Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A)

[barbara44]

Inter are really getting what they want by their performance so far. I though that Milan or Napoli wouldn't lose their lead for a longer time. But they started getting bad results earlier than I expected. And Inter have taken advantage of the situation great. The question is whether they will be able to pull away a little from the others sooner or later or we will see a different scenario this time.

Inter having top spot on very crucial stage of this season as suddenly Napoli and AC Milan both having poor games and lost of points very quickly which helps them for having top spot which is now difficult to slip because their unit is performing very good, and they are also defending champions, so they can keep going again in this season.

Napoli is facing some injuries which are terrible for them now next match is between Inter vs Napoli, so this can give some more advantage and gap of points. But, one thing is very good in this season we have now four teams on top level fighting hard for title and excitement is going to be for some more rounds clearly.

[diyetisman]

After all those weeks we have left behind, Inter are there to capture the lead in the table. Atalanta are also a very impressive team by their performance recently. But Milan and Napoli are not very good these days. There is a highly visible drop in their performances recently and I mean especially Napoli. Because they managed to win only one time in the previous five weeks. And now they are gonna be playing away vs Milan. The nightmare can go on for them.

[coinlocket$]

Next week can be the last call for Napoli, if they lose with Milan they will be out IMHO, at least psychologically.

Friday 17th December
Lazio 17:30 Genoa
Salernitana 19:45 Inter Milan

Saturday 18th December
Atalanta 14:00 Roma
Bologna 17:00 Juventus
Cagliari 19:45 Udinese

Sunday 19th December
Fiorentina 11:30 Sassuolo
Spezia 14:00 Empoli
Sampdoria 17:00 Venezia
Torino 17:00 Verona
AC Milan 19:45 Napoli

Source: https://www.skysports.com/serie-a-fixtures

[borovichok]

Juventus have been a disappointment this season I didn't expect such a decline from them, they are behaving like the Barcelona of Italy, with the way they are dropping point almost every week I don't think they will make it to the champions League next season,with Atlanta emerging as a serious contender lately,and Napoli and AC Milan are likely the teams to finish second and third respectively.

[KTChampions]

Next week can be the last call for Napoli, if they lose with Milan they will be out IMHO, at least psychologically.

Friday 17th December
Lazio 17:30 Genoa
Salernitana 19:45 Inter Milan

Saturday 18th December
Atalanta 14:00 Roma
Bologna 17:00 Juventus
Cagliari 19:45 Udinese

Sunday 19th December
Fiorentina 11:30 Sassuolo
Spezia 14:00 Empoli
Sampdoria 17:00 Venezia
Torino 17:00 Verona
AC Milan 19:45 Napoli

Source: https://www.skysports.com/serie-a-fixtures

Sure. This will be the final watershed between Napoli and the group of clubs that really claim the championship (well, if this unsuccessful streak continues for Napoli, it will look incredible - two diametrically opposite league segments).
By the way, a great tour - I see as many as three top matches that will need to be watched:

Atalanta 14:00 Roma go go Mourinho!
Bologna 17:00 Juventus There is a premonition that Juventus will surprise everyone again and lose points.
AC Milan 19:45 Napoli I pray that Napoli will wake up and start playing well again.

[jakdanyel]

I'm looking forward to watching the enormous match between Milan and Napoli in San Siro on this Sunday. There is no clear favourite team in a match like this of course. Even though Napoli have been in a worse shape than Milan in the recent times, their levels of strength are very similar to each other this season. Maybe Milan seem to have an advantage of playing home but anything can happen in a match like this I think. If I place a bet on something, I'd choose "both teams to score" option.

[AndySt]

Juventus have been a disappointment this season I didn't expect such a decline from them, they are behaving like the Barcelona of Italy, with the way they are dropping point almost every week I don't think they will make it to the champions League next season,with Atlanta emerging as a serious contender lately,and Napoli and AC Milan are likely the teams to finish second and third respectively.

Still, I think there is still enough time and Juventus will be able to climb higher in the championship standings and still play in the Champions League next year. It's just that the team needs to find stability and not lose tournament points, and then the club may well repeat the path of Inter, which won five victories in a row and came out on a clean first place. I perfectly understand the Juventus fans who are used to the fact that the team has been quietly winning the Scudetto every year for a decade and the current standings plunge them into confusion and bewilderment, causing the worst fears about the future. But Massimiliano Allegri is not the first time on the coaching bridge and has some experience, so we should hope that he will be able to cope with the current problems and raise the team to at least the top four.

[1kodumtek7]

On this Friday, the opening match of the new round is going to be Lazio vs Genoa. And Lazio should be able to destroy Genoa in Stadio Olimpico without having too much problem. Lazio really need this win to boost their morale. Their morale is quite down now as they won only one of their recent five Serie A matches. This is very alarming for Lazio and they need a booster. And this is the opportunity to win.

[Rengga Jati]

Still, I think there is still enough time and Juventus will be able to climb higher in the championship standings and still play in the Champions League next year.

Yes it still has chances for we see the points of Juventus, Roma, and also Fiorentine, are only small difference. But with the note that Juventus can really utilize the next matches to win. At least, Juventus has higher chance to win from Bologna and also Cagliari for the next two matches. Juventus should not miss the chances.

On this Friday, the opening match of the new round is going to be Lazio vs Genoa. And Lazio should be able to destroy Genoa in Stadio Olimpico without having too much problem.

It should be like that, Lazio has a chance and also a bigger possibility to win the match with Genoa.
But later on the pitch we don't know, even Lazio have suffered a defeat against Sassuolo in the previous match, where Lazio are actually above Sassuolo.

[Wawa2013]

On this Friday, the opening match of the new round is going to be Lazio vs Genoa. And Lazio should be able to destroy Genoa in Stadio Olimpico without having too much problem. Lazio really need this win to boost their morale. Their morale is quite down now as they won only one of their recent five Serie A matches. This is very alarming for Lazio and they need a booster. And this is the opportunity to win.

Lazio did play badly in the last 5 matches, dropping a lot of points in the previous few games means Lazio now be in 9th position. And this is of course
not a good thing, I agree against Genoa, Lazio should be able to win easily. Because we know Genoa are in the relegation zone and are only able to
win once in 17 matches. Even though Genoa have changed their coach, and replaced with Shevchenko. But still Genoa is still difficult to win in Serie A.
My prediction is the same as yours, Lazio will probably win the match against Genoa, Lazio's victory besides being able to make Lazio rise to
a higher position. Lazio's victory is also very important to make Lazio's players morale back up. Even though Genoa really needed a win to get out of
the relegation zone, but with the quality of players that Genoa has it seems impossible to beat Lazio.

[OcTradism]

Lazio did play badly in the last 5 matches, dropping a lot of points in the previous few games means Lazio now be in 9th position. And this is of course not a good thing, I agree against Genoa, Lazio should be able to win easily. Because we know Genoa are in the relegation zone and are only able to win once in 17 matches.

Problems of Lazio are they depend to much on Ciro Immobile for goals. He is a good striker and very productive in recent seasons. One of best strikers in Serie A but Immobile is not at same level of Totti, Del Piero, Inzaghi, Vieri in the past. He can score many goals but he can miss so many opportunities.

Lazio will climb up again after they end this mini crisis but Lazio will be like Roma, they won't be able to join top 4 of Serie A in this season. Their resources are very limited and can be broken if some of key players are out of games.

[blue Snow]

AC Milan 19:45 Napoli I pray that Napoli will wake up and start playing well again.

Milan's performance is unstable, draw vs Udinese and lost vs Liverpool. they only win when meet a weak team. and in fact, they also lost vs Sassuolo. For sure when meet Napoli, we have doubt they can get the win easy even though they play at home because several attackers have injured like Giroud and Leao. Now, Milan rely only on Ibra and Diaz without any substitute that could make them tired in the center field.

[hahay]

On this Friday, the opening match of the new round is going to be Lazio vs Genoa. And Lazio should be able to destroy Genoa in Stadio Olimpico without having too much problem. Lazio really need this win to boost their morale. Their morale is quite down now as they won only one of their recent five Serie A matches. This is very alarming for Lazio and they need a booster. And this is the opportunity to win.

But usually the teams that are struggling to get out of the relegation zone also have a tough game and Genoa certainly has that big effort, considering Genoa is still very likely to come out because the points gap is very possible. Lazio itself lately may have been more focused on the Europa League and that gave a good result to qualify for the knockout stages, but in any case from a head to head side Lazio proved to be able to dominate the match against Genoa. With a record like that, then of course Lazio have a better chance of winning but indeed, the resistance from Genoa will still make Lazio have to put in more effort and it is very possible for both teams to score goals but with Lazio's final score I believe that they will win.

[babo]

On this Friday, the opening match of the new round is going to be Lazio vs Genoa. And Lazio should be able to destroy Genoa in Stadio Olimpico without having too much problem. Lazio really need this win to boost their morale. Their morale is quite down now as they won only one of their recent five Serie A matches. This is very alarming for Lazio and they need a booster. And this is the opportunity to win.

this team, Lazio .. is very strong and could win without problems
honestly i can't understand how it works
it's a thorn in your side that can beat you (even big teams) but doesn't have a great continuity
he looks like me at Inter

[poldanmig]

I'm looking forward to watching the enormous match between Milan and Napoli in San Siro on this Sunday. There is no clear favourite team in a match like this of course. Even though Napoli have been in a worse shape than Milan in the recent times, their levels of strength are very similar to each other this season. Maybe Milan seem to have an advantage of playing home but anything can happen in a match like this I think. If I place a bet on something, I'd choose "both teams to score" option.

That's right, the match between AC Milan and Napoli is certainly nerve-wracking with prestige and competition for positions in the standings, currently AC Milan is in second place with 39 points, while Napoli is in 4th place with 36 points and whoever wins later will definitely make a position they are lifted, if milan wins they will automatically be able to shift Intermilan position in rank 1, while if napoli wins, of course they can coup milan and make milan back under napoli.

[AakZaki]

Well, even though Roma won in last night's match but the opponent is only Spezia and also, Roma still has to fight hard to win at home against the bottom ranked team. Indeed the result was good with clean sheets but Spezia had a goal disallowed and it shows that Roma are still not safe enough against a higher team especially when the opponent is a top team so it looks like Roma are still difficult to overcome stronger opponents up front.

As Roma's victory took advantage of set pieces. Against Spezia Roma rightly took advantage of two corners. From set plays they didn't score. This seems to prove they can't perform to their full potential. Moreover, Spezia did not provide fierce resistance, Spezia's level was still far below Roma. They should have scored more than two goals. Next they will play Atalanta of course this is the real test. Playing at Atalanta of course Roma are not the underdogs to win.

[BALIK]

On this Friday, the opening match of the new round is going to be Lazio vs Genoa. And Lazio should be able to destroy Genoa in Stadio Olimpico without having too much problem. Lazio really need this win to boost their morale. Their morale is quite down now as they won only one of their recent five Serie A matches. This is very alarming for Lazio and they need a booster. And this is the opportunity to win.

this team, Lazio .. is very strong and could win without problems
honestly i can't understand how it works
it's a thorn in your side that can beat you (even big teams) but doesn't have a great continuity
he looks like me at Inter

I watched the previous match between Lazio vs Geona. Although Lazio won the match, they scored four goals. However, they won the match 4-3. Lazio is now in a better position than Geona. They don't have to suffer much to win the next match. Because Geona’s players are still fighting to get back to form. I will definitely bet on Lazio's victory

[coderben]

We are going to be starting with the Lazio v Genoa match to the new week of the league. Lazio have got very bad results for many weeks. I saw them winning only once these times and it was against Sampdoria in an away match. They need an immediate victory to start pulling themselves together and get prepared much better for their next fixtures. And this is the chance they are looking for. Lazio can defeat Genoa with a comfortable score I hope.

[hahay]

Well, even though Roma won in last night's match but the opponent is only Spezia and also, Roma still has to fight hard to win at home against the bottom ranked team. Indeed the result was good with clean sheets but Spezia had a goal disallowed and it shows that Roma are still not safe enough against a higher team especially when the opponent is a top team so it looks like Roma are still difficult to overcome stronger opponents up front.

As Roma's victory took advantage of set pieces. Against Spezia Roma rightly took advantage of two corners. From set plays they didn't score. This seems to prove they can't perform to their full potential. Moreover, Spezia did not provide fierce resistance, Spezia's level was still far below Roma. They should have scored more than two goals. Next they will play Atalanta of course this is the real test. Playing at Atalanta of course Roma are not the underdogs to win.

We can also see their head to head and at least we will get a better Atalanta over the previous few seasons, now that Atalanta is getting better than Roma then of course the match between Atalanta - Roma is completely I believe Atalanta will win. It seems that Mou may still not get the right players for the strategy implemented or maybe the fault is in other factors, I will just wait to see if my prediction is wrong or right about Roma being unsafe against other top teams at this moment.

[Turbolinea]

Inter are the most comfortable team of this week as it seems. Because they are going to be playing away vs Salernitana and it is tomorrow night. Salernitana are the last team of the current standings. And they are the second most conceding team currently after Spezia. This league is way difficult for them and another loss is waiting for them already. Inter will win this match by a two-goal gap at worst and move on by maintaining their lead.