Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A)

[Jatiluhung]

Not even mid-season AS Roma has changed coaches twice, Roma recently announced the dismissal of Ivan Juric, AS Roma experienced a series of bad results with De Rossi and also Ivan Juric this season.
Ivan Juric has played 12 matches with Roma in all competitions and only won 4, 3 draws and 5 defeats, it was quite bad for Roma until they were in 12th place in the standings and in the Europa League in 20th place. Roma has appointed Claudio Ranieri as the club's manager until the end of this season, will he be able to revive Roma's performance this season amidst the chaos that is happening?


Source : Roma's new coach

I'm sure now the club realizes that their mistakes started when they fired Jose Mourinho. Then they got positive hope when they saw that their choice looked very correct after seeing Roma improve under De Rossi's coaching.

And AS Roma also made a new contract with De Rossi, who initially only served as temporary coach. But then things started to go wrong as the club expected. Because of course De Rossi has to adapt to the squad he formed at the start of the season. But AS Roma didn't give De Rossi much time and dismissed him very quickly. Well that was AS Roma's second mistake. And the third mistake was that they were hasty in choosing a coach for the club. They fired De Rossi and immediately appointed Juric in such a short time. And the results AS Roma got worse. And now the club hopes that AS Roma will improve by bringing in Ranieri. I don't think it will be easy. At least I think AS Roma will still get bad results until the middle of the season. And maybe if in the middle of the season in the January transfer market As Roma buys some more quality players then I think AS Roma will start to improve. Because I feel that AS Roma needs new, more quality players.

[Frankolala]

I have never seen such tight competition in previous Serie A seasons, those who compete and get the same points from 2nd to 6th position inevitably have to win in the next match because if they make a mistake or only manage to get a draw they will be shifted as well as Napoli who are currently leading the standings. Serie A this season is more interesting there are 6 top teams competing for the top position, I can't wait for week 13 to start.

Even though I speculated Juventus will become the champion, but now I'm rooting for Fiorentina. I would like to see a new name, moreover this will boost De Gea reputation to be recruit by big teams, he's the one who brought Fiorentina to be at this rank.

Serie A is always been an interesting league because it's a place for grand fathers to play football in Europe.

The two clubs that I am watching on this season are Atalanta and Fiorentina because with their current form and dedication to their matches, it shows that one of them can win the league if the team don't get messed up with injury in the long run. It seems the big clubs don't have much strength this season of the challenge ahead of them. However, it's too early to underestimate these big clubs because they know how to get what they want with time.

[Kavelj22]

In a report published by the Qatar News Agency (found it by coincidence search), it was stated that Roma Club announced today that it had signed a contract with coach Claudio Ranieri to improve the team's struggling results in the league this season.

The report stated that the Italian club stated in a statement that it had signed a contract with Ranieri, 73, that extends until the end of the season to take over the task of coaching the team and improving its results in the league. The same statement added that the coach will assume a major administrative role after the end of the season, after the club reaches a contract with a replacement coach.

Coach Ranieri is widely accepted by the club's fans. It is noteworthy that Roma is in twelfth place with 13 points and has won only three matches out of a total of 12 matches, drawn four and lost five matches. Will Ranieri be able to remedy the situation?

So now Ranieri has officially come to this club 3 times. In 2009 he became the main coach for AS Roma until 2011. And then he also came as interim coach in the middle of the 2019 season until the end of the season. And now he will come back to AS Roma as interim coach towards the middle of the season with Roma's situation being bad. I'm not sure Ranieri will be able to improve the current AS Roma squad. Because I feel this club lacks quality players. And a coach will be hard-pressed to make much progress for this team. unless AS Roma makes some good transfers in the mid-season transfer market.

But Ranieri is quite often the coach of an ordinary club that doesn't have many star players in it. And he always surprises by succeeding in bringing positive changes to this ordinary club. Now of course everyone will start to hope that Ranieri will also succeed in improving As Roma's performance even though I think it really won't be easy and it won't be visible instantly.

I cannot confirm his ability to save Roma from a state of decline in efficiency, as it is assumed that a 73 year old man will have problems with young players. But what I have noticed through analyses and statements by specialists is that Ranieri enjoys the confidence of Roma fans, especially since he helped save the team in the 2009 championship. But several factors must always be taken into account because the current situation of the Roma team is different from 2009. It is true that Ranieri contributed to enhancing the efficiency of old clubs and proved his efficiency in training during a long experience, but the task this time will not be easy at all. I suggest avoiding betting on Roma winning in old matches.

[DanWalker]

The gap in points between the 6 teams fighting for the top position in the Serie A standings is quite close and this is quite a tight competition between them. Napoli, which has a 1 point advantage over Atalanta, Fiorentina, Inter and Lazio, never seems safe at all, while Juventus has a 2 point gap behind Napoli. This is a different look from Serie A this season where there are 6 teams competing closely with a very low points gap.

No team is unbeaten so far in Serie A, while 6th placed Juventus have the best defense with just 7 goals conceded in 12 weeks. Atalanta is very impressive with their goal productivity, but they are not very strong in defense with 15 goals conceded even though Atalanta is the most productive team in Serie A so far.

The top six teams are in great competition with each other. About point difference between them is next to nothing. No team in the top six positions are actually safe in their position. Juventus is the only unbeaten team in the league. And still, they are in the 6th position. That's because, in a lot of matches that they should have won, they were only able to get one point. Fiorentina is showing a really good performance by the way. I personally did not expect such a good performance from them and they also have been very consistent as well. Juventus needs some win but the problem is in their next match they are going to face Milan. And Milan will definitely try to decrease the gap between them and Juventus.

[bastisisca]

This started from Juventus, so how come Juventus which has 24 points is having problems while Inter and Napoli are doing well with nothing to fear and are just 1 and 2 points ahead? What's the difference between doing well and having major issues? Then Bologna should just give up football and dismantle the club already as for Venezia they should turn their city into Atalantis out of shame and erase all traces!

There have been only 12 games, I don;t understand how people can already predict who's going to be champion and which one has no chance at all based on so little/

I try to predict why it's fun and why i am a gambler
I don't have anything against Juventus,  i m simply someone who bets and doesn't feel like betting on Juventus.
In fact i have said a negative outlook, i didn't say Juve going to Serie B.
Do you admit that it's not a team that can win the championship or the Champions League?

[ITExpert]

I have never seen such tight competition in previous Serie A seasons, those who compete and get the same points from 2nd to 6th position inevitably have to win in the next match because if they make a mistake or only manage to get a draw they will be shifted as well as Napoli who are currently leading the standings. Serie A this season is more interesting there are 6 top teams competing for the top position, I can't wait for week 13 to start.

Even though I speculated Juventus will become the champion, but now I'm rooting for Fiorentina. I would like to see a new name, moreover this will boost De Gea reputation to be recruit by big teams, he's the one who brought Fiorentina to be at this rank.

Serie A is always been an interesting league because it's a place for grand fathers to play football in Europe.

The two clubs that I am watching on this season are Atalanta and Fiorentina because with their current form and dedication to their matches, it shows that one of them can win the league if the team don't get messed up with injury in the long run. It seems the big clubs don't have much strength this season of the challenge ahead of them. However, it's too early to underestimate these big clubs because they know how to get what they want with time.

Obviously all eyes are on these two teams as their record and style of play is very good and different. We also think that these two team will compete well and in the end only one of these two teams will win the match in this league. But I think Atlanta will win. If they play better in a few match and win they will become strong.But the matches are very difficult and it will be difficult for them too which will be a problem for them.

[giammangiato]

The Serie A rank table is very interesting now as it opens chances for many clubs to take a first position as well as fight for Scudetto. Two seasons ago, Napoli made big surprise and won Scudetto, will this season be an opportunity for Atalanta or Fiorentina to win Scudetto?

It is no coincidence that it is the most beautiful championship in the world, given that there are many teams fighting for the title.
You see Spain, i also follow La Liga. There are essentially always two teams fighting for the title: Barcelona and Real Madrid. There are no other strong teams capable of taking the La Liga title.
This gets boring in the long run.

[JeffBrad12]

Not even mid-season AS Roma has changed coaches twice, Roma recently announced the dismissal of Ivan Juric, AS Roma experienced a series of bad results with De Rossi and also Ivan Juric this season.
Ivan Juric has played 12 matches with Roma in all competitions and only won 4, 3 draws and 5 defeats, it was quite bad for Roma until they were in 12th place in the standings and in the Europa League in 20th place. Roma has appointed Claudio Ranieri as the club's manager until the end of this season, will he be able to revive Roma's performance this season amidst the chaos that is happening?


Source : Roma's new coach

Ranieri is a very experienced coach. Roma rightly expects a lot from him and I think they are right. An experienced coach was necessary for Roma to rise. Roma is one of the established teams in the Italian league and they needed a coach who could guide the players in the best way. I believe they found that with Ranieri. It is now time for Roma to make a comeback.

Ranieri was an experienced coach, but he's an outdated one to coach Roma in the era of modern football. I'm still doubting his capability to be the interim. I mean, he still follows his old philosophy. It doesn't care much about tactics or anything else. He only focuses on how his club to play better than before. But, these days, in modern football, tactic is one of the important metrics that could help the club to win the game. This is why i'm not a fan for this sign, though, i fully respect him as a veteran coach.

[hahay]

The Serie A rank table is very interesting now as it opens chances for many clubs to take a first position as well as fight for Scudetto. Two seasons ago, Napoli made big surprise and won Scudetto, will this season be an opportunity for Atalanta or Fiorentina to win Scudetto?

It is no coincidence that it is the most beautiful championship in the world, given that there are many teams fighting for the title.
You see Spain, i also follow La Liga. There are essentially always two teams fighting for the title: Barcelona and Real Madrid. There are no other strong teams capable of taking the La Liga title.
This gets boring in the long run.

The points gap in the top six of Serie A is currently very interesting, because they only have a gap of one point and one point and even, Napoli who are at the top of the standings with Juventus who are in sixth position also only have a gap of two points. Thus, if they get defeated once then of course their position will change. But indeed, about Atalanta I think they might also deserve the Scudetto this season, because Atalanta had very impressive results last season in the Europa League. And also, at this moment Atalanta also managed to beat Napoli with a score of 0-3 despite playing at Napoli's home. With the good performance and results that Atalanta has, then I hope Atalanta is able to remain consistent in the title race this season.

[BitcoinHunt3r]

Not even mid-season AS Roma has changed coaches twice, Roma recently announced the dismissal of Ivan Juric, AS Roma experienced a series of bad results with De Rossi and also Ivan Juric this season.
Ivan Juric has played 12 matches with Roma in all competitions and only won 4, 3 draws and 5 defeats, it was quite bad for Roma until they were in 12th place in the standings and in the Europa League in 20th place. Roma has appointed Claudio Ranieri as the club's manager until the end of this season, will he be able to revive Roma's performance this season amidst the chaos that is happening?

Yeah Roma has reached the worst level recently in the last 5 matches they lost 4 times and only won once so normal if they are looking for a new coach, Claudio Ranieri is an experienced coach so he actually has the ability to handle Roma it's just that sometimes the ability is not enough to change the team I mean he needs something to do it for example he needs a new player unfortunately he could not do anything right now except waiting until the transfer window was opened, I can't assume whether he can do it in the near future.

[Webetcoins]

Ranieri is a good coach, I think he will be much more successful than Juric, but it is very difficult to start working now, the team is in a difficult situation. The question is that I doubt that Roma is ready to allow Ranieri to buy new players, and without this Roma will remain with the same opportunities, and it is not worth counting on something changing now because a new coach has come to the team, they have tried it twice already and the result does not change.

While I do agree that Ranieri is of course better coach than Juric, one day Roma will realize the problem isn't with the coaches but with the players. I mean don't get me wrong, Ivan Juric wasn't a great coach, but he wasn't this bad neither, neither was De Rossi, and obviously not Mourinho neither. They have been firing coaches, it's fourth coach within 1 year span, and they are still firing coaches for bad results.



I am sorry but they will need to finally focus on the part where it's the players fault and not the coaches. The day they realize that and start firing players or selling them, and getting better ones, they will see better results. If they do not do that, then they will have to keep firing many coaches and keep doing that endlessly. It's the players, they suck, and we have seen them be terrible many times so far, no coach can turn this team into a good team with the current roster, they need to just replace them, and not even a few, most of the players.

[Chilwell]

Reports Juventus and Pogba reach agreement over contract termination

The former Manchester United star is technically under contract with the Bianconeri until the summer of 2026, but the club have been looking to move the Frenchman on, despite his being eligible to return to action at the start of 2025. Pogba was handed a four-year suspension after failing a routine doping test after a Serie A match against Udinese in August 2023, which was later reduced to just 18 months, meaning that the 2018 World Cup winner would have been able to return to competitive action at the beginning of the next calendar year.

However, with Juventus having started out on a new project under Thiago Motta at the start of the season, and with a newly refurbished midfield department, Pogba’s time at the Allianz Stadium appears to have come to an end again.

According to reports from local outlet Ilbianconero.com, Juventus have now reached an agreement to terminate the 31-year-old’s contract by mutual consent.

Source link: https://www.google.com/amp/s/football-italia.net/reports-juventus-pogba-termination-agreement/amp/

[bitgolden]

This started from Juventus, so how come Juventus which has 24 points is having problems while Inter and Napoli are doing well with nothing to fear and are just 1 and 2 points ahead? What's the difference between doing well and having major issues? Then Bologna should just give up football and dismantle the club already as for Venezia they should turn their city into Atalantis out of shame and erase all traces!

There have been only 12 games, I don;t understand how people can already predict who's going to be champion and which one has no chance at all based on so little/

I try to predict why it's fun and why i am a gambler
I don't have anything against Juventus,  i m simply someone who bets and doesn't feel like betting on Juventus.
In fact i have said a negative outlook, i didn't say Juve going to Serie B.
Do you admit that it's not a team that can win the championship or the Champions League?

That is what this topic was created for. I mean yeah we talk about sports all together, but we talk about it for betting purposes mostly, almost all of us here are gamblers and we talk about sports not just to talk about it for needless chatting, but we talk about it because we believe what we say or read here could matter and could be used in our gambling as well. So for your case, Juventus will not win anything, and betting on Juventus would not be profitable for you.

In this case, you will talk about why you believe Juventus isn't a profitable team to bet on, and someone else who may think Juventus is a good team to bet on will talk about why he thinks that way, and that's the talk we will all have. I believe this is the type of discussion we have, even if we do not directly say gambling, we say I do not think Juventus will win the league and suddenly we will understand that means he is not really interested in betting on the team in general.

[Stable090]

The competition is very tight in Serie A this season, the points obtained by each team are very close and there is even no gap between the 2nd position to the 5th position because they both have 25 points. This happened after all finished their 12th week, and I don't think I have ever seen a situation like this in a week that has entered more than 10 first matches. Napoli are leading for a while, but they are also only 1 point away from the 4 teams below them, and 2 points away from Juventus who are in 6th position in the standings. They will not be comfortable with a situation like this.

Most of these teams performances seem to be at the same level currently, and that is why their points difference is not that significant. At this point, it will be hard for anyone to predict a favorite team to win Serie A at the end of the season based on the points gap and these big teams' unstable performances. Inter Milan and Juventus were my favorite teams to win this season before the league started, but I can't fully say that now due to their inconsistent performances.In fact, betting on a Serie A game now is scary because their matches often come with surprising results almost every week. As it is only 12 games played, let's see what will happen before 20 matches are played maybe there will be much differences by then with these teams.

[Pokapoka124]

Paul Pogba’s ban will end in March. His future is still uncertain. Should Juventus have kept Pogba? Look at their current squad, I think they should have kept the 31 year old midfielder. Only Juventus know the reason why they decided to part ways with the player. It’s going to be very difficult for them to win the Scudetto with the way Napoli and Atalanta are playing this season.

[Fiatless]

Paul Pogba’s ban will end in March. His future is still uncertain. Should Juventus have kept Pogba? Look at their current squad, I think they should have kept the 31 year old midfielder. Only Juventus know the reason why they decided to part ways with the player. It’s going to be very difficult for them to win the Scudetto with the way Napoli and Atalanta are playing this season.

Juventus just terminated his contract, which means the French midfielder is free to move to any club that shows interest. I think the club doesn't want his tinted reputation to bring unnecessary attention to the club. There are speculations of interest from some clubs Saudi Arabia and Olympique Marseille. I think Paul Pogba will consider moving to join Roberto De Zerbi.

The Italian coach was able to sign Mason Greenwood even when there was opposition from the fans, the mayor of Marseille and others. The English player is having a good time in the French League. However, if Paul wants to make good money to recover the years he had lost, the Saudi Professional League should be his best point of call.

[Leviathan.007]

Most people considers why Fiorentina performing well is because De Gea performance as the goalkeeper is very impressive and we all know since the beginning of season De Gea has just make plenty of important saves which makes Fiorentina can avoiding to lost and so far he is effective transfer from Fiorentina and the good thing is Fiorentina gets him without spending money because De Gea joining as free transfer

Seeing almost all Manchester United players that left are perform in their new teams is really crazy.

With such performance, I'm sure De Gea will back to big teams very soon, Fiorentina will use this advantage to sell De Gea as expensive as possible. It's rare to see Fiorentina can reach top 4 position, all we know they were win some and lose some, instead of win streak.

I'm sure De Gea is happy to see Ten Hag got fired from Manchester Unite because Ten Hag was the reason for De Gea to leave the team and he hired Onana instead of using De Gea while now it seems De Gea's performance is much better than goalkeepers like Onana.
I think De Gea in Fiorentina was the main reason for this team's great performance. They are now even racing in the top side of the Serie A.
Now, regardless of De Gea's age, I think he can play again in the bigger teams because of his current performance.

[tiCeR]

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No one knows for sure why Juventus have had a dip in performance even though if you look at the quality of the players they have they are not inferior to Inter Milan or Napoli. Juventus had a big problem in previous seasons where they got a point deduction and most recently their players were sanctioned for doping cases. The competition in Serie A is much more competitive this season where there are several clubs that have improved.

Napoli, Atalanta, Fiorentina and Inter Milan might be competing with each other with a very close points difference for the title. It depends on how they are able to maintain consistency in each game that will take place and a small mistake could see them drop down to the top three for the next match.

That comes across as an exaggeration here. As far as I know the only player who has been caught for doping was Pogba. Since he was injured 80% of the time, he wasn't a big loss for the team anyway. The point deduction in season 2022/2023 barely has any impact on the performance in season 2024/2025...

Juventus Turin hasn't made the best decisions to sign new top players while the other teams were able to close the gap in team quality because of that. That's why the teams you mentioned are all so close to each other. But they are still unbeaten and a winning streak would likely get them to the top. Though it will be an exciting season if it stays this way and no team is really able to leave the others behind by several points.

[kawetsriyanto]

Not even mid-season AS Roma has changed coaches twice, Roma recently announced the dismissal of Ivan Juric, AS Roma experienced a series of bad results with De Rossi and also Ivan Juric this season.
Ivan Juric has played 12 matches with Roma in all competitions and only won 4, 3 draws and 5 defeats, it was quite bad for Roma until they were in 12th place in the standings and in the Europa League in 20th place. Roma has appointed Claudio Ranieri as the club's manager until the end of this season, will he be able to revive Roma's performance this season amidst the chaos that is happening?

Source : Roma's new coach

We can understand if AS Roma have changed 2 coaches. They didn't bring good impacts to the team, there is no reason to keep the coaches. However, it is also a mistake made by AS Roma board. Why they hired inexperienced coaches? Moreover, those 2 coaches never managed big teams and never won any prestigious trophy.

Now, it looks better to choose Claudio Ranieri. This coach is experienced enough, he won some prestigious trophies. I just hope Ranieri will make good starts with AS Roma although it seems quite difficult because he will face some big matches. In the near future, AS Roma will play against Napoli, Tottenham, Atalanta, and AC Milan. If Ranieri got positive results on these matches, I've sure Ranieri will return AS Roma to be a stronger team again.

[Alpha Marine]

While I do agree that Ranieri is of course better coach than Juric, one day Roma will realize the problem isn't with the coaches but with the players. I mean don't get me wrong, Ivan Juric wasn't a great coach, but he wasn't this bad neither, neither was De Rossi, and obviously not Mourinho neither. They have been firing coaches, it's fourth coach within 1 year span, and they are still firing coaches for bad results.

I don't completely agree with this.
Yes, the players are not world-class players or players that should be winning the league, but they're players that should be in the top 5 of the league. The team has been horrible this season.
4 managers can be bad. The fact that they've hired different managers and the team is still not doing well doesn't mean the managers are not the problem. I don't think the management of Roma wants the team to win the league, but there should be visible progress, something they can build on.

Are you trying to say the players in Fiorentina, Bologna, Udinese, Empoli and Torino are all better than the players in Roma?
We always underestimate the importance of a good coach. There is a kind of coach that will take over Roma and they will be in the top 4.
Bologna finished 5th last season simply because of the coach they had.