Topic: Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A) - page 1011. (Read 848785 times)

Yes that's right. The game of both teams had almost the same philosophy but once again As Roma dominated possession of the ball but did nothing they were less effective in the final breakthrough. Juventus' back line also did not make mistakes so they could be more solid in defense. I also think Juventus has the advantage in this match. The important transfer window is coming soon, I hope AS Roma will get some new players so they can compete for a place in the top four.

But what is clear is that the game between these two teams was great, and another 1-0 win for Juventus. but as long as Juventus gets three points, of course this is good because it is one step closer to overtaking Inter at the top of the standings.

In the first half neither team scored first and in the second half Juventus managed to create their first lead through Rabiot in the 47th minute and that was the only goal in the match as well as being the decisive victory for Juventus, indeed Juventus looked like it wasn't too big pay attention to the productivity of goals, if as long as the opponent has not equalized then Juventus will not try to create additional goals because the most important thing is that Juventus can win even with a narrow score.
Of course, Juventus was happy with this victory because their arch rival got a draw, which means it was a big opportunity for them to overtake Inter.

Roma failed to become a stumbling block for Juventus, their ambition to approach the UCL zone had to be postponed, Mourinho and his troops failed again. It can be understood that Juventus has better strength, therefore it is not surprising that Alleggri squad was able to secure 3 points even with a narrow score. It's true that now Juventus is only 2 points away from Inter Milan, competition is becoming tighter in the hunt for the Scudetto, Inzaghi must increase his focus in the future, before the busy match schedule will make it difficult for them to maintain their position in the standings.

On the other hand, I think Milan can only be a team that disrupts the Sucdetto competition this season, without being able to compete with Juventus and Inter in this matter. Meanwhile, defending champion Napoli is increasingly in decline and having difficulty appearing consistently this season. I think Osimhen and colleagues will potentially miss the opportunity to appear in the Champions League and Europa League next season.

Juventus need just two more points to leapfrog Inter into first place in the points table. Juventus is a very good team and they are capable of fighting hard even with Inter.  Inter's next match is against Verona and hopefully they don't miss this opportunity because if they lose a match and miss out on 3 points Juventus won't hesitate to chase them down.  Because Juventus is waiting for Inter to lose a match because their preparation is very good so they will not miss their chance every match they will play very actively.  For that I support Juventus enough that they are more likely to win the Italian League

Juventus is quite successful when in a match they can score a goal before their opponent, and Juventus will try to score again if their opponent manages to equalize and unfortunately, Roma failed to do that so they had to accept defeat with this narrow score, and this time Lukaku failed to bring his team out of the game. pressure.
Juventus is of course very happy with this victory, especially since their competitor Inter Milan only managed to get 1 point against Genoa and that was quite disappointing, so the competition between the two teams is very interesting to always look forward to and this is a warning for Inter Milan because their competitors continue to stick closely to them and their position is not yet safe.

The fact that Juventus defeated Roma is also not surprising to me, I predicted that they would win the match and didn't even think they would scored one goal, instead, I thought they would score more than that. Juventus is only concerned with winning the Italian league this season, so there's no reason to be surprised that they earned the three points, they deserve to win the match. I agree with you though Roma has won on average so far this season, they have still lost matches that we expected them to win,so how can Roma defeat Juventus when they are not weak? Roma doesn't seem strong enough to challenge Juventus.

There is only two points between them with Inter Milan. Since Inter refused to defeated Genoa, that is in 12 place in the league, instead chose to share the points, I believe that if they don't play well in their upcoming games, Juventus will overtake them at the top of the league because Juventus' only target is to win the league.

That indicates the quality of Spalletti is far above the current Napoli coach.
Because Napoli's main squad star squad is not sold, it shouldn't drop far at least it can still compete in the top flight. but the fact is now Napoli is outside the top 5 with Fiorentina and Bologna just losing its rank for a while in the Italian league.

You are right. Both teams played well. I would  say juventus were lucky so  they managed to get 3 points. Although  I expected to see the  victory of Juventus in this match.  Because Juventus' squad is stronger  than Roma's in comparison. However  if we had seen a better  performance from Lukaku in this match, maybe the result  of the match would have been different. Dybala's performance was good enough in this match, but Lukaku did not play well. We didn't see much of Lukaku's presence in the entire match either.

Yes, I agree with you that Juventus does not have aggressive attackers, but they have a unique strategy to win and what I liked about yesterday's match was that after Rabiot successfully scored 1 score in the 40th minute, Juventus' defense line was gradually strengthened and I am sure this is true. This was true for all the Juventus players because after getting 1 score more, the Juventus players defended more often and almost the midfielders and attackers tried to help the defense line when Roma attacked and this strategy was successful in surviving until the end of the match.
This is a great achievement for Juventus and I feel that the race for the title in Serie A is becoming more competitive because both Inter and Juventus are putting pressure on each other and chasing each other.
It looks like this fierce competition will continue until the end of the season unless a player sold which will change for the worse.

I see that the typical game of the two teams this season is not much different, Juventus and Roma are two teams that have good defense and also after scoring a goal they will play a little defensively and that was clearly visible in this match.
Juventus' victory is not surprising because overall Juventus has had a fairly consistent performance this season with a fairly balanced team game even though they didn't score many goals, but they achieved 3 points and they were able to maintain that quite effectively.

For this match, everyone definitely knows that Juventus is more favored than Roma, because Juventus is playing at home and in terms of the quality of the game, Juventus is very dominant in the attack pattern carried out by Juventus. Juventus' narrow victory in this match will certainly reduce their gap with Inter, because Inter drew with Genoa at that time.

Roma's quality this season is still not good and it seems their performance is still not up to expectations. However, when playing against a big team like Juventus last night, Roma still had good strength in attack and their back line was able to provide very strong defense, so that Juventus was only able to score 1 goal until the match was over. In my opinion, with the performance shown against Juventus, I believe Roma can still win against big teams even though Roma is not yet stable and consistent in their game. Paulo Dybala's return since being absent due to injury was able to make Roma's attack better, this was seen against Juventus last night.

Several important players have indeed left Napoli, such as their mainstay defender last season, Kim Min Jae. Kim Min Jae is known as a central defender who is difficult for opponents to pass. But unfortunately he went to Bayern and strengthened the current Bayern squad. But Napoli's problems this season are actually on the front lines. Even though their back line is not as strong as last season, it is still quite good. Because what's worse is Napoli's current attack line which often wastes the opportunities they get. The front players seemed to have lost their sharpness. They don't seem to be playing like usual. Last season the level of effectiveness of Napoli's attacks was very feared, but this season Napoli's attacks are just like normal team attacks.
I also didn't expect that Napoli would be ranked in the middle of the standings. But I think Napoli will be in 8th place for just a little while. And I am sure that in the near future Napoli will be able to rise to a better ranking again. Because currently the difference between ranking points 8 to 6 is only one point. So that rapid changes can occur.

Expecting something like that is good enough but it's unrealistic because after all, looking at the two clubs at the moment then surely a narrow victory will be the score in this match and this is like a certainty I think.
Juventus and Roma although still quite good in terms of points but their performance is not very good in terms of goal productivity.
Juventus are still experiencing a lot of attacking problems while Roma they only rely on Lukalu, which will definitely be troublesome if Lukaku experiences a deadlock.

In this match it is also almost the same actually when looking at the many opportunities created for both teams in attempted shots but it is useless because their on target is very poor so expecting a big score is very difficult to happen.

But even so, I like this result because at least with this result Juventus can get closer to Inter who did not get full points in the match against Genoa.

Juventus won because of their strong defense. The performance of Roma team players was not bad. Juventus played really well, while the performance of the Roma team was also quite good. However, Roma could not score any points in this match. Allegri's match strategy is excellent. He knows very well that Juventus are not strong enough in attack. So he did not try to play much attacking strategy. After Rabiot scored in the 47th minute, Juventus focused on keeping their defense tight. And in the end a narrow 1-0 win for Juventus and 3 points. Juventus team is still 2 points behind Inter Milan.

Spalletti only coached Napoli for 2 seasons but in those 2 seasons Spalletti was successful in bringing sweet results to Napoli. But in Spalletti's first season he didn't immediately win Napoli the title. But Napoli managed to be ranked in the top 3 at that time. And yes, that is a very good Spalletti achievement. Because every year he brings better results for Napoli.

Now Napoli with its new coach is actually getting worse. Although I don't want to blame Coach completely. Because the club in fact cannot retain some of the good players the club has in the transfer market. And Napoli also couldn't bring in a better replacement. During Spalletti's time there was also a lot of worry when many of Napoli's mainstay players slowly left. But Spalletti was lucky to overcome it and make Osimhen a star on the field.

Now Osimhen's contribution has even decreased under Napoli's new coaching. He became unproductive and also not as aggressive as in the previous season. But seeing Napolu ranked 8th really makes me sad. Because after all Napoli is one of my favorite teams. And I didn't expect them to be this bad. Initially I only thought that Napoli would fight in the top 4 but would not be able to win the title again. But falling to 8th place was really beyond my expectations.

Juventus continues to close the gap with Inter Milan, because Inter Milan achieved a draw with Genoa and Juventus won a victory over Roma, now Inter Milan's position at the top is slightly threatened because at any time Juventus could take over first place if Inter Milan slips into a draw or loses. And at the start of the new year, Inter will face Verona. If Inter fails to take advantage of the opportunity well, Juventus can take over first place by winning against Salernitana on Monday 8 January.

Roma failed to reach the top 4 because they failed to beat Juventus. Moreover, Juventus is not an easy club for Roma, so I think Roma will have to fight harder in the next match. I think Roma will face difficulties again at the start of the new year, they will face Atalanta and this It is also a match that is quite difficult to predict, but it looks like Roma will have an advantage because they play as the home team.

I had previously thought that the match between these two teams would not result in many goals because both teams have almost the same character, so I was not surprised by this result.
Apart from that, but in my opinion, Juventus deserved to win this match, firstly because they have slightly better quality than Roma and also Juventus is playing at home, I don't highlight what happened in the match because I think it was quite boring for the second match. Serie A's top team, but the big advantage for Juventus is that they managed to close the points gap from Inter Milan, who drew in week 18.

You are right that the role of the previous Napoli coach, Luciano Spalletti, has not been replaced. Rudi Garcia initially looked like he could keep Napoli in the same condition as when he was coached by Luciano Spalletti but then he failed to adapt quickly and in the end Rudi Garcia had to lose his job. And now Mazzari has replaced Rudi Garcia and it seems there has been no significant change in Napoli's performance after he joined as Napoli coach. Which means that he really can't match Spalletti either. But I think Mazzarri should be given more time so he can understand more about the depth of Napoli. Don't let the club take hasty steps like when they fired Rudi Garcia.

I know that both teams have almost similar strategies, but maybe I have too high expectations for these two teams. The results were not as expected and those who bet on the result of over 2.5 goals would definitely lose money. The meetings between the two always end with a narrow score and with this they continue to extend their meeting record with a few goals.

But the thing that is quite worrying is if Juventus fails to maintain this advantage and Roma can turn things around and I think that is a factor that will change the situation in Turin. Well, I think the big matches in Serie A feel like they have lost their passion and when compared to a few seasons ago it clearly feels like the atmosphere is stronger than now.