Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A)

[Kayeshlyn]

The game between Inter and Milan, being this early in the season was not really a fair thing for both teams, Milan got the win and they were the lucky ones but we could have seen both teams at full power if they were given a bit more chance. I am sensing that the second game will be a lot better to watch, it is going to have everyone playing amazingly.

Leao will definitely leave for a huge club at the end of the season if he keeps this up. Dude scored twice and assisted once in the game, that is not usually that common and he did this against the best competition in the league, if he goes like this, I am sure he will be moving to premier league or la liga to a big club for sure.

You are right, watching that game you will just assumed that is not the right time to be playing such a derby, but is a nice game to watch, AC Milan proves winning the title last season was not a flunk, and winning inter Milan who are there direct rival for the title really shows a statement, I thought to myself that AC Milan will not recover from Kessie leaving for Barcelona but I think they are coping well. Leao is having a good season just like he did last season, for I don't think he should be in a hurry to leave as soon as the season,he should stay more but the Milan club will not resist a big offer though from an English club.

Milan won the Derby della Madonnina against Inter last Saturday, and I have no hesitation in saying that Rafael Leao was the star of the game.

The 23-year-old Portugal international really made Milan's game interesting to watch, he proved by scoring 2 goals and 1 assist casually and being an inspiration as well as lifting the morale of the other Milan players after falling behind to Brozovic's goal.

The current market price for Rafael Leao is €75 million at the age of 23, and I think that price will continue to rise as Leao matures on the pitch, of course Milan will seriously consider this a promising business.

[zaki12]

Rome was incredible, as they managed to take 4 goals in Udine.
I didn't expect this result, I was really shocked.
Some problem will have happened or some player was not very well. I can't justify a match like that.

Udinese have been a strong team for a while now. Not that I expected this result, but at the start of the season, a team that underwent a change might be in trouble vs udinese.
udinese have an interesting striker when they got their chance proved right in this match what a great counter-attacking display they did against Roma Absolutely stunning

[Fesatmas]

Rome was incredible, as they managed to take 4 goals in Udine.
I didn't expect this result, I was really shocked.
Some problem will have happened or some player was not very well. I can't justify a match like that.

Udinese have been a strong team for a while now. Not that I expected this result, but at the start of the season, a team that underwent a change might be in trouble vs udinese.
udinese have an interesting striker when they got their chance proved right in this match what a great counter-attacking display they did against Roma Absolutely stunning

Who would have thought they would win the game with such a number of goals, because AS Roma played well in their game. Udinese can really stop the movement of any AS Roma players, otherwise they managed to play well. At first I thought AS Roma could at least equalize, but the fact that Udinese's 3 extra goals in the second half completely dashed any hopes.

[Davidvictorson]

Rome was crushed against Udinese. Honestly, I wasn't expecting this score. I thought that even if Udinese won, they could win 1 or 2 goals different, but they surprised everyone and won the match with a clear score of 4-0. With this result, they were ahead of Roma in the league. If Roma had won this match, they would have been the leader, but they are currently in the 5th place in the league. I hope they never suffer such a defeat again.

Please it will be too quick to judge Mourinho and Roma based on yesterday's game result. As much as I am pained by the results in a way I think it is a good thing. You know John Maxwell said, sometime we win sometimes we learn. In this games there's a lot of learning lessons. For example, Roma need to strengthen their defense,  they need to improve on their finishing. There were so many chances that they missed. Too many mistakes. If you noticed, individuals mistakes were responsible for the goal 1 and 2. I expect to see improvements in their next game.

[mr.robot8]

Udinese-Roma 4-0 Rome totally absent out of the game, a drop in concentration at the beginning of the season? unfortunately a missed opportunity loses the top of the ranking

[Masplanc]

Rome was incredible, as they managed to take 4 goals in Udine.
I didn't expect this result, I was really shocked.
Some problem will have happened or some player was not very well. I can't justify a match like that.

Udinese have been a strong team for a while now. Not that I expected this result, but at the start of the season, a team that underwent a change might be in trouble vs udinese.
udinese have an interesting striker when they got their chance proved right in this match what a great counter-attacking display they did against Roma Absolutely stunning

Udinese performance was fantastic,  I was not expecting a win from Udinese because roma has been performing well in the season.  Udinese performance was unpredictable,  I expected the game to end in draws but it ended up that Udinese was stronger than Roma.

[hahay]

So, how about Roma? I just reminded before that Roma's previous opponents weren't too difficult and only Juventus were difficult opponents, but Roma when playing against mediocre teams still couldn't maximize to win big. But yes, even though Roma managed to win big with a 3-0 score against Monza but it's not an opponent that can be compared with the better team in Serie A. With that said, to bet for Roma to win in last night's match was indeed very risky and I avoid it. I only predicted that the match would be tough and there would be few goals but my prediction was wrong, because what happened was that Udinese could win with a big score. If I bet with the over 2.5 goals option it's a good result but unfortunately, I wasn't sure beforehand the match would have as many goals as that and at least this is a sign that Mourinho still hasn't managed to keep Roma in consistent form.

[dezoel]

I went AFK for 30 minutes.

What happened to Roma 4-0 vs Udinese?

Roma until today was the more solid team and defense in Serie A for this year.

This is the most surprising match result in Italian Serie this season. I still don't believe this result. This is not even in my dream only.
Well, I don't know if Udinese really played so extraordinarily or Roma played extremely badly. Whatever their game, this is the worst game for Roma so far. They don't only lose 3 points and also in the table standing. But, they were also humiliated by a team like Udinese by getting slaughtered 4 - 0
How can?

Even this is the most shocking result of this season and Roma was surely going to be title contender and currently top of the league table, but they lost this match against a weaker side which defeated team like Fiorentina so no doubt this is a big upset, but we can expect results like this because teams are doing good job for some time and in this season we are having many unpredictable results from top rank teams in all leagues like Aston Villa hold Manchester City with the score of 0 - 0.

But, surely losing match by score like this 4 - 0 is the biggest trouble for Mourinho who is surely losing his strategy and have no enough things for handling things like this in last season he was hero at Roma, but this lost is surely going to have negative impact on his performance and career.

[Boristhecat]

Rome was crushed against Udinese. Honestly, I wasn't expecting this score. I thought that even if Udinese won, they could win 1 or 2 goals different, but they surprised everyone and won the match with a clear score of 4-0. With this result, they were ahead of Roma in the league. If Roma had won this match, they would have been the leader, but they are currently in the 5th place in the league. I hope they never suffer such a defeat again.

But even despite this defeat, not everything is so bad - Roma is still above both Juventus and Inter and is only one point behind Milan and Napoli. I think that Mourinho will benefit from this defeat by setting up the mind set of players correctly. Sometimes a major defeat is necessary in order to more objectively evaluate your strengths and work harder. I liked his interview after the game where he said that one 0-4 defeat is better than four 0-1 defeats.

[Sebas.tian]

It seems that AS Roma can't keep their points, this crushing defeat is very unfortunate. I don't see AS Roma like in the previous games, this game they really had a problem. They even minimal in creating opportunities.
Back to the problem that we often see in Serie A, where a team that has earned trust cannot maintain that trust properly.

I think, Roma coach need to do something fast that will make the team not to loose their next match because many fans are not happy about the 4-0 Udinese defeated them. Udinese strikers really surprised people in this game, because many people predicted for draw 1-1 because they know that Udinese defenders cannot stop Roma strikers not to achieve a goal from the match but Udinese defenders made the match difficult for Roma strikers not to score any goal through out the match. If Roma coach can work on their defense and midfield before next match they will definitely improve their points to make their fans happy again.

[Tumanggor]

Udinese have been a strong team for a while now. Not that I expected this result, but at the start of the season, a team that underwent a change might be in trouble vs udinese.
udinese have an interesting striker when they got their chance proved right in this match what a great counter-attacking display they did against Roma Absolutely stunning

if we look at the results that udinese got before facing roma then we don't see anything special with udinese but they succeeded in making everyone surprised and did not expect, many gamblers lose

I believe that udinese is an unstable team, next week udinese will face sassoulo, not so sure if udinese will beat sassoulo with a big score like roma yesterday

[CryptoBuds]

Is Roma going to concede their first defeat of the season? Roma trailed 1-0 at the end of the first half. Even after conceding a goal at the beginning of the match, Roma is not trying hard to score. If they don't change their strategy in the second half and attack more, they won't win. But I think Roma can score a  goal in the second half and they will be happy with 1 point from this match. However, Roma had a chance to go to the top of the points table if they win this match. There are still 45 minutes left to play. I won't be surprised if Roma win.

Early goal is enough for Udinese to keep their momentum at top and now with this goal they are fifth in league table ahead of Juventus and inter which is giving good impression of their start of this season after having first game defeat against defending champions AC Milan even 40 minutes left in this game, and we can expect change in result as well but right now they are doing good job and have good defense which is increasing tension in Roma camp.

Napoli is again at the top for some time as tomorrow Atlanta is going to face new promoted side in their match for top spot today we have two more matches with two were drawn and in third Verona have their first win of this season which give them good place in league table and now Sampdoria is in relegation zone.

Edit: German Samardzic done second goal for Udinese mean now Roma is out of this game.

^ Roma had some obvious problems while defending. This was quite evident in the performance of Roma against Udinese.
The goalkeeper also made mistakes in the game. And the attacks that Roma tried to perform did not work out either.

Napoli is at the top of the table but I don’t know for how long that will be the case. The next match for Napoli is going to be against Liverpool which is the Champions League match.
I don’t think they will be able to win that. But the next league match for Napoli is going to be against Spezia. They should have a good chance of winning that match.

Is Roma going to concede their first defeat of the season? Roma trailed 1-0 at the end of the first half.

Roma conceded their first defeat and it was a humiliated one!
Udinese 4 - 0 Roma. That wasn't Juve nor Inter nor Milan but it was Udinese! 
Atalanta will have now a highway to return to the first spot since they will face Monza

if atalanta wins (I don't see talanta having much difficulty winning in tomorrow's game) in tomorrow's game then atalanta will pass to first place, roma wasted a great chance, if they had won they would have been in first place and with a difference 2-point napoli and milan

^^ snipie, Roma had no chance to win that match. They had made too many mistakes in that match.
And I can’t believe that I am actually going to say this but in my opinion, Roma did not deserve to win that match. Udinese got the win that they deserved.

^ Slow death, I really believe that Atalanta has a really good chance of achieving first place in the standings.
And the next match is going to be against Monza who are at the absolute bottom of the table. I really do not expect Atalanta to lose this match.
This is the best chance that they are going to get to go to the top of the table. And if they play well I believe they will be able to hold onto their position.

[Jody.Drummer]

It seems that AS Roma can't keep their points, this crushing defeat is very unfortunate. I don't see AS Roma like in the previous games, this game they really had a problem. They even minimal in creating opportunities.
Back to the problem that we often see in Serie A, where a team that has earned trust cannot maintain that trust properly.

I think, Roma coach need to do something fast that will make the team not to loose their next match because many fans are not happy about the 4-0 Udinese defeated them. Udinese strikers really surprised people in this game, because many people predicted for draw 1-1 because they know that Udinese defenders cannot stop Roma strikers not to achieve a goal from the match but Udinese defenders made the match difficult for Roma strikers not to score any goal through out the match. If Roma coach can work on their defense and midfield before next match they will definitely improve their points to make their fans happy again.

Yes, Jose Mourinho must see this as a whip for them, the article with this crushing defeat means they are not fully strong in every line. Moreover, this defeat from a club that can be said below them.
But I believe that Jose Mourinho has evaluated this match, why they can lose badly in this match. Next week they have to get up and get back to winning ways if they want the Scudetto this season.

[BuNga_cute]

It seems that AS Roma can't keep their points, this crushing defeat is very unfortunate. I don't see AS Roma like in the previous games, this game they really had a problem. They even minimal in creating opportunities.
Back to the problem that we often see in Serie A, where a team that has earned trust cannot maintain that trust properly.

I think, Roma coach need to do something fast that will make the team not to loose their next match because many fans are not happy about the 4-0 Udinese defeated them. Udinese strikers really surprised people in this game, because many people predicted for draw 1-1 because they know that Udinese defenders cannot stop Roma strikers not to achieve a goal from the match but Udinese defenders made the match difficult for Roma strikers not to score any goal through out the match. If Roma coach can work on their defense and midfield before next match they will definitely improve their points to make their fans happy again.

Yes, Jose Mourinho must see this as a whip for them, the article with this crushing defeat means they are not fully strong in every line. Moreover, this defeat from a club that can be said below them.
But I believe that Jose Mourinho has evaluated this match, why they can lose badly in this match. Next week they have to get up and get back to winning ways if they want the Scudetto this season.

Finally Roma suffered their first defeat in Serie A this season, I did not expect Roma who previously performed extraordinary against Monza.
But when they played against Udinese they played like a different team, a lot of mistakes made by Roma players. Especially Udinese's two early
goals should not have happened, had the Roma players not made a mistake. Roma players make imperfect passes, this was taken advantage of
by Udogie who moved very quickly by taking advantage of the error and managed to score a goal. Then Lazar Samardzic's long-range shot doesn't
need to be a goal, if Rui Patricio can anticipate the shoot correctly.

All Roma players are playing below standard, maybe only Dybala is playing well enough, unfortunately Dybala failed to take advantage of the two
big opportunities he got. I'm sure Mourinho will evaluate Roma's poor game against Udinese, basically Roma have quality players that are quite good
this season. Maybe because Roma got a positive result in the previous match, then Roma underestimated Udinese a bit. Even though Udinese is
a team that cannot be underestimated, even before they managed to beat Fiorentina. I believe Roma will do better in the next match.

[boris singer]

Kick off Udinese and Roma have started and Roma have been surprised by a quick goal from Udogie in the 5th minute.
At the moment it looks like Roma are still having a bit of trouble developing the game due to 15 minutes of time but it's very rare for them to get the ball up until now as Udinese's midfield have always made quite accurate passes.
But I'm sure Roma will take the points in this match because it's still quite a long game now.

Scoring fast goal without adding another one is generally a bad sign and the other team might turn the table at any moment or just gets a draw.
I doubt Roma won't score in this game and will miss passing to the first place this round.

It's a pretty crazy game, I couldn't even predict ahead of time because I was in Rome for this match.
Their performance was a complete mess and this was a first blow for them.
Roma could not develop the game in the second half and the result was a crushing defeat for them. Not very good results for my bets in Serie A this week.

[Alanaz]

Yes, Jose Mourinho must see this as a whip for them, the article with this crushing defeat means they are not fully strong in every line. Moreover, this defeat from a club that can be said below them.
But I believe that Jose Mourinho has evaluated this match, why they can lose badly in this match. Next week they have to get up and get back to winning ways if they want the Scudetto this season.

In the second half of this match they looked like they wanted to be open and this is where their problem lies.
Precisely with their open game being one of the boomerangs in this match, they let their defense line not be too tightly guarded like in the first half which made 3 goals they had to accept in the second half.
This is something that is unexpected but still something that is understandable considering this is Serie A.

[OcTradism]

Finally Roma suffered their first defeat in Serie A this season, I did not expect Roma who previously performed extraordinary against Monza.
But when they played against Udinese they played like a different team, a lot of mistakes made by Roma players.

Karsdop made a terrible mistake just like a youth defender. Patricio made another unacceptable mistake because Udinese shot is not too dangerous and too hard to handle. Anyway, they made mistakes and Roma got 2 conceded goals that are enough for Udinese to secure and get three points.

All Roma players are playing below standard, maybe only Dybala is playing well enough, unfortunately Dybala failed to take advantage of the two
big opportunities he got.

Dybala played well as Mourinho told in the press conference but he still lack of accuracy for his shots. It is his issue in first three matches, not only in the yesterday match.

I'm sure Mourinho will evaluate Roma's poor game against Udinese, basically Roma have quality players that are quite good
this season. Maybe because Roma got a positive result in the previous match, then Roma underestimated Udinese a bit.

I don't think Roma underestimated Udinese because last season they got troubles there too. It's just their players made two terrible personal mistakes that caused two conceded goals and they did not manage to get things back. Then two later goals are unavoidable with counter attacking from Udinese.

[LUCKMCFLY]

Atalanta's performance in all four matches has been quite stable. Atalanta's opponents were strong in all matches. And Atalanta has performed well in every match and earned points. But it's not like Atalanta is playing too aggressively. Atalanta is attacking less, but every attack is well organized. Atalanta's defense is also very strong. They conceded only two goals in four matches. I think Atalanta will be able to stay at the top of the points table for quite some time.

It is true that Atalanta performance is quite impressive so far. But we don't know how long they can maintain this good performance. So far, only AC Milan was the strong opponent, they got a draw against AC Milan. While for the other matches that they got full points, they played with weak teams. In this matter, I think Atalanta performance isn't tested seriously by strong teams. I don't underestimate Atalanta, they have a good squad and they are possible to stay in the top position. But I am not sure that they are really strong enough to maintain their performance once they are against strong teams then.

Atalanta can surprise many, we should not be overconfident, in this way of Italian football, I would not see any team as weak, because we do not know the preparation, the desire and the motivations that each of the teams have, so if we let's look, many considered Atalanta a weak team, and I'm sure that many lost their bets because I gave Milan AC the winner, I also don't rule out that Milan AC played badly and things didn't work out for them, this is something that can happen and it happens in the teams that are very big and are favorites for any title, for me to see Atalanta go well, I am happy, because it is another team that is emerging, and I hope that they follow that level that they showed against Milan AC proving throughout Serie A.

Yes, Jose Mourinho must see this as a whip for them, the article with this crushing defeat means they are not fully strong in every line. Moreover, this defeat from a club that can be said below them.
But I believe that Jose Mourinho has evaluated this match, why they can lose badly in this match. Next week they have to get up and get back to winning ways if they want the Scudetto this season.

In the second half of this match they looked like they wanted to be open and this is where their problem lies.
Precisely with their open game being one of the boomerangs in this match, they let their defense line not be too tightly guarded like in the first half which made 3 goals they had to accept in the second half.
This is something that is unexpected but still something that is understandable considering this is Serie A.

It's like that, I was surprised by the result shown by Roma, they lost very badly, well, but it's like they say, they have to recover and get ahead, the truth is I think Mou tried to put a team much more focused on the attack and wanted to have this formation but I think it's not the right one, the defense line looked very fragile and didn't have the right consistency, at this point they shouldn't lose anymore, I see Milan AC very strong and I don't know but they should react because another loss like This and it could mean very bad things for Mou and his team, I think what happened was a very bad decision in the change of strategy, and for more, it is an Italian team, its strong point has always been the defense.

Well, and at the press conference, one of Mou's words was:

"We had a good chance at the start with Dybala who was our best player tonight. But Udinese... every time they countered either they created a chance or they scored."

Mourinho added: "The referee? When you lose 4-0 you don't talk about the referee. I prefer to lose a game 4-0 rather than four games 1-0. This was ugly, both for us and the fans. But it's life, and we move on."

Also one of the words that I liked about this bitter pill was that he preferred to lose under such a wide score than to lose 4 games, because they have started the season with a very good run, but like everything in football things sometimes It doesn't go well and that gives them a clear message, that they have to raise the level more to be at the level of the best.
Source: https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/roma-udinese-jose-mourinho-referee-27908141

This is normal in any team, Italy is a team that has a lot to show, there is still a lot left in Serie A, and I think that despite everything it is very interesting.

[G_Besar]

Yes, Jose Mourinho must see this as a whip for them, the article with this crushing defeat means they are not fully strong in every line. Moreover, this defeat from a club that can be said below them.
But I believe that Jose Mourinho has evaluated this match, why they can lose badly in this match. Next week they have to get up and get back to winning ways if they want the Scudetto this season.

AS Roma's inaugural defeat by a score of quite a landslide is of course very surprising. AS Roma who are very favorites in this match have to swallow a bitter pill, their ambition to win the throne must also disappear and now Roma have to sag to number five, with 10 points adrift of 1 point from the leader of the standings. Jose Mourinho of course must immediately find the cause and evaluate it. Return to winning ways is mandatory for Roma to keep the competition in the top flight. But unfortunately, according to the news that Tamy Abraham suffered an injury in the match, it is likely that he will be out for two weeks.

[bering]

I don't think Roma underestimated Udinese because last season they got troubles there too. It's just their players made two terrible personal mistakes that caused two conceded goals and they did not manage to get things back. Then two later goals are unavoidable with counter attacking from Udinese.

If talking about last season records Roma can beat Udinese twice so that's why they were the favorite to win the match moreover Roma previous performance were very impressive but i noticed in this match Roma has not playing according to their characteristics that during the match they were slightly dominated the game and maybe this is the results if the team who have defensive style playing attacking and when Udinese playing with counter attack Roma players cannot anticipated it and they did some mistakes which suffered goals from Udinese players