# 2017–18 Genoa CFC season

The 2017–18 season was Genoa Cricket and Football Club's eleventh consecutive season in Serie A. Having finished 16th the previous season, the club managed to improve on its league position, finishing 12th in Serie A, while they were eliminated in the Coppa Italia by eventual champions Juventus.

## Players
### Squad information

    As of 31 January 2018
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | ITA | Mattia Perin (captain) |
| 2 | DF | ARG | Nicolás Spolli |
| 3 | DF | ARG | Santiago Gentiletti |
| 4 | MF | GHA | Isaac Cofie |
| 5 | DF | ITA | Armando Izzo |
| 8 | MF | ITA | Andrea Bertolacci (on loan from Milan) |
| 10 | FW | ITA | Gianluca Lapadula (on loan from Milan) |
| 11 | MF | MAR | Adel Taarabt (on loan from Benfica) |
| 13 | DF | ITA | Luca Rossettini |
| 13 | DF | ITA | Davide Biraschi |
| 15 | MF | SWE | Oscar Hiljemark |
| 16 | FW | BUL | Andrey Galabinov |
| 18 | DF | ITA | Francesco Migliore |
| 19 | FW | MKD | Goran Pandev |
| 20 | DF | ITA | Aleandro Rosi |
| 21 | MF | CRO | Petar Brlek |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 22 | MF | SRB | Darko Lazović |
| 23 | GK | ITA | Eugenio Lamanna |
| 30 | MF | ITA | Luca Rigoni |
| 33 | DF | FRA | Loïck Landre |
| 38 | GK | CZE | Lukas Zima |
| 40 | MF | BEL | Stéphane Oméonga |
| 44 | MF | POR | Miguel Veloso |
| 45 | FW | POR | Iuri Medeiros (on loan from Sporting CP) |
| 49 | FW | ITA | Giuseppe Rossi |
| 74 | FW | ITA | Eddie Salcedo |
| 87 | DF | BIH | Ervin Zukanović (on loan from Roma) |
| 93 | MF | URU | Diego Laxalt |
| — | DF | POR | Pedro Pereira (on loan from Benfica) |
| — | MF | ITA | Daniel Bessa (on loan from Verona) |
| — | DF | MAR | Jawad El Yamiq |
| — | DF | ITA | Antonio Candela |

## Transfers
### In

| Date | Pos. | Player | Age | Moving from | Fee |
| 9 July 2017 | DF | Nicolás Spolli | 34 | Unattached | Free |
| 18 August 2017 | DF | Luca Rossettini | 32 | Torino | €2M |
| 4 December 2017 | FW | Giuseppe Rossi | 30 | Unattached | Free |

#### Loans in

| Date | Pos. | Player | Age | Moving from | Fee | Notes |
| 11 July 2017 | DF | Ervin Zukanović | 30 | Roma | Loan | Loan with an obligation to buy |
| 15 July 2017 | MF | Andrea Bertolacci | 26 | Milan | Loan | |
| 18 July 2017 | FW | Gianluca Lapadula | 27 | Milan | Loan | Loan with an obligation to buy |

### Out

| Date | Pos. | Player | Age | Moving to | Fee | Notes |
| 27 June 2017 | DF | Lucas Orbán | 28 | Unattached | Free | Contract termination |
| 1 July 2017 | DF | Nicolás Burdisso | 36 | Torino | End of contract | |
| 1 July 2017 | MF | Olivier Ntcham | 21 | Manchester City | Loan return | |
| 20 July 2017 | FW | Mauricio Pinilla | 33 | Unattached | Free | Contract termination |
| 16 August 2017 | FW | Giovanni Simeone | 22 | Fiorentina | €15M | €15M + €3M in bonuses |
| 27 January 2018 | FW | Pietro Pellegri | 16 | Monaco | €25M | |

#### Loans out

| Date | Pos. | Player | Age | Moving to | Fee | Notes | Source |
| 31 August 2017 | MF | Oscar Hiljemark | 25 | Panathinaikos | Loan | Loan with an option to buy | |

## Competitions
### Serie A
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 10 | Sampdoria | 38 | 16 | 6 | 16 | 56 | 60 | −4 | 54 |
| 11 | Sassuolo | 38 | 11 | 10 | 17 | 29 | 59 | −30 | 43 |
| 12 | Genoa | 38 | 11 | 8 | 19 | 33 | 43 | −10 | 41 |
| 13 | Chievo | 38 | 10 | 10 | 18 | 36 | 59 | −23 | 40 |
| 14 | Udinese | 38 | 12 | 4 | 22 | 48 | 63 | −15 | 40 |
* 1 2 Chievo finished ahead of Udinese on head-to-head points: Chievo 1–1 Udinese, Udinese 1–2 Chievo.

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 20 May 2018. Source: Competitive matches

#### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 |
| Ground | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H |
| Result | D | L | L | L | D | L | L | W | D | L | L | L | W | D | W | L | D | W | D | W | L | L | W | W | W | L | W | L | L | D | D | W | L | W | L | L | L | L |
| Position | 10 | 12 | 16 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 17 | 14 | 16 | 19 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 15 | 16 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 12 |

#### Matches
### Coppa Italia
## Statistics
### Appearances and goals

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Serie A | Serie A | Coppa Italia | Coppa Italia |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Goalkeepers ||||||||||
| 1 | GK | ITA | Mattia Perin | 38 | 0 | 37 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 23 | GK | ITA | Eugenio Lamanna | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 38 | GK | CZE | Lukáš Zima | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Defenders ||||||||||
| 2 | DF | ARG | Nicolás Spolli | 22 | 0 | 20+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | ARG | Santiago Gentiletti | 7 | 0 | 3+1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | ITA | Armando Izzo | 16 | 1 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | DF | ITA | Luca Rossettini | 25 | 0 | 22+1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 14 | DF | ITA | Davide Biraschi | 26 | 0 | 20+3 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | ITA | Antonio Candela | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | DF | MAR | Jawad El Yamiq | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | DF | ITA | Francesco Migliore | 7 | 1 | 4+2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 20 | DF | ITA | Aleandro Rosi | 25 | 0 | 22+2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 32 | DF | POR | Pedro Pereira | 6 | 0 | 4+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 87 | DF | BIH | Ervin Zukanović | 31 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Midfielders ||||||||||
| 4 | MF | GHA | Isaac Cofie | 14 | 0 | 6+6 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | ITA | Andrea Bertolacci | 35 | 1 | 34 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | MAR | Adel Taarabt | 23 | 2 | 18+4 | 2 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 24 | MF | ITA | Daniel Bessa | 11 | 2 | 6+5 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | MF | ITA | Luca Rigoni | 24 | 2 | 19+4 | 2 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 40 | MF | BEL | Stéphane Oméonga | 21 | 0 | 6+13 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 44 | MF | POR | Miguel Veloso | 23 | 1 | 21+1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 45 | MF | POR | Iuri Medeiros | 11 | 2 | 7+4 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 88 | MF | SWE | Oscar Hiljemark | 15 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 93 | MF | URU | Diego Laxalt | 34 | 4 | 32 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Forwards ||||||||||
| 10 | FW | ITA | Gianluca Lapadula | 29 | 6 | 13+15 | 6 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 16 | FW | BUL | Andrey Galabinov | 22 | 3 | 13+8 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 19 | FW | MKD | Goran Pandev | 33 | 5 | 22+10 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| 22 | FW | SRB | Darko Lazović | 24 | 0 | 12+9 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 49 | FW | ITA | Giuseppe Rossi | 10 | 1 | 1+8 | 1 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 74 | FW | ITA | Eddie Salcedo | 3 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| Players transferred out during the season ||||||||||
| 9 | FW | ARG | Ricardo Centurión | 5 | 0 | 1+2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | ARG | Giovanni Simeone | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 17 | FW | ITA | Raffaele Palladino | 4 | 0 | 2+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | CRO | Petar Brlek | 7 | 0 | 3+2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 25 | MF | CHI | Thomas Rodríguez | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 27 | FW | ITA | Federico Ricci | 7 | 0 | 2+3 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 64 | FW | ITA | Pietro Pellegri | 7 | 2 | 3+3 | 2 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 99 | MF | SRB | Nikola Ninković | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Last updated: 20 May 2018 Source: Competitions

### Goalscorers

| Rank | No. | Pos | Nat | Name | Serie A | Coppa Italia | Total |
| 1 | 10 | FW | | Gianluca Lapadula | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2 | 19 | FW | | Goran Pandev | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 3 | 93 | MF | | Diego Laxalt | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 4 | 16 | FW | | Andrey Galabinov | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | 11 | MF | | Adel Taarabt | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | 24 | MF | | Daniel Bessa | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | 30 | MF | | Luca Rigoni | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | 45 | MF | | Iuri Medeiros | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | 64 | FW | | Pietro Pellegri | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 | 5 | DF | | Armando Izzo | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | 8 | MF | | Andrea Bertolacci | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | 9 | FW | | Giovanni Simeone | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | 18 | DF | | Francesco Migliore | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | 44 | MF | | Miguel Veloso | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | 49 | FW | | Giuseppe Rossi | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Own goal | Own goal | Own goal | Own goal | Own goal | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | 33 | 3 | 36 |
Last updated: 20 May 2018

### Clean sheets

| Rank | No. | Pos | Nat | Name | Serie A | Coppa Italia | Total |
| 1 | 1 | GK | | Mattia Perin | 12 | 0 | 12 |
| 2 | 23 | GK | | Eugenio Lamanna | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | 12 | 1 | 13 |
Last updated: 20 May 2018

### Disciplinary record

| No. | Pos | Nat | Name | Serie A | Serie A | Serie A | Coppa Italia | Coppa Italia | Coppa Italia | Total | Total | Total |
| 1 | GK | | Mattia Perin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | | Nicolás Spolli | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | | Santiago Gentiletti | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | | Armando Izzo | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | DF | | Luca Rossettini | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | DF | | Davide Biraschi | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | DF | | Francesco Migliore | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | DF | | Aleandro Rosi | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 32 | DF | | Pedro Pereira | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 87 | DF | | Ervin Zukanović | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | MF | | Isaac Cofie | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | | Andrea Bertolacci | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | MF | | Adel Taarabt | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
| 21 | MF | | Petar Brlek | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | MF | | Luca Rigoni | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 40 | MF | | Stéphane Oméonga | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 44 | MF | | Miguel Veloso | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 45 | MF | | Iuri Medeiros | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 88 | MF | | Oscar Hiljemark | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 93 | MF | | Diego Laxalt | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | FW | | Gianluca Lapadula | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | FW | | Andrey Galabinov | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | FW | | Raffaele Palladino | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | FW | | Goran Pandev | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| 22 | FW | | Darko Lazović | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | FW | | Federico Ricci | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 64 | FW | | Pietro Pellegri | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | 77 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 84 | 0 | 5 |
Last updated: 20 May 2018