Genoa last night insisted that a coach caught spying on local rivals Sampdoria while dressed in full camouflage gear was "acting entirely alone".
Leaders Milan are on a run of five straight wins in all competitons and face Sampdoria away tonight.
Results: Atalanta 0 1 Reggina, Cagliari 2 0 Napoli, Catania 2 0 Sampdoria, Genoa 0 1 Lazio, Juventus 1 1 Internazionale, Milan 5 1 Torino, Palermo 4 1 Bologna, Roma 3 2 Lecce, Siena 0 2 Chievo, Udinese 3 1 Fiorentina.
He might just have won over one or two new admirers by scoring the winner against Sampdoria on Tuesday, in a game that otherwise might easily have finished as a goalless stalemate between uninspired teams.
Sassuolo do still find themselves joint-last in the table, moving level with Sampdoria after their previous fellow basement-dwellers, Catania, got their first win of the campaign at home to Chievo.
Results: Lazio 0-2 Genoa, Livorno 1-0 Atalanta, Milan 0-2 FioreNapoli Napoli 2-1 Catania, Parma 0-1 JuventuSampdoriaria 3-4 Sassuolo, Torino 1-1 Roma, Udinese 0-3 Inter, Verona 2-1 Cagliari.
The 36-year-old signed off for the season in style, scoring a hat-trick and hitting the woodwork during Udinese's 3-3 drawithth Sampdoria on Saturday.
Adel Taarabt had already scored on his Milan debut against Napoli and followed up with his second goal for the club on Sunday – providing the opening strike in an impressive 2-0 victory away to Sampdoria.
A goalkeeping coach for the Genoa youth team, he had been caught by city rivals Sampdoria attempting to spy on one of their senior training sessions.
Nobody has done more, meanwhile, to shore up the defence than Campagnaro, a player who has followed Mazzarri from Sampdoria, to Napoli, to Inter.
How can I leave?" Sampdoria coach Sinisa Mihajlovic continued his run of literary allusions in pre-match press conferences, previewing their game against Verona in March with a pledge to "chuck Juliet from her balcony".
