Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A)

[Palakka]

However, in the end both teams had to be satisfied with the draw they got from the match. Sharing points keeps Napoli safe in first position. And Inter Milan must be patient because they cannot overtake Napoli at this time. I expected this result because I think these two teams have almost the same performance this season. Napoli under Conte's coaching is really growing rapidly again. Their strength really goes back to the Spalletti era. It's just that I still feel that the aggressiveness of Napoli's attacks recently has weakened a bit. they became more defensive and made more careful moves. But I'm sure Conte knows that they have to do that, especially in a tough match against a strong team like Inter Milan.

But it is very interesting to see the points gained in the current Serie A standings. We see this very tight competition. I think this Serie A will not be boring at all. We can see that all the teams in the top 5 seem to have a chance to overtake Napoli.

This is Conte's tactic, he always plays more cautiously against stronger opponents, and I had no doubt that they would play the same way at Giuseppe Meazza, because it would be difficult to beat Inter away, and it was reasonable to play a draw and stay at the top of the table. It is surprising how close the teams are after 12 rounds, from sixth place, where Juventus is, to Inter, which is leading by only two points, every round can change everything.

The competition between clubs in Serie A this season is very tight compared to what happened last season, so every team is very wary of losing points in every match they play, so I think that is also what conte is doing now to maintain his team position at the top of the Serie A standings, the tactics and strategies that conte applies when facing Intermilan are very appropriate,  because I think he is well aware of the potential danger that Napoli can get if they play too aggressively and openly like when facing other teams previously, Inter is their strongest rival in the Scudetto competition, so targeting at least 1 point at inter home could be a wise move to maintain their position at the top of the Serie A standings.

[Obari]

The competition between clubs in Serie A this season is very tight compared to what happened last season, so every team is very wary of losing points in every match they play, so I think that is also what conte is doing now to maintain his team position at the top of the Serie A standings, the tactics and strategies that conte applies when facing Intermilan are very appropriate,  because I think he is well aware of the potential danger that Napoli can get if they play too aggressively and openly like when facing other teams previously, Inter is their strongest rival in the Scudetto competition, so targeting at least 1 point at inter home could be a wise move to maintain their position at the top of the Serie A standings.

Napoli, Atalanta, Fiorentina and Inter Milan are contending for the scudetto this season, leading to terrific atmosphere in Italy football. The Seria A standing keeps everyone in tense because we're yet to decides the pre-eminent rivals for the scudetto this season. Napoli ranking first on the table with just topping other oppositions with a point difference, that doesn't settle the difference if you ask me. Antonio Conte would do more handling tasks because the title race is on and he possess the odds to beat it. This is precisely what I'm talking about, a close range competition that would determines the fierce actions of these elite clubs. As it stands, Napoli remained promising to lift the scudetto this season, they can do it but they just have to sealed the top rank in the meantime.

[bastisisca]

If you assume Juventus are out of the running for the Scudetto, you'd be wrong. Are you not paying attention to the current points tally? Although Juventus are currently in sixth place but in reality Juventus and Napoli only have a two-point gap. Thus, Juventus are still in the race  for the Scudetto this season, don't just fixate on their position in the standings but try to pay attention to their points acquisition too, because the reality is that they still have  a  very close points gap.

Also, Juventus is still the only team in Serie A so far that is unbeaten and also, Juventus is still the only team that has conceded the fewest goals so far in Serie A. Thus, Juventus are still doing well although I am also disappointed Juventus are not at the top of the table,  but it doesn't matter because Juventus still have a very big chance to return to the top of the table, the season is still long.

I'll explain to you why I think this: 1) Juventus is not a stable team at the moment, they have changed coach and structure 2) Juventus has enormous problems in attack, their department is finally worse 3) their coach has little experience and familiarity with the big teams
This is why i give a negative outlook for this year, in my opinion they are valid assessments..

[Sim_card]

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I agree with you. Looking at the current position Juventus is not in the top 3 but every team in 2-5 has 25 points and Juventus has 24 points where Napoli is in first place with 26 points. This shows that anything can still happen. The ranking will change in every match. I think Juventus still has a chance to be champions. I think even all the teams in the top 7 currently still have a chance to be champions. This season Napoli has been impressive but Inter Milan and Juventus are still solid like last season. AC Milan is quite bad with 3 defeats but as you said, the season is still long. I think we have to wait until half of the season to see who has the biggest chance to get the scudetto.

Milan has started to recover. Considering this, they are still one of the important championship candidates in the Italian league. In the Italian league, each team seems to be equal in strength. There is a battle of equal powers in the league this year. Napoli and Inter are the teams I think of for the championship, but each team still has a chance to become champion because the points are very close to each other.

The league is very wide open for any club to win it, especially the clubs on top six of the table. I think Napoli and Inter needs to be very strong this season and make sure that they are consistent enough with their matches in order for them to have hope of winning the league this season. Milan is there, and these two teams Atalanta and Fiorentina, I don't know if in the long run, they will not be able to make it but their performance looks promising.

[Nanga Parbat]

I think  Napoli full strength football team need to focus on their weaknesses because their last two matches performance is very bad. In second last match, they lose the match by 3-0 and that kind of lose we did not expect by  Napoli team.  Napoli team has lose their confidence in last matches and if they could not win next matches then they will lose their position and Atalanta will get their position because they won last 5 matches abc their players are in full form . Napoli team played last match against Inter Milan and they could not win this match and that is bad sign by Napoli team and they have to work on their weak points.

Napoli recent games have been very worrisome especially their 3-0 loss which was shocking setback. Their confidence is now shaken putting their position at risk. Atalanta five game winning streak is major threat as they could surpass Napoli if they do not improve quickly. Tie against Inter Milan adds to Napoli worries. To regain momentum Napoli must fix their weaknesses and rebuild confidence and find consistency. Their coach needs to change strategy and motivate players and turn season around. Next games are critical so let's see what will Napoli do in that matches.

Napoli football full strength team will play next match against Roma full strength football team. In my opinion, Napoli team is still favorite for that match. No doubt that lose their rhythm in last few matches but we know that they can get good rhythm by winning with margin against that team. Head to head record is also in the favour of Napoli team because they won 2 matches out of 5 matches and 2 were draw matches between these two teams and 1 match won by Roma team . Roma full strength team can do good come back by doing  3 goals in this match because that is game and any team can play well in any match and these players can get good momentum after this match.

[Lida93]

Napoli last 2 matches are considered very detrimental to losing because they lost 3 points from Atalanta and shared points with Inter making the points difference in the standings thin. If you look at the current status there are 4 clubs that have collected 25 points namely Atalanta, Fiorentina, Inter, and Lazio so that Napoli can be pulled from the top of the standings at any time if they lose 3 more points. Have Napoli's players run out of gas to step on the gas? Lukaku, who was made the main striker, did not score a goal in his last 2 matches.

What you are pointing at regarding Lukaku in an important thing to be considered because a point is not enough for them to sit on the top of the table, among the top fivein the table Napoli are the only one with a less goals, this alone show that they can't hold that place for a long time if they don't have a very strong striker that can give them more goals, I like Lukaku but I think he is not in the right position to lead the team, he's old and they shouldn't depend on him to do all the work, losing against atalanta with almost 3 goals was a total disgrace because it clear that even their defence line are also having issues not only the strikers and if this can't be fix then the will lose the top.

With the current stand on the table I don't think Napoli would be staying longer at the top because the rest of clubs will come after them and because the points difference isn't much it would also be easy for Napoli to loose their place to teams like Juventus and inter Milan who are very close to Napoli in terms of points and goal differences so its left Napoli to continue winning if they must stay at the top or risk loosing their place whenever they drop points, it's going to be a very tight race i guess and i think it is too early to predict who might the scudetto this season.

[hyudien]

The league is very wide open for any club to win it, especially the clubs on top six of the table. I think Napoli and Inter needs to be very strong this season and make sure that they are consistent enough with their matches in order for them to have hope of winning the league this season. Milan is there, and these two teams Atalanta and Fiorentina, I don't know if in the long run, they will not be able to make it but their performance looks promising.

The gap between the points at the top of the standings is almost without a gap, Napoli who is in first place is only 1 point away from Atalanta who has the same points as 4 other teams, Fiorentina, Inter Milan and Lazio, and they are also only 1 point away from the team in 6th place occupied by Juventus. This is a very tight gap and this can change in just one match, even a draw will change their position in the standings. There are still a lot of matches, now we are only in week 12, that means there are still many matches left. I am very happy when I see competition like this, because it makes the league more interesting to follow.

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Saturday 23rd November
Verona 14:00 Inter Milan
AC Milan 17:00 Juventus
Parma 19:45 Atalanta
Sunday 24th November
Genoa 11:30 Cagliari
Como 14:00 Fiorentina
Torino 14:00 Monza
Napoli 17:00 Roma
Lazio 19:45 Bologna
Monday 25th November
Empoli 17:30 Udinese
Venezia 19:45 Lecce

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

Next turn.

Milan Verona is the big game of the day followed by Napoli Roma and Lazio BOlogna, for sure an interesting turn.

[Mame89]

Currently, rankings from 1 to 6 do not have a big difference. And only 2 points different. So Juventus, which is currently ranked 6th, could also get a better ranking if the other top ranked teams make mistakes and lose points. With the condition that Juventus must get full points. No team has dominated so far. And Juventus isn't that bad either. They haven't even lost this season. And whether we realize it or not, we know that only Juventus has yet to experience defeat in Serie A this season. So we really can't say that Juventus played badly. Because they're just a little less consistent. But so far Juventus have always managed to avoid defeat.

This season's Serie A is more interesting than last season, all teams in the top 6 have the opportunity to win the trophy or even the top 7 because the points difference is not too far apart. This thin point difference certainly makes the league more competitive and each team has the same spirit to maintain its consistency, especially since the league is still very long, of course the standings will definitely change.

Jauventus is the most interesting this season, even though they are in 6th position, they are unbeaten so far. Of course this is not bad, even with a record like that they will be motivated again to maintain the record. The next match they will face AC Milan who are below them, of course this match will be fierce. Can Juventus extend their unbeaten record. Let's just wait for this match after the international break.

[bering]

According to latest,  Victor Lindelof may come in Italy in January to Juventus.
With the new and huge injury, they may call a young player from second team for the moment and take 1-2 players in January.

At least this is waht they are saying today, next game it will be against Milan and they will have no defenders in the bench.

Juventus lost Bremer and Juan Cabal even they were potentially will be absense until this season over so indeed currently Juventus is lack of defender players and this January Juventus should be bought more players on that position to strengthen their squad and if this rumour is true i think the possibility for Juventus to gets Victor Lindelof from Manchester United is very wide open this because his contract will be expired on June 2025 so Juventus will gets Lindelof with cheap price besides that currently Manchester United is under new manager Ruben Amorim so most likely Lindelof will not be included in Amorim's plans for next season

[irhact]

Jauventus is the most interesting this season, even though they are in 6th position, they are unbeaten so far. Of course this is not bad, even with a record like that they will be motivated again to maintain the record. The next match they will face AC Milan who are below them, of course this match will be fierce. Can Juventus extend their unbeaten record. Let's just wait for this match after the international break.

Unbeaten when you're not winning, how's that making them the most interesting club. They're losing two points for every game that they draw and if the continue like this, they won't even qualify for champions league football next season. I'm disappointed at juventus this season and not impressed with how they're playing. If there's any club that you should be impressed by their position is Napoli. They sold their best striker and got Lukaku. Hired a new manager and now top of the league. Many people wrote them off this season that they're not going to be in the title contest but they're now the ones leading the competition and might win it with the way they're playing.

[stompix]

Jauventus is the most interesting this season, even though they are in 6th position, they are unbeaten so far.

Juventus is one of the most boring teams this season, they are again back to the former strategy of doing just enough to win, playing games of attrition with their adversaries, and always clinging to results, their whole strategy and they are not the only ones trying it is simply to get one more goal than the adversaries or at last not get one scored.

Besides, the whole thing doesn't pay off, 3 draws get you 3 points, and one loss and two wins get you 6, that's why Juventus is 6th right now.

I'll explain to you why I think this: 1) Juventus is not a stable team at the moment, they have changed coach and structure 2) Juventus has enormous problems in attack, their department is finally worse 3) their coach has little experience and familiarity with the big teams

And you can apply the same thing to most of the other teams, there is no team without problems in the league, and the result and the standings with just a 2-point difference for 6 places shows it!

[BitcoinHunt3r]

Unbeaten when you're not winning, how's that making them the most interesting club. They're losing two points for every game that they draw and if the continue like this, they won't even qualify for champions league football next season. I'm disappointed at juventus this season and not impressed with how they're playing. If there's any club that you should be impressed by their position is Napoli. They sold their best striker and got Lukaku. Hired a new manager and now top of the league. Many people wrote them off this season that they're not going to be in the title contest but they're now the ones leading the competition and might win it with the way they're playing.

I really agree with you, Juventus cannot be expected if they continue to play like this from 12 matches Juventus draw 6 times this means that Juventus have lost 12 points, of course it's not the right way to compete in the top 4 while their competitors continue to collect points from every game. Juventus must be able to get out of this situation, one of the ways that can be taken is to bring in new players in the next transfer window, I see their goals activities low and only rely on Dušan Vlahović so it needs an increase in attack lines. There are indeed obstacles in the next transfer window because not many players are available in the middle of the season and usually the contract of the players expired at the end of the season.

[Egii Nna]

Jauventus is the most interesting this season, even though they are in 6th position, they are unbeaten so far. Of course this is not bad, even with a record like that they will be motivated again to maintain the record. The next match they will face AC Milan who are below them, of course this match will be fierce. Can Juventus extend their unbeaten record. Let's just wait for this match after the international break.

Unbeaten when you're not winning, how's that making them the most interesting club. They're losing two points for every game that they draw and if the continue like this, they won't even qualify for champions league football next season. I'm disappointed at juventus this season and not impressed with how they're playing. If there's any club that you should be impressed by their position is Napoli. They sold their best striker and got Lukaku. Hired a new manager and now top of the league. Many people wrote them off this season that they're not going to be in the title contest but they're now the ones leading the competition and might win it with the way they're playing.

Lol . You have to tell him the fact. Because claiming a team is unbeaten without having a good winning game unless a draw is not something to be impressed by, because out of the 12 games that they have played so far, they were just able to win 6 games and draw the remaining 6, so what is there to be impressed about? 
 
Talking about Napoli. Yes, they are trying their best this season, but still they have a lot of challenges. Losing Osimhen in their mix will affect them because they have other teams that they will have to struggle with: Atalanta, Inter Milan, and Fiorentina are also there. So for you to start thinking that Napoli can make it to the trophy this season is somehow unacceptable to me because there is still a lot for them to face this season.

[ginsan]

I really agree with you, Juventus cannot be expected if they continue to play like this from 12 matches Juventus draw 6 times this means that Juventus have lost 12 points, of course it's not the right way to compete in the top 4 while their competitors continue to collect points from every game. Juventus must be able to get out of this situation, one of the ways that can be taken is to bring in new players in the next transfer window, I see their goals activities low and only rely on Dušan Vlahović so it needs an increase in attack lines. There are indeed obstacles in the next transfer window because not many players are available in the middle of the season and usually the contract of the players expired at the end of the season.

Of course Juventus must be able to improve their performance by returning to get maximum points compared to the series of draws they have achieved. However, it is not too late for Juventus to make improvements to the squad when the winter transfer market opens because I see they need some quality players to support their performance. Apart from that, Juventus is only 2 points behind Napoli who are in the top ranking because several teams in the standings have collected the same points which means every week we will see the teams in the standings exchange their positions.

AC Milan is also not very consistent this season because they were once in the top 4 but now their position has dropped to 7th place. I am sure their new coach Fonseca has not been able to provide much progress in the team, even though some of the players they recruited in the summer transfer market are quality players like Morata but Fonseca still failed to develop a good strategy for the development of player quality.

[Alpha Marine]

This season's Serie A is more interesting than last season, all teams in the top 6 have the opportunity to win the trophy or even the top 7 because the points difference is not too far apart. This thin point difference certainly makes the league more competitive and each team has the same spirit to maintain its consistency, especially since the league is still very long, of course the standings will definitely change.

This is how the Serie A has always been for the past 5 seasons or thereabouts. People are just paying attention to it more this season. It's usually just the winner of the league that runs away with the league while the 2nd to 6th positions are separated by just 2 points.

Jauventus is the most interesting this season, even though they are in 6th position, they are unbeaten so far. Of course this is not bad, even with a record like that they will be motivated again to maintain the record. The next match they will face AC Milan who are below them, of course this match will be fierce. Can Juventus extend their unbeaten record. Let's just wait for this match after the international break.

Juventus have been underwhelming, to say the least. They have been unbeaten because they try not to concede which is a good thing but it's of no use if you can't score. They find it difficult to score goals. With a defense like that, if they can find a way to score goals they will be a good team. I expected them to compete for the league, but if they don't find a way to start scoring goals comfortably, they'll not be able to compete.

[Weawant]

The competition between clubs in Serie A this season is very tight compared to what happened last season, so every team is very wary of losing points in every match they play, so I think that is also what conte is doing now to maintain his team position at the top of the Serie A standings, the tactics and strategies that conte applies when facing Intermilan are very appropriate,  because I think he is well aware of the potential danger that Napoli can get if they play too aggressively and openly like when facing other teams previously, Inter is their strongest rival in the Scudetto competition, so targeting at least 1 point at inter home could be a wise move to maintain their position at the top of the Serie A standings.

The narrative about Napoli is one thing I see conte trying so hard to fight because looking at it critically, in the last season they were back to their status co where they don't get to excel so well in the series A but for the first time osimhen did joined them and helped them win the league title after a very long time that spammed almost a decade, now conte isn't just getting them to win games, but building systems with them and aswell getting them in to a much better mentality and productivity level.

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And now it is officla Ranieri will be the coach of Roma.
Once again he has been called to save a situation and he said yes to his city.

He be manager until the end of the season and after he will join the board.

Good to see Sir Ranieri back.

[Leviathan.007]

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But it is very interesting to see the points gained in the current Serie A standings. We see this very tight competition. I think this Serie A will not be boring at all. We can see that all the teams in the top 5 seem to have a chance to overtake Napoli.

Plus Juventus have 24 points, so under certain circumstances one defeat to Napoli could drop them from first place to 6th (if the leaders don't play each other).
Quite an interesting state of affairs, especially considering that the other teams are 6 points behind the leaders.
The next round will feature an interesting game between Milan and Juventus. If Milan doesn’t win, it will permanently consolidate its position outside the top 6.

This state of the points table is interesting to watch because the teams that we have always seen at the bottom of the points table are now at the top of the points table and the teams that we are used to seeing at the top of the points table are now looking at the bottom of the points table. Although Inter Milan is at the fourth position of the points table, we cannot see AC Milan between 1 and 5 of the points table, while this AC Milan was at the second position of the points table last season. Not only last season but in this season's Champions League match AC Milan faced against Real Madrid we saw that AC Milan was able to defeat Real Madrid by a big margin. However, as much as AC Milan is behind the other teams in the Italian league, it seems that they cannot be between 1 and 5 in terms of points this season.

Napoli has nothing but having Conte in this team. They are a good team but still, they didn't have good teamwork before Conte. Napoli had bad days when they had Osimhen on this team and that's why they decided to let him go and hire Lukaku while Lukaku had a good performance so far in Napoli thanks to his experience and they didn't have any problems after Osimhen left the team.
Also, I think Juventus will now feel regret for not hiring Conte, Conte had good performance years ago when he was working for Juventus in Serie A and they could have had the same good days with this coach but Motta was still not enough for Juventus.

[OcTradism]

Napoli has nothing but having Conte in this team. They are a good team but still, they didn't have good teamwork before Conte. Napoli had bad days when they had Osimhen on this team and that's why they decided to let him go and hire Lukaku while Lukaku had a good performance so far in Napoli thanks to his experience and they didn't have any problems after Osimhen left the team.

They win and lose together and it's not fair to say Napoli are nothing without Conte and Conte is all power they have to succeed. It's also unfair to say Conte can do everything to help the club winning matches and Scudetto without good player resource in the club. The coach and players in Napoli must unite together, work together and fight together for matches and the league battle. Only Conte, Osimhen or Lukaku is not enough to bring Napoli to Scudetto and if they want to win Scudetto like two seasons ago, they must have a very good team in one season.

Also, I think Juventus will now feel regret for not hiring Conte, Conte had good performance years ago when he was working for Juventus in Serie A and they could have had the same good days with this coach but Motta was still not enough for Juventus.

Juventus and Conte did not separate with each other years ago happily so Juventus didn't want and were not ready to work with Conte again. They knew that Conte can create conflict in their club again if he returns, so they decided to work with another coach, not with Conte.