Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A)

[herurist]

Milan really have one of their toughest matches this weekend against Inter. Things have been so far so good for Milan. They won ten times in their eleven Serie A matches and lost none until now. This match has the potential to be their first loss but I still want to believe in Milan here. Maybe they will have a really big difficulty against Inter but they should be able to get at least one point.

it's a pretty hot derby and well worth watching.
I actually assume that Milan will win this match because indeed they are favored by playing at home and with full support from the fans.
in the champions league indeed they can't do much but serie a is different, this season they have become a superior club even in the last 5 matches milan managed to winstreak and this is a positive thing that can ignite the spirit of milan to be able to win this match

[blackened515]

One of the biggest teams of the league, Juventus are going to be hosting Fiorentina this week. Although they are one of the most performing teams in the Champions League right now, they were quite bad in the Serie A recently. They started getting unsatisfactory results again and this makes the supporters really worried. Because they didn't win any of their last 3 league matches. And they are on a 2-match losing streak also. This is one of the must-win matches for Juventus even though Fiorentina are three points ahead of them. I expect to see each team scoring and Juventus to win also.

Fiorentina got a better position in the standings with 6 wins and 5 losses. but Juventus have to win in this match if they don't want to fall further behind Fiorentina. it could be that if they lose, Juventus can drop from the top 10 of the class and it will be a bad season for Juventus.
Juventus has the advantage of playing at home, and this must be used by the team. do not let Fiorentina get a quick goal. because it could be a bad night for Juventus.

Anything that makes Fiorentina to score first in this match, Juventus will find it very difficult to win the match. They have to build a strong defence to avoid conceding goals. Although, Fiorentina won in their last 3 matches, and to me they are the most favorite in this match. Juventus performance in Serie A is quite poor, their focus is probably on the Champion League. Because they are currently unbeatable in the Champion League, won all the 4 matches they have played so far. However, the match is likely to end draw, but I don't think Juventus will be able to beat Fiorentina.

[poldanmig]

Indeed, the main focus right now is the Champions League, but not only that because Jeventus definitely wants to win and return to the top 4 of the Serie A standing. AC Milan is strong in Serie A but sluggish in the Champions League, this is different from Juventus who are strong enough in the Champions League but weak in Serie A. It's a bit strange, but that's how it is.

The journey of the Italian team this season in European competition is indeed quite strange if we look at it, I personally also didn't think that AC Milan conditions could be the opposite between the League and European competition, Juventus and Intermilan can certainly be quite safe in the Champions League but they have difficulty in the league, as well as Naples who fell at the beginning of the European League but are now starting to rise, but unlike what is happening with AC Milan today, AC Milan is a team that has a pretty good history in the Champions League a few years ago, but this season it seems they are starting lost his prowess in european competition and somehow that could happen?

[TheGreatPython]

Milan really have one of their toughest matches this weekend against Inter. Things have been so far so good for Milan. They won ten times in their eleven Serie A matches and lost none until now. This match has the potential to be their first loss but I still want to believe in Milan here. Maybe they will have a really big difficulty against Inter but they should be able to get at least one point.

it's a pretty hot derby and well worth watching.
I actually assume that Milan will win this match because indeed they are favored by playing at home and with full support from the fans.
in the champions league indeed they can't do much but serie a is different, this season they have become a superior club even in the last 5 matches milan managed to winstreak and this is a positive thing that can ignite the spirit of milan to be able to win this match

I agree here surely it's going to be very hot and entertaining Derby because AC Milan current form is also very impressive in this season and Inter is defending their title with some poor start of this season. AC Milan current form clearly favoring them but Inter's history is very good against them, they will try their best for having full points and close deficit between them and top two teams in League. In case of lost gape could be 10 points which mean they could be much behind them and their hopes of having successful title defend.

Napoli is also had good match against Verona which can give them full points and some better gape between other teams for having very good for staying at top.

[sana54210]

Ibra is not an easy player to kill.
He's big, he doesn't simulate .. he fights.
Hurting him would be unsportsmanlike, so he'll be hard to stem. Maybe push him to foul, so that he gets a yellow card and is forced to calm down (or be substituted) but even that is not sporty.
As a coach, I wouldn't know how to stem someone like Ibra.
Its hard

You mark him, that is how you stop him but unfortunately in today's football there aren't that many people who actually mark as a strategy and defense is usually zone. If you mark ibra and put a player on him for 90 minutes, and you run him around too much, no matter how great he is, he is still 40 years old and that is why he is going to get tired eventually, Ibrahimovic can't outrun one player for 90 minutes at all times and fatigue will make him worse.

This will not make him a bad player for the first 30 minutes or even maybe first half, but it is guaranteed method to slow him down during second half for sure. That is why I believe that marking him with one player all game would be great, you could even change the defender to put a fresh player on him as well.

[BuNga_cute]

Indeed, the main focus right now is the Champions League, but not only that because Jeventus definitely wants to win and return to the top 4 of the Serie A standing. AC Milan is strong in Serie A but sluggish in the Champions League, this is different from Juventus who are strong enough in the Champions League but weak in Serie A. It's a bit strange, but that's how it is.

The journey of the Italian team this season in European competition is indeed quite strange if we look at it, I personally also didn't think that AC Milan conditions could be the opposite between the League and European competition, Juventus and Intermilan can certainly be quite safe in the Champions League but they have difficulty in the league, as well as Naples who fell at the beginning of the European League but are now starting to rise, but unlike what is happening with AC Milan today, AC Milan is a team that has a pretty good history in the Champions League a few years ago, but this season it seems they are starting lost his prowess in european competition and somehow that could happen?

Everyone is quite surprised that AC Milan's performance is very different in Serie A compared to the Champions League. But if we look again
AC Milan is in a pretty tough group, because the other three teams are indeed a strong team. Even though Porto is the underdog team,
the fighting spirit of the Porto players is extraordinary. So it's no wonder Porto has the possibility of qualifying for the next round if they
beat Atletico. Unlike Juventus and Inter where there is only one strong team in their group, so either Inter or Juventus will qualify for the next
round in the Champions League. Then if we talk about Napoli playing badly when they started in the Europa League, but the last two games
against Legia played quite convincingly. Hopefully Napoli can qualify for the next round.

[MAAManda]

Juventus are sixteen points behind the leader now. This is really terrible for a team like Juventus. They have made one of their worst starts to the season. Even if they have Allegri as their manager, they are struggling to recover now. They lost their last two matches. Fiorentina is another tough target to beat for them. Fiorentina are not playing like they were in the last season. They are stronger. I have my doubts about Juventus to win this. But we'll see.

Talking about the potential to lose to Juventus, I think it's not impossible this time, in their last 2 matches, Juventus could only get 1 point when they drew with Fiorentina at the Artemio Franchi Stadium.

Moreover, this season Juventus is not at its best performance, besides Fiorentina although still unstable in the title race, they managed to beat Spezia with a score of Fiorentina 3 - 0 Spezia.

[AndySt]

Milan really have one of their toughest matches this weekend against Inter. Things have been so far so good for Milan. They won ten times in their eleven Serie A matches and lost none until now. This match has the potential to be their first loss but I still want to believe in Milan here. Maybe they will have a really big difficulty against Inter but they should be able to get at least one point.

it's a pretty hot derby and well worth watching.
I actually assume that Milan will win this match because indeed they are favored by playing at home and with full support from the fans.
in the champions league indeed they can't do much but serie a is different, this season they have become a superior club even in the last 5 matches milan managed to winstreak and this is a positive thing that can ignite the spirit of milan to be able to win this match

I agree here surely it's going to be very hot and entertaining Derby because AC Milan current form is also very impressive in this season and Inter is defending their title with some poor start of this season. AC Milan current form clearly favoring them but Inter's history is very good against them, they will try their best for having full points and close deficit between them and top two teams in League. In case of lost gape could be 10 points which mean they could be much behind them and their hopes of having successful title defend.
Napoli is also had good match against Verona which can give them full points and some better gape between other teams for having very good for staying at top.

Personally, it is difficult for me to name a favorite in this meeting, because on the one hand Milan has a great series in the championship with wins and only one draw. On the other hand, any series tends to end sometime and a derby with an irreconcilable rival is perfect for the role of the finisher of the series. Inter has shown good results in recent matches and, unlike Milan, has already improved the situation in the Champions League and has a good chance of reaching the next stage of the tournament. Therefore, Napoli has a great chance to become the sole leader of the championship again in the event of a favorable outcome of their match and a loss of points by Milan. But Verona is also a difficult opponent, as demonstrated by the win against Juventus in the last round. But I still think the chances of Napoli with Verona are more preferable, also taking into account the home status of the match.

[babo]

Reportedly AC Milan has offered ibra a contract extension for another year, so if ibra agrees to the contract of course he has two more seasons to continue his career as a footballer, some time ago he had hinted that ac milan was his last club as a footballer and this hinted if he would retire in milan but no one knows when he will retire, I think with ibra experience so far in football, maybe one day he will be able to continue his career as a coach.

I am very happy for the Milan fans, and I am also happy for Ibra (who remains in Italy).
Regarding Ibra as a coach .. sorry I think it's impossible because he has a bad temper or attitude to speak diplomatically

if you have to manage others, you need a different character

[ILuckyGuyI]

The first enjoyable game of the week seems to be Juventus - Fiorentina tomorrow. In the Serie A, Juventus are in a terrible shape as they lost their last two games and couldn't win any of their last three Serie A games. But they are performing completely the opposite in the CL as they have won all of their group games so far. Their last official game was against Zenit and destroyed them by 4-2 home. This can help them perform better against Fiorentina in this one. Fiorentina are three points and 2 places ahead of Juventus in the table now. Fiorentina is a quite tough competitor. But Juventus can take advantage of playing home also and win this time I believe. I expect a win by one goal.

[Zilon]

Reportedly AC Milan has offered ibra a contract extension for another year, so if ibra agrees to the contract of course he has two more seasons to continue his career as a footballer, some time ago he had hinted that ac milan was his last club as a footballer and this hinted if he would retire in milan but no one knows when he will retire, I think with ibra experience so far in football, maybe one day he will be able to continue his career as a coach.

I am very happy for the Milan fans, and I am also happy for Ibra (who remains in Italy).
Regarding Ibra as a coach .. sorry I think it's impossible because he has a bad temper or attitude to speak diplomatically

if you have to manage others, you need a different character

Ibra is one of the world most sort player and extending his contract is one of the best decisions Milan would be making this season if he spends the rest of his career in Milan he might decide to pursue a coaching career afterwards. His temper can be largely managed when he gets on the pitch because life on the pitch is quite different from our everyday experience

[poldanmig]

Juventus are sixteen points behind the leader now. This is really terrible for a team like Juventus. They have made one of their worst starts to the season. Even if they have Allegri as their manager, they are struggling to recover now. They lost their last two matches. Fiorentina is another tough target to beat for them. Fiorentina are not playing like they were in the last season. They are stronger. I have my doubts about Juventus to win this. But we'll see.

Talking about the potential to lose to Juventus, I think it's not impossible this time, in their last 2 matches, Juventus could only get 1 point when they drew with Fiorentina at the Artemio Franchi Stadium.

Moreover, this season Juventus is not at its best performance, besides Fiorentina although still unstable in the title race, they managed to beat Spezia with a score of Fiorentina 3 - 0 Spezia.

The match between Fiorentina and Juventus will certainly be the last match of the Italian league before the international break begins, I personally see that both teams have had the same problem so far, namely inconsistency in the league, even though Juventus are very good at champions but their performance often deteriorates when playing in the league and it can be seen from the draw they got against inter milan and the two consecutive defeats they got from sassuolo and verona, Fiorentina are also not better now even though they have players like Dusan who are quite dangerous, but they can't be stable in the last few matches , I personally see that both teams are still not yet at their best perfomance and most likely a draw will be the final result of the match.

[giammangiato]

We will see to enjoy the Juventus match, Fiorentina pushes well this makes me happy, may the best win, I gladly follow Napoli and Milan, at this moment it's fun, we'll see if anyone will be able to give us emotions ..

[Altryist]

Other reasons can be clubs in Italy are more familiar with Juventus while opponents in Europe are not. So Italian clubs can better to constrain strength of Juventus and when Juve are not stronger enough like in the past, more bad results come naturally.

In Champions League, I agree the is big gap between Juve and top clubs there but in tournament like this, everything can happen. Juve have enough good players to win the title as we see Atalanta did went too far in Champions League 3 years ago.

Perhaps they really need to be given more time to evaluate results over a longer period of time. I agree that the Champions League is a shorter tournament, where a few successful matches can determine the further fate of participation in the tournament. Regarding the fact that in Serie A the clubs are more familiar with how Juventus plays, I don't know if this can really affect the result. Here, most likely, it plays a big role, what mistakes Juventus makes in defense.

[Velvet78]

Milan - Inter can be the most important match of the weekend I suppose. Milan are doing much better than Inter in the recent times. I mean the Serie A of course. Otherwise, Milan are the worst when it comes to the Champions League this season. Milan are at the second position in the Serie A now and they are sharing the points (31) with the leader, Napoli. Inter are seven points behind. But Inter managed to beat Milan 3-0 in their last head-to-head. This is going to be an interesting match and I guess each team will score a goal at least.

[masulum]

It is very sad, a young Dutch player who has potential, Ihattaren has reportedly decided to end his career in Football maybe this year. He is only 19 years old at this time. While with PSV, he played quite well and Juventus were interested bringing him. Unfortunately, after being successfully bought, Ihattaren was loaned to Sampdoria and there was not played. The condition where he just 2 years ago lost his father who died, and rarely played in sampdoria look like made him even more depressed. He is rumored to have run away from Sampdoria 2 days ago after ask to go home to Netherland, there is no recent news that I have found, whether he has returned to the club or not.

[rozak]

Milan - Inter can be the most important match of the weekend I suppose. Milan are doing much better than Inter in the recent times. I mean the Serie A of course. Otherwise, Milan are the worst when it comes to the Champions League this season. Milan are at the second position in the Serie A now and they are sharing the points (31) with the leader, Napoli. Inter are seven points behind. But Inter managed to beat Milan 3-0 in their last head-to-head. This is going to be an interesting match and I guess each team will score a goal at least.

in the same stadium, maybe Inter will try to repeat the victory from Milan like their last match.
At that time, Milan had 60% possession, but none of the shots went into Inter's goal.
and in this match, a strong motivation for Milan not to repeat the same mistakes. they must be able to steal goals early to secure the game. I hope Milan can do more in this match.

[rahmad2nd]

It is very sad, a young Dutch player who has potential, Ihattaren has reportedly decided to end his career in Football maybe this year. He is only 19 years old at this time. While with PSV, he played quite well and Juventus were interested bringing him. Unfortunately, after being successfully bought, Ihattaren was loaned to Sampdoria and there was not played. The condition where he just 2 years ago lost his father who died, and rarely played in sampdoria look like made him even more depressed. He is rumored to have run away from Sampdoria 2 days ago after ask to go home to Netherland, there is no recent news that I have found, whether he has returned to the club or not.

The latest news that a potential player and future Juventus player who was on loan at Sampdoria Ihattaren suffered quite a severe trauma, this happened after he had to lose his father who died, he was quite young and had to accept the reality when his parents died. I think he needs a role model on and off the pitch how Ihattaren can bounce back and prove his capacity as a future striker for Juventus.

[DU18]

It is very sad, a young Dutch player who has potential, Ihattaren has reportedly decided to end his career in Football maybe this year. He is only 19 years old at this time. While with PSV, he played quite well and Juventus were interested bringing him. Unfortunately, after being successfully bought, Ihattaren was loaned to Sampdoria and there was not played. The condition where he just 2 years ago lost his father who died, and rarely played in sampdoria look like made him even more depressed. He is rumored to have run away from Sampdoria 2 days ago after ask to go home to Netherland, there is no recent news that I have found, whether he has returned to the club or not.

The latest news that a potential player and future Juventus player who was on loan at Sampdoria Ihattaren suffered quite a severe trauma, this happened after he had to lose his father who died, he was quite young and had to accept the reality when his parents died. I think he needs a role model on and off the pitch how Ihattaren can bounce back and prove his capacity as a future striker for Juventus.

It's a shame indeed if a talented player like Ihattaren had to choose to retire at a very young age, Ihattaren was bought by Juventus from PSV for 5 million pounds in the transfer market last summer, but unfortunately he hasn't even played for Juventus or Sampdoria and is reportedly currently he has returned to the netherlands to recover from the trauma he received after the death of his father, from the news I read, actually guus hiddink who was his coach while at PSV, had done a lot of things to cheer him up and make him focus on football again, but it will be very difficult for a child forgets the death of his father, especially if they have an extraordinary close relationship during this time.

[alpamar99]

Reportedly AC Milan has offered ibra a contract extension for another year, so if ibra agrees to the contract of course he has two more seasons to continue his career as a footballer, some time ago he had hinted that ac milan was his last club as a footballer and this hinted if he would retire in milan but no one knows when he will retire, I think with ibra experience so far in football, maybe one day he will be able to continue his career as a coach.

I am very happy for the Milan fans, and I am also happy for Ibra (who remains in Italy).
Regarding Ibra as a coach .. sorry I think it's impossible because he has a bad temper or attitude to speak diplomatically

if you have to manage others, you need a different character

even though ibra is old but his contribution is quite big for milan and this is a pretty good thing for milan because ibra is still vital in the team today. he's a senior player who can be a regulator and keeper of the junior players there.
when talking about coaches with ibra's explosive personality, I think this is a unique thing at least when he becomes a coach he will definitely remind us of gatuso