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

Based on Gazzetta’s info, there are currently 26 Italians playing in first divisions abroad, and 19 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	@Tottenham	32	1 goal	1-2
Carlo Cudicini	Chelsea	Sunderland	90	/	2-0
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SCOTLAND
Massimo Donati	Celtic	St. Mirren	(stands)	/	1-1
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GERMANY
Luca Toni	Bayern M.	Duisburg	76	/	0-0
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SPAIN
Fabio Cannavaro	Real Madrid	@Ath. Bilbao	90	/	1-0
Giuseppe Rossi	Villareal	Betis	(injd.)	/	0-1
Christian Abbiati	Atl. Madrid	Getafe	90	/	1-0
Gianluca Zambrotta	Barcelona	Deportivo	45	/	2-1
Enzo Maresca	Sevilla	Murcia	75	1 goal	3-1
Morgan De Sanctis	Sevilla	Murcia	1	/	3-1
Emiliano Moretti	Valencia	@Osasuna	90	/	0-0
Stefano Sorrentino	Recreativo	@Levante	90	/	2-0
Marco Storari	Levante	Recreativo	90	/	0-2
Bruno Cirillo	Levante	Recreativo	90	/	0-2
Damiano Tommasi	Levante	Recreativo	90	/	0-2
Christian Riganò	Levante	Recreativo	90	/	0-2
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FRANCE
Fabio Grosso	Lyon	@Caen	(bench)	/	0-1
Flavio Roma	Monaco	@Marseille	90	/	0-2
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HOLLAND
Graziano Pellè	AZ Alkmaar	Utrecht	83	/	2-1
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BELGIUM
Roberto Mirri	Mons	@GBA	90	/	0-2
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SWITZERLAND
Stefano Razzetti	St. Gallen	Aarau	90	/	2-2
Andrea Guatelli	FC Zürich	@Grasshoppers	(bench)	/	1-2
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POLAND
Stefano Napoleoni	Widzew Łódź	@Belchatov	90	/	1-3
Joseph Oshadogan	Widzew Łódź	@Belchatov	(stands)	/	1-3
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UKRAINE
Cristiano Lucarelli	Shakhtar D.	NEXT ROUND	IN	MARCH	/
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RUSSIA
Ivan Pelizzoli	Lok. Moscow	SEASON OVER	/	/	/

Heroes of the week

This week two goalscorers, one lucky and one not so much.

Let’s start with the lucky one. After a long spell on and off the bench, Enzo Maresca finally played his first game as starter and repaid the coach’s trust with a goal. A penalty kick goal, but a goal nonetheless which ended up being the game-winning-goal for Sevilla’s 3-1 victory to Murcia.

Meanwhile in the English Premier League, Rolando Bianchi wasn’t so lucky. In Man City’s away to Tottenham this week-end, the Italian striker came on in the 58th and immediately got on the scoreboard 3 minutes later. However unfortunately for Sven-Goran Eriksson’s team, Tottenham scored 8 minutes from the end to clinch the game.

A honorable mention should also go to Christian Abbiati, who has now become a regular starter at Atletico Madrid due to the injury to Leo Franco, and has made a few splendid saves in the week-end match to preserve Atletico’s win over Getafe.

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