21 August 2008

Suspended Sissoko to miss League opener

Claudio Ranieri will have to do without Momo Sissoko for the first League game at Fiorentina. The Mali-born midfielder is the only Juventus player to be suspended; he pays for his sending off on the last day of Serie A last year, after he was booked twice during the 3-3 draw at Sampdoria.

Sissoko will thus have to sit out the game against Fiorentina, the team against whom he has scored his first (and so far only) goal in Italy.