Continuing my weekly article inspired by Gazzetta dello Sport, here are the performances of all Italian players operating in foreign European leagues.

Based on Gazzetta’s info, there are currently 24 Italians playing in first divisions abroad, and 15 of them stepped on the field this week-end.

The table below includes the team the player belongs to, their opponents for the week, the number of minutes they played, their contribution (goal, assist), and the final score of the game.
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ENGLAND
Player	Team	Opp.	mins.	Contrib.	Score
Rolando Bianchi	Man City	Sunderland	(bench)	/	0-0
Carlo Cudicini	Chelsea	@Wigan	(bench)	/	2-0
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SCOTLAND
Massimo Donati	Celtic	@Kilmarnock	(bench)	/	2-1
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GERMANY
Luca Toni	Bayern M.	Eintracht Fra.	90	/	0-0
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SPAIN
Fabio Cannavaro	Real Madrid	@Sevilla	90	/	0-2
Giuseppe Rossi	Villareal	@Atl. Madrid	45	1 goal	4-3
Christian Abbiati	Atl. Madrid	Villareal	(bench)	/	3-4
Gianluca Zambrotta	Barcelona	Betis	75	/	3-0
Enzo Maresca	Sevilla	Real Madrid	(injd.)	/	2-0
Morgan De Sanctis	Sevilla	Real Madrid	(bench)	/	2-0
Emiliano Moretti	Valencia	@Mallorca	90	/	2-0
Stefano Sorrentino	Recreativo	@Ath. Bilbao	90	/	0-2
Marco Storari	Levante	Almeria	90	/	3-0
Bruno Cirillo	Levante	Almeria	60	/	3-0
Damiano Tommasi	Levante	Almeria	90	/	3-0
Christian Riganò	Levante	Almeria	90	3 goals	3-0
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FRANCE
Fabio Grosso	Lyon	Valenciennes	90	/	2-0
Flavio Roma	Monaco	@Rennes	90	/	1-0
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HOLLAND
Graziano Pellè	AZ Alkmaar	NEC Nijmegen	(bench)	/	4-0
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BELGIUM
Roberto Mirri	Mons	Cercle Brügge	90	/	0-2
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SWITZERLAND
Stefano Razzetti	St. Gallen	@Neu. Xamax	90	/	1-1
Andrea Guatelli	FC Zürich	Sion	(bench)	/	4-1
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UKRAINE
Cristiano Lucarelli	Shakhtar D.	Met. Donetsk	60	/	1-0
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RUSSIA
Ivan Pelizzoli	Lok. Moscow	Krylya Sovet.	(bench)	/	1-3

Heroes of the week

This week the best performances come from La Liga in Spain (since Luca Toni is experiencing a goal drought, off the scoreboard for 3 consecutive games now).

Levante certainly isn’t doing very well in the Spanish league, last in the Liga rankings with 4 points in 11 games. This week though, the Valencian club had its short moment of glory as they beat Almeria (another struggling club) by 3 goals, all courtesy of ex-Fiorentina player Christian Riganò.

Meanwhile Giuseppe Rossi is still leading the ‘Pichichi’ charts, thanks to another goal against Atletico Madrid this week-end. The Italian striker is now tied for 1^st spot with Lionel Messi, Sergio Agüero, and Luis Fabiano, but may very well see his ranking plummet over the next month because of a nasty knee injury sustained during the match. Rossi is expected back within 6 weeks. 

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