Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A)

[Razmirraz]

After losing to Inter milan it looks like this will be a comeback for Napoli against Juventus later. They (Napoli) also just won against Sampdoria, this is also good capital for Napoli when they face Juventus later. Of course these two teams don't want to lose because they are both at the top of the standings and for Juventus if they lose this match it will make the distance with Napoli even further. The goal bets for both are very good, it is likely that these two teams will score goals against each other to achieve victory.

Juventus are not an easy opponent to beat like Sampdoria. Spalletti must mentally prepare his players to face a team that is unbeaten in 8 consecutive matches in Serie A, what's more amazing is that Juventus won 8 of these wins without conceding a goal.
Napoli benefits a little because of its status as a host, support from supporters can add to the sting of the players. Juventus also don't want to drop points, Allegri also wants to get a win to bring his team closer to Napoli.
The 7-point difference between Napoli and Juventus can still be trimmed if Allegri is able to bring home points from Napoli.

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[EdenHazard]

At the end of the matchday, everything went well for SSC Napoli. Napoli win 2:0 and get 3 points, both games of AC Milan and Inter Milan end in a 2:2 draw. Only Juventus get 3 points and are now on second place in the league. Juventus have a strong series of 8 won games behind them and whether this will continue in the coming weeks and Napoli will drop a few points? Currently 7 points ahead on matchday 17, there are still 63 possible points to be in 21 games.

7 points of advantage at a distance of 63 points is more than 10%. Juventus will not be able to win endlessly, they will also lose points (like Napoli, like Milan and other clubs), so these 7 points are almost a guarantee of the title. Moreover, with each game this advantage will increase - as you understand, 7 points of advantage at a distance of, say, 9 points (three games) is much more significant than at a distance of 21 games.

But what if juventus repeat the Antonio Conte's unbeaten season with Juventus in the 2011-12 season ... the old lady well known doing the invincibles that time having 23 games W and 15 Draw plus 6 times serie A title consecutively , doing the impossible for juventus is a normal thing.

They might losing points only on a draw and winning it the rest , while napoli could slipped losing a lot of points under juventus pressure.

[Hyphen(-)]

Napoli may not lucky enough against intermilan. The performance from napoli against sampdoria was quite different compared when it was against intermilan. I meant napoli has more accuracy compared when it was against intermilan. Sampdoria may a bit weak compared with intermilan but i think that people know that so well if the performance from napoli is so good.
I hope that napoli can continue this trend until the end of season. That being said that napoli is slowly waking up again.
Napoli become even closer to the scudetto when it was winning any upcoming match. Ac milan has a competitor now. Juvenus may make ac milan under pressure

1 defeat is a normal thing for all teams, especially Napoli, so their defeat against Inter is not a bad thing, it is motivational because currently Napoli's performance has improved a lot, that's what happened when they faced Sampdoria

Losing is part of the game in football, and Napoli remains my favorite in this season's Seria A title race because they are demonstrating to the world how serious and focused they are on winning. Losing to Inter Milan is normal because Inter is one of the best teams in the league, but coming back with a stunning 2-0 win over Sampdoria establishes Napoli as a title contender.

juventus vs napoli, will be a big match that cannot be missed but I will not place bets for this match because imo is too risky and the final score is difficult to predict

This will be a match similar to the one they played against Inter Milan, but this time Napoli will try to avoid losing points against Juventus, as they did against Inter. Napoli would rather play a draw and take one point than lose.

According to the statistics of the last five matches they played together, they both won two and drew one. This has demonstrated that it will be a difficult match that may end in a draw, but I am hopeful that Napoli will win because of their recent form.

[fadhilz123]

Looks like Jose Mourinho managed to motivate his team when he was 2 goals behind AC Milan. Even though it was a late goal scored by AS Roma because a new goal was created in the last 10 minutes of the game ending, they did not give up easily in finding the goal needed to make the match end in a draw. Defeat was actually for AC Milan because they couldn't keep the defense when time was running out, and that was an advantage for Napoli, because their points went wide again.

It was very unfortunate for AC Milan, who almost won against AS Roma, because the Roma team managed to make the match a draw at 90+3 minutes through Tammy Abraham, which means that was the minute the match was almost over. And as a result of these results, it is clear that AC Milan again has to struggle to catch Napoli's points because the Napoli team managed to win at Sampdoria so Napoli are again favored to win the Scudetto trophy this season.

[AakZaki]

Behind two goals did not make Roma give up, Mourinho troops were able to provide fierce resistance and scored two goals in the last 10 minutes. Milan had to settle for sharing points with Rome as well as making Milan drop to third place. Milan points are the same as those collected by Juventus, these two teams have both collected 37 points. Now Milan is getting farther behind Napoli, who won the victory over Sampdoria, rarely seven points making Napoli even stronger at the top of the standings.
Mourinho was very satisfied with this result, one point was stolen from the San Siro. An additional point keeps Roma in sixth place with 31 points from 17 matches, the points collected by Rome are the same as Lazio points which are in fifth place.

Being two goals behind and ending in a draw was incredible. Roma and Mourinho managed to rise. Mourinho's strategy of including two strikers is very good. They managed to earn one point. Even I didn't think they managed to draw in the end. I think it's a tough task for Inter's defence. They seemed to be satisfied too quickly with the two-goal difference. I think it should be that Inter keep pressing not reducing the tempo of the game. Although indeed Roma's second half changed the game, and it worked.

[Doell]

Looks like Jose Mourinho managed to motivate his team when he was 2 goals behind AC Milan. Even though it was a late goal scored by AS Roma because a new goal was created in the last 10 minutes of the game ending, they did not give up easily in finding the goal needed to make the match end in a draw. Defeat was actually for AC Milan because they couldn't keep the defense when time was running out, and that was an advantage for Napoli, because their points went wide again.

It was very unfortunate for AC Milan, who almost won against AS Roma, because the Roma team managed to make the match a draw at 90+3 minutes through Tammy Abraham, which means that was the minute the match was almost over. And as a result of these results, it is clear that AC Milan again has to struggle to catch Napoli's points because the Napoli team managed to win at Sampdoria so Napoli are again favored to win the Scudetto trophy this season.

Almost win and securing three points, Milan could not defend performance players of Roma player in the last minutes of this match. Now they are not only unable to narrowing the gap points with Napoli, even they position has been take over by Juventus which currently getting the same points as them, it also seems that Juventus are currently better off in Serie A with less conceded of goals.

[makishart]

Looks like Jose Mourinho managed to motivate his team when he was 2 goals behind AC Milan. Even though it was a late goal scored by AS Roma because a new goal was created in the last 10 minutes of the game ending, they did not give up easily in finding the goal needed to make the match end in a draw. Defeat was actually for AC Milan because they couldn't keep the defense when time was running out, and that was an advantage for Napoli, because their points went wide again.

It was very unfortunate for AC Milan, who almost won against AS Roma, because the Roma team managed to make the match a draw at 90+3 minutes through Tammy Abraham, which means that was the minute the match was almost over. And as a result of these results, it is clear that AC Milan again has to struggle to catch Napoli's points because the Napoli team managed to win at Sampdoria so Napoli are again favored to win the Scudetto trophy this season.

It's all caused by how smart jose mourinho to substituted some players at the end of match. As roma was performing so well during the end of match. that was making as roma get 1 point same as milan.
I think that jose mourinho could also use the same started like when as roma was making two scores in a row to make the game became draw. I see that as roma is different once there are some changes happened with the club. Im so glad that jose mourinho was taking a very fast decision for that. That was making jose mourinho got so many appreciations.

[Ratash]

Today is atalanta chance to take lazio spot that can eventually allows them to get into a european competition its a nice oportunity to stop their negative streak, they were not able to win in four strainght game and today is the perfect opportunity because its a high stake game, it will be a tough game since bologna are difficult to beat at home.

[Masplanc]

Napoli must win all their matches in the future, so when they face Sampdoria, they are more careful and don't want to disappoint again like when they faced Inter. allegri really got juventus back on its feet and it surprised everyone, juve will face Napoli and reportedly they will play at full strength to be able to win against Napoli, we'll see what will happen.

the results obtained by AC Milan and Inter Milan benefited Napoli to stay comfortably at the top of the standings, and at this time a serious threat from Juventus, Napoli must be able to maintain consistency if they want to stay at the top of the standings.

after losing, only in the next 1 match Napoli can win the match again and with that means the mentality of the Napoli players is very good and they are not shaken just because they lose and can get up quickly, that's a very good thing.
if Napoli can continue like this until the end of the season, be consistent despite bad results and can get up quickly then it is very possible for them to be able to compete tightly until the end of the season to fight for the Scudetto.

I also see that, the mentality of the Napoli players has revived as a result of the defeat with Inter and it seems that Napoli will be more careful when facing Juventus. if Napoli manages to come out victorious against Juventus then there will be no more barriers for Napoli to win the Scudetto this season, Napoli have been waiting for the Scudetto for a very long time, from the last I heard of it was when Maradona was at Napoli.

Napoli learnt from the game they lost against Inter and are back.  Juventus and Napoli game won't be easy.  Napoli won't let Juventus to win the game. The match will determine Napoli winning the series A.

[Pulsar77]

Thankfully Mourinho decided to make some changes in the second half which was a big help for the team. Of course it wasn't easy to make a comeback against Milan from a 2-0 disadvantage. But they tried to be more effective in attacking and got efficiency from it finally in the last minutes. Milan players must have been very frustrated after this point loss while three points were in their hands most of the time in the match. This is football of course and you must be ready for any outcome.

Still I hope Mourinho understood some important things from this match. I hope he prefers to start with a more offensive game plan against this kind of big teams from now on. Otherwise they will still continue to have problems on winning against such opponents.

[bitgolden]

Napoli may not lucky enough against intermilan. The performance from napoli against sampdoria was quite different compared when it was against intermilan. I meant napoli has more accuracy compared when it was against intermilan. Sampdoria may a bit weak compared with intermilan but i think that people know that so well if the performance from napoli is so good.
I hope that napoli can continue this trend until the end of season. That being said that napoli is slowly waking up again.
Napoli become even closer to the scudetto when it was winning any upcoming match. Ac milan has a competitor now. Juvenus may make ac milan under pressure

Well Napoli showed at least that it was for just a single game that they failed, but they are still a good team. I know it's not that easy to handle that as a thought but that's the reality we are in. Napoli played just one bad game, it happens, just because they lost it doesn't mean they suddenly became a bad team neither.

It's going to be a good season for them, the worst possible thing for them would be becoming second in the league this year, and if someone says "the worst is being second" for Napoli, that means it's a great year for them. Normally being second would be a great year for them, this would be worst case scenario. Hence, we should not really give up hope on them yet.

[giammangiato]

I had some big laughs this weekend
if anyone thought that Inter could win the scudetto, I advise them to look at their positions
after the fool remedied with Monza and Inzaghi's tears

he only beat Napoli by luck and that's it, crazy things

[Gosgosking]

Verona is leading againt cremonese with two goals. This two teams are in relegation zone. Verona is doing well in the match against cremonese. I think game should be a win for Verona but the funny thing about Verona is that even if they win  the game they will still remain in the relegation.

[dwminer1]

In yesterday's match, Napoli confirmed that the loss of points to Inter was an accident at work and left no illusions to Sampdoria who is the better team. Napoli should also thank Roma for fighting to the end against Milan. Two goals scored by Roma in the very end of the match puts Napoli as much as 7 points ahead of Milan and Juventus. This will certainly give Napoli some extra comfort ahead of the upcoming match against Juventus.

[ShowOff]

In yesterday's match, Napoli confirmed that the loss of points to Inter was an accident at work and left no illusions to Sampdoria who is the better team. Napoli should also thank Roma for fighting to the end against Milan. Two goals scored by Roma in the very end of the match puts Napoli as much as 7 points ahead of Milan and Juventus. This will certainly give Napoli some extra comfort ahead of the upcoming match against Juventus.

Obviously I really regretted the draw between Milan vs Roma in the previous match, it was very bad for Milan who were trying to reduce the gap in points with Napoli. Milan conceded 2 goals at the end of the match which at that time I was very sure Milan would win, but in the end Roma managed to steal 1 point.

Now that things have gone awry with Napoli already 7 points clear at the top, that is not an easy point to chase as it is hard to expect Napoli to drop points in an easier match.

[jayce]

To be honest, I didn't watch Serie A games after World Cup, but how on earth could Juventus be on 2nd currently? I'm very sure that they were on 6th or 7th before the World Cup lmao. Even their fans kept singing Allegri Out in every match

[Zilon]

In yesterday's match, Napoli confirmed that the loss of points to Inter was an accident at work and left no illusions to Sampdoria who is the better team. Napoli should also thank Roma for fighting to the end against Milan. Two goals scored by Roma in the very end of the match puts Napoli as much as 7 points ahead of Milan and Juventus. This will certainly give Napoli some extra comfort ahead of the upcoming match against Juventus.

Napoli has done the needful to remedy their loss to Inter by winning Samporia by 2 goals earning 3 point which makes them 7 point ahead of Juventus and Milan. Indeed, Napoli need to be thankful to As Roma who drew with Milan. The upcoming match which is meant to hold on the 13th will be a big determining factor if Napoli will gap Juventus by 10 points or Juventus will narrow it down to 4 points.

[Balmain]

In yesterday's match, Napoli confirmed that the loss of points to Inter was an accident at work and left no illusions to Sampdoria who is the better team. Napoli should also thank Roma for fighting to the end against Milan. Two goals scored by Roma in the very end of the match puts Napoli as much as 7 points ahead of Milan and Juventus. This will certainly give Napoli some extra comfort ahead of the upcoming match against Juventus.

Napoli has done the needful to remedy their loss to Inter by winning Samporia by 2 goals earning 3 point which makes them 7 point ahead of Juventus and Milan. Indeed, Napoli need to be thankful to As Roma who drew with Milan. The upcoming match which is meant to hold on the 13th will be a big determining factor if Napoli will gap Juventus by 10 points or Juventus will narrow it down to 4 points.

We can say that Rome made an official sacrifice for Napoli. I consider it normal for Napoli to lose in their first match back from the world cup, if the world cup had not been in the middle of the season, the outcome of the Napoli Inter match could have been different. There was a streak of victory because of Napoli's world cup, time intervened and Napoli became cold, and they could not play as they wanted in their first match on the way back. For now, the wind is positive for Napoli again. Juventus is another successful team, but there is a point difference between them.

[skarais]

To be honest, I didn't watch Serie A games after World Cup, but how on earth could Juventus be on 2nd currently? I'm very sure that they were on 6th or 7th before the World Cup lmao. Even their fans kept singing Allegri Out in every match

Juventus won everything after the World Cup, while other teams like Milan, Inter, Lazio and Roma made mistakes that ended up dropping points. So Juventus managed to take every opportunity to be in second place at the moment where they have won in 2 matches since Serie A started on 4 January.

[hahay]

In yesterday's match, Napoli confirmed that the loss of points to Inter was an accident at work and left no illusions to Sampdoria who is the better team. Napoli should also thank Roma for fighting to the end against Milan. Two goals scored by Roma in the very end of the match puts Napoli as much as 7 points ahead of Milan and Juventus. This will certainly give Napoli some extra comfort ahead of the upcoming match against Juventus.

Napoli has done the needful to remedy their loss to Inter by winning Samporia by 2 goals earning 3 point which makes them 7 point ahead of Juventus and Milan. Indeed, Napoli need to be thankful to As Roma who drew with Milan. The upcoming match which is meant to hold on the 13th will be a big determining factor if Napoli will gap Juventus by 10 points or Juventus will narrow it down to 4 points.

But I think Juventus will likely do the same gameplay as Inter when Inter beat Napoli. Indeed, the results of winning or losing and or also a draw cannot be guaranteed to happen for one of them. However, taking into account the fact that Juventus have conceded the fewest goals so far this season.
So it seems that in the match against Napoli later, it looks like Juventus will implement a more defensive gameplay and only use counterattacks to threaten Napoli's defense.

At least the gameplay was also successfully applied by Inter to beat Napoli, especially Juventus, which this season has a reliable defense for moments like this.
So yes, I think the match could end in a draw or maybe Juventus win by a narrow score as well. But even if for example Juventus wins, I think Napoli will still be able to stay at the top of the standings unless Napoli can no longer be consistent in winning, then of course their position is very threatened to be taken over.