Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A)

[dollyamo]

Malen has a wonderful debut for AS Roma and if he is lucky, he would have two goals in this match with Torino but generally his performance is excellent. Malen shows that he has skills that are different than Dovbyk and Ferguson, with better pace, flexibiity and finishing accuracy. With Malen, AS Roma will become stronger in remaining months and can aim at top four more easily while there is open chance for them joining Scudetto competition.

Now with this win against Torino, AS Roma officially get a fourth position with 3 points more than Juventus while they have only 7 points less than Inter Milan, 4 points less than AC Milan and 1 point less than Napoli. If above clubs have one defeat or a couple of bad results, AS Roma can climb up to higher ranks and challenge competitors for a first position as well.

I think that Roma with a little commitment can really make a difference is clearly a strong team that is coached by a great coach, of course this means nothing, because in the end it is the players who go on the field to play, but surely they can do well

[Just Say]

At first glance, it seems to me that Inter Milan has still managed to maintain their best position in the Italian league. Actually we are impressed by their performance, as they recently won 1:0 against Udinese. Many might have been waiting to see some more surprises in this game, but after Lautaro Martinez scored a goal in the 20th minute, we didn't see any other Milan player score. However, I believe that everyone can agree that this Italian league team has been able to prepare well for the seventh match of the upcoming UEFA Champions League and it's correct that this team is going to face PL giants Gunners in the UEFA Champions League, which will undoubtedly be one of the toughest games for them.

[GiftedMAN]

Fortunately AC Milan did won by a goal scored in the second half. Although we did expected more from Milan but either bets would have been won and congratulations on you win with the corners.  Milan win so even if you had bet 1 on them, you would have still won the game. They got three points and for them that is they most important, even if their performance was not completely brilliant, they still have that chance  to improve in the following days ahead.

AC Milan was very lucky to have won the game because it wasn't an easy game for them in the first place but they manage to get the goal which separated them with their opponents. Fans expected more goals but the most important thing is that they were able to snatch the 3 points to keep their title race active with Inter Milan and Napoli, this is not a time to focus more on betting on winning alone because the league is becoming very difficult but picking other opinions like the corner and attempt will help bettors more because the teams that are seen as small teams will be fighting hard to avoid finishing in the bottom of the table.

[martinom]

There's still plenty of time and surprises can happen to Inter Milan this season. A three-point lead in the Serie A standings over Milan and a six-point lead over Napoli isn't a safe bet for Inter Milan to easily win the title this season, although I don't doubt Inter Milan's strength this season. However, when the competition gets more intense and the schedule gets more congested due to the Champions League and other competitions, there's a lot of potential for any team, including a strong team like Inter Milan.

It's not a sure thing, winning is never a sure thing, but let's say that they are behaving like winners, they already imagine themselves as winners and that's what matters, at the beginning I wasn't really sure that these guys would make it but now I'm realizing that they can do it

[Sandra_hakeem]

Atalanta failed to Close in on the Top 5 After holding Pisa to a Draw. Although, Pisa easily could have won this match if they had converted all of the numerous chances they had inside the box. 3 wins in a row halted for Atalanta while Gilardino 's men still only have one win on the board all season. This result is overall positive for them! Why would the coach pull up with such an awful strategy? Their Points are dropping weigh heavily. From my perspective, Pisa deserved the win more.

They also got lucky to get a draw at the last minutes of the match with Durosimi's equalized Goal, I believe if it was Semper at the goal, the would have equally lost the match. I guess they understood and they put him on the bench. In spite of that, every team in the end of the table struggles for every point to avoid relegation. Atalanta doesn't perform like a top team in Serie A currently. They always prove it too often on the pitch. However the fight for European competitions feels more like an illusion to them, than a real goal.

[Tonimez]

Fortunately AC Milan did won by a goal scored in the second half. Although we did expected more from Milan but either bets would have been won and congratulations on you win with the corners.  Milan win so even if you had bet 1 on them, you would have still won the game. They got three points and for them that is they most important, even if their performance was not completely brilliant, they still have that chance  to improve in the following days ahead.

AC Milan was very lucky to have won the game because it wasn't an easy game for them in the first place but they manage to get the goal which separated them with their opponents. Fans expected more goals but the most important thing is that they were able to snatch the 3 points to keep their title race active with Inter Milan and Napoli, this is not a time to focus more on betting on winning alone because the league is becoming very difficult but picking other opinions like the corner and attempt will help bettors more because the teams that are seen as small teams will be fighting hard to avoid finishing in the bottom of the table.

The rate at which many small teams are pulling suprises in recent times have made the bigger teams to focus more on getting the 3 points than having more goals. In a game where one goal is scored, the next line of action is to tighten up defense and push through. AC Milan narrowly escaped with the 3 points even though they have played the entire game and secured over 70% possession but scoring is not as easy as keeping possession. Lecce was determined not to concede much goals and even though they had zero shots on target, they made more clearance and had a 100% tackles won. This shows they understood that they were weaker and focused on defence to chase a point.
AC Milan is now 3 points away from inter Milan with full hopes alive. Roma, Napoli, AC Milan and inter Milan are almost of equal chances and every game counts now.

[pewboy]

There's still plenty of time and surprises can happen to Inter Milan this season. A three-point lead in the Serie A standings over Milan and a six-point lead over Napoli isn't a safe bet for Inter Milan to easily win the title this season, although I don't doubt Inter Milan's strength this season. However, when the competition gets more intense and the schedule gets more congested due to the Champions League and other competitions, there's a lot of potential for any team, including a strong team like Inter Milan.

Inter is one of the best teams in the championship and is doing very well, these guys are simply very prepared and ready for any type of challenge, it is clear that last year they had a bit of bad luck but that's okay, however they are Champions League finalists

[m4r1o]

Milan should have won by a bigger margin against a weak team like lecce. But they managed to score  only one goal. If they can not perform well against weak  teams, it will be very difficult for them to win against big teams. Anyway, AC milan is only 3 points behind Inter Milan. If AC milan can continue their winning streak , they still have a chance to occupy the top spot of the table. But Ac milan's performance is quite erratic and unstable. I consider Inter milan to be the favorite for the title.

A victory is always a victory, clearly this thing is remarkable and is continuing to go, they are very close to who is winning in the first position so better than this i don't know what they have to do they are proving to be a really good team and that's what matters

[landheer]

Last night's match was very entertaining, in my opinion, just like the Lecce vs. Milan game, because both teams competed fiercely and there were no goals until the 70th minute. In that match, Lecce really had a good defense and Milan seemed to have a hard time scoring against Lecce. Surely, some people who bet on Milan's victory must have been anxious, afraid that they would lose their bets. But in the 76th minute, luckily, Fullkrug scored a goal, and the score remained 1-0 until the end of the match, with Milan ultimately winning. Milan was actually lucky in that match because they weren't defeated by Lecce. If they had lost to Lecce, Milan would have been embarrassed because a team in a good position could have lost to a team currently in the relegation zone. Now Milan has earned 3 points, and there is still hope for Milan to overtake Inter's position, provided that Milan continues to win in their upcoming matches.

[banana33]

They got a win and three points then following Inter Milan in the Scudetto competition which means all for them. A win result is a most important thing, as you will have worse situation if you only get a draw or a defeat after a match, but this difficult winning helps AC Milan maintains 3 points less than Inter Milan. This means AC Milan will continue as a main competitor and challenger against Inter Milan for Scudetto.

In another competition, for top four, this winning helps AC Milan to secure their position in top four while we see that Napoli, AS Roma and Juventus are able to challenge and kick AC Milan out of top four. AC Milan after this hard win surely will need to sharpen their players' finishing skills and accuracy in order to convert opportunities to goals with a better rate in coming matches.

Inter Milan are going very far for the Scudetto race and I think they will be able to go a long way ahead of the others who are trying to get closer, AC Milan is currently the only team that can come close to winning the challenge against their cousins, a good challenge for sure

[cande86]

AC Milan seriously showed patience, and in the end, they finally got the win they somehow deserved, all thanks to fulkrug late goal. falcone honestly did well to be able to keep them out most of the game but he could just not stop everything that comes his way and now with juve dropping points! I feel inter now looks much stronger in the title race! That is if they keep this their current form of course, it is hard to see anyone stopping them from becoming this season's champions.

Yes, they have patience to spare and Max Allegri i must say that he is surprising me in a positive way, i must say that not everyone is able to return to football as a coach after a somewhat bad experience and to try to win the Scudetto, i must say a really great coach

[Pandu Geddon]

There should be no problem for Milan to get 3 points to maintain the point gap with Inter. Lecce is not in a better condition, and they continue to get poor results. It would be a surprising upset if Lecce could hold a draw or beat Milan. I hope that won't happen. Although Milan's position won't be disrupted, the increasing gap with Inter will make their situation more difficult in the competition until the end of the season.

Milan's opponent Lecce is in the relegation zone. Lecce is one of the weakest teams in Serie A. This team's attack is very weak. They have only managed to score 13 goals in  20 matches. The chances of Milan dropping points against such a team are very low.

If they want to reduce the point gap with Inter milan. AC Milan will definitely have to continue their winning streak. Ac Milan's past record against this team is very good. AC milan has won all the last 5 matches against Lecce. Hopefully they will continue this streak today too.

Milan did not disappoint against a weaker team and secured 3 points, even with a 1-0 victory. Lecce hardly had any chances, while Milan created plenty of opportunities. Even so, Milan needs to do a lot of evaluation from this match to solve their problems. They should have been able to score a few more goals and win the game with a convincing score.

[1kodumtek7]

It is really hard to count how many 1-0 wins Allegri has got in his career so far.    The Lecce win was another one. You have an expectation of more than 3 goals and don't give your opponent a chance. But you still win by this score...

However Milan are still keeping up with Inter which is the most important thing. Only from a 3-point distance. How much longer will they be able to keep it up you think? Until the end of the season or not?

I think Inter will get away from them more too after some time.

[Volgastallion]

What a great sensation has to be for the player and also for the coach and management to see a new arrival scoring a goal in his first games under the new team, im refering to Malen in Rome, i dont know why they get him since is not a clasic number 9 and i feel like that is what Rome needed but so far he start more than good scoring a good goal against a hard to beat Torino in away condition.

[landheer]

Milan should have won by a bigger margin against a weak team like lecce. But they managed to score  only one goal. If they can not perform well against weak  teams, it will be very difficult for them to win against big teams. Anyway, AC milan is only 3 points behind Inter Milan. If AC milan can continue their winning streak , they still have a chance to occupy the top spot of the table. But Ac milan's performance is quite erratic and unstable. I consider Inter milan to be the favorite for the title.

But indeed, seeing Milan's unstable performance, it is sometimes difficult to predict whether Milan will continue to win or not when competing. However, what is clear is that Milan should have been able to score many goals against Lecce at that time. But in my opinion, Milan is still playing well because in the match against Lecce, Milan was always held back by Lecce, and I don't think this is surprising because it's not only in Serie A, but also in other leagues, when a team at the bottom of the table plays against a strong team, the team at the bottom sometimes surprises everyone. But in my opinion, for now, Milan can be said to be safe and worthy of competing with Inter for the Scudetto. In my opinion, Inter and Milan are currently almost equal. Just look at Inter's last match, where they didn't score many goals against Lecce and Udinese. So, in my opinion, Inter and Milan currently have almost equal strength, so it's very difficult to determine who deserves to win the Scudetto at this point.

[changaa]

Inter Milan is ranked on top of Serie A table as Winter Champions, yet history tells us that three to six point gap over others is not impossible to beat, as champions in mid season are not that successful in winning title some 30 percent of time. Team is now feeling tiredness gap because it has busy list of games and star players such as Hakan Calhanoglu and Denzel Dumfries have got major injuries, which means that manager Cristian Chivu has to switch his players much during hard time of Champions League games.

In the meantime, rivals are closing in, AC Milan has unbelievable run without loss under leadership of Luka Modric and Christian Pulisic, and Napoli is also major danger, despite its star striker Kevin De Bruyne being hurt in the leg. In the end, title will go to team that is most good at dealing with physical strain and pressure of next few months, which is that Inter can easily lose its small lead in case they fail in their next local and European matches.

Inter Milan are doing what everyone would like to do: dominate the championship and extend its advantage against everyone, but this is not always easy, let's remember that those who are winter champions usually win the championship with some ease, we'll see

[puloweh555]

There's still plenty of time and surprises can happen to Inter Milan this season. A three-point lead in the Serie A standings over Milan and a six-point lead over Napoli isn't a safe bet for Inter Milan to easily win the title this season, although I don't doubt Inter Milan's strength this season. However, when the competition gets more intense and the schedule gets more congested due to the Champions League and other competitions, there's a lot of potential for any team, including a strong team like Inter Milan.

It's not a sure thing, winning is never a sure thing, but let's say that they are behaving like winners, they already imagine themselves as winners and that's what matters, at the beginning I wasn't really sure that these guys would make it but now I'm realizing that they can do it

If you look at Inter Milan last season you'd probably reconsider saying they had a chance to win a trophy this season. Last season Inter also had great potential to win the title especially since their form was excellent. However, their weakness was a loss of concentration late in the season which easily caused them to drop points which greatly benefited Napoli who were solely focused on Serie A. And yes, at the end of the season Napoli won the Serie A title.

This season, Inter's situation is similar. The points gap with Milan is relatively small and Milan is solely focused on Serie A while Inter has to concentrate on two competitions which has resulted in losses. So, with conditions like this I don't think Inter's points gap with Inter and Napoli is a safe bet for Inter Milan. Both teams could overtake Inter at the top of the standings especially with so much time left in Serie A. But honestly, I want to say that this season's Serie A is very interesting because it's very competitive at least as we can see from the start of the season until now.

[Slow death]

They got a win and three points then following Inter Milan in the Scudetto competition which means all for them. A win result is a most important thing, as you will have worse situation if you only get a draw or a defeat after a match, but this difficult winning helps AC Milan maintains 3 points less than Inter Milan. This means AC Milan will continue as a main competitor and challenger against Inter Milan for Scudetto.

In another competition, for top four, this winning helps AC Milan to secure their position in top four while we see that Napoli, AS Roma and Juventus are able to challenge and kick AC Milan out of top four. AC Milan after this hard win surely will need to sharpen their players' finishing skills and accuracy in order to convert opportunities to goals with a better rate in coming matches.

Inter Milan are going very far for the Scudetto race and I think they will be able to go a long way ahead of the others who are trying to get closer, AC Milan is currently the only team that can come close to winning the challenge against their cousins, a good challenge for sure

This season Inter are playing well and are very lucky because their next games will be against weak teams such as:

1 - Pisa (in my opinion Inter can win this game, because Pisa is in the relegation zone and hasn't won in many games)

2 - Cremonese (I also see Inter winning because Cremonese are not doing well and haven't won in their last 5 games)

3 - Sassuolo (I also see Inter winning this game; Sassuolo hasn't won in their last 5 games)

So Inter could secure 9 points in their next 3 games, but their opponents like Milan and Napoli might be unlucky and not manage to get 9 points in their next 3 games.

[Arenga pinnata]

I think that Roma with a little commitment can really make a difference is clearly a strong team that is coached by a great coach, of course this means nothing, because in the end it is the players who go on the field to play, but surely they can do well

Roma currently has an exceptional coach. Gasperini is a coach who does not demand much from the club in terms of squad depth. just as he did at Atalanta, he maximizes the players he has and succeeds. Now at Roma, he looks set to bring similar success. The way Roma played against Torino really impressed me. Roma's productivity also looks to have improved this time around.

However, I recently realized that this season in Serie A, Roma has not drawn a single match. They have only won or lost. I hope Roma can at least stay in the top four. I'm curious to see if this team will play in the UCL next season.

[Sandra_hakeem]

Satisfying win for Torino away from home as they take advantage of some disorganized Roma defending. AS Roma goalkeeper with a dwindling performance. he was so terrible and not worth to start any game, it seems Roma had a player in the goalpost not a goalkeeper, cause I keep wondering! how can this guy be a Roma goalkeeper?

Despite the fact that Roma came up with a very unexpected scorers with a magnificent finishing as a striker, and Arena the young kid from Sydney with his first ever touch to equalise the second goal, this is absolutely a superb debut in History at that age. I guess it will pass a lot of years to happen again, which is practically impossible. Roma now move on to focussing the two most important competitions for them as UEFA Championship league qualification is crucial for the club. To be be honest, it would be worse to qualify for Copa Italia than being eliminated. Even if they had qualified, they would have to play more games with better teams and they can't afford the risk of exhausting their best players.