Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A)

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Genoa vs AS Roma

AS Roma performance in the last 5 matches in all competition

Barnsley 0-4 AS Roma (Friendly)
Everton 1-1 AS Roma (Friendly)
Cagliari 0-0 AS Roma (Serie A)
AS Roma 1-2 Empoli (Serie A)
Juventus 0-0 AS Roma (Serie A)

Roma in the serious problem i think because in Serie A since last season Roma only can able to win once from 8 matches so this is obviously poor records and according to the statistics above we can see Roma also still unable to gets the winning results this season besides that if we see from meeting statistics between them and Genoa i can see Roma always be hard struggling to gets the winning results because from 19 meeting Roma only can able to beat Genoa 4 times but i don't think Roma too will be easily to beated because Genoa condition also similar to them so that's why for this match i am thinking possibility to pick draw and the odds for draw is quite high to bets @3.35 or under 2.5 goals seems good too

The current line up are available and we can see the final result of the match.
From my prediction, the result of this match is really very random because both teams can give each other surprises and what you said is true that a draw can happen but it is too risky. If you really want to bet on this match, it would be better to choose BTTS with odds @1.93, because I am sure both teams will score the same score. Or you can choose to take a bigger risk on over 2.5 with odds @2.19

[Sexylizzy2813]

I don't know if Ac Milan has been sleeping all these while since the beginning of this season and is today they remembered to wake up and start getting things right, a big win for them with a clean sheet, that score is a strong message to the other clubs that they (Ac Milan) are back to become one of the best and also a title contenders. I thought Ac Milan would have gotten more goals after the end of first half, but they allowed a team with one man down to stop them from scoring more goals in the second half, this isn't how a team as the favorite are suppose to handle such chances of getting goals.

From another point of view, the big win actually motivated the AC Milan squad itself, instead of sending a message to the competitors that they have now woken up after sleeping for the previous 3 weeks. Venezia is a promoted club, and it is very natural that AC Milan is able to secure full points convincingly. If AC Milan fails to win this week, Paulo Fonseca could be fired. The 4-0 win has saved his career, and hopefully they can maintain that performance consistently in the future. We realize that it is difficult to happen, because they will face Liverpool and Inter Milan next. Obviously, it is a very troublesome opponent, which I think has the potential to put Paulo Fonseca under great pressure again.

Venezia being a promoted side or not, something shocking could have happened yesterday against Ac Milan, knowing how poor they (Ac Milan) started the campaign we're suppose to expect that shocking result but they scaled through and got a win which to me it wasn't that impressive, like they would have scored more goals in the second half after getting 4 goals in the first half and with a red card not goal was scored but it was as if they felt relaxed and if the visitors was that strong to fight back I think they too would have gotten like 2-3 goals. Milan facing teams that are not from the same league would change their mentality of not underrating their opponent, a team like Liverpool will make the field of play very difficult for them and I don't think Ac Milan can't repeat what they did yesterday against either Liverpool or Inter Milan.

[Velvet78]

Genoa vs AS Roma

AS Roma performance in the last 5 matches in all competition

Barnsley 0-4 AS Roma (Friendly)
Everton 1-1 AS Roma (Friendly)
Cagliari 0-0 AS Roma (Serie A)
AS Roma 1-2 Empoli (Serie A)
Juventus 0-0 AS Roma (Serie A)

Roma in the serious problem i think because in Serie A since last season Roma only can able to win once from 8 matches so this is obviously poor records and according to the statistics above we can see Roma also still unable to gets the winning results this season besides that if we see from meeting statistics between them and Genoa i can see Roma always be hard struggling to gets the winning results because from 19 meeting Roma only can able to beat Genoa 4 times but i don't think Roma too will be easily to beated because Genoa condition also similar to them so that's why for this match i am thinking possibility to pick draw and the odds for draw is quite high to bets @3.35 or under 2.5 goals seems good too

Dovbyk and Dybala are both on the pitch now. Thankfully they are having a good day as well.    Roma are 1-0 ahead with Dovbyk's goal. Dybala is also well-performing now. I don't think this is going to be a game in which Roma lose points finally. I would be happy with it too after a very poor result. De Rossi captured a three-year contract from the board so I wouldn't like him to lose their confidence in a short time.

Besides one should always be patient with the manager. We have many examples of some big teams such as Arsenal becoming very successful with their managers after a couple of years.

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Dovbyk and Dybala are both on the pitch now. Thankfully they are having a good day as well.    Roma are 1-0 ahead with Dovbyk's goal. Dybala is also well-performing now. I don't think this is going to be a game in which Roma lose points finally. I would be happy with it too after a very poor result. De Rossi captured a three-year contract from the board so I wouldn't like him to lose their confidence in a short time.

Besides one should always be patient with the manager. We have many examples of some big teams such as Arsenal becoming very successful with their managers after a couple of years.

Roma team can't start this season well. Roma's performances have been very erratic since the start of the season. But Roma's squad this season has been quite strong. Even so, we saw poor performances from Roma in the first few matches. Especially against a team as weak as Empoli, the Roma team was defeated.

However, in today's match against Genoa, Roma players are performing well. Roma lead 1-0 at the end of the first half. Artem Dovbyk scored the only goal of the match so far. Artem Dovbyk performed brilliantly last season in Girona's jersey. Dovbyk has the ability to score a lot of goals if he gets enough support from his teammates. Dybala is also a good enough player. Dybala is also capable of playing well when the team needs it. If the pair of Dybala and Dovbyk are in good form then we will see consistent good performances from Roma. Because we have seen in the past matches that Roma's main weakness is the poor performance of their attacking players.

[Sexylizzy2813]

I don't know if Ac Milan has been sleeping all these while since the beginning of this season and is today they remembered to wake up and start getting things right, a big win for them with a clean sheet, that score is a strong message to the other clubs that they (Ac Milan) are back to become one of the best and also a title contenders. I thought Ac Milan would have gotten more goals after the end of first half, but they allowed a team with one man down to stop them from scoring more goals in the second half, this isn't how a team as the favorite are suppose to handle such chances of getting goals.

Paulo Fonseca job was on the line this season after he failed to record suitable win for AC Milan but there's none like such because AC Milan have bounce back to winning games. AC Milan grabbed their first winning today at Stadio Giuseppe  Meazza. This game was one of the finest game for Rossoneri this season, having the space to bagged 4 goals in a single game definitely send a message to other oppositions on their pending fixtures. The game was entertaining with AC Milan have pulling forced and never relent because this were desperate for first victory of the season. Venezia is average club and having absolute possible weakness spotted out. One more thing, AC Milan should work on scoring more goals because the second halve was boring with both parties failing to score.

Even at that I still feel they need to step up their game because they shouldn't celebrate this winning like is the best they can give to the fans, I can only say the coach should be the one to celebrate this winning because his job is at stake. If Ac Milan should get a comfortable win against Inter Milan then they need to throw a party because is when you'd say they back to winning way, like why are they even performing poorly this very season when they have good and active players who are equally doing well in their country side and they're not in the line of players who are injury prone, even if they have any injury prone player(s) they have better replacement, so why the poor display in their previous game before the one against Venezia?
Ac Milan was impressive but is not against a weaker team that they are going to flex their muscles. That encounter has Ac Milan written all over it and Ac Milan should have turned the game into shooting practice with so many goals, I'll keep saying more goals was needed in that game. As a big team going against a smaller team that was promoted into the top flight, is best you punish them with whatever way you can to get that respect, that's why I love Manchester City, they'll make sure you struggle to even stand on the pitch before anything, if it was City the goals would have been more than 4, so Milan need to add more force when they play their next game.

[Majestic-milf]

 For me, Roma's unimpressive performance is tied to so many factors and chief amongst them is the absence of Jose Mourinho because during his time Roma were a team you could rely on to get three points from small clubs comfortably then a point from big ones. I've seen how the team is struggling to maintain the way they play while Mourinho was coach but there's just so little they can do to keep the fire going under Daniele de Rossi .
 Currently they lead by a goal to nothing over Genoa and we know that a goal is not an assurance of three points till either you add more or the game ends that way. And for the game to end that way you'd have to pray the opponents don't get an opportunity to strike or your defense is strong to withstand the pressure if not it's over.
Roma haven't won any games since the season started and they are desperate to get one, I just hope this one is the game that does it for them.

[cryptoWODL]

It seems that Juventus is still having difficulty in scoring goals even though they had several good chances, but unfortunately Gatti's header was still saved by the Empoli goalkeeper. Juventus is still in control of the match and it seems that Juventus wants to win tonight's match to widen their gap with Inter Milan. Hopefully there will be goals scored in the second half.

This is one problem with the Italian league, always full of surprises. It would be easy to bet Juventus to win Empoli even though they are playing away. The worst is that they could not even score a single goal. Juventus started the season well by winning their first two matches but these consecutive goalless draws is not encouraging and will surely make them lose their place at the top of the league should Inter Milan win their match tomorrow against Monza, which is highly possible even though they are playing away. From this weekend matches, it is not clear who the contenders for the title will be.

Yes, Juventus got off to a flying start in Italian Serie A with wins in their first two matches, but consecutive draws in the third and fourth matches made their position miserable. Now Juventus are number one in the points table with eight points from two wins after playing four matches. Inter Milan is below them. Who have already played three matches but drew in the first match but bounced back brilliantly in the next two matches and are second in the points table with 7 points. Inter Milan meet Monza Football Club tomorrow in their fourth match. If they beat Monza in this match, they can overtake Juventus and climb to number one in the points table. Milan are more likely to win this match, as they have played three matches against Monza opponents so far this season with one loss and two draws.

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It seems that Juventus is still having difficulty in scoring goals even though they had several good chances, but unfortunately Gatti's header was still saved by the Empoli goalkeeper. Juventus is still in control of the match and it seems that Juventus wants to win tonight's match to widen their gap with Inter Milan. Hopefully there will be goals scored in the second half.

Juventus's stats below.



What an awful performance from Juventus. They once again missed full points against a weak team. A terrible gameplay, No chemistry, Toothless forwards, and they don't have plan to score. It's very rough to watch their gameplay.

It felt like players don't even wanna win the game. What i can see is that they always hoof the ball to vlahovic or their winger who'll loose it.

Honestly, it's two matches in a row that we don't win because of Dusan's inability to do his job as a striker. It's gonna be fuckin crazy if Juve will hand him a new contract. what an embarassing and medriocre striker.

what a disappointing performance from Juventus they never really attacked, in fact the greatest chance was given to Empoli who played an excellent match and made the fans enjoy themselves, overall a deserved result even if they would have deserved more empoli

[Lannakosa]

What an awful performance from Juventus. They once again missed full points against a weak team. A terrible gameplay, No chemistry, Toothless forwards, and they don't have plan to score. It's very rough to watch their gameplay.

It felt like players don't even wanna win the game. What i can see is that they always hoof the ball to vlahovic or their winger who'll loose it.

Honestly, it's two matches in a row that we don't win because of Dusan's inability to do his job as a striker. It's gonna be fuckin crazy if Juve will hand him a new contract. what an embarassing and medriocre striker.

The old problems in attack have not gone away, 0-0 again, although in the first two matches it seemed that Juventus had everything in order with the attack. Of course, there is a positive aspect with the fact that Juventus has everything in order with the defense. They still have not conceded a single goal, but without goals scored, there will be little sense, Inter will most likely be able to beat Juventus by two points in this round.

Roma is currently finishing their match with Genoa, and so far Roma is winning 0-1, Dovbyk finally scored a goal, I am very glad that he did it, the first goal is always the most difficult, and I wanted this goal to be so important that it would bring Roma victory.

[Farma]

what a disappointing performance from Juventus they never really attacked, in fact the greatest chance was given to Empoli who played an excellent match and made the fans enjoy themselves, overall a deserved result even if they would have deserved more empoli

I am not surprised by this result, indeed Juventus' problem is still in their attack line and even overall Juventus' team game is not so insistent on getting a win in one match.
As I said before, it is better to avoid betting on favorite teams at the beginning of the Serie A season because some of them have not found their best performance, one of which is Juventus.

The last two matches with a draw show that Motta has not resolved the existing problems and what I am even afraid of is that their mentality and confidence are getting worse because of this result.

And on the other hand, AC Milan managed to easily win the first victory this week when they played against Venezia.
This is an important start for AC Milan to be able to rise which in the previous 3 matches AC Milan failed to achieve positive results.

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What an awful performance from Juventus. They once again missed full points against a weak team. A terrible gameplay, No chemistry, Toothless forwards, and they don't have plan to score. It's very rough to watch their gameplay.

It felt like players don't even wanna win the game. What i can see is that they always hoof the ball to vlahovic or their winger who'll loose it.

Honestly, it's two matches in a row that we don't win because of Dusan's inability to do his job as a striker. It's gonna be fuckin crazy if Juve will hand him a new contract. what an embarassing and medriocre striker.

The old problems in attack have not gone away, 0-0 again, although in the first two matches it seemed that Juventus had everything in order with the attack. Of course, there is a positive aspect with the fact that Juventus has everything in order with the defense. They still have not conceded a single goal, but without goals scored, there will be little sense, Inter will most likely be able to beat Juventus by two points in this round.

Roma is currently finishing their match with Genoa, and so far Roma is winning 0-1, Dovbyk finally scored a goal, I am very glad that he did it, the first goal is always the most difficult, and I wanted this goal to be so important that it would bring Roma victory.

Juventus loses points very easily in the first matches of the league. These points losses may cause them to lose the league race. They need to collect as many points as they can in the first matches because they have the possibility of losing points when they play against big opponents. If they can get 3 points from opponents other than the big teams, it is normal for them to lose points in the matches they play against big teams, but Juventus cannot get points from the matches they can easily get points from.

I think Juventus is still the team we know and nothing has changed. They will fight for the league title for a while but then they will give up this race.

[Slow death]

1 - Juventus currently has the best defense in the league, they haven't conceded a goal yet, and they're the only team that hasn't conceded a goal yet

Yes, Juventus have not conceded a single goal, and the club has also not lost, only in their last match they drew against Roma.
So far, Savona, Gatti, Bremmer, and also Cabal have done it very tightly. Especially their goalkeeper, Di Gregorio who made several important saves for the club.

And based on the statistic, here are the lists of most clean sheets in Serie A this season:

Source: Serie A - Clean Sheets

and Michele Di Gregorio (Juventus FC), becomes the one in number 1 with 3 most clean sheets. Percentage 100%.

A few weeks before the league started, I mentioned that the new Juventus coach had a very similar way of playing to the old coach, which was based on focusing on defense, so what we are seeing so far was something that was expected to happen. Juventus did not lose, Juventus has the best defense, but Juventus is not at the top and has a good chance of not winning Serie A. Because they will be focused on defense and will not win games regularly. Yesterday they drew against Empoli, that was an opponent they could beat, but they lost points. If Inter wins, they will stay at the top. If Napoli and Torino win, they will stay at the top and Juventus will drop down.


Monza - Inter Milan

Inter's task will be easy in this round, because Monza is going through a bad moment, until now they have not managed to obtain any victory, in 3 games they have had 2 draws and 1 defeat, while Inter has not yet suffered any defeat. In 3 games they have had 2 wins and 1 draw. Inter has the following injured player: Tajon Buchanan. Monza has the following injured player: Alessio Cragno, Patrick Ciurria.

Monza possible starting lineup:
Turati; Izzo, Mari, Carboni; Pereira, Bondo, Pessina, Kyriakopoulos; Maldini, Caprari; Djuric

Inter Milan possible starting lineup:
Sommer; Pavard, De Vrij, Augusto; Darmian, Frattesi, Asllani, Mkhitaryan, Dimarco; Thuram, Taremi

My Prediction: Inter will win

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what a disappointing performance from Juventus they never really attacked, in fact the greatest chance was given to Empoli who played an excellent match and made the fans enjoy themselves, overall a deserved result even if they would have deserved more empoli

It does look disappointing but Juventus at least did not suffer a defeat and the draw still saved Juventus by sharing points. Empoli also benefited from this draw, by noting that they are unbeaten in 4 matches. On the other hand, Inter will play their first match in the Champions League before facing Milan, and from Inter side the situation is quite unfavorable. Not only in the Champions League, Inter must field their best squad but against Milan they also have to win if they want to overtake Juventus in the standings.

[Altryist]

The old problems in attack have not gone away, 0-0 again, although in the first two matches it seemed that Juventus had everything in order with the attack. Of course, there is a positive aspect with the fact that Juventus has everything in order with the defense. They still have not conceded a single goal, but without goals scored, there will be little sense, Inter will most likely be able to beat Juventus by two points in this round.

Roma is currently finishing their match with Genoa, and so far Roma is winning 0-1, Dovbyk finally scored a goal, I am very glad that he did it, the first goal is always the most difficult, and I wanted this goal to be so important that it would bring Roma victory.

Roma still failed to hold on to the winning score, it's a shame to concede a goal in the 96th minute, but that happens too. A very weak start for Roma and it seems to me that De Rossi is now losing his authority, I think that such results make Roma's management doubt that they made the right choice to keep De Rossi as head coach. Motta is also losing points with Juventus, only three shots on target in the entire match, that's too little.

[stompix]

It does look disappointing but Juventus at least did not suffer a defeat and the draw still saved Juventus by sharing points. ~Not only in the Champions League, Inter must field their best squad but against Milan they also have to win if they want to overtake Juventus in the standings.

Juventus lost 2 points rather than gaining 1 on this, it's Empoli we talk about, the team that finished 17th the last time, if other teams flopped while playing with it it makes no joy for Juventus to do the same. And excluding this victory of Milan against the last one what has Ac to show of? Inter at least beat Atalanta and Lecce, at current standing and the way Milan plays and Juventus fails to score where is this pressure coming from just 4 games?

Juventus loses points very easily in the first matches of the league. These points losses may cause them to lose the league race.

That's the thing, 3 draws will bring you the same point as losing twice and winning once, if you fail to gather points with the middle teams then you have absolutely no other choice than defeating every key contestant to the top placing, so how would you pull that off as draws would not give you an advantage if you manage to stall every single one of them, you end up undefeated but placed 5th or 6th.

[LUCKMCFLY]

Juventus will beat Empoli and continue to put pressure on title rivals Inter. There will be no draw here. I predict this match Juventus will win by 2 goals alone.

The truth is I hope that they get that return, because I am a person who will always support Juve, on this occasion I hope that their motivation does not go away, I remember how last season when they lost against Inter to see who would take first place, at that moment they fell to the ground , Obviously they could not do anything, they came in 4th because they were really lucky, but it was a race in which every day they went to play they achieved nothing, at that moment Allegri I don't know how he did to stay there at the right point to not fall out of 5th , I hope that this time in Serie A that Juve that is always so good will be reborn.

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Finally, This is a good win. The most important thing was to win
Has Milan woken up? It's hard to judge since it was just Venezia.
Let's see where Milan is in the next two games, but I still hope they win against the big boys (Liverpool and Inter)
And Gabbia and Pavlovic are the CBs of this team. I hope Fonseca doesn't make a mistake benching Gabbia on Tuesday. he earned the right to start the next match.

Venezia is a promoted team this season in Serie A and of course Milan's victory over Venezia is a very normal thing and it can't give a proper assessment of Milan's actual performance because Venezia is not a team in the same class as Milan even though they are in Serie A this season. The next match will be a more appropriate proof for Milan because in two days Milan will also play in the Champions League against an extraordinary team from England, Liverpool, and after that match it seems a little more appropriate to judge how Milan's condition is this season.

[Nanga Parbat]

Only 0-0 for Juventus with Empoli.
Even If Empoli proved to be a decent team, the result of this evening is a disaster for Juventus.

Losing probably points versus Inter and "damaging" the morale of the team before the 1st match of the champions League in 2 days.

If they will not win at home during the week, the negativity will start on the fans.

I consider Empoli to be less efficient than Juventus, but in this match the perform of both will be kept equal because there is no perform to be seen from either side.  Yes they tried but they could not succeed that well.  So obviously if he wins the match Juventus will have nothing and they are not in a good position this season.  When hard work is not done, points will be wasted and teams will suffer.  So it must happen if you don't win in your own house, how will you prove your performance in someone else house.  They should work hard and struggle and become strong by getting marks.

[Leviathan.007]

I don't know if Ac Milan has been sleeping all these while since the beginning of this season and is today they remembered to wake up and start getting things right, a big win for them with a clean sheet, that score is a strong message to the other clubs that they (Ac Milan) are back to become one of the best and also a title contenders. I thought Ac Milan would have gotten more goals after the end of first half, but they allowed a team with one man down to stop them from scoring more goals in the second half, this isn't how a team as the favorite are suppose to handle such chances of getting goals.

From another point of view, the big win actually motivated the AC Milan squad itself, instead of sending a message to the competitors that they have now woken up after sleeping for the previous 3 weeks. Venezia is a promoted club, and it is very natural that AC Milan is able to secure full points convincingly. If AC Milan fails to win this week, Paulo Fonseca could be fired. The 4-0 win has saved his career, and hopefully they can maintain that performance consistently in the future. We realize that it is difficult to happen, because they will face Liverpool and Inter Milan next. Obviously, it is a very troublesome opponent, which I think has the potential to put Paulo Fonseca under great pressure again.

Finally, This is a good win. The most important thing was to win
Has Milan woken up? It's hard to judge since it was just Venezia.
Let's see where Milan is in the next two games, but I still hope they win against the big boys (Liverpool and Inter)
And Gabbia and Pavlovic are the CBs of this team. I hope Fonseca doesn't make a mistake benching Gabbia on Tuesday. he earned the right to start the next match.

After they stopped working with Pioli and hired Fonseca for Ac Milan they had bad days and Fonseca couldn't have a good performance in AC Milan at all even though there were some rumors about Fonseca getting fired from AC Milan because of his bad performance since he was much worst than Pioli in this team. Now it seems Fonseca's win against Venezia helped this coach a lot. However, Venezia is not a strong team but this win helped him to stay otherwise AC Milan could start searching for a new coach now. However, Nothing has yet for him and if he gets bad results again he would get himself closer to getting fired from AC Milan.
  

[samuraijin]

It does look disappointing but Juventus at least did not suffer a defeat and the draw still saved Juventus by sharing points. ~Not only in the Champions League, Inter must field their best squad but against Milan they also have to win if they want to overtake Juventus in the standings.

Juventus lost 2 points rather than gaining 1 on this, it's Empoli we talk about, the team that finished 17th the last time, if other teams flopped while playing with it it makes no joy for Juventus to do the same. And excluding this victory of Milan against the last one what has Ac to show of? Inter at least beat Atalanta and Lecce, at current standing and the way Milan plays and Juventus fails to score where is this pressure coming from just 4 games?

Juventus in last night's match really struggled to score a goal against Empoli, playing as a guest Juventus was really frustrated by Empoli's very good and strong defense plus Empoli's goalkeeper D. Vásquez and S. Esposito, Empoli's forwards who put pressure on the counterattack created in the final minutes of the second half made Juventus' defense even more confused and even Empoli almost scored a goal in last night's match, but the draw certainly benefited Empoli.