Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A)

[mamesso]

It was such an unfortunate day for Milan today. Because their performance was actually promising in the first half. Things could have been better for them if they were able to finish the half without that red card. It really ruined their plans I'm afraid. The second half was fully under control of Juventus after that.

Locatelli's winner brought Juventus really important three points. Honestly I didn't expect Juventus to finish Milan's winning streak in San Siro. Probably they couldn't have done it if it weren't for the red card. This week has been in favour of Juventus to get right behind Milan by one point at the same time.

The red card that Malick Thiaw received before the first half was beyond Stefano Pioli plans, Milan, who had 10 players left, had a very difficult time keeping up with Juventus, whose personnel were still intact. In the second half Juventus started to put pressure on Milan with several attacks, they managed to take advantage of their player advantage over Milan. The only goal that occurred at the San Siro came from the feet of Manuel Locatelli after releasing a long-range shot that Antonio Mirante could not stop.
Juventus also went home with a 1-0 win from Milan headquarters with joy. An additional three points brought Juventus to third place, now they are only one point away from Milan who are right above them and two points from Inter who are at the top of the standings.

[temple]

I did a quick fact check whether Serie A is one of the most defensive leagues and I found this for the season 21/22, but some other sources suggest that it is similar for other seasons.

"For the fourth time in the last five seasons, the Bundesliga saw the most goals per game across Europe's top divisions in 2021/22. Germany's 954 top-flight fixtures produced a total of 306 goals at a rate of 3.12 per match.

No other league broke the three-goal mark. Serie A ranked second (2.87) followed by the Premier League (2.82), Ligue 1 (2.81) and La Liga (2.50)."

This suggests that it is not quite true, but I guess your impression is somehow comprehensible because this picture of defensive Italian teams has been out there for a long time now. But of course Osimhen is one of the strikers who dominate their leagues and replacing someone who scores that many goals is never easy. But it is no different for Napoli that the day will come when they have to try and find a replacement for him. He won't finish his career there.

That's an interesting study. It always seemed that the most scored in the English Premier League, where Liverpool can score 6-7 goals, and average teams like Crystal Palace or Brenforth usually end the match with a score of 3:2 or 4:3 and it is quite normal, and it turns out that in Serie A on average score even more than in English Premier League.

I also think that Osimhen will not finish in Napoli, especially given the latest scandal, he apparently decided to move to some other club and it is written that he already has something like a preliminary agreement from Liverpool. Although it was possible to immediately fire those who are responsible for social networks in Napoli and who allowed the video with an unassisted penalty to be posted on TikTok and immediately apologize to Osimhen. 

Subjective perception can be quite deceptive sometimes, but no worries it happened to me before. This is a good example when you ask someone where most goals are scored on average. I think that 90% of the people without checking for studies would give the same answer as you, that more goals are scored in the Premier League than in the Serie A. But it is only a little difference, so it is not like someone is totally wrong, but still wrong.

About Osimhen and some preliminary agreement, I guess nobody really knows except for him and Liverpool, but if this is true what you are saying, I think we are already seeing Liverpool's plans being made without Salah playing for them in the season 24/25. This would make a lot of sense when they take the money from the Salah transfer and sign Osimhen.

[Republikcoin.com]

It seems to me that if juventus is going back to the right track again after it was struggled since the early season. Juventus and duo milan are now competing for the title race.
This is a great chance for the old lady to get back its gold days again once the club was able to winning the scudetto trophy this season. Im waiting for juventus to face intermilan. It's gonna be hyped match.

Juventus really impressed today, by winning Acmilan away from home, even though it wasn't with a good scoreline but they've been able to secure the 3poins and close the gap between them and the league leaders, well i think Juventus are on the right track, cause they're currently in the 3rd place with about 20 points, just 2 points between them and Inter who's the current leading top of the Bundesliga.

 Allegri is a good coach and he's groomed his boys to be performing better, even the whole crisis from injury with other set backs they still managed to win against one of the best performing team this season, which means that if their key players where  available to place they would've embraced Acmilan more.

This victory is enough to prove that Juventus is better this season and they are ready to compete for the Scudetto this season, so Juventus should not be underestimated any longer.
Being able to win over AC Milan at AC Milan's home ground is an extraordinary thing in my opinion, the Juventus players worked very well in this match and this is all the result of their hard work so far.

Regardless of the final score, in my opinion 1 goal is enough for them to get full points and move up to 3rd place in the Serie A standings. Now the points at the top of the standings are quite fierce, Inter Milan who is at the top of the standings is only 1 point behind AC Milan who is in second place and followed by Juventus in 3rd place.

[Sebas.tian]

Roma won 1-0 in a tough encounter. Obviously they weren't expecting their opponents to be so formidable, because if Monza hadn't been down to ten men, Roma might have struggled to get any points out of the game. With the goal in extra time, the win became an important 3 points for them. Mourinho received a red card in the last minute and will probably be suspended for the next match.
Milan, on the other hand, are very close to suffering their second defeat in the league. Juventus are currently beating Milan 1-0 away and it is easier for them to get points as Milan have been playing with ten men for a long time.

Congratulations to Roma for the victory they got from Monza in their home, despite some new strategies Monza applied to make the match draw 1-1, but Roma defenders showcased some talents that made them not to allow Monza to equalized the goal.  Monza really prove to people that Roma won the match by luck, because many people thought that Roma will use that red card Monza player got at 41 minutes in the first half as an opportunity to achieve goals but they battle each other till 90 minutes before Roma manage to scored winning goal. I think, Juventus really deserve the victory because the tactics they where using to play AC Milan when the red card occurred gave them the opportunity to defeated AC Milan 0-1 to embraced the victory at the end of the match.

[TastyChillySauce00]

It was such an unfortunate day for Milan today. Because their performance was actually promising in the first half. Things could have been better for them if they were able to finish the half without that red card. It really ruined their plans I'm afraid. The second half was fully under control of Juventus after that.

Locatelli's winner brought Juventus really important three points. Honestly I didn't expect Juventus to finish Milan's winning streak in San Siro. Probably they couldn't have done it if it weren't for the red card. This week has been in favour of Juventus to get right behind Milan by one point at the same time.

Ac milan played so awfully against juventus. Im not even seeing the aggressivity from acmilan at this moment. Acmilan can really take the advantage by playing at home against juventus. Look at how acmilan was only making 1 shoot on target which is so terrible to watch.
This club played without a direction. The gameplay is so garbage. Acmilan losses its creativity to build a proper attack against juventus. Leao was also feeling disappointed with the result.
Playing at home should have given acmilan more advantage over juventus but otherwise. Juventus was able coming back even winning the game against acmilan in san siro. this is a very good result from juventus caused by the club is now climbing up again.
No doubt if the old lady is targeting top 3 this season to be qualified for UCL and got additional money from playing in UCL next season. What a really nice result from juventus at this moment. Everything is going so well for juventus after a red card for acmilan.

[bering]

It was such an unfortunate day for Milan today. Because their performance was actually promising in the first half. Things could have been better for them if they were able to finish the half without that red card. It really ruined their plans I'm afraid. The second half was fully under control of Juventus after that.

Locatelli's winner brought Juventus really important three points. Honestly I didn't expect Juventus to finish Milan's winning streak in San Siro. Probably they couldn't have done it if it weren't for the red card. This week has been in favour of Juventus to get right behind Milan by one point at the same time.

Just like i said before because Juventus will playing without some of key players i thought Juventus will be lose but indeed i can see it that red card has been ruined Milan rhythm because since that incident Milan playing with under pressure and actually Milan has starting the match with very well that they can got several opportunities to scores goals and Giroud even almost make Milan leading the game but unfortunately Milan have to lose at their home ground

On the other hand Roma was able to resumes their winning streak yesterday because they can overcomes Monza with narrow score and El Shaarawy has became the hero at that time because he can scored at the end of second half and gradually Roma position has been climbed up to 7th place and Roma has 3 points below to Fiorentina which is the team in the top 4

[Uruhara]

It was such an unfortunate day for Milan today. Because their performance was actually promising in the first half. Things could have been better for them if they were able to finish the half without that red card. It really ruined their plans I'm afraid. The second half was fully under control of Juventus after that.

Locatelli's winner brought Juventus really important three points. Honestly I didn't expect Juventus to finish Milan's winning streak in San Siro. Probably they couldn't have done it if it weren't for the red card. This week has been in favour of Juventus to get right behind Milan by one point at the same time.

The red card really made the second half for AC Milan very difficult. Actually, M. Thiaw didn't need to make a mistake like that. But I also understand that if M. Thiaw doesn't do it then M. Kean has the opportunity to face Milan goalkeeper A. Mirante directly. Because there are no more players who can tackle M.Kean.

Juventus seems very lucky in this match. But for me they both played very well. Maybe even if M.Kean hadn't been fouled by M.Thiaw then maybe he could have scored a goal in the first half. Because he will be in a really good position to face the Milan goalkeeper directly. It was clear that Milan's back line was a little careless at that time.

[Jatiluhung]

It was such an unfortunate day for Milan today. Because their performance was actually promising in the first half. Things could have been better for them if they were able to finish the half without that red card. It really ruined their plans I'm afraid. The second half was fully under control of Juventus after that.

Locatelli's winner brought Juventus really important three points. Honestly I didn't expect Juventus to finish Milan's winning streak in San Siro. Probably they couldn't have done it if it weren't for the red card. This week has been in favour of Juventus to get right behind Milan by one point at the same time.

The red card that Malick Thiaw received before the first half was beyond Stefano Pioli plans, Milan, who had 10 players left, had a very difficult time keeping up with Juventus, whose personnel were still intact. In the second half Juventus started to put pressure on Milan with several attacks, they managed to take advantage of their player advantage over Milan. The only goal that occurred at the San Siro came from the feet of Manuel Locatelli after releasing a long-range shot that Antonio Mirante could not stop.
Juventus also went home with a 1-0 win from Milan headquarters with joy. An additional three points brought Juventus to third place, now they are only one point away from Milan who are right above them and two points from Inter who are at the top of the standings.

Most of us would not have thought that Milan would lose in front of their own supporters. Well this happens very rarely. Because I don't think that Juventus will be able to win this match. Milan, which was actually in very good performance, had to accept defeat. But I have to still appreciate Milan who can still keep possession of the ball under their control. But even so, the lack of 1 player still makes them have weaknesses and these weaknesses have been exploited well by Juventus.

But Milan is still lucky because they are still 1 point ahead of Juventus currently in the standings. But next week Milan will have to face another strong team, namely Napoli. Although Napoli did not start the season well. But in yesterday's match we could see Napoli starting to find their rhythm again. It's just that Napoli are clearly at a disadvantage because they will certainly continue to play without their mainstay player, Osimhen, who is still injured.

[QueenVera]

The red card really made the second half for AC Milan very difficult. Actually, M. Thiaw didn't need to make a mistake like that. But I also understand that if M. Thiaw doesn't do it then M. Kean has the opportunity to face Milan goalkeeper A. Mirante directly. Because there are no more players who can tackle M.Kean.

Juventus seems very lucky in this match. But for me they both played very well. Maybe even if M.Kean hadn't been fouled by M.Thiaw then maybe he could have scored a goal in the first half. Because he will be in a really good position to face the Milan goalkeeper directly. It was clear that Milan's back line was a little careless at that time.

The mistake from M Thiaw really caused Acmilan a big problem in the match the coach would be very disappointed with his performance and I believe he'll be disappointed in himself more for costing his team to lose the match and drop points on the table, Acmilan are not in 2nd place with just a point behind their rival Inter, the match was very interesting cause both teams needed to win the game and maintain their position however Juventus were the lucky ones and didn't give Acmilan a chance to steal a point.

 Acmilan really tried not to concede more goals even while they were one man down, it's shown that if not for the mistake from Thiaw that got him booked they would've stand a chance to win the game or even draw, well their performance was good and they were more possessive but couldn't create more chances to goal, Juventus created more and better chances than them.

[rendravolt]

Last night was a nightmare for Milan because they lost against Juventus. This was a home defeat that was quite upsetting for them and now their chance to overtake Inter in the standings has been slightly delayed. Playing with 10 people since the end of the first half made Milan helpless, especially since the one who got the red card was one of the defenders. Pioli must have been very confused about formulating a strategy by only relying on 10 people in the second half and Allegri's squad utilized this opportunity well to continue attacking until in the end they scored the only winning goal through a goal scored by Locatelli in the 63rd minute. This result made Milan must be stuck in second place and the distance from Juventus is only 1 point. The next match will still be a competition between Inter, Milan and Juventus. If one of them slips, it will certainly be an opportunity for the other team to take advantage of the situation.

[Oluwa-btc]

It was such an unfortunate day for Milan today. Because their performance was actually promising in the first half. Things could have been better for them if they were able to finish the half without that red card. It really ruined their plans I'm afraid. The second half was fully under control of Juventus after that.

Locatelli's winner brought Juventus really important three points. Honestly I didn't expect Juventus to finish Milan's winning streak in San Siro. Probably they couldn't have done it if it weren't for the red card. This week has been in favour of Juventus to get right behind Milan by one point at the same time.

Unfortunately they couldn't go top with that defeat ànd three points denail. Juventus had a great day honestly. Juventus defended nicely.
The red card was worth it, how do you loose your guard as a left full back? He pulled Keane for too long and that was a good goal chance besides he was last man so the match official did the right thing by sending him out.

That was thunderous strike from Manuel Locatelli, though slightly deflected, it helped sealed the game. People down my ends thinks Inter Milan are going to win this title, but I have the feeling Juventus would, they don't need too much they have good goal scorers and a coach that has good Seria A experience.

Dusan Vlahovic missed some good chances. Christian Pulisic's transformation has been great, from Injury prone player to a deadly winger for Ac Milan. Wonderful.

[Uruhara]

The red card really made the second half for AC Milan very difficult. Actually, M. Thiaw didn't need to make a mistake like that. But I also understand that if M. Thiaw doesn't do it then M. Kean has the opportunity to face Milan goalkeeper A. Mirante directly. Because there are no more players who can tackle M.Kean.

Juventus seems very lucky in this match. But for me they both played very well. Maybe even if M.Kean hadn't been fouled by M.Thiaw then maybe he could have scored a goal in the first half. Because he will be in a really good position to face the Milan goalkeeper directly. It was clear that Milan's back line was a little careless at that time.

The mistake from M Thiaw really caused Acmilan a big problem in the match the coach would be very disappointed with his performance and I believe he'll be disappointed in himself more for costing his team to lose the match and drop points on the table, Acmilan are not in 2nd place with just a point behind their rival Inter, the match was very interesting cause both teams needed to win the game and maintain their position however Juventus were the lucky ones and didn't give Acmilan a chance to steal a point.

 Acmilan really tried not to concede more goals even while they were one man down, it's shown that if not for the mistake from Thiaw that got him booked they would've stand a chance to win the game or even draw, well their performance was good and they were more possessive but couldn't create more chances to goal, Juventus created more and better chances than them.

Juventus did have more chances because they were superior with the 11 players they had. Meanwhile, AC Milan became more defensive because they realized that lacking 1 player would make their defense weak. But AC Milan still looks strong even though they are playing with only 10 players. And Juventus clearly still had difficulty scoring goals in this match even though they were superior in number of players.

But I really enjoyed the match. But I think next week will be even more interesting because there will be two very interesting matches next week. Namely the Inter Milan vs Roma match and the Napoli vs AC Milan match.

Roma and Napoli actually had some problems with their performance at the start of this season. and now they will face two teams that have been very consistent this season. I think the match will be much more difficult to predict.

[TelolettOm]

So far it seems the Scudetto competition in this season will be for three clubs, AC Milan, Inter Milan and Juventus. Other clubs like Napoli, Fiorentina, Atalanta and Roma will compete for one or two positions in top four and top six of Serie A.

I think it is too early to judge only 3 teams joining the race of the champion. It is still matchday 9, we are very far from the end of the competition. At least, we should be in the second half of the season to know which teams to be the strong candidates for the champion. So, I think al the current top 5 still have the same chance to be the champion.

The appearance of Fiorentina in top of Serie A is surprising even they got a Conference League final match in the last season. Because they lost Amrabat, one of their most important players to Manchester United in the summer. Anyway it is a good continuation of Fiorentina with good improvements during last three seasons. Even transfers of Vlahovic, Amrabat don't make them weaker and their performances in this season are very good quality mark for their team.

Fiorentina has a good management to replace the key players who leave the team. Although there is no popular players in Fiorentina, but they still can play solidly. I think they can maintain their good performance because they always play as a unified team and they plan with a high confident. The coach also apply the wright tactics for Juventus squad.

Participation of competitors like AC Milan, Inter Milan and Napoli in Champions League will give Juventus more chance to take Scudetto in this season. Champions League is like a magnet for all clubs and competitors of Juventus will be distracted from Serie A in weeks with Champions League matches.

I don't think joining UCL makes Inter, Milan, or Napoli to lost their focus. It is not the first time that they play in UCL while playing in Serie A, too. They have enough players to play in several competitions. So, we don't need to feel doubt about their focus, they are familiar with the situation. They know what the solution to apply.

[Jatiluhung]

Last night was a nightmare for Milan because they lost against Juventus. This was a home defeat that was quite upsetting for them and now their chance to overtake Inter in the standings has been slightly delayed. Playing with 10 people since the end of the first half made Milan helpless, especially since the one who got the red card was one of the defenders. Pioli must have been very confused about formulating a strategy by only relying on 10 people in the second half and Allegri's squad utilized this opportunity well to continue attacking until in the end they scored the only winning goal through a goal scored by Locatelli in the 63rd minute. This result made Milan must be stuck in second place and the distance from Juventus is only 1 point. The next match will still be a competition between Inter, Milan and Juventus. If one of them slips, it will certainly be an opportunity for the other team to take advantage of the situation.

AC Milan's position could even be threatened next week if they do not succeed in beating Napoli. The defeat by Juventus actually also opened up an opportunity for Juventus to seize their position in the standings. Because Juventus actually has the opportunity to get full points next week. Because the opponent that Juventus will face this week is Verona. And Verona is not a strong team this season. So it is very likely that Juventus will win the match and collect full points.

And Ac Milan next week will be in a more difficult position. Because facing Napoli is not easy. Although Napoli is not as strong as last season. But still Napoli is still stronger than other teams. Even if Napoli returns to its best performance, AC Milan could also suffer defeat. And Napoli will also host the match next week. So I think 2nd place next week could be taken by Juventus.

[W Jr.]

It was such an unfortunate day for Milan today. Because their performance was actually promising in the first half. Things could have been better for them if they were able to finish the half without that red card. It really ruined their plans I'm afraid. The second half was fully under control of Juventus after that.

Locatelli's winner brought Juventus really important three points. Honestly I didn't expect Juventus to finish Milan's winning streak in San Siro. Probably they couldn't have done it if it weren't for the red card. This week has been in favour of Juventus to get right behind Milan by one point at the same time.

Juventus were able to score a goal and win vs Milan at San Siro. Such bad performance in addition to the relatively early red card that made them less affective.
That result helped Inter keeping the first spot while Juve took the third place within few minutes from the start. The problem with Milan is the fact that they will have a hard week with Napoli in Serie A and before that PSG in Champions League. That negative score won't help them..

Juventus may have won but they still have problems. Milan should not be the team that has the ball more in a match with 10 men. Juventus should have more possession of the ball in statistics. Incomplete teams usually play defensively. Juventus was lucky to win but they still need to improve.

[topbitcoin]

It was such an unfortunate day for Milan today. Because their performance was actually promising in the first half. Things could have been better for them if they were able to finish the half without that red card. It really ruined their plans I'm afraid. The second half was fully under control of Juventus after that.

Locatelli's winner brought Juventus really important three points. Honestly I didn't expect Juventus to finish Milan's winning streak in San Siro. Probably they couldn't have done it if it weren't for the red card. This week has been in favour of Juventus to get right behind Milan by one point at the same time.

Unfortunately they couldn't go top with that defeat ànd three points denail. Juventus had a great day honestly. Juventus defended nicely.
The red card was worth it, how do you loose your guard as a left full back? He pulled Keane for too long and that was a good goal chance besides he was last man so the match official did the right thing by sending him out.

That was thunderous strike from Manuel Locatelli, though slightly deflected, it helped sealed the game. People down my ends thinks Inter Milan are going to win this title, but I have the feeling Juventus would, they don't need too much they have good goal scorers and a coach that has good Seria A experience.

Dusan Vlahovic missed some good chances. Christian Pulisic's transformation has been great, from Injury prone player to a deadly winger for Ac Milan. Wonderful.

hahaha it must have been annoying for Ac Milan last night because they lost only 1-0 to Juventus, if you look at the match between these two teams it was very fierce, which both showed their respective balance in playing, even though Juventus almost conceded but they were still able to defend it.
From the whole match Juventus played more aggressively so that they had many opportunities to add goals, but there was only one kick that could break into the Ac milan goalkeeper, it was a strong kick from Locatteli which bounced off the AC milan defender, if it didn't bounce on the Ac milan defender's knee I think Mirante could still hold the kick.

Ac milan must be humiliated at home, for some reason their game is not so good as before, are they having problems with the players? or indeed Juventus have started to bounce back.

[Strongkored]

Napoli are in fine form form at the moment and are winning games even in the absence of Victor Osimhen so I feel they have an advantage against Union Berling. Regarding the rumors and speculations going round about Osimhen’s possible departure in January. It is still not clear and we will have to wait until January to know the club’s position on this if they will be willing to sell or retain him.

Of course they looked good in the match against Hellas Verona because Hellas Verona didn't look like a balanced opponent for Napoli, you can see how bad Hellas Verona was in the last five matches before facing Napoli, only able to get one point, and the defeat against Napoli made them suffer 2 consecutive defeats.
Osimhen will be really needed by Napoli when they face a quite crucial match, such as when they will face Union Berlin in the Champions League match in the middle of the week, even though their opponents in the league are quite bad, Napoli needs a sharp striker to penetrate Union Berlin's defense, or when Napoli has to face AC Milan In the 10th match of Serie A, even though AC Milan just lost to Juventus, Napoli will face difficulties in getting points in this match and without vigilance they are very likely to lose.

[QueenVera]

hahaha it must have been annoying for Ac Milan last night because they lost only 1-0 to Juventus, if you look at the match between these two teams it was very fierce, which both showed their respective balance in playing, even though Juventus almost conceded but they were still able to defend it.
From the whole match Juventus played more aggressively so that they had many opportunities to add goals, but there was only one kick that could break into the Ac milan goalkeeper, it was a strong kick from Locatteli which bounced off the AC milan defender, if it didn't bounce on the Ac milan defender's knee I think Mirante could still hold the kick.

Ac milan must be humiliated at home, for some reason their game is not so good as before, are they having problems with the players? or indeed Juventus have started to bounce back.

The match was a very tough one,  I believe the toughest for the week,  however i think Milan's coach would be more annoyed with the performance of some of his players, they lost an opportunity to maintain the 1st place and even a draw would had still kept them their currently but they didn't play with class or used their home ground as an advantage but rather made careless errors that caused them to lose the game.

 Well I'm angry at them too cause they made me lose my bet lol, i felt they were favourites and had a home advantage also thought about the crisis Juventus are currently facing and how it could affect their performance, but the reserve became the case and that's one thing about the game, it's so full of suprises, well Acmilan winning more easier for Juventus by getting booked too early which resulted to them being one man down.

[Oluwa-btc]

It was such an unfortunate day for Milan today. Because their performance was actually promising in the first half. Things could have been better for them if they were able to finish the half without that red card. It really ruined their plans I'm afraid. The second half was fully under control of Juventus after that.

Locatelli's winner brought Juventus really important three points. Honestly I didn't expect Juventus to finish Milan's winning streak in San Siro. Probably they couldn't have done it if it weren't for the red card. This week has been in favour of Juventus to get right behind Milan by one point at the same time.

Unfortunately they couldn't go top with that defeat ànd three points denail. Juventus had a great day honestly. Juventus defended nicely.
The red card was worth it, how do you loose your guard as a left full back? He pulled Keane for too long and that was a good goal chance besides he was last man so the match official did the right thing by sending him out.

That was thunderous strike from Manuel Locatelli, though slightly deflected, it helped sealed the game. People down my ends thinks Inter Milan are going to win this title, but I have the feeling Juventus would, they don't need too much they have good goal scorers and a coach that has good Seria A experience.

Dusan Vlahovic missed some good chances. Christian Pulisic's transformation has been great, from Injury prone player to a deadly winger for Ac Milan. Wonderful.

hahaha it must have been annoying for Ac Milan last night because they lost only 1-0 to Juventus, if you look at the match between these two teams it was very fierce, which both showed their respective balance in playing, even though Juventus almost conceded but they were still able to defend it.
From the whole match Juventus played more aggressively so that they had many opportunities to add goals, but there was only one kick that could break into the Ac milan goalkeeper, it was a strong kick from Locatteli which bounced off the AC milan defender, if it didn't bounce on the Ac milan defender's knee I think Mirante could still hold the kick.

Ac milan must be humiliated at home, for some reason their game is not so good as before, are they having problems with the players? or indeed Juventus have started to bounce back.

My Uncle has always told me of how fierce Italian sides have been from time and how most of the world best defenders came from that league. I expected the good defense from Juventus but not the win, glad they could get that still, they made the fans proud.
Ac Milan now must not look at the lose. Yes it hurts to win game that will take them to the top of the league but they should focus on the game against Paris Saint Germany.

The both sides created chances that lead to goal. Ac Milan goalkeeper used was agile despite his age. (40) Some great saves too else Dusan Vlahovic should have made that double.

[Bitinity]

Juventus may have won but they still have problems. Milan should not be the team that has the ball more in a match with 10 men. Juventus should have more possession of the ball in statistics. Incomplete teams usually play defensively. Juventus was lucky to win but they still need to improve.

If there was no red card for Milan in the first half, I think the result would be different. Juventus took the ball possession more after the red card especially in the 2nd half with around 58% while they could not do the same in the 1st half before the red card. Winning by 1 goal only while they had a big advantage due to the red card is not a special thing for team like Juventus. I have to agree that Juventus still need to improve a lot, although they are now on the 3rd position but they may lose the position because the league is still long way to go.