Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A)

[tygeade]

I think Napoli and Conte are not interested in Osimhen because Osimhen's wages are too high. Napoli management wants to cut their costs. This is why they will not keep Osimhen and Lukaku in the same squad. Moreover, Conte has wanted Lukaku in his squad since he took over at Napoli. Because Lukaku has played in Conte's squad in the past. And Lukaku was the best striker in Conte's squad. This is why Conte is so keen on Lukaku.

Conte is well aware of Lukaku's style of play. Lukaku is also familiar with Conte's match tactics. It is for this reason that Lukaku is likely to adapt quickly to Napoli's squad. Napoli are likely to see Lukaku perform well this season.

The real issue is that if he didn't really cut ties with the team, he could have been a marvellous striker for them, he could have been awesome, and there is no denying that he would be great for long term. However, we need to remember that he had damaged his relationship with the team so much that he was basically left out of the squad, if he stayed with the team then he wouldn't even be playing.

Even with Lukaku on the team, if Osimhen was good with the team and the manager he would have still played, but because the damage was beyond repair, we saw him sent on loan. They are not paying his salary and he will be let go whenever an offer is made. Plus they made a new contract, basically a longer one, but cheaper release clause, so it should be fine for him to leave now.

[Asiska02]

The real issue is that if he didn't really cut ties with the team, he could have been a marvellous striker for them, he could have been awesome, and there is no denying that he would be great for long term. However, we need to remember that he had damaged his relationship with the team so much that he was basically left out of the squad, if he stayed with the team then he wouldn't even be playing.

Even with Lukaku on the team, if Osimhen was good with the team and the manager he would have still played, but because the damage was beyond repair, we saw him sent on loan. They are not paying his salary and he will be let go whenever an offer is made. Plus they made a new contract, basically a longer one, but cheaper release clause, so it should be fine for him to leave now.

The best thing for Osimhen was that he left the team to join another team. If he stayed back, it would have been his worth nightmare throughout his career. For a player like him, he can still fit into Conte’s style of football and become successful more as a striker in the team. He is left behind because of his differences with the team. He shouldn’t have had a problem with the management, Conte could have still used him and he’ll be productive now.

The Serie A is becoming one of the best leagues in Europe in recent times, with so many teams fighting for the league title every season. The performance of one always differ from the other teams season by season and that’s to show how every team in the league are trying to be their best to be victorious in the end. The team is now worth the praise they’ve received since the year they took the Scudetto. They’re back now to fight for the title once again.

[barbara44]

Unexpected teams getting unexpected results on early weeks may not be indicating their whole season. Some teams get some good results on a few weeks results, but then could become bad, and on contrary some good teams could have bad results on early weeks and then become much better later on as well. For example I believe that Juventus will finish very well this season, I think they have a chance to be the winner or second place, and Inter looks like the other team that will either win or be second place.

Milan looks bad and everyone says they are much worse, but I think they will recover. On the same logic, Udinese and Torino will not do that great, they had a decent start but they will not end up that top at all.

[Akbarkoe]

Unexpected teams getting unexpected results on early weeks may not be indicating their whole season. Some teams get some good results on a few weeks results, but then could become bad, and on contrary some good teams could have bad results on early weeks and then become much better later on as well. For example I believe that Juventus will finish very well this season, I think they have a chance to be the winner or second place, and Inter looks like the other team that will either win or be second place.

Milan looks bad and everyone says they are much worse, but I think they will recover. On the same logic, Udinese and Torino will not do that great, they had a decent start but they will not end up that top at all.

That means that those who perform badly at the beginning of the season will not necessarily show bad things again in the journey of the season until the end, all teams can improve themselves, change more effective strategies to fight each of their different enemies.

Juventus sometimes looks convincing in every season and is always talked about as a candidate for the winner, but what they did like last season was lose their consistency in the middle of the season until the end and produce disappointing matches, this is what I doubt about Juventus even though this time they performed well at the beginning of the season, so did Inter Milan but I am quite sure about Inter Milan if the performance they will show is like last season.
Milan is not getting much support now, criticism is pouring in on them, but hopefully they can bounce back.

[Weawant]

You can of course go on with your bet on Juventus to win. It makes sense to take that risk at these odds:



1.80 is quite good.    It can be used as even a single bet instead of increasing the risk by adding a couple of more games with much smaller odds for example. Juventus have started the season really well. 2 wins, 1 draw while scoring 6 goal and conceding none. I'm starting to like Motta despite that boring Roma game.    I hope he adopts an attacking game most of the time. At least until facing a much bigger team.

The addition of an extra game keeps increasing your chances of loosing further, but fewer games gives you a little chances of loosing the game at the tail end. Roma has been of an average performance this season and obviously they aren't going to make any easy the game, Juventus too have been of a fairly good performance which I see as a good reason to place a bet on them to win a game.

[TelolettOm]

That means that those who perform badly at the beginning of the season will not necessarily show bad things again in the journey of the season until the end, all teams can improve themselves, change more effective strategies to fight each of their different enemies.

Indeed. Even if performing badly in the early season, it doesn't mean to perform badly in the whole season. However, it is important to perform well in the early matches, it will increase the chance to win the title or finish in better positions.

Juventus sometimes looks convincing in every season and is always talked about as a candidate for the winner, but what they did like last season was lose their consistency in the middle of the season until the end and produce disappointing matches, this is what I doubt about Juventus even though this time they performed well at the beginning of the season, so did Inter Milan but I am quite sure about Inter Milan if the performance they will show is like last season.

Not in every season, but they looked convincing in the early of the previous season but they ended up the season at 3rd place only. I think it is no problem to say Juventus as a candidate of the champion. A candidate doesn't mean automatically to be the champion. 

In this season, I think Juventus has been changed. They hired a new coach, he is one of the best coaches last season. With the new coach, I think Juventus will have a better chance to win the Scudetto. But sure it won't be easy because there is Inter Milan and other strong teams in Serie A.

[tusandii]

You can of course go on with your bet on Juventus to win. It makes sense to take that risk at these odds:



1.80 is quite good.    It can be used as even a single bet instead of increasing the risk by adding a couple of more games with much smaller odds for example. Juventus have started the season really well. 2 wins, 1 draw while scoring 6 goal and conceding none. I'm starting to like Motta despite that boring Roma game.    I hope he adopts an attacking game most of the time. At least until facing a much bigger team.

The addition of an extra game keeps increasing your chances of loosing further, but fewer games gives you a little chances of loosing the game at the tail end. Roma has been of an average performance this season and obviously they aren't going to make any easy the game, Juventus too have been of a fairly good performance which I see as a good reason to place a bet on them to win a game.

In my opinion, the odds of 1.80 are good enough to bet on Juventus without adding other options that will increase the chances of losing, especially considering that their opponent is Empoli, which is an average club. I think Juventus has a big chance of winning even though they are playing away. The previous match against AS Roma was very boring because neither club was able to score a goal, but at least Juventus can share 1 point. In the next match I expect Juventus to score 3 goals against Empoli and not concede a goal. So far, Juventus has been able to defend quite well by not conceding a goal in the 3 matches they have played.

[hyudien]

Unexpected teams getting unexpected results on early weeks may not be indicating their whole season. Some teams get some good results on a few weeks results, but then could become bad, and on contrary some good teams could have bad results on early weeks and then become much better later on as well. For example I believe that Juventus will finish very well this season, I think they have a chance to be the winner or second place, and Inter looks like the other team that will either win or be second place.

Milan looks bad and everyone says they are much worse, but I think they will recover. On the same logic, Udinese and Torino will not do that great, they had a decent start but they will not end up that top at all.

That means that those who perform badly at the beginning of the season will not necessarily show bad things again in the journey of the season until the end, all teams can improve themselves, change more effective strategies to fight each of their different enemies.

Juventus sometimes looks convincing in every season and is always talked about as a candidate for the winner, but what they did like last season was lose their consistency in the middle of the season until the end and produce disappointing matches, this is what I doubt about Juventus even though this time they performed well at the beginning of the season, so did Inter Milan but I am quite sure about Inter Milan if the performance they will show is like last season.
Milan is not getting much support now, criticism is pouring in on them, but hopefully they can bounce back.

The beginning of the season is a difficult beginning to predict and we can see that with what happened to AC Milan at the beginning of this season for example. That actually also happened to them last season or they started a little bit sluggishly, but at the end of the season they were able to perform better at the end of the season and even finished in the runner-up position.
You are right about Juventus, last season they performed well at the beginning, only entering the middle of the season their game declined because of things that happened to them, a storm of injuries and others, in the end they couldn't show anything at the end of the season and even at the end of the season they got a series of draws. But they were lucky enough because the other teams below them couldn't take advantage of what happened to Juventus.

[cryptoWODL]

You can of course go on with your bet on Juventus to win. It makes sense to take that risk at these odds:



1.80 is quite good.    It can be used as even a single bet instead of increasing the risk by adding a couple of more games with much smaller odds for example. Juventus have started the season really well. 2 wins, 1 draw while scoring 6 goal and conceding none. I'm starting to like Motta despite that boring Roma game.    I hope he adopts an attacking game most of the time. At least until facing a much bigger team.

The addition of an extra game keeps increasing your chances of loosing further, but fewer games gives you a little chances of loosing the game at the tail end. Roma has been of an average performance this season and obviously they aren't going to make any easy the game, Juventus too have been of a fairly good performance which I see as a good reason to place a bet on them to win a game.

In my opinion, the odds of 1.80 are good enough to bet on Juventus without adding other options that will increase the chances of losing, especially considering that their opponent is Empoli, which is an average club. I think Juventus has a big chance of winning even though they are playing away. The previous match against AS Roma was very boring because neither club was able to score a goal, but at least Juventus can share 1 point. In the next match I expect Juventus to score 3 goals against Empoli and not concede a goal. So far, Juventus has been able to defend quite well by not conceding a goal in the 3 matches they have played.

Juventus is one of the strongest football clubs in the Italian Serie A league, this season they are already number 2 in the points table. So far they have faced three matches against the opposition in which they managed to win the first two matches but they drew goalless against Roma in their third match. Juventus will face a weaker team than them in their fourth match, Empoli Football Club. Maybe juventus has more chances to win this match because so far juventus has more wins against Empoli.

Juventus and Empoli last met each other on June 27 but both teams performed evenly in that match. In that match, Empoli Football Club had a great performance, even they were ahead of Juventus in all aspects of ball position and ball passing in that match. As a result, the match ended in a one-one goal draw. Maybe the result of that match will give inspiration and confidence to Empoli footballers.

[Republikcoin.com]

Antonio Conte did not give Victor Oshimen any chance to play with Napoli again and the club tried to sell him, even though at least the coach could have given him a chance to see how far Oshimen's abilities were this season under Antonio Conte's tutelage. It is not certain that Oshimen will thwart his plans even though he had problems but last season Oshimen still contributed well to the Napoli club and created many goals even though not as many as the previous season 2022/23 because Oshimen was injured twice and made him absent several times if he had not been injured maybe he would have been fine and still had the same performance. But the rice has become porridge Antonio Conte has crossed him out of the Napoli player list I think sooner or later the club will regret throwing away such a talented player.

There is a reason why Conte did not give Osimhen a chance under his coaching and I am sure because of the speculation regarding his transfer so that if given the opportunity it is not certain that Osimhen will play better because he has indeed intended to leave Napoli. While Lukaku is his foster child and he understands Lukaku's playing style better so Conte prioritizes Lukaku who is included in his plans. The club will certainly feel disadvantaged by the departure of a quality player but keeping him who does not want to stay in Napoli is also not a good decision because they have to pay his salary. Now Osimhen must determine the best steps this season so that next season he will get the club he wants because forcing too much salary will make it difficult for him to find a club.

[giorgione]

ok but even if it's old it plays well, it doesn't cost much, it integrates and doesn't bother you
what is better than Victor Osimhen who plays the princess and acts like an asshole not wanting to play?
These guys get money in a year that I can't dream of in a lifetime, at least they work and don't bother me.

in fact Victor Osimhen is behaving like a princess, perhaps playing elsewhere will be good for him, the loan was a rescue that brought money to the team
Honestly, I consider it unprofessional behavior

[shinratensei_]

ok but even if it's old it plays well, it doesn't cost much, it integrates and doesn't bother you
what is better than Victor Osimhen who plays the princess and acts like an asshole not wanting to play?
These guys get money in a year that I can't dream of in a lifetime, at least they work and don't bother me.

in fact Victor Osimhen is behaving like a princess, perhaps playing elsewhere will be good for him, the loan was a rescue that brought money to the team
Honestly, I consider it unprofessional behavior

Loaning Osimhen only saves Napoli from paying his full wages. But, they get no loan fees from this move.

It's a good sanction for Osimhen. He was unprofessional after rejecting various offers and disrespected his club.

Osimhen deserved it. I hope he will realize if no player is bigger than the club itself.

[Hirose UK]

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That means that those who perform badly at the beginning of the season will not necessarily show bad things again in the journey of the season until the end, all teams can improve themselves, change more effective strategies to fight each of their different enemies.

Juventus sometimes looks convincing in every season and is always talked about as a candidate for the winner, but what they did like last season was lose their consistency in the middle of the season until the end and produce disappointing matches, this is what I doubt about Juventus even though this time they performed well at the beginning of the season, so did Inter Milan but I am quite sure about Inter Milan if the performance they will show is like last season.
Milan is not getting much support now, criticism is pouring in on them, but hopefully they can bounce back.

The beginning of the season is a difficult beginning to predict and we can see that with what happened to AC Milan at the beginning of this season for example. That actually also happened to them last season or they started a little bit sluggishly, but at the end of the season they were able to perform better at the end of the season and even finished in the runner-up position.
You are right about Juventus, last season they performed well at the beginning, only entering the middle of the season their game declined because of things that happened to them, a storm of injuries and others, in the end they couldn't show anything at the end of the season and even at the end of the season they got a series of draws. But they were lucky enough because the other teams below them couldn't take advantage of what happened to Juventus.

In fact, almost all team from various leagues also show the same thing where each team will be very difficult to predict when entering the early season at the start of the competition like now, those who look strong are not necessarily able to maintain their strength consistently and those who look bad are not necessarily going to continue to perform badly.
Especially for those big teams like AC Milan, Juventus, Inter Milan and Napoli who previously won Serie-A but last season they performed very badly, the development of each team can certainly change from time to time and in the Serie-A competition for the past few season we have not seen any team that is truly consistent from each season.
This is what makes Serie-A interesting, we will never be able to determine and guess who is the strongest and who can win the title because the scudetto is certain to happen every season, but for this season I only believe in Inter Milan, Juventus and AC Milan who might have big chance of winning the title.

[rendravolt]

Despite all the factors that tend not to do this, I will still bet on Juventus in the match against Empoli. At first I wanted to bet on a draw, but no. After reading the latest posts on this topic, I was all the more determined to bet on Juventus. Maybe in vain. However, I am now following the strategy of the maximum possible number of small bets, which to some extent negates the "price" of each failure

However, the level difference between the two teams is so far that it is impossible for Juventus to feel overwhelmed. On the other hand, Empoli will still feel strong pressure even as the host and it will still not be profitable for them when facing two strong teams in the previous two matches.

Now another challenge awaits them and Juventus here will certainly be very eager to steal full points as an addition to continue to stick to Inter at the top of the standings. As far as I know, Thiago Motta has a better plan with Juventus and maybe we will soon see him in a more serious mode after bringing Bologna to the peak of glory last season. I will also bet on Juventus along with other matches later.

[imamusma]

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That means that those who perform badly at the beginning of the season will not necessarily show bad things again in the journey of the season until the end, all teams can improve themselves, change more effective strategies to fight each of their different enemies.

Juventus sometimes looks convincing in every season and is always talked about as a candidate for the winner, but what they did like last season was lose their consistency in the middle of the season until the end and produce disappointing matches, this is what I doubt about Juventus even though this time they performed well at the beginning of the season, so did Inter Milan but I am quite sure about Inter Milan if the performance they will show is like last season.
Milan is not getting much support now, criticism is pouring in on them, but hopefully they can bounce back.

The beginning of the season is a difficult beginning to predict and we can see that with what happened to AC Milan at the beginning of this season for example. That actually also happened to them last season or they started a little bit sluggishly, but at the end of the season they were able to perform better at the end of the season and even finished in the runner-up position.
You are right about Juventus, last season they performed well at the beginning, only entering the middle of the season their game declined because of things that happened to them, a storm of injuries and others, in the end they couldn't show anything at the end of the season and even at the end of the season they got a series of draws. But they were lucky enough because the other teams below them couldn't take advantage of what happened to Juventus.

Actually AC Milan was also not very good last season, they finished in the runner-up position because Juventus recorded 14 draws, from the number of defeats AC Milan recorded a greater number. In addition, AC Milan was eliminated too early in the Champions League, and they could not go further in the Europa League after being eliminated by AS Roma. Due to this reputation Stefano Pioli was fired and his new successor Paulo Fonseca has not shown any signs of improvement so far. Meanwhile, Juventus, who only focused on domestic competitions last season, ended the season by winning the Italian Cup trophy, although not so prestigious it can be entertainment for fans. However, Allegri managerial career was not saved due to his reaction which was considered excessive, and Thiago Motta who was appointed as the new successor seems to bring a breath of fresh air this season, it can be seen from the three matches they have gone through without defeat.
It seems that this season Inter Milan is only getting pressure from Juventus, although it is too early to say, we'll just have to wait and see.

[len01]

You can of course go on with your bet on Juventus to win. It makes sense to take that risk at these odds:



1.80 is quite good.    It can be used as even a single bet instead of increasing the risk by adding a couple of more games with much smaller odds for example. Juventus have started the season really well. 2 wins, 1 draw while scoring 6 goal and conceding none. I'm starting to like Motta despite that boring Roma game.    I hope he adopts an attacking game most of the time. At least until facing a much bigger team.

Betting on Juventus victory is indeed very tempting because the odds are quite good and if we want to take the bet we can add 1 more bet with low odds to increase the odds to @2.
However, not everyone will bet on the victory of the match even though Juventus has a greater chance of winning. Empoli from the last 3 matches has good results and on the one hand the match against Roma, Juventus was only able to end the match with a draw. While in H2H these two teams have drawn.
So the possibility is that I choose to bet on over 2.5 with odds @2.09 or choose to bet on the total score of Juventus over 1.5 with odds @1.99.

[TopT3ns]

Despite all the factors that tend not to do this, I will still bet on Juventus in the match against Empoli. At first I wanted to bet on a draw, but no. After reading the latest posts on this topic, I was all the more determined to bet on Juventus. Maybe in vain. However, I am now following the strategy of the maximum possible number of small bets, which to some extent negates the "price" of each failure

Well, Sometimes it can be really confusing and there is a lot of different information. But when after reading the latest post in the blog or information presented in it you are sure, then there are grounds for it. This bet might be a good idea since Juventus is currently on a high and could win this match rather easily. As for your concept of small bets, you also seem to have a pretty solid plan. In this way, if there is a failure, it is not very significant and one can continue to participate in a competition without much concern. This may have been a safe way of engaging and benefitting from opportunities without necessarily getting an exposure to big risks. Hopefully your bet this time will be successful and this strategy will be useful!

[Fuso.hp]

Both Inter Milan and AC Milan have played three matches each, where Inter Milan is currently in the first position of the points table with 7 points in the first three matches, on the contrary, AC Milan is at the bottom of the points table with fewer points from the matches. Last season Inter Milan's closest rival was AC Milan but with the way AC Milan have been performing since the start of the season, it is doubtful that we will see them between 1 and 5 in the points table. Juventus and Inter Milan have equal number of points, considering the current performance we can consider Juventus as Inter Milan's closest rivals. Inter Milan have been single-handedly dominating the Italian league for a few seasons now so it would be much more exciting if a new team wins this season.

It's still early in the season, some top Serie A teams have not found their best performance especially AC Milan who are adapting to their new coach while Inter Milan are still as strong as last season. For the competition for the Scudetto I think Inter Milan will not be as easy as last season, this season there are several top Serie A teams who have made many improvements so that it is possible that there will be fierce competition given to Inter Milan such as Juventus and AS Roma and even AC Milan should not be ignored, now because it is still early in the season so we cannot see the real strength of the team.

It's early in the season and every team still has a lot of games so I agree that the big teams can definitely come back later but if the big teams perform badly in the beginning and go down the points table, it's hard to recover those points later on.

Last season we saw that AC Milan performed a bit better than this season especially at the beginning of a new season but this season I know why they look so helpless in every match. They have not been able to pick up as many points as they have played in this case, of course they have failed. Maybe later they will return to consistency but then it will be too late and even if this team is number two or three in the points table, this team will have a huge points gap with the top ranked team.

That's just the major problem of dropping valuable points at this stage of the season, because if you look at the league standings, inter Milan will definitely run away with the title and open a very big gap to and extent that they wouldn't be able to recover if they don't stop dropping more valuable points,  and to be honest, it's only the old ladies of Juventus that have shown real intent of competing with the likes of inter Milan for the Italian Seria A this season, the rest of the other bigger teams hasn't shown enough for us to think that they can compete with inter Milan for the title.
Though, most people will argue that the season it still very fresh, that we should not conclude yet, that is very true, but base on what I have seen so far from every other team in the Italian Seria A, I actually think that inter Milan which are the current champions are actually the team to beat, they have proven to be the strongest team  so far  in the Seria A this season.

At first, Inter Milan's tough opponent seems to be Juventus, but Juventus may not be able to maintain the consistency of their performance in the end. We have seen Inter Milan and AC Milan compete in the Italian league last season, but this competition cannot be called a tough competition at all because the points difference between Inter Milan and AC Milan is very high. Inter Milan have started this season from where they left off last season. However, AC Milan could not improve their performance. Before the start of the season, AC Milan played a few friendlies against the big teams and they did well there, but that good performance was limited to their friendlies and in the main stage they performed as before. So I will agree with you that Inter Milan will be champion of Italian league this season too.

[Xcode7]

Despite all the factors that tend not to do this, I will still bet on Juventus in the match against Empoli. At first I wanted to bet on a draw, but no. After reading the latest posts on this topic, I was all the more determined to bet on Juventus. Maybe in vain. However, I am now following the strategy of the maximum possible number of small bets, which to some extent negates the "price" of each failure

However, the level difference between the two teams is so far that it is impossible for Juventus to feel overwhelmed. On the other hand, Empoli will still feel strong pressure even as the host and it will still not be profitable for them when facing two strong teams in the previous two matches.

Now another challenge awaits them and Juventus here will certainly be very eager to steal full points as an addition to continue to stick to Inter at the top of the standings. As far as I know, Thiago Motta has a better plan with Juventus and maybe we will soon see him in a more serious mode after bringing Bologna to the peak of glory last season. I will also bet on Juventus along with other matches later.

In terms of quality, Juventus is clearly much better than Empoli and of course Juventus' percentage to be able to win the match later is very large, especially at the beginning of this season, Juventus' performance is quite good so they will make great efforts to be able to maintain this positive trend.

However, for betting options if you choose Juventus to win, I think it doesn't have a big effect because the odds are quite small of course, so the bet if you win will not be maximized so it is better to choose a handicap, whatever the market is not by the bookmaker and I am sure Juventus will be able to win by a large margin.

[Silence Scream]

You can of course go on with your bet on Juventus to win. It makes sense to take that risk at these odds:



1.80 is quite good.    It can be used as even a single bet instead of increasing the risk by adding a couple of more games with much smaller odds for example. Juventus have started the season really well. 2 wins, 1 draw while scoring 6 goal and conceding none. I'm starting to like Motta despite that boring Roma game.    I hope he adopts an attacking game most of the time. At least until facing a much bigger team.

The addition of an extra game keeps increasing your chances of loosing further, but fewer games gives you a little chances of loosing the game at the tail end. Roma has been of an average performance this season and obviously they aren't going to make any easy the game, Juventus too have been of a fairly good performance which I see as a good reason to place a bet on them to win a game.

Juventus had a great start to the league. The Empoli away game can actually be seen as a difficult away game, but I am sure Juventus will overcome it. Only Juventus' offensive line seems a little less successful. I would have expected them to score more goals. Still, it is very good that they did not concede any goals. They are at the top of the league with the same points as Inter.