubs return to be able to register a foreigner in the squad. The bianconeri rely on the Irish Brady, the Giallorossi have bomber prugs. The Dutch Krol landed in Naples. The fate of the season change on May 10th at the Turin Municipal: Juve is first at 39, Roma behind 38. That game, finished without goals, will go down to the story for Turone’s goal: was there, wasn’t there? The referee Bergamo canceled him after the reporting of the assistant Sancini. Among the controversies of Liedholm and Trapattoni’s doubts. The fact is that the bianconeri passed Napoli in the subsequent direct clash by taking the nineteenth title. With the approval of Turone.