Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A)

[swogerino]

Inter won again, as I said before they will win easily this year.

But actually only 1 goal for the many chances they had this is very little for me because I expected more victory not only a narrow victory from Inter but indeed even so they are still very good in this match and this is their 5th consecutive victory which makes the points perfect especially with very good goal productivity and they only conceded 1 ball so far.

Hopefully, their annual illness will not come this season where when they are in good form it will turn bad in no time.

A perfect record with five consecutive wins in Serie A this season, and Inter is the only club to have recorded this victory. Despite the minimal number of goals, Inter appeared to dominate throughout the match against Empoli. However, at first glance the desire shown was less aggressive, unlike in the derby match against AC Milan.

It seems that this season Simone Inzaghi squad is quite stable and consistent, its performance is better than Juventus, Napoli and AC Milan. If you look at the composition of Inter players this season, which has an even squad depth, it looks like they can continue this positive trend until the end of the season.

They are the strongest contenders to the title for this season in Serie A and I was sure about this since I saw the last final of the Champions League against Manchester City they showed a perfect football and they even could have equalized that game against the strongest team of Europe right now.This was the real signal to me as if they could play this well against such a great opponent the weaker teams in Italy would be no problem at all for them.I reinforced my view when they played against Real Sociedad in Champions League and they equalized despite being down since the 4th minute and the referee clearly was not giving them what it was theirs,so this details overall are the ones who make a difference and it is showing during this season in Serie A.

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[KTChampions]

Juventus' first defeat this season was in an away match against Sassuolo and looking at the result, this was actually not too bad a defeat for Juventus. Even so, Juventus failed to get points to widen the gap in the standings again and for Sassuolo this is an additional 3 very important points at home so they can be in a better position.



However, in last night's match there was a quite funny incident between Federico Gatti and goalkeeper Wojciech Szczęsny, both of them seemed to miscommunicate which ultimately resulted in an own goal for Juventus in injury time. I think Federico Gatti didn't realize he had previously received a pass from Wojciech Szczęsny and instead returned the ball to the goal even though that place had been previously abandoned by Wojciech Szczęsny.

The goal occurred as a result of pressure from the Sassuolo striker, Gatti, I’m sure, understood what was happening, but in such situations actions occur automatically and he (as theoretically should be done) passed the ball to the goalkeeper (who was not in his place). It's funny how Szczesny watched the ball roll into the goal  

Inter continue to impress, although today the victory was difficult for them, but in the end 5 wins out of 5 games and a goal difference of 14-1. I think at the end of the tour their title quotes will already be around 1.7

[topbitcoin]

They are the strongest contenders to the title for this season in Serie A and I was sure about this since I saw the last final of the Champions League against Manchester City they showed a perfect football and they even could have equalized that game against the strongest team of Europe right now.This was the real signal to me as if they could play this well against such a great opponent the weaker teams in Italy would be no problem at all for them.I reinforced my view when they played against Real Sociedad in Champions League and they equalized despite being down since the 4th minute and the referee clearly was not giving them what it was theirs,so this details overall are the ones who make a difference and it is showing during this season in Serie A.

They're definitely one of the frontrunners for the Serie A title and that's a good thing after two seasons where Milan and Napoli failed to win the trophy and now they need to maintain their current form to be one of the frontrunners for the Scudetto this season.
But of course it won't be easy because looking at the conditions that have occurred in the previous few seasons, Serie A clubs always struggle to be consistent in the middle of the season or the end of the season and that also happened to Inter in the previous 2 seasons so they must try to break that this season.
They are the best for the start of the season this time in Serie A because of the 5 consecutive wins and 14 goals they created obviously it is a good achievement that they did not get in the previous 2 seasons.

[LGD2Business]

Napoli is having a hard time in this match. They couldn't score any goals. They were relieved when the penalty was awarded, but Osimhen missed the penalty. Bologna aren't looking to score any goals, but they are defending very solidly. This match looks like it will end the same way it started. If Napoli cannot win this match, they will not have won 3 matches in a row. It was an unexpectedly bad start to the new season from the last champion. There is no trace of last season's game play. The decline in Kvaratskhelia continues. He couldn't complete the full 90 minutes again and couldn't score a goal again.

[ampere]

Napoli is having a hard time in this match. They couldn't score any goals. They were relieved when the penalty was awarded, but Osimhen missed the penalty. Bologna aren't looking to score any goals, but they are defending very solidly. This match looks like it will end the same way it started. If Napoli cannot win this match, they will not have won 3 matches in a row. It was an unexpectedly bad start to the new season from the last champion. There is no trace of last season's game play. The decline in Kvaratskhelia continues. He couldn't complete the full 90 minutes again and couldn't score a goal again.

Napoli is struggling this season in front of goal; their creativity is lacking and their wingers are not firing; this has made Osinhmen struggle for form and also in front of goal, missing the penalty kick means theres fire on the Mountain. The coach will be under fire and could lose his job before xmas if the poor performances continues. A poor start to the season continues for the reigning champions.

[FanEagle]

Mistakes could happen, it is normal and could happen to anyone at any game, there is nothing to worry about that. However, Juventus could have won that game if they played a bit better, they felt like they were a bit tired and for a team that is not having a lot of games at UCL type of situation, the fact that they are tired shows either they are training way too hard, or not enough, or just right amount in a bad way.

Losses happens, and this was one of them for them and it's normal there is nothing wrong with that, everyone loses points and others will too, it's just that if it's about fatigue for a team with little amount of games, that could be a long term issue and I hope that it doesn't become a habit for them.

[swogerino]

Napoli is having a hard time in this match. They couldn't score any goals. They were relieved when the penalty was awarded, but Osimhen missed the penalty. Bologna aren't looking to score any goals, but they are defending very solidly. This match looks like it will end the same way it started. If Napoli cannot win this match, they will not have won 3 matches in a row. It was an unexpectedly bad start to the new season from the last champion. There is no trace of last season's game play. The decline in Kvaratskhelia continues. He couldn't complete the full 90 minutes again and couldn't score a goal again.

Napoli is struggling this season in front of goal; their creativity is lacking and their wingers are not firing; this has made Osinhmen struggle for form and also in front of goal, missing the penalty kick means theres fire on the Mountain. The coach will be under fire and could lose his job before xmas if the poor performances continues. A poor start to the season continues for the reigning champions.

What a joke team Napoli has become,they could not score a goal against a team which was put in complete defense and they parked the bus so Napoli had complete control in this game and they took it very slow.This team I can completely say at 100% rate that won't be going far both in the Champions League and especially in the Serie A,such team showed 0 effort to want to win the game and they lacked 100% motivation.Bologna in the end got what they wanted and it is Napoli which is going through some difficult stage with a lost game against Lazio and now a draw with Bologna,these are 5 points lost to the leaders and as such they cannot be fighting for the title during this season.

[coinlocket$]

Napoli lost points again.

Rudy Garcia will have not long life here if he continues like this, I'm not sure he will arrive at Xmas with Napoli.

[skarais]

After losing to Inter in the derby match, I am happy that Milan came back and won their last match against Verona. Even though Milan only scored 1 goal in the first 10 minutes of the match, it was enough to win 3 points. On the other hand, Inter is also still maintaining its winning streak in the last 5 matches. Their defense is very strong, conceding only 1 goal in 5 matches, so I wouldn't be surprised why they can win matches and lead the standings so far.

Napoli seem very different this season. They don't look very strong after winning the Scudetto last season, I mean being ranked 7th with 2 wins from 5 matches is not Napoli last season. I'm sure Napoli will have a really hard time winning the title this season and the Scudetto looks very close to Inter or Milan if both are able to maintain their best performance.

Napoli lost points again.

Rudy Garcia will have not long life here if he continues like this, I'm not sure he will arrive at Xmas with Napoli.

I have to agree with that because since his appointment as the new coach for Napoli, I have had serious doubts about his tactical abilities. Rudi Garcia will be fired, of course, that is very possible if he is unable to get Napoli back to its peak performance this season.

[Jody.Drummer]

Napoli lost points again.

Rudy Garcia will have not long life here if he continues like this, I'm not sure he will arrive at Xmas with Napoli.

The third time they had to end the match without getting full points, and it must be recognized that Napoli's performance has decreased. I can even say that this result is a fair result, because even Bologna can match the game from Napoli.
Rudy Garcia's name will be a hot topic of conversation after they experience this, because this is a different Napoli from the Napoli we saw last season. I will not be surprised when Napoli officially announce they will end cooperation with this coach.

[hahay]

Mistakes could happen, it is normal and could happen to anyone at any game, there is nothing to worry about that. However, Juventus could have won that game if they played a bit better, they felt like they were a bit tired and for a team that is not having a lot of games at UCL type of situation, the fact that they are tired shows either they are training way too hard, or not enough, or just right amount in a bad way.

Losses happens, and this was one of them for them and it's normal there is nothing wrong with that, everyone loses points and others will too, it's just that if it's about fatigue for a team with little amount of games, that could be a long term issue and I hope that it doesn't become a habit for them.

I think the defeat experienced by Juventus at this moment I think remains a bad result, and certainly does not have to be experienced by Juventus at this moment. Because anyway, at least this is also still the early part of the season, and this moment Juventus are also only focused on Serie A and thus, it should be for Juventus to get consecutive good results. Maybe, if Juventus can't get a winning streak, but it should be Juventus not to get a losing result at this moment because of course, they can anticipate it with a draw result as well. So yes, this result remains a bad result for Juventus, and I think a 4-2 defeat like this is clearly unacceptable because it shouldn't happen.

[youdacapt]

Napoli lost points again.

Rudy Garcia will have not long life here if he continues like this, I'm not sure he will arrive at Xmas with Napoli.

I am not sure Rudy Garcia can keep the job by xmas; his tactic is not reflecting well on the team and the performances are awful and bad too; the team is not creating chances, scoring goals or dominating games unlike last season when they won the league. Poor Napoli defending their league title in bad fashion !

Do you think Napoli can challenge even for top 4 if such performances continues?

[tusandii]

Juventus was a mess in this match, as they were not serious and didn't show any passion of winning the game. I couldn't believe that they could stoop so low to allow Sasuolo to win them 4-2. This is one of the worst performance since the beginning of this season and if they don't take their matches serious, they will be nowhere on the table. What an impressive performance from Sasuolo and I must say that they deserve the victory.

What a sudden change in the Sassuolo vs Juventus game outcome, Even though Juventus had the majority of the possession, Sassuolo effective offensive plan ended up being the difference maker. Federico Gatti own goal in stoppage time was truly shocking. I Think Juventus appears to need to improve their focus and organization, especially in light of Szczesny's last-second error. They are no longer as competitive in their pursuit of Inter Milan, who have a perfect record and appear unstoppable. The competition for Serie A just got more interesting

Sassuolo played very well in this match and they deserve to win this match. The dominance of Sassuolo's players was evident from the start of the match. They played very well. There were many attacks, and almost every attack was organized and planned. Probably a total of 7 on-target shots by Sassuolo players in this match. The team played well in the home match. With Sassuolo attacking a lot, Juventus players could not create many opportunities to counter-attack. Juventus conceded their first defeat of the season. Juventus has very little chance of winning the title this season.

Sassuolo performed very well at home and was able to dominate the match from the start of the match even though Juventus was able to control the ball superiorly but the defense was very poor because Sassuolo did not always put pressure on Juventus defense, only occasionally giving surprising attacks to the goalkeeper with very strong attacks fast from Sassuolo and resulting in first goal from Lauriente which gave the first scoring position, making the Sassuolo players more confident that it was very easy to break through Juventus defense.
Knowing this weakness, Sassuolo attacking players will continue to take advantage it to continue to break through and score goals against Juventus and I think Allegri was careless in not knowing that this weak defensive line should be given effort by focusing on not losing the match and choosing to draw but it seems Allegri's ambition was to calm the game down so that mistakes were not seen in the direction of very poor defending.

[red4slash]

I disagree with what you said about the 38 matches with compensation. A team can't rule out competition even with a huge number of matches each season. If they think that, then they will never progress.
It may be true at first glance, but if we look further, it is a mistake that should be avoided. It's also worth remembering that they're in the Champions League because of the competition in the domestic league, in this case Serie A. If they think they are compensating for the mistakes they made in the domestic league with a large number of matches it is a mistake they are making,

I agree 100% with what you said. This idea that players can accelerate and decelerate their performance from game to game with a snap of the fingers is bullshit. The best teams are the teams that play with 110% concentration every single game. There is a difference between concentration and intensity. They might reduce intensity when it is possible in order to give their body less of a burden during a game that they are controlling by a large margin, but playing some games on high concentration and some on lower concentration isn't a thing that works. Manchester City is on full steam 99% of the games. AC Milan is a top team that wants to win every single game no matter what the competition is. It is true that there are more prestigious games in the Champions League in terms of the quality of the teams participating, but the players want to win the Serie A with no less desire.

The problem is that when a big club focuses on just one competition it can backfire on them and that's a disadvantage.
Moreover, the Champions League is clearly a gamble because the clubs that are here are all top clubs in every major league. As for domestic competition, even though it is a very long match because there are 38 weeks to go through but on the other hand we must also be aware that if at the beginning they are not too serious, this will make them a little inconvenient especially there could be surprises from other clubs just like Napoli did last season where they could not be overtaken and seemed to be without a fight in Serie A.

[marcous]

Napoli lost points again.

Rudy Garcia will have not long life here if he continues like this, I'm not sure he will arrive at Xmas with Napoli.

I am not sure Rudy Garcia can keep the job by xmas; his tactic is not reflecting well on the team and the performances are awful and bad too; the team is not creating chances, scoring goals or dominating games unlike last season when they won the league. Poor Napoli defending their league title in bad fashion !

Do you think Napoli can challenge even for top 4 if such performances continues?

I'm not sure Napoli will finish in the top four if they can't consistently get points, Osimhen fails to score a penalty. Now Napoli position is stuck at 7th in the standings, Lecce looks stronger this season than Rudi Garcia squad. Now the gap with Inter at the top is getting wider, with AC Milan, Lecce and Juventus in the UCL zone. Rudi Garcia seems to be having difficulty bringing the Napoli squad to defend the Scudetto title. His tactical adaptation has not worked completely for Osimhen and his friends.

On the other hand, Bologna efforts to contain Napoli attacks were quite successful, playing defensively and relying on counter attacks was enough for Napoli to lose creativity. I don't think Kvaratskhelia and Osimhen performed optimally, their substitution at the end of the match had no impact.

[Raflesia]

Inter won again, as I said before they will win easily this year.

But actually only 1 goal for the many chances they had this is very little for me because I expected more victory not only a narrow victory from Inter but indeed even so they are still very good in this match and this is their 5th consecutive victory which makes the points perfect especially with very good goal productivity and they only conceded 1 ball so far.

Hopefully, their annual illness will not come this season where when they are in good form it will turn bad in no time.

A perfect record with five consecutive wins in Serie A this season, and Inter is the only club to have recorded this victory. Despite the minimal number of goals, Inter appeared to dominate throughout the match against Empoli. However, at first glance the desire shown was less aggressive, unlike in the derby match against AC Milan.

It seems that this season Simone Inzaghi squad is quite stable and consistent, its performance is better than Juventus, Napoli and AC Milan. If you look at the composition of Inter players this season, which has an even squad depth, it looks like they can continue this positive trend until the end of the season.

Now they are really very good and it's just a matter of seeing if there will be interference from the tight schedule or some unfit players that will be a problem later because for now it seems that with the players in good condition they seem to be unstoppable in every match they run.
The next 2 matches before they refocus on the Champions League will only play with Sassuolo and Salernitana. Sassuolo have good ambitions especially after beating Juventus this week but when the opponent is Inter I still have no doubt about 3 points for Inter.

Inter won again, as I said before they will win easily this year.

But actually only 1 goal for the many chances they had this is very little for me because I expected more victory not only a narrow victory from Inter but indeed even so they are still very good in this match and this is their 5th consecutive victory which makes the points perfect especially with very good goal productivity and they only conceded 1 ball so far.

Hopefully, their annual illness will not come this season where when they are in good form it will turn bad in no time.

It's not all matches that a team performs well that they end up winning the game and sometimes the team that does better in terms of performance ends up losing their match but that wasn't Inter Milan's fate in their Italian Serie A game against Empoli.
With that win yesterday, Inter have now won all their league matches since the start of the season to maintain their perfect start to the league season. It's very early days of the season but judging by the performances and results of Inter Milan since the start of the season, I think it's safe to say that they're the favorites to win the Italian scudetto this season.

Nobody thinks Inter's game was bad and I can vouch for that it's just that my context is that in this case I expected something more from them especially after the massacre against Milan before especially with the number of chances they had and only creating 1 goal it feels less to me.
But in the end regardless of the scoreline they got the 3 points and that's the point.

[Frankolala]

               Torino vs Roma

After a very long and hard struggle in the match, Roma finally broke the deadlock on the 65th minutes of the game. Lukaku was the man  that scored for his team to put them in a winning position in the game. I knew it that Roma will score after much pressure that they were mounting on Torino.

Lukaku has been very consistent with his performance for his new club, and he has shown that he deserves to stay in one club as their player instead from going from one place to another with his talent. Mourinho will be happy if this match ends in their favour, and this means that Roma have started winning matches. Torino is trying their best to equalise the goal but it isn't that easy.

What a wonderful header by Zapata to equalise the goal for Torino. What a night for the host on the 85th minutes as they put themselves back into the game and points will be shared, if it ends up this way.
TOR 1-1 ROM

[Furious 7]

Napoli is having a hard time in this match. They couldn't score any goals. They were relieved when the penalty was awarded, but Osimhen missed the penalty. Bologna aren't looking to score any goals, but they are defending very solidly. This match looks like it will end the same way it started. If Napoli cannot win this match, they will not have won 3 matches in a row. It was an unexpectedly bad start to the new season from the last champion. There is no trace of last season's game play. The decline in Kvaratskhelia continues. He couldn't complete the full 90 minutes again and couldn't score a goal again.

The match ended in a draw (again) for Napoli.
This is the third consecutive result that I did not expect for Napoli because in the last 3 matches their results can only be 2 draws and 1 loss and this is definitely the worst performance for them at the beginning of the season when compared to the previous 2 seasons.
Even though they still get points but honestly I am quite disappointed with their performance at the beginning of this season because in the end even though Serie A is still quite long but with their conditions like this at the beginning of the season it could also be a problem for them to be able to defend the Scudetto they achieved before and the possibility of a curse about Serie A clubs who still cannot defend the Scudetto in 2 consecutive seasons will still be repeated this season.

[Balmain]

Dimarco scored Inter's only goal. He scored the goal right at the beginning of the second half. It was a very classy goal, a very technical shot, and this goal won the match for Inter. In fact, they could have scored many more goals, Hakan Çalhanoğlu could have at least made 1-2 assists, he made such beautiful passes, Hakan Çalhanoğlu is doing excellent work in the central midfield. Inter seems to be the best this season. For now, let's see if they can maintain this self-confidence in the matches in the coming weeks.

[QueenVera]

The match ended in a draw (again) for Napoli.
This is the third consecutive result that I did not expect for Napoli because in the last 3 matches their results can only be 2 draws and 1 loss and this is definitely the worst performance for them at the beginning of the season when compared to the previous 2 seasons.
Even though they still get points but honestly I am quite disappointed with their performance at the beginning of this season because in the end even though Serie A is still quite long but with their conditions like this at the beginning of the season it could also be a problem for them to be able to defend the Scudetto they achieved before and the possibility of a curse about Serie A clubs who still cannot defend the Scudetto in 2 consecutive seasons will still be repeated this season.

I doubt if Rudi Garcia could retain the league trophy for Napoli this season, he's not the right manager for the club and they shouldn't had allowed Spalletti leave the club, because he would had done better than what Rudi Garcia is doing currently, they  would had probably been at the top or in the top 4 currently, they need to start winning matches because the more points they drop makes them far from winning the trophy and they might even fail to qualify for the top 4 if they don't recover their form.
 
 If think you're right about this curse you mentioned because Napoli doesn't seem ready to defend the Scudetto but hopefully if Intermilan wins the league this season, they could be the team that would break that curse because they've been consistent  with their good performance since last season.