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 23 Italians playing in first divisions abroad, and 18 of them stepped on the field this week-end (mostly in the Spanish league).

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	@Arsenal	15	/	0-1
Bernardo Corradi	Man City	@Arsenal	(stands)	/	0-1
Carlo Cudicini	Chelsea	Portsmouth	(bench)	/	1-0
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SCOTLAND
Massimo Donati	Celtic	Hearts	90	1 goal	5-0
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GERMANY
Luca Toni	Bayern M.	Hannover 96	28	1 goal	3-0
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SPAIN
Fabio Cannavaro	Real Madrid	Atl. Madrid	45	/	2-1
Christian Abbiati	Atl. Madrid	@Real Madrid	(bench)	/	1-2
Gianluca Zambrotta	Barcelona	@Racing S.	78	/	0-0
Enzo Maresca	Sevilla	Getafe	90	/	4-1
Morgan De Sanctis	Sevilla	Getafe	(bench)	/	4-1
Giuseppe Rossi	Villareal	@Valencia	77	1 goal	3-0
Emiliano Moretti	Valencia	Villareal	90	/	0-3
Stefano Sorrentino	Recreativo	Betis	90	/	1-1
Marco Storari	Levante	@Mallorca	90	/	0-3
Bruno Cirillo	Levante	@Mallorca	90	/	0-3
Damiano Tommasi	Levante	@Mallorca	90	/	0-3
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FRANCE
Fabio Grosso	Lyon	@Sochaux	90	/	2-1
Flavio Roma	Monaco	@Lille	injd.	/	1-0
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HOLLAND
Graziano Pellè	AZ Alkmaar	@Vitesse	26	/	0-1
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BELGIUM
Roberto Mirri	Mons	Lokeren	90	/	0-1
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UKRAINE
Cristiano Lucarelli	Shakhtar D.	T.Symferop.	90	2 goals	2-0
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RUSSIA
Ivan Pelizzoli	Lok. Moscow	Saturn	90	/	0-2

The most positive performances this week came from Giuseppe Rossi, scoring his first goal (on a penalty kick) for his new team Villareal (final score 3-0 vs. Valencia) and Cristiano Lucarelli, finally getting on the scoreline with his Ukranian team Shakhtar Donetsk.

In addition, it’s worth noting that Luca Toni and Massimo Donati are having one of their best career season starts. Toni has scored in every Bundesliga match of Bayern Munich so far, and was in for a repeat on day nº3 this week-end. Unfortunately, he had to be substituted just after his goal, due to a pulled muscle. Meanwhile in Scotland, Massimo Donati is rapidly becoming the heart of the Celtic midfield,  producing yet another man-of-the-match performance in their game vs. Hearts (easily won by the Glasgow team 5-0) and scoring a goal.

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