Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A)

[RaltcoinsB]

While this is fair, under Allegri's Juve  that same Como probably would've dominated possession and created several chances. We are excited to have a manager who will encourage attacking football and allow players to express themselves. The excitement is more about the tactics and mentality more than it is about the win over a newly promoted team.

Maybe even though Juventus is still under Allegri's coaching, Juventus might still be able to win against Como, which is just a club that has just been promoted from Serie B. But I also like how Thiago Motta has made Juventus' strategy and playing style feel more alive at the moment. And even Como is a club that doesn't seem to be able to do much to get close to Juventus' defense. All of this is thanks to Juventus' game which looks balanced between all lines. But I probably can't judge that Juventus have become better with Thiago Motta before they face stronger or equally strong teams this season. But so far I appreciate Juventus' performance.

Yes it's too early to judge how successful they would be for sure. However, we can be happy with the fact that we just don't sit back and let teams come at us. The mentality and tactical approach has changed to one that shows more confidence and belief. It also allows our players to be more themselves instead of just reacting to the opponents. That has been the biggest issue for Juventus over the last two years. They were constantly getting outplayed even when they scraped out wins.

It was a great start for Juventus. They won 3-0 and got three points. The first week is over and only four teams could win. Four teams lost, the rest tied. While the big teams Inter, Milan and Fiorentina tied, Napoli suffered a heavy defeat and Lazio won. Juventus won with them. The first week is over and the excitement has started despite being the leader of the league.

[Palakka]

a great strong performance from juventus who have proven to be the team to beat this year let's say that the first match was a test to actually see the conditions of juventus but I must say that thiago motta played some good football and above all given space for the young people who repaid him in a big way!

I don't want to praise Juventus too much because their opponents are a new and weak team so not too surprised by the 3 goal win. To see Juventus chances of winning the title, we have to wait until Juventus plays against AS Roma or Napoli next month well, here their abilities will be tested if Juventus can beat these 2 teams then they are worth considering. By the way, I was a little disappointed with AS Roma first match they only drew against Cagliari even though previously we had high expectations, but yeah maybe some new players still need to adapt because sometimes it's not easy especially with the mental burden as a mainstay player. Based on the match statistics, it seems that both teams played aggressively, but their shooting accuracy was weak of 15 shots only 2 on target.

Juventus have won their first match of the season in Serie A and that should be a good start for them to compete for the Scudetto this season, but the victory over Como should not make Juventus too proud and confident because they only beat a promoted team and are not a strong team in the league at the moment, so we can't say that they are in very good condition at the moment to face tough competition in serie A, before Juventus can beat other big teams then we can't expect much if Juventus will be able to return to being a team challenging for the title after years of being slumped in Serie A.

Several big Serie A teams this season have improved the quality of their squad, including Roma, but according to me, the draw in the first match cannot be a reference for us to eliminate Roma from the Scudetto competition this season, from the match, I actually saw that Roma game was not yet maximum, especially their midfield which seemed unable to be a good support for the attack line because of the lack of creativity they built in that match.

[Pandorak]

Juventus and Milan got unlucky this weekend too.
But I think it is pretty normal haveing this kind of problem.

Weah and Thuram got injuries and they will be out atleast 10 days.
Morata is broken too, but he will be out for 20 + days,

Are you talking about their next matchday?

I don't think they will have any problems for their next matchday, because both teams (Juventus & AC Milan) have good squad depth. In the next meeting, Juventus will face AS Roma, the odds for each team are 1.91 for Juventus & 4.30 for AS Roma. Meanwhile AC Milan will meet Parma, the odds are not much different from the Juventus match, from there i judge that Juventus & AC Milan will not have any problems.

[giammangiato]

Ok the opponent was not so strong but Juventus dominted the game.
3 goals, 2posts, 1 removed goal for an offside with the arm?

Next week we will have a good benchmark against Verona.

Finally we see a Juventus worthy of the name, worthy of times gone by. I saw the match and they practically dominated the match. Como, newly promoted, were obviously not a good opponent but it's nice to see a team that works even if the opponent wasn't very strong. It remains to be seen how he fares against strong teams.

[dzungmobile]

Juventus have won their first match of the season in Serie A and that should be a good start for them to compete for the Scudetto this season, but the victory over Como should not make Juventus too proud and confident because they only beat a promoted team and are not a strong team in the league at the moment, so we can't say that they are in very good condition at the moment to face tough competition in serie A, before Juventus can beat other big teams then we can't expect much if Juventus will be able to return to being a team challenging for the title after years of being slumped in Serie A.

They got a big win in a first match of Serie A 2024 - 2025 season and with a new coach. Thiago Motta got a first win with his new club and it's more impressive that he used many young players in this match. These lads still have many things to do to keep up their good works, grow their career more and maintain their performances and contributions for Juventus at as highest and best level as possible.

So far, both the head coach, young players and the club have very good start from which they can aim at bigger things in this season. Thiago Motta made big surprise with Bologna in the last season and he is ready to repeat it with Juventus. With experience as a player in many big clubs, won many titles in the past as a player, Thiago Motta potentially does it as a head coach too.

[Majestic-milf]

a great strong performance from juventus who have proven to be the team to beat this year let's say that the first match was a test to actually see the conditions of juventus but I must say that thiago motta played some good football and above all given space for the young people who repaid him in a big way!

When you play against a side that hasn't tasted Serie A action for 21 years, you can't say Juventus tried. It's like they were expected to thrash them more than the two goals that was recorded and although they had one of their goal chopped off, I won't call their performance stellar, unlike the way Atalanta walloped Lecce. If you had seen the game you'd know notice Juventus struggling to get their acts right. Severally, Cesc Fabregas' side had the opportunity to punish Juvefor their mistakes but they too couldn't be relied on.
 Juventus got their first three points of the season and at least this can ward off critics away from Thiago Motta being that he didn't lose his first game because I'm sure many were feeling that judging by their performance in pre season, maybe they will lose or draw because that has been the pattern majority of the big boys followed.

[SmartCharpa]

I believe the Lukeman case is as a result of them losing to Madrid, I feel he wasn't happy with that loss and if you check all these Italian clubs always have this one season wonder, that's they perform better in the first season and after that they become awful in the next season, I think that's another reason why Lukeman should leave but still he made a wise choice by leaving the side. The player needs a better club like PSG that are coming for him and I know he'll excel in the French league.
Atalanta need to continue with this form since all other big clubs are losing that strength of getting the job done, Inter Milan especially, they suppose to show why they are the champions of Italian league last season but they played a draw but that shouldn't be why we have to say they're going to perform badly, we just have to wait and even look at how the Atalanta side will play out their 4-5 games before we can say they're good to go.

I don't think the club discussed Lookman's want to leave the club before the Super Cup final against Real Madrid. Atalanta played an incredible game against Real Madrid, drawing in the first half but failing to handle the pressure and conceding two goals in the second half, Atalanta's performance wasn't as good at the beginning of last season as they had at the end of last season, they seemed like they had a difficult time starting the season, Atalanta's beginning this season was different from last season's, and they won the Europa League last season, I have no idea why Lookman decided to leave, perhaps he wants to play for another big team rather than staying this season.

I expected Inter Milan to win their game against Genoa because they won the league last season. I agree with you that we need to wait for them to play their next four to five games to see how they will play, but it looks poor for Inter Milan as they won the league Champions last season; they could have started the season with three points, but they ended up sharing it.

[Hvdv]

a great strong performance from juventus who have proven to be the team to beat this year let's say that the first match was a test to actually see the conditions of juventus but I must say that thiago motta played some good football and above all given space for the young people who repaid him in a big way!

When you play against a side that hasn't tasted Serie A action for 21 years, you can't say Juventus tried. It's like they were expected to thrash them more than the two goals that was recorded and although they had one of their goal chopped off, I won't call their performance stellar, unlike the way Atalanta walloped Lecce. If you had seen the game you'd know notice Juventus struggling to get their acts right. Severally, Cesc Fabregas' side had the opportunity to punish Juvefor their mistakes but they too couldn't be relied on.
 Juventus got their first three points of the season and at least this can ward off critics away from Thiago Motta being that he didn't lose his first game because I'm sure many were feeling that judging by their performance in pre season, maybe they will lose or draw because that has been the pattern majority of the big boys followed.

Their pre-season performance was really bad. Thiago Motta's team was constantly criticized in the friendly matches. Juventus got rid of the criticism a little by winning. I think Motta should be better, work on tactics better and get to know the team as soon as possible. He can do the same things he did last year in a bigger team this year. They took the first step towards their dream of winning the Scudetto by winning their first match. They will try to continue this year and I think Juventus will be better than last year.

[hahay]

Juventus and Atalanta started the match very well, successfully collecting their first 3 points, while Milan and Inter were unlucky because they had to end with a 2-2 draw. On the other hand, the Napoli squad was thirsty to bear the shame of losing to the Verona team 0-3 without reply. Maybe this is a congratulations for kicking Victor Osimhen from the main squad. So don't be surprised that this club has lost its best performance, there is no 100% guarantee that Napoli can finish in 5th place at the end of the season. Too early? right but that's my personal estimate  

Indeed, it's too early but it doesn't matter because after all, Conte managed to cause a big disappointment for Napoli's first match this season and as such, I think it doesn't matter if you or we say Napoli will fail this season even they have a manager like Conte. I was disappointed, obviously, that Conte didn't include Osimhen in Napoli's squad because after all, Osimhen basically has no problem with Napoli and also, Osimhen is young and has good potential, so Conte should have supported Osimhen.

Conte's strong desire to work with Lukaku made Conte kick out potential young players like Osimhen and obviously, it was a bad choice or attitude that Conte had. With the way Conte builds a team like that, it seems quite appropriate to no longer respect him, because of his attitude as a bad manager.

[jaberwock]

Juventus were unlikely to drop points against a small team like Como. This party is not a strong party. Even in Serie A we don't usually see this team. I forget when Como last qualified for Serie A. Como were lucky last season to qualify for Serie A this season. But Como's squad is relatively weak. Staying away from the relegation zone will also be difficult for Como.

Juventus performed well in this match against COmo at home. As COmo's performance was poor, Juventus managed to dominate the match. Como's players failed to get a single shot on target in the entire match. On the other hand, Juventus players made a total of 13 shots, 7 of which were on target. The bonding between Juventus' players, and their overall gameplay, was excellent.

For some reason I feel like those teams are the hardest ones to beat. When a team comes from a lower division, they come off either a championship run, or at least a top team there, and that means they have the confidence and the momentum coming into play. That is why on early weeks playing against these teams feels like it's a risk and feels tougher than it looks for a while.

Obviously that wasn't the case here, but not like Juventus won 5-0 or something, it was still a close game and I think Juventus should have won the game anyway, it wasn't anything exceptionally well. Their team definitely looks like it's playing very fast and that is helping them, a young and athletic team tiring the opponent out will help them all season long.

[$anounimus$]

Indeed, it's too early but it doesn't matter because after all, Conte managed to cause a big disappointment for Napoli's first match this season and as such, I think it doesn't matter if you or we say Napoli will fail this season even they have a manager like Conte. I was disappointed, obviously, that Conte didn't include Osimhen in Napoli's squad because after all, Osimhen basically has no problem with Napoli and also, Osimhen is young and has good potential, so Conte should have supported Osimhen.

Conte's strong desire to work with Lukaku made Conte kick out potential young players like Osimhen and obviously, it was a bad choice or attitude that Conte had. With the way Conte builds a team like that, it seems quite appropriate to no longer respect him, because of his attitude as a bad manager.

The poor result in the first match certainly made Conte very upset. In fact, fans and a number of betting exchanges favored Conte to achieve his first victory. Yes, even though this is just the start of the league, there is still a chance for Conte to improve his strategy. Osimhen may be on his way out because he is no longer in Conte's plans, it seems that Lukaku will be the new mainstay for Napoli's attack line.

[Josefjix]

The poor result in the first match certainly made Conte very upset. In fact, fans and a number of betting exchanges favored Conte to achieve his first victory. Yes, even though this is just the start of the league, there is still a chance for Conte to improve his strategy. Osimhen may be on his way out because he is no longer in Conte's plans, it seems that Lukaku will be the new mainstay for Napoli's attack line.

Napoli lost 3 nil to Verona in the opening matchday in Italy. This is really a dissapointing result for the Parthenopeans and not improving. However they will do better in their next game, they just have to stick around for better results. Napoli headcoach, Antonio Conte is new to the team and there's basically more sectors and planning to put in place.

Victor Osimhen should be having terrible moment because he's not available to deliver his team. There's definitely huge progress for the club but it will definitely take lengthy period of time with the new coach incharge.

[bering]

When Gasperini has decide to bought Mateo Retegui from Genoa seems this is very good decision because apparently this player can be played as the replacement of Gianluca Scamacca and just like we know on pre season tour Gianluca Scamacca got the injured and he have to rested at least 6 month which this situation pushing Gasperini to find other striker and when he was choose Mateo Retegui i was doubt this player can performing well with Atalanta

But clearly i was wrong about that because when the match against Lecce Mateo Retegui can make a brace and i think 25 million as transfer fees to gets him is really worthy because probably Mateo Retegui can scores more goals with Atalanta

[Ayers]

The poor result in the first match certainly made Conte very upset. In fact, fans and a number of betting exchanges favored Conte to achieve his first victory. Yes, even though this is just the start of the league, there is still a chance for Conte to improve his strategy. Osimhen may be on his way out because he is no longer in Conte's plans, it seems that Lukaku will be the new mainstay for Napoli's attack line.

Napoli lost 3 nil to Verona in the opening matchday in Italy. This is really a dissapointing result for the Parthenopeans and not improving. However they will do better in their next game, they just have to stick around for better results. Napoli headcoach, Antonio Conte is new to the team and there's basically more sectors and planning to put in place.

Victor Osimhen should be having terrible moment because he's not available to deliver his team. There's definitely huge progress for the club but it will definitely take lengthy period of time with the new coach incharge.

I was not prepared to see such a collapse of the Napoli team. The team dominated Serie A in the 2022–23 season. Napoli team was 16 points ahead of second placed Lazio in the table. But last season we saw Napoli in 10th place in the table. But after the coach change we thought Napoli will play well this season. Conte is a good enough coach. But the Napoli team performed badly in the first match.

Napoli's overall performance against Hellas Verona was poor. Napoli's defenders played very poorly resulting in Napoli conceding 3 goals. On the other hand, Napoli's forward players could not score a single goal despite attacking a lot. Napoli definitely need an experienced striker.

[Jatiluhung]

When you play against a side that hasn't tasted Serie A action for 21 years, you can't say Juventus tried. It's like they were expected to thrash them more than the two goals that was recorded and although they had one of their goal chopped off, I won't call their performance stellar, unlike the way Atalanta walloped Lecce. If you had seen the game you'd know notice Juventus struggling to get their acts right. Severally, Cesc Fabregas' side had the opportunity to punish Juvefor their mistakes but they too couldn't be relied on.
 Juventus got their first three points of the season and at least this can ward off critics away from Thiago Motta being that he didn't lose his first game because I'm sure many were feeling that judging by their performance in pre season, maybe they will lose or draw because that has been the pattern majority of the big boys followed.

Juventus' performance in pre-season with Thiago Motta was really bad. So in the first week there were actually many people who underestimated Juventus. Because they think that when a team gets bad results in pre-season, that team is automatically bad. Even though we can see that Real Madrid and Man City are not playing very well in pre-season. But when the season started then they showed their performance. And I think the same goes for Juventus, where they look bad in pre-season. But when the season starts, I think Juventus' performance is different from when they were in pre-season. And I think even though Juventus only won against Como, it was still a good result and shows that Juventus is quite trustworthy. But we can't really judge with certainty just from 1 match. but for me the most important thing is that a team can get full points is the best. Whether it was due to luck because it was against a weak team or not. Because basically we play in the League to get points. 

[Nheer]

When you play against a side that hasn't tasted Serie A action for 21 years, you can't say Juventus tried. It's like they were expected to thrash them more than the two goals that was recorded and although they had one of their goal chopped off, I won't call their performance stellar, unlike the way Atalanta walloped Lecce. If you had seen the game you'd know notice Juventus struggling to get their acts right. Severally, Cesc Fabregas' side had the opportunity to punish Juvefor their mistakes but they too couldn't be relied on.

The most important thing is to win and get all three points and not the number of goals scored. The players even went on to celebrate the win by walking to the fans to appreciate their support so you should know how much this win means to them.

The way Juventus played now is a bit different, you might be right about their performance not being stellar but they are not so bad, they might struggle against tougher opponents but the result is all that matters right now. Just because a team newly got promoted to higher division would mean they would concede a lot of goals to other teams.

[Jegileman]

Juventus and Atalanta started the match very well, successfully collecting their first 3 points, while Milan and Inter were unlucky because they had to end with a 2-2 draw. On the other hand, the Napoli squad was thirsty to bear the shame of losing to the Verona team 0-3 without reply. Maybe this is a congratulations for kicking Victor Osimhen from the main squad. So don't be surprised that this club has lost its best performance, there is no 100% guarantee that Napoli can finish in 5th place at the end of the season. Too early? right but that's my personal estimate  

Watching how Napoli started off the season and losing the match to a three goals to nothing will immediately bring out the perception that they will not still end this season in a better position. The loss being related to not playing Osimhen since he’s still very much in the transfer saga talks may or may not have been the reason for this result. We can only be sure of this thought if they continue like this in their upcoming matches. They didn’t have a good start but that doesn’t still mean they won’t do well this season.

Good game by Juventus and Atalanta who are now becoming a top team in the Serie A from their last season performance and how they finished the league and also won the Europa Legaue title from the giant Bayern Leverkusen. They could also be in the title race in my opinion because they’re showing that sign of making the best out of this season already. They just need to keep up with this performance and help make the season more easier for them to come through.

[AYOBA]

Victor Osimhen should be having terrible moment because he's not available to deliver his team. There's definitely huge progress for the club but it will definitely take lengthy period of time with the new coach incharge.

Honestly victory Osimhen is no more powerful again like before, I don’t dittos because the Chelsea are  making attempts in several times to signed but the teams is demanding a lot of Heroes for the Chelsea which is why Osimhen is still remain in the Napoli if not he supposed start this season premier league together with Chelsea. But I don’t think that it will make Osimhen relax just like that; because that will know stop him from delver good results for his team.

[red4slash]

I don't think the club discussed Lookman's want to leave the club before the Super Cup final against Real Madrid. Atalanta played an incredible game against Real Madrid, drawing in the first half but failing to handle the pressure and conceding two goals in the second half, Atalanta's performance wasn't as good at the beginning of last season as they had at the end of last season, they seemed like they had a difficult time starting the season, Atalanta's beginning this season was different from last season's, and they won the Europa League last season, I have no idea why Lookman decided to leave, perhaps he wants to play for another big team rather than staying this season.

Atalanta's problems are even more difficult now that Scamacca's injury has put him on a long layoff with an ACL tear, Koopmeiners wants to be at Juventus and now there are rumors Lookman could leave which makes things even more difficult.
 
These are issues that could see Atalanta suffer in terms of performance at the start of the season especially as some of the players currently being talked about are core players who will be difficult for Gasperini to replace quickly.
If the situation continues to drag on then surely this will interfere with their performance even though in the first week Atalanta could win with a landslide score where 4 goals were created but still when there are internal player problems then this can spread to performance later.

[Oluwa-btc]

A very good start for Motta as the new Juventus ..

If Thiago Motta started well as Juve manager and they scored 3 goals without resistance against Como, then congratulations to him! But dont worry, Como is not a strong team: we will see Juventus versus real team.

It was not about the goals scored in my opinion. Those who saw the game knew how many goals Dusan Vlahovic should have scored and also how well they played that game. I'm in love with that Juventus squad. Yesterday night was the first fixture in Seria A for them but they did brilliantly well. Yildaz, Cabal, Thuram and Dusan Vlahovic were players who did everything possible to win that game against Como.

Como wasn't bad honestly. I saw the game and saw that they did well but lacked precision in the final third. I'm sure they'll find themselves thriving though in due time.

AC Milan late equalizer was one win I loved. With how Torino took the lead early enough, one would think they've already buried and sealed that game.