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 17 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	M’Boro	(injd.)	/	3-1
Carlo Cudicini	Chelsea	@Bolton	(bench)	/	1-0
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SCOTLAND
Massimo Donati	Celtic	@Gretna	80	/	2-1
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GERMANY
Luca Toni	Bayern M.	@Nürnberg	90	2 goals	3-0
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SPAIN
Fabio Cannavaro	Real Madrid	Recreativo	90	/	2-0
Giuseppe Rossi	Villareal	@Osasuna	90	1 goal	2-3
Christian Abbiati	Atl. Madrid	@Barcelona	90	/	0-3
Gianluca Zambrotta	Barcelona	Atl. Madrid	(injd.)	/	3-0
Enzo Maresca	Sevilla	Deportivo	(injd.)	/	0-2
Morgan De Sanctis	Sevilla	Deportivo	(bench)	/	0-2
Emiliano Moretti	Valencia	Espanyol	90	/	1-2
Stefano Sorrentino	Recreativo	@Real Madrid	90	/	0-2
Marco Storari	Levante	@Zaragoza	90	/	0-3
Bruno Cirillo	Levante	@Zaragoza	90	/	0-3
Damiano Tommasi	Levante	@Zaragoza	90	/	0-3
Christian Riganò	Levante	@Zaragoza	77	/	0-3
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FRANCE
Fabio Grosso	Lyon	@Bordeaux	90	/	3-1
Flavio Roma	Monaco	Nancy	90	/	1-3
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HOLLAND
Graziano Pellè	AZ Alkmaar	FC Groningen	45	1 assist	2-2
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BELGIUM
Roberto Mirri	Mons	Z.Waregem	45	/	1-2
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SWITZERLAND
Stefano Razzetti	St. Gallen	Thun	90	/	0-4
Andrea Guatelli	FC Zürich	Neuch.Xamax	(bench)	/	1-0
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UKRAINE
Cristiano Lucarelli	Shakhtar D.	Karpaty Lviv	(bench)	/	3-0
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RUSSIA
Ivan Pelizzoli	Lok. Moscow	Zenit	90	/	1-0

Heroes of the week

This week the best performances come from Spain and (are you surprised?) Germany.

Giuseppe Rossi is building quite a name for himself in Spain. Villareal may have lost this week-end, but the young Italian scored 1 goal in the match vs. Osasuna which brings him to 3^rd rank in the Pichichi race, only 1 goal behind Lionel Messi. Stay tuned for a full article on the New Jersey native, to be published soon on Soccerlens.com.

Meanwhile Luca Toni, whom the German press has baptized ‘Luca Tori’ (a play on words with the German word ”Tor”, which means goal), scored another 2 in the Bundesliga thus bringing his total to 8 goals in 8 matches for Bayern. He’s currently tied with his buddy Miroslav Klose in the scorer rankings.

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