Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A)

[G_Besar]

I didn't think that Atalanta could be so much better now. Because if you look at last season they even struggled to at least be in a European place. Now they lead the standings with 4 wins and a draw. I hope they can maintain that and participate in the struggle for the Scudetto title this season. If they can afford it, it will be even more interesting.

Atalanta were able to continue their sensational start to snatch the top of the Serie A standings from Napoli and AC Milan. But talking about the opportunity to win the Scudetto does not seem like an easy matter, because the competition in Serie A this season is very tight. For Atalanta I can only see their chances realistically, which is to finish in the top four of the standings and they have to defend that or they can get into the Europa League zone.

[Oluwa-btc]

I didn't think that Atalanta could be so much better now. Because if you look at last season they even struggled to at least be in a European place. Now they lead the standings with 4 wins and a draw. I hope they can maintain that and participate in the struggle for the Scudetto title this season. If they can afford it, it will be even more interesting.

That's correct. Last season they did poorly but so far they have started very well still taking number one spot on top of the table. They are not involved in any serious competition so it's them best chance to win something at least the league.
Just as Chelsea did with Antonio Conte some years back, winning the premier league because they was only playing the premier league back to back weekend after weekend.
I still have same positivity for Atalanta knowing they can sure do better than this. Jose Mourinho and his side also, but the loss to udinese is already a turn off chasing the league at these early periods.

[Velvet78]

They look much stronger and determined. It is just difficult to guess if they keep up this good work most of the time during the season. But they are at least one of the biggest candidates of top 4 surely.

To become one of the top four candidates on Serie A Atalanta will have to get rid of Napoli or Juventus
Although Inter are still far behind in the standings, I believe the consistency of Inter and Milan is maintained, both of them still have the potential to rivals at the top of the standings.
Napoli are not in bad form, so to be in the top four of Serie A I think Atalanta have to get rid of Juventus
The question is, can Atalanta do it?

I don't know about that. Juventus are still not a very credible team in the league now. Pogba is returning soon but we will see how big impact he can make in time. The main problem might be different for Juventus at the same time. They still have problems on getting comfortable wins in many games. If they don't improve this effort later in the season then Atalanta can surely stay ahead of them to finish the league in top four. Atalanta's current performance is much more trustworthy recently. Juventus just need to improve in offense.

[Rengga Jati]

I didn't think that Atalanta could be so much better now. Because if you look at last season they even struggled to at least be in a European place. Now they lead the standings with 4 wins and a draw. I hope they can maintain that and participate in the struggle for the Scudetto title this season. If they can afford it, it will be even more interesting.

For the next match against Cremonese, they may be still able to have the victory and stand in the top rank.
But, the next match against Roma on September 18 may be harder. If they cannot win from Roma at that time, they will lose some points.
As we know that the points of Atalanta, Napoli, and Milan are closed enough, only different 2 points so everything changed may be still possible enough.

Here, the attention may be more on Inter, although this is still early season, Inter has dropped to 8th in standing position. However, Many people still believe that Inter can be able to rise up again because of the point gaps that are not very difference.
But of course, this may not be easy moreover if tehir performacne is not getting better, or if they cannot utilize and optimize every chance given for them very well by making victories again.

[Wawa2013]

They look much stronger and determined. It is just difficult to guess if they keep up this good work most of the time during the season. But they are at least one of the biggest candidates of top 4 surely.

To become one of the top four candidates on Serie A Atalanta will have to get rid of Napoli or Juventus
Although Inter are still far behind in the standings, I believe the consistency of Inter and Milan is maintained, both of them still have the potential to rivals at the top of the standings.
Napoli are not in bad form, so to be in the top four of Serie A I think Atalanta have to get rid of Juventus
The question is, can Atalanta do it?

I don't know about that. Juventus are still not a very credible team in the league now. Pogba is returning soon but we will see how big impact he can make in time. The main problem might be different for Juventus at the same time. They still have problems on getting comfortable wins in many games. If they don't improve this effort later in the season then Atalanta can surely stay ahead of them to finish the league in top four. Atalanta's current performance is much more trustworthy recently. Juventus just need to improve in offense.

If we compare Juventus performance with Atalanta this season, of course Atalanta is much more consistent than Juventus. Even though Juventus
have a better squad than Atalanta, it seems Juventus are still having trouble finding their best performance. It happened because this season Juventus
lost many main players, there were players who moved to other clubs, there were also players who were still injured. Especially if players like Pogba
and Chiesa are able to play again, I'm sure Juventus performance will be much better. Especially Pogba can set the rhythm of Juventus' game,
moreover Pogba proved to be playing extraordinary with Juventus before joining Man United. So with Juventus successfully bringing Pogba back,
I believe Pogba will adapt quickly, therefore Juventus are looking forward to Pogba recovering.

[blue Snow]

If we compare Juventus performance with Atalanta this season, of course Atalanta is much more consistent than Juventus. Even though Juventus

Seem Juventus's engine is slow to heat like the previous session. I believe is not different because Atalanta was ready in beginning and prepare the squad, but what Juventus have is haven't Atalanta had is a winner mentality. Juventus can break the domination only with 1 click. we will see that situation in the middle session. The real fight begins after winter break. on that time we can see Juventus on top stand.

[Lordhermes]

If we compare Juventus performance with Atalanta this season, of course Atalanta is much more consistent than Juventus. Even though Juventus

Seem Juventus's engine is slow to heat like the previous session. I believe is not different because Atalanta was ready in beginning and prepare the squad, but what Juventus have is haven't Atalanta had is a winner mentality. Juventus can break the domination only with 1 click. we will see that situation in the middle session. The real fight begins after winter break. on that time we can see Juventus on top stand.

Juventus are inconsistent this season,I know they will pick form maybe later,but for now,they have not been consistent in their playing,I don't know if it's because of the injury that is happening to few of their players or the mentality to win is not just there.The winning mentality is one thing that leads to victory,so when a team lacks it,there is every tendency that the team will suffer from defeats by other teams.Therefore,Juve needs to cultivate the habbit of winning,believing in themselves that they can do more and win matches.

[Jody.Drummer]

If we compare Juventus performance with Atalanta this season, of course Atalanta is much more consistent than Juventus. Even though Juventus
have a better squad than Atalanta, it seems Juventus are still having trouble finding their best performance. It happened because this season Juventus
lost many main players, there were players who moved to other clubs, there were also players who were still injured. Especially if players like Pogba
and Chiesa are able to play again, I'm sure Juventus performance will be much better. Especially Pogba can set the rhythm of Juventus' game,
moreover Pogba proved to be playing extraordinary with Juventus before joining Man United. So with Juventus successfully bringing Pogba back,
I believe Pogba will adapt quickly, therefore Juventus are looking forward to Pogba recovering.

The advantage that Atalanta has is precisely with their players. their quality is evenly distributed in every line and this is clearly quite good because with this level of quality there is no player who is really used as a benchmark like when discussing Juventus with his Pogba.
Because when players who are expected to be able to do a lot for the team can't be like now, then there is no other mainstay for those who make their performance even though they are still good, it will still look bad. Necause it is considered that when there are players who can be used as benchmarks like Pogba at Juventus, their performance will be better.

[TopT3ns]

If we compare Juventus performance with Atalanta this season, of course Atalanta is much more consistent than Juventus. Even though Juventus

Seem Juventus's engine is slow to heat like the previous session. I believe is not different because Atalanta was ready in beginning and prepare the squad, but what Juventus have is haven't Atalanta had is a winner mentality. Juventus can break the domination only with 1 click. we will see that situation in the middle session. The real fight begins after winter break. on that time we can see Juventus on top stand.

This match still has a long way to go for Juventus but to get to the top position it is a very difficult journey because no one can guarantee a full points victory for Juventus, in the next match they will meet Monza this should be a good opportunity to scored a lot of goals so that it can provide additional value for Juventus on the standings.

[Sterbens]

I still have same positivity for Atalanta knowing they can sure do better than this. Jose Mourinho and his side also, but the loss to udinese is already a turn off chasing the league at these early periods.

Yes it was a little surprising that their steps were stopped by Udinese. They even had to lose by a score that was far from what was predicted. AS Roma started well and had to be beaten by the non-favorites to win. Indeed this often happens in Serie A, where they always find it difficult to maintain consistency and that is experienced by AS Roma now.

[hahay]

I still have same positivity for Atalanta knowing they can sure do better than this. Jose Mourinho and his side also, but the loss to udinese is already a turn off chasing the league at these early periods.

Yes it was a little surprising that their steps were stopped by Udinese. They even had to lose by a score that was far from what was predicted. AS Roma started well and had to be beaten by the non-favorites to win. Indeed this often happens in Serie A, where they always find it difficult to maintain consistency and that is experienced by AS Roma now.

Anyway, Roma will still have a chance to compete in the top six but a massive 4-0 loss by Udinese is totally unacceptable, Mourinho must be able to fix the situation quickly. In the next match, Roma will play against Empoli, whose record on paper Roma will be able to win easily, if Mourinho can overcome the problems quickly then I believe Roma will win big too in the next match against Empoli. Roma should be more aggressive to win by a big score, because they have great strikers now which is certainly good to boost their morale.

[AakZaki]

~snip~

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.

Defeat by a considerable margin. It's a surprise and I laughed. I think if Roma lose it's just a one-goal or two-goal difference. A quick goal in the fifth minute made Roma even more devastated and frustrated. Their second half was further ruined.
Roma looked so amateurish, besides that they also had to lose the injured Tammy Abraham. Perhaps Mourinho is also not calm as they will take on Ludogorets in the Europa League on Thursday. This adds to the list of injured players after previously Nicolo Zaniolo also got a shoulder injury.

[Sebas.tian]

I didn't think that Atalanta could be so much better now. Because if you look at last season they even struggled to at least be in a European place. Now they lead the standings with 4 wins and a draw. I hope they can maintain that and participate in the struggle for the Scudetto title this season. If they can afford it, it will be even more interesting.

Atalanta coach is seriously working to ensure his team continue improving until they win this season title to make their fans happy. Based on their performance so far, showed that Atalanta will not too experience defeat from any strong teams in this tournament compared to last season that made their performance so poor because they lacked in the area of defense. I think, Atalanta will continue using the new strategies they are using in this season because it has helped them to won 4 matches and a draw, showed that the team is doing well in this season but they need to improve higher so that no team can reduce their points.

[Ripe_berry]

Some big club are suffering the start of the new season may be because the season just started and club are trying to get their feet roma with a manager mourinho should do better in the italian league they will bounce back certainly

[borovichok]

I didn't think that Atalanta could be so much better now. Because if you look at last season they even struggled to at least be in a European place. Now they lead the standings with 4 wins and a draw. I hope they can maintain that and participate in the struggle for the Scudetto title this season. If they can afford it, it will be even more interesting.

They start well really,and they have been playing beautiful football also, I think the coach should be applud for the good work but I don't think that's there position,they will drop because the season just start despite them being unbeaten In the table ranking right now they are not considered to be among the top four or even give, I don't see them doing a Leicester city in the saria A and very soon inter Milan and AC Milan will top them,then later the old ladies and Naples will still climb them don't forget there is still Roma.

[hd49728]

Defeat by a considerable margin. It's a surprise and I laughed. I think if Roma lose it's just a one-goal or two-goal difference. A quick goal in the fifth minute made Roma even more devastated and frustrated. Their second half was further ruined.
Roma looked so amateurish, besides that they also had to lose the injured Tammy Abraham. Perhaps Mourinho is also not calm as they will take on Ludogorets in the Europa League on Thursday. This adds to the list of injured players after previously Nicolo Zaniolo also got a shoulder injury.

Big win or big loss can bring extreme happy or disappointed feeling but it is just a win or a loss. Big win or big loss contributes to goal difference that has it meanings at the end of season if two teams have same total points. However, if you manage to win more, lose less than your competitor, at the end you won't have to care of goal difference.

Roma need to be more realistic with the player resource they have in order to get maximum points from weak and avegae clubs. With their quality, winning against top clubs in this season is still big challenge.

Anyway, Roma will still have a chance to compete in the top six but a massive 4-0 loss by Udinese is totally unacceptable, Mourinho must be able to fix the situation quickly. In the next match, Roma will play against Empoli, whose record on paper Roma will be able to win easily, if Mourinho can overcome the problems quickly then I believe Roma will win big too in the next match against Empoli. Roma should be more aggressive to win by a big score, because they have great strikers now which is certainly good to boost their morale.

They have enough quality so get chance to compete in top 4. I don't think top 6 is their target in this season. Because they had it in the last season and with a good transfer season, they are more ambitious now. Top 4 is their lowest target in Serie A. If lucky enough, they will try to compete for Scudetto but it is too early to discuss about that.

[babo]

exactly
they have enough quality at Rome because they bought some good players
if they didn't take Mourinho and take other players, it was certainly going even better than how it has recently been
my opinion

[TopT3ns]

~snip~

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.

Defeat by a considerable margin. It's a surprise and I laughed. I think if Roma lose it's just a one-goal or two-goal difference. A quick goal in the fifth minute made Roma even more devastated and frustrated. Their second half was further ruined.
Roma looked so amateurish, besides that they also had to lose the injured Tammy Abraham. Perhaps Mourinho is also not calm as they will take on Ludogorets in the Europa League on Thursday. This adds to the list of injured players after previously Nicolo Zaniolo also got a shoulder injury.

Their defeat against Udinese was a downfall and of course they have to recover to keep getting points in the table because otherwise they will be far behind and find it difficult to return to the top, Today they met Ludogorets and their performance should be able to get a win although it looks tough for Roma because many players are in bad shape.

[giammangiato]

Pos	Squadra	Punti	G	V	N	P	GF	GS
1	Atalanta	13	5	4	1	0	9	2
2	Napoli	11	5	3	2	0	12	4
3	Milan	11	5	3	2	0	10	5
4	Udinese	10	5	3	1	1	9	5
5	Roma	10	5	3	1	1	6	5
6	Torino	10	5	3	1	1	6	5
7	Juve	9	5	2	3	0	7	2
8	Inter	9	5	3	0	2	11	8
9	Lazio	8	5	2	2	1	7	5
10	Salernitana	6	5	1	3	1	7	4
11	Fiorentina	6	5	1	3	1	4	4
12	Sassuolo	6	5	1	3	1	3	5
13	Verona	5	5	1	2	2	6	9
14	Spezia	5	5	1	2	2	5	9
15	Empoli	4	5	0	4	1	4	5
16	Bologna	3	5	0	3	2	5	8
17	Lecce	2	5	0	2	3	3	6
18	Sampdoria	2	5	0	2	3	2	9
19	Cremonese	1	5	0	1	4	4	9
20	Monza	0	5	0	0	5	2	13

the best attack at the moment is that of Napoli with 12 goals
the best defense is by Atalanta and Juventus (with 2 goals conceded)
the worst attack is from Monza / Sampdoria with 2 goals scored
the worst defense is that of Monza with 13 goals conceded (last in the standings)

[Jody.Drummer]

Inter Milan will host Torino, surely this is not an easy match for Inter Milan. Torino have bagged a few wins this season and are slightly better off than Inter Milan although they haven't really got a tough opponent. Now Inter Milan must be wary of movements from Torino, because once they let their guard down it could be a defeat for Inter Milan.