Expansive football, end-to-end encounters and flurries of goals are not what you’d normally associate the Serie A with but the 2016-17 season has sprung a bit of a surprise.
The typical Italian football aficionado may not be too pleased that the tactical nous and defensive solidarity the league usually identifies with has slightly given way to the more mainstream aspect of the game; goals.
The country that brought the football world the gift of Catenaccio has this season delivered plenty of goals, quite a few of them in threes.
