Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A)

[marcous]

Inter Milan, Juventus and Ac Milan are almost certain to get slots in the Champions League next season. The competition took place in the fight for fourth place. I think Atalanta, Bologna and Roma will compete fiercely to get the final champions league ticket. I favor Atalanta who will get fourth place in the standings. Their performance is very good and consistent. But they have the same points as Bologna. It will be difficult for Atalanta because they have to maintain the consistency of their game if they don't want their position to be shifted by Bologna or Roma.

Three of the biggest (historically) teams in the Serie A will be back at the top again, and they are doing something great as well. Inter has been great so far this season and last year they were the UCL finalist, and Juventus has been going through some tough time and with the punishment last year and all, they had some issues.

Milan is the only one and I am assuming that they will change the manager and a few players and be better again as well. I think when you think about it, we are going to see these three do very well at UCL next season for sure. I do not care who will be the fourth, Atalanta could be the one, but I think it's quite obvious that we are going to see these top three teams do very well next season.

It is certain that Inter, Juventus Milan will play in the Champions League next season, regardless of how they rebuild their squad after the season ends. One more slot involving the three teams Atalanta, Bologna and Roma could be said to continue to be fierce, but in terms of momentum, Roma could possibly reach the top four in the near future. Of course it's not easy, but with De Rossi presence, Roma is now better than before.

Atalanta will face a number of tough matches in the next few matches, where they will face Milan, Inter and Bologna. Meanwhile, Bologna itself will face Verona, Atalanta and Inter. On the other hand, in the next three matches, Roma will face slightly easier opponents, namely Torino, Monza and Fiorentina.

If De Rossi succeeds in bringing his team consistently, then they will succeed in breaking into the top four of the standings and accompany Inter, Juventus and Milan next season in appearing in the Champions League. But Serie A still has 13 matches left this season, where their fate is still very difficult to predict, including the fate of several coaches who are rumored to be leaving at the end of the season.

[Smack That Ace]

Inter Milan, Juventus and Ac Milan are almost certain to get slots in the Champions League next season. The competition took place in the fight for fourth place. I think Atalanta, Bologna and Roma will compete fiercely to get the final champions league ticket. I favor Atalanta who will get fourth place in the standings. Their performance is very good and consistent. But they have the same points as Bologna. It will be difficult for Atalanta because they have to maintain the consistency of their game if they don't want their position to be shifted by Bologna or Roma.

Three of the biggest (historically) teams in the Serie A will be back at the top again, and they are doing something great as well. Inter has been great so far this season and last year they were the UCL finalist, and Juventus has been going through some tough time and with the punishment last year and all, they had some issues.

Milan is the only one and I am assuming that they will change the manager and a few players and be better again as well. I think when you think about it, we are going to see these three do very well at UCL next season for sure. I do not care who will be the fourth, Atalanta could be the one, but I think it's quite obvious that we are going to see these top three teams do very well next season.

Milan will play a pretty tough match against Atalanta. I think there is a chance that they will not get all three points from this match. And that is going to give Juventus a very good opportunity to make a bigger difference with them in terms of points. As we all know Juventus is only ahead by 2 points right now from Milan.
 
Yes, it is also true that Juventus has fallen off pretty badly. But there is a chance for them to get ahead by more points if Milan somehow manages to lose this one or even drop points. Because the next match of Juventus is going to be pretty easy .

Duke Khan

[tusandii]

Of the 3 teams mentioned, I see that only Inter Milan is consistent with their perfrmance, while AC Milan and Juventus are still not completely consistent and sometimes they make a lot of mistakes so that they cannot win a match. We can see Juventus in the last 4 matches, the results they got in these matches kept them away from Inter Milan and allowed Inter Milan to comfortably be at the top of the standings without any significant pressure.

AC Milan is also the same, they still often make mistakes so that they are stuck in 3rd place in the standings. This week, for example, they missed the opportunity to overtake Juventus who are in second place because they failed to win against a team that was weaker than them. Juventus and AC Milan are still showing things like this, making it difficult for them to be in a better place. Indeed, their ranking in the standings is quite good, at least they are in the top 4 of the standings to maintain their hopes of qualifying for the Champions League next season. But once again they had many opportunities but they couldn't take advantage of them well.

Yes, I admit that Inter Milan much more consistent than the other 3 clubs you mentioned, but I slightly disagree if you compare Juventus with Milan because Milan actually didn't make a very serious mistake, it's just that their consistency looked bad when they lost against Monza and if at that time Milan not only competing with 10 players, you can definitely win and the results of the final match will be much better than Juventus.
It indeed a little difficult for Milan and Juventus to catch up with the points that Inter Milan has, but at least the two clubs can try to maintain their position so as not to be shifted by a club that is weak.

Edit :
It seems that what you said correct if AC Milan still having difficulty at the moment even in terms of catching up with Juventus because after yesterday's match Juventus managed to get a big score beating Frosinone and managed to get 3 points while Milan was only able to get a draw against Atalanta so they only managed to get 1 point. just.
The difference in points currently slightly wide between Juventus and Milan and it seems that Milan position still not safe at the moment because there are Bologna and Atalanta who continue to struggle to catch the position currently held by Milan, while Bologna and Atalanta are currently really very consistent in hoping to get it best ranking and get champions league tickets.

[Zlantann]

While there were bad results, Napoli changed the coach in order not to get worse. Of course, it would have been better if he had not changed it, but we do not know the results of the matches that will be played. Maybe if the coach had not changed, worse results would have been achieved. That's why they wanted to evaluate this possibility, I congratulate them on this. Actually, I think they did the right thing.

I thought the management of Napoli would have allowed Walter Mazzarri to continue with the club till the end of the season because changing a coach now might have some negative effect. Francesco Calzona might not be a bad replacement but he would need time to understand the players which will aid in getting good results. An example is what happened in Bayern Munich where Thomas Tuchel will be allowed to be in charge of the Bavarians until the end of the season. Napoli was not impressive in the round of sixteen game against Barcelona but they were lucky to grab a win. The club was outplayed throughout the match and they showed less sign of winning the game. They will have a battle to get a win in Barca. But before then the new coach will have to prove that he is the right replacement when they meet Cagliari, Sassuolo, Juventus, and Torino.

[Spaceman1000$]

The fact that juventus is not playing in the champions league should have been an added advantage for the Turin club and also give the team time to rest a lot and also prepare for subsequent matches since they are only concentrating on a particular competition which is also a domestic one which they are used to and also have a good knowledge of. Though juventus have not  had the best of seasons for some time now both in domestic and European competitions where they have failed to secure a place in any finals unlike their local rivals like inter Milan, Roma and fiorentina that have played in the champions league, the Europa league and the uefa conference league respectively in recent times.

Yes, in the next few weeks Juventus only has an agenda to play in the domestic league (Serie A). This is indeed a good advantage for Juventus players to get lots of rest time. Because in one week Juventus players have 6 days to train and rest. So with these advantages, Juventus players will definitely be in top condition in every match in the domestic league. Although the reality must be very sad for Juventus because they cannot take part in big competitions like the Champions League (UEFA). The reason is, last season Juventus was only able to finish in 7th place in Serie A. However, I am sure that this season Juventus will definitely be able to qualify for the Champions League competition. Because currently its position in 2nd place in Serie A will definitely be maintained very strongly. The reason is that pursuing the top position seems a bit difficult for Juventus. The reason is that currently the top of the Serie A standings, Inter Milan, has collected 63 points and Juventus has only collected 54 points. So clearly the point difference is quite large.

Apart from that, another competition that Juventus is participating in this season is the Coppa Italia. And the closest schedule for Juventus to play in the Coppa Italia is next April, where Juventus is scheduled to play against Lazio in the first leg of the semifinals.

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For the next few weeks of course Juventus will be playing in their domestic league, but my major concern is the fact that they should do well so that they can come for European competitions like the champions League, the Europa and other European competitions next season, because they've had enough time of rest as they are currently focusing on the domestic league for now. And even on the domestic League, I'm expecting them to do extremely well week in week out, because they have enough time of rest because if they do well, they might end up giving a good fight on inter Milan on the tittle race since they are in second position with 54 points behind inter Milan with 63 points.

[Oneandpure]

Yes, I admit that Inter Milan is much more consistent than the other 3 clubs you mentioned, but I slightly disagree if you compare Juventus with Milan because Milan actually didn't make a very serious mistake, it's just that their consistency looked bad when they lost against Monza and if at that time Milan not only competing with 10 players, you can definitely win and the results of the final match will be much better than Juventus.
It is indeed a little difficult for Milan and Juventus to catch up with the points that Inter Milan has, but at least the two clubs can try to maintain their position so as not to be shifted by a club that is weak.

Comparison with Juventus or AC Milan has drastically consistent performance from  Inter Milan in this season, keep performing well although Inter had focus in UEFA Champion League and got good result on first leg match of 16 round.
Difference with Juventus performance in this season, they can't consistent although not participant in Europe League or Champion League and left many points from Inter Milan on current standings.
Scudetto race this season seems over and Inter Milan will be the winner this season, Juventus and Milan just secure their position for qualifying to champion league next season exactly for Juventus have absent last several years.

[Rengga Jati]

Torino vs Lazio
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Victory for Lazio

Lazio was able to take the lead from Torino in the second half, after the first half, the game was quite boring. However, in the second half, Lazio was able to optimize their dominance to attack and score 2 goals. but the problem was that they got a red card in the 79th minute. So this is quite worrying. However, fortunately this was Torino, and Torino was apparently unable to optimize their chances against 10 players well enough. It was proven that until the match was over, Torino was not even able to score 1 goal. This victory for Lazio brought them closer to 6th place with a very competitive points gap with Roma.

[Ryu_Ar1]

Francesco Calzona had a tough job and indeed he made a brilliant debut in the Champions League. Holding Barcelona to a draw in the first leg of the round of 16 was not easy for Francesco Calzona, of course because of the differences in quality and strategy between the two teams. Barcelona dominated attacks, while Napoli only focused on defending while taking advantage of Barcelona's mistakes.

Even though it was a pretty good debut for a new coach who was under great pressure but on the other hand it still hasn't proven anything so far for Napoli because in the early matches a good start can be a good thing but on the other hand their performance is also decisive in this regard and in the Barcelona match against Napoli it seems that we are aware that Napoli's situation is still not going very well which could have been in several other matches when the great pressure owned by Calzona actually took Napoli in a worse direction.

Currently, Napoli has fired 2 coaches and this is actually a very bad thing because after all, we realize that the more often Napoli sacks its coach, the more often the players will face a new adaptation which will have an impact on the performance they always play.

[entertheabyss]

While there were bad results, Napoli changed the coach in order not to get worse. Of course, it would have been better if he had not changed it, but we do not know the results of the matches that will be played. Maybe if the coach had not changed, worse results would have been achieved. That's why they wanted to evaluate this possibility, I congratulate them on this. Actually, I think they did the right thing.

The newly elected headcoach of the Parthenopeans, Francesco Calzona will try his best inother not to follow the footsteps of other sacked managers, he should be extremely careful because if he's not progressive in matches, eyes from the board and the desperate president will be on him full-time. Napoli have been sacking and appointing new coach this season and there's no improvement with the team's stats till this very present period. I think Napoli president, Aurelio De Laurentiis should focused more of his time on the players and leave the coaches out of the picture. He should also learn to exercise patience with these newly appointed coaches, because if he continues to sack, there will be nothing left for the club.

[mammusu]

Three of the biggest (historically) teams in the Serie A will be back at the top again, and they are doing something great as well. Inter has been great so far this season and last year they were the UCL finalist, and Juventus has been going through some tough time and with the punishment last year and all, they had some issues.

Milan is the only one and I am assuming that they will change the manager and a few players and be better again as well. I think when you think about it, we are going to see these three do very well at UCL next season for sure. I do not care who will be the fourth, Atalanta could be the one, but I think it's quite obvious that we are going to see these top three teams do very well next season.

Inter Milan is much stronger this season because their squad has really been well organized in every aspect. the fact is that inter milan defense has been very strong this season they had no problems when onana left and they got the right replacement. Apart from that, Inter Milan attack line is so strong because Thuram presence has made their front line even more aggressive this season. Inter Milan have only suffered one defeat this season and then they appeared impressive by picking up points in every match they played.

Several previous seasons, Inter Milan was hit by a financial crisis, making it very difficult for them to make many changes. But if they succeed this season in becoming champions, of course their finances will improve and they will be ready to maintain their strength and become stronger by recruiting quality players in the coming season.

[cozytrade]

Francesco Calzona had a tough job and indeed he made a brilliant debut in the Champions League. Holding Barcelona to a draw in the first leg of the round of 16 was not easy for Francesco Calzona, of course because of the differences in quality and strategy between the two teams. Barcelona dominated attacks, while Napoli only focused on defending while taking advantage of Barcelona's mistakes.

Even though it was a pretty good debut for a new coach who was under great pressure but on the other hand it still hasn't proven anything so far for Napoli because in the early matches a good start can be a good thing but on the other hand their performance is also decisive in this regard and in the Barcelona match against Napoli it seems that we are aware that Napoli's situation is still not going very well which could have been in several other matches when the great pressure owned by Calzona actually took Napoli in a worse direction.

Currently, Napoli has fired 2 coaches and this is actually a very bad thing because after all, we realize that the more often Napoli sacks its coach, the more often the players will face a new adaptation which will have an impact on the performance they always play.

In my opinion, sacking Napoli's coach at the moment would hurt Napoli a lot. Napoli should not have made such a decision at the end of the season. It takes some time for a new coach to take control of the team. In the mean time, Napoli's title race this season could go from bad to worse. Even though Napoli are not in a good position in the serie A points table, I think Napoli can slowly go further down due to the sacking of the coach this time. Now it remains to be seen how far Napoli can go with the new coach.

[SUPERSAIAN]

Torino vs Lazio
     0    -      2
Victory for Lazio

Lazio was able to take the lead from Torino in the second half, after the first half, the game was quite boring. However, in the second half, Lazio was able to optimize their dominance to attack and score 2 goals. but the problem was that they got a red card in the 79th minute. So this is quite worrying. However, fortunately this was Torino, and Torino was apparently unable to optimize their chances against 10 players well enough. It was proven that until the match was over, Torino was not even able to score 1 goal. This victory for Lazio brought them closer to 6th place with a very competitive points gap with Roma.

I expected it to be a boring match. Even though some parts were boring, it wasn't bad when Lazio was playing actively. The first half was especially bad, there was no game like that at all. Lazio started the second half well and took advantage of their first chance, scoring the Guendoizi goal.

Shortly after, Lazio scored the second goal and made the match a little more comfortable for themselves. There was also a red card, but it did not change the situation much.

[coinlocket$]

just a notice.

next week we will also have the skipped games for the italian supercup.

Wednesday 28th February
Sassuolo 17:00 Napoli
Inter Milan 19:45 Atalanta


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

[TopT3ns]

While there were bad results, Napoli changed the coach in order not to get worse. Of course, it would have been better if he had not changed it, but we do not know the results of the matches that will be played. Maybe if the coach had not changed, worse results would have been achieved. That's why they wanted to evaluate this possibility, I congratulate them on this. Actually, I think they did the right thing.

Napoli really had to do that because coach Walter Mazzarri's performance was not good and did not give Napoli a win. The desired coach should have experience in the world of football and understand the strategies that must be given to help the players on the field get a win, which is definitely a relationship between The players and coaches must be well looked after; that is one of the keys to victory for football coaches.

[TelolettOm]

In my opinion, sacking Napoli's coach at the moment would hurt Napoli a lot. Napoli should not have made such a decision at the end of the season. It takes some time for a new coach to take control of the team. In the mean time, Napoli's title race this season could go from bad to worse. Even though Napoli are not in a good position in the serie A points table, I think Napoli can slowly go further down due to the sacking of the coach this time. Now it remains to be seen how far Napoli can go with the new coach.

Napoli seems to have been very hasty in making a decision to change their coach since Spaletti left Napoli. Yes, they seem to have lost their direction and lack confidence in the abilities of the coach they choose. The problem is why did they take a coach who has no experience in a league like this, even if they change coaches several times, the results will probably still be the same. Let this season end with results like this, it even looks like they will fail even if they only get to the Europe League. Especially next season, there are already several clubs who want to bring in their players, making it possible for Napoli to become even worse if they don't do something even more extraordinary.

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I expected it to be a boring match. Even though some parts were boring, it wasn't bad when Lazio was playing actively. The first half was especially bad, there was no game like that at all. Lazio started the second half well and took advantage of their first chance, scoring the Guendoizi goal.

Shortly after, Lazio scored the second goal and made the match a little more comfortable for themselves. There was also a red card, but it did not change the situation much.

Lazio managed to break their bad trend in Serie A because in the previous match they lost and in today's match they managed to steal 3 points at home to Torino. Lazio's game was not very good in today's match but that is not a benchmark because they managed to get 3 points. It is natural to see them defend more in today's match because they need to concentrate to make it difficult for their opponents when they counterattack. I think this victory is quite important for Lazio because for now the teams from the top 3 to 7th place have a point difference that is not too far, so Lazio opens up their hopes of getting into the big top in the upcoming matches.

Unfortunately for Torino in today's match because they were able to shoot a lot of shots but couldn't score a goal in this match. They need to improve the quality of their front lines, especially their attackers, to be able to take advantage of existing opportunities to score goals. Torino's chances were quite big in this match because in the 79th minute Lazio had to play with 10 players after Gila received a red card. But Torino couldn't improve their game for the better when they were superior in numbers player.

[Z_MBFM]

Torino vs Lazio
     0    -      2
Victory for Lazio

Lazio was able to take the lead from Torino in the second half, after the first half, the game was quite boring. However, in the second half, Lazio was able to optimize their dominance to attack and score 2 goals. but the problem was that they got a red card in the 79th minute. So this is quite worrying. However, fortunately this was Torino, and Torino was apparently unable to optimize their chances against 10 players well enough. It was proven that until the match was over, Torino was not even able to score 1 goal. This victory for Lazio brought them closer to 6th place with a very competitive points gap with Roma.

Lazio played very well against Victory but one of their players played with too much excitement and in addition to getting a yellow card he also got a red card even though he won the match it had a negative effect on their reputation. Mario Gila played a lot of fouls today.  But one positive for Lazio is that they are almost level with Roma on points. there is only 1 point gap between them. Accordingly, Lazio's position can be said to be very good. they are playing well but even if they can overtake Roma on points, they don't seem capable of overtaking Bologna.

[OcTradism]

Torino vs Lazio
     0    -      2
Victory for Lazio

Lazio was able to take the lead from Torino in the second half, after the first half, the game was quite boring. However, in the second half, Lazio was able to optimize their dominance to attack and score 2 goals. but the problem was that they got a red card in the 79th minute. So this is quite worrying. However, fortunately this was Torino, and Torino was apparently unable to optimize their chances against 10 players well enough. It was proven that until the match was over, Torino was not even able to score 1 goal. This victory for Lazio brought them closer to 6th place with a very competitive points gap with Roma.

Lazio struggled to beat Torino in a boring match but they achieved three points from Torino with a home-away match. Torino failed to score even one goal at home and accepted a 4 points difference than Lazio. Before this match, two clubs have nearly same total points but the gap becomes bigger after the final whistle.

Lazio surely are happy with this result but their target will not only a six position but will be a higher one. It will be a fourth position that is eligible to participate in Champions League which means more money for their club.

Lazio played very well against Victory but one of their players played with too much excitement and in addition to getting a yellow card he also got a red card even though he won the match it had a negative effect on their reputation. Mario Gila played a lot of fouls today.  But one positive for Lazio is that they are almost level with Roma on points. there is only 1 point gap between them. Accordingly, Lazio's position can be said to be very good. they are playing well but even if they can overtake Roma on points, they don't seem capable of overtaking Bologna.

This win helps Lazio to have only one point less than AS Roma and they are both racing with two above clubs Atalanta and Bologna in order to take a last position in top four. They also can aim at a fifth position with hope that Italian clubs will have good results in three UEFA leagues (Champions League, Europa League and Conference League) in this season, to help the league receives 5 spots for Champions League 2024 - 2025.

[Gallar]

Apart from that, another competition that Juventus is participating in this season is the Coppa Italia. And the closest schedule for Juventus to play in the Coppa Italia is next April, where Juventus is scheduled to play against Lazio in the first leg of the semifinals.

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I think the Coppa Italia is the last chance for Juventus if they want to win the title this season, they should be more focused on this title race, because they are only facing Lazio which is quite even with their current strength, Juventus should be able to beat Lazio in the semi-final match later and advance to the final to win the title in the Coppa Italia this season, I am sure that Juventus can beat Lazio with high self-confidence, which will enable Juventus to play better against Lazio.

Yep, that's right, it's natural that Juventus can beat Lazio in the Coppa Italia later. Because if you look at the quality of the players, Juventus is indeed superior to Lazio. Apart from that, Lazio will certainly not focus too much on the Coppa Italia, because unlike Juventus, Lazio is currently competing in the Champions League. So by dividing the focus of the Lazio players, the potential for Juventus to win the match in the Coppa Italia will be even greater.
So in the Coppa Italia I am very confident that Juventus will definitely be able to advance to the final round.
But even so, if you look at Lazio's journey in the Champions League, the results are also quite good. The reason is that in the last 16 of the Champions League when they faced Bayern Munich, Lazio managed to win the match in the first leg. So Lazio's performance in the Champions League could be said to be quite good. Because the opponent he faced in the last 16 of the Champions League was a very strong team from the Bundesliga (2nd place in the standings)

For this reason, Juventus must also remain vigilant and not relax the performance of its players. Because as far as I know, the Coppa Italia is Juventus' only hope of winning a trophy this season. So basically the Juventus players must be able to take advantage of the free time they currently have to be able to perform satisfactorily in the Coppa Italia later.

[bering]

Bologna vs Verona

Few weeks ago Bologna was suffering several loses which make their position was out from European zone but recently Bologna can able to bounce back and they gets 4 winning streak in Serie A and so far until week 25 Bologna has been gets 12 wins and 10 of them is came from home matches so this proven Bologna has been very strong during playing at their home ground and Bologna even has same points to Atalanta 45 points and their chances to playing at european competitions is very wide open and for their opponent Verona  so far during this season Verona has gets 13 loses and 9 of them were happened from away matches so these records is proven Verona really have serious problem during playing away

Verona currently still struggling to avoiding relegation zone but it could be very hard for them to survive in Serie A because Verona still unable to showing their consistency and for Bologna just like i said before they now has been turn out became an dark horses team who potentially can broke the domination of big teams for Champion League spots and today all of Bologna main players will be available to play because so far they are in the good fitness and regarding the outcomes of this match i am very confident Bologna can beat Verona today and collect 3 points from this match but about betting options the bookmakers only give low odds for Bologna @1.55