#2 Genoa 2011-12
Genoa went through four coaches over the course of the 2011-12 season but concluded the campaign with a fairly comfortable six-point cushion above the bottom three thanks to a potent attack that just about managed to balance out the league’s worst defence.
That season, Genoa conceded 69 goals, four more than any other team and a full 13 more than Lecce, the occupants of the final relegation place. But they scored 50 (1.32 per match), the 10th best record in the league and 10 more than any of the sides who went down.
Rodrigo Palacio earned himself a move to Inter Milan with 19 of those goals for a side who notched three 3-2 wins and one 5-3 defeat in a run of four matches through January into early February and were also on the end of a defeat to Inter in a nine-goal thriller at the start of April.
