Topic: Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A) - page 1137. (Read 862305 times)

The match is spoiled by the referee giving too many cards, which gives Roma the chance to win the match easily. The first half ended in a draw, and the second half Napoli player Matteo Politano received a first red. It wasn't even up to ten minutes, Roma scored their first goal, when Napoli were already struggling and playing with minus one, ten against eleven. Osimhen also received a red card, after a player received another red card there's no any hope for Napoli in that match anymore, which gave Roma the chance to score another goal, pushing Napoli down to seventh place in the group standings.

Since Bologna beaten Roma that is exactly what I expected as well, since Bologna defeated Roma. However, we cannot compare Bologna to Napoli, so I was hoping that Napoli would win the match, but the red card made it worse. Napoli are losing their strength this season, they are not the same Napoli as last season, they are finding it difficult to lead the Italian league, with Osimhen missing their next two games, I don't think they will win the match easily. They will need to take action before Lazio and Atlanta overtake them.

Osimhen and Napoli are responsible for what they do and they can not blame it on the referee or Roma. Osimhen did not make any good shot in the match and he lost his mind because he was controlled well by Roma defenders. When he was disappointed about his performance, he lost his patience, can not keep calm in this hot match and got two yellow cards for stupid fouls.

Bologna beat Roma and they even did one more winning, against Atalanta. Bologna are on fire now and they are at the fourth position, just behind AC Milan. The appearance of Bologna in top four is very shocked and they got it with their solid defense system.

After 17 matches, Bologna got only 12 conceded goals which make their defense system is a third best one in Serie A, after Inter Milan (7 conceded goals) and Juventus (11 conceded goals).

Napoli's performance was poor especially following Osimhen's red card. Napoli was already struggling when Osimhen was sent off. Politano's red card? Despite a full team, they couldn't find their groove. When it was down to 10 men, everything went haywire

I heard about Bologna beating Roma, and it's crazy to think that a team with less depth than Napoli managed to pull that off. It proves that teamwork is as important as player quality. Napoli's three losses are worrying. Perhaps they've lost their mojo. With Osimhen out for two games, I'm scared they'll struggle. Their performance must improve quickly

In fact, Chelsea also wanted to let Lukaku go since last season when Lukaku was loaned to Inter Milan. Because Lukaku at Chelsea is considered a complete failure. Actually, I see Lukaku as a player who needs more adaptation. But Chelsea seems to only want to have players who immediately satisfy their hopes. And Lukaku failed in that regard. But strangely, when Lukaku was at Inter and also played with the national team, we could see that he was a great player with great accuracy and sharpness. So he is the player who was also the top scorer in yesterday's Eufa Euro qualifiers. And it would be very profitable if Roma wanted to buy Lukaku at the end of this season. Because at that time Lukaku's contract at Chelsea had also been reduced. So the transfer value will definitely decrease slightly. Even last season, Chelsea's price for Lukaku was deliberately lowered because they wanted to release him in a hurry. But unfortunately, no one is interested except just borrowing. Juventus was actually interested in exchanging players. But Juventus then had problems within their club which prevented Juventus from appearing in the European League. So Juventus decided not to buy many players in the transfer market yesterday and only used existing players.

Now Lukaku in Roma is gaining good momentum. And if Lukaku maintains his performance until the end of the season then it is natural that Roma will immediately be interested in getting Lukaku permanently.

Top 4 indeed will being an Roma target this season because they want to playing again at champion league and Roma last participant on that competition was happened on 2019 and since that year Roma was failed to reach to top 4 and they had several times to playing at Europa league and being an the finalist last season and after beat Napoli indeed most of Roma players was in the good mentally and they were very confident can beat Juventus this weekend although i know this is hard match for them because Juventus was more good than them if we see based on head to head statistics

About Lukaku this season he was found his shape again because from total 20 matches in all competitions Lukaku can able to scores 13 goals and Lukaku haven't done it while playing at Chelsea but regarding his status currently Lukaku as loan player in Roma and last summer why Roma has decided only want to loan him from Chelsea because Roma doesn't have money to bought him and at the end of this season everything will be decided whether Lukaku will return to Chelsea or Roma will permanent him or Lukaku maybe will take other options moved to other teams instead of Roma or Chelsea

Well this news can dispel rumor that there is an internal conflict between Osimhen and Napoli as reported several months ago at the same time there is no way for clubs from the Premier League to bring in Osimhen. To be honest, I wonder why Osimhen extended his contract when Napoli's performance is not good, is he confident he can bring Napoli back to where it was last season? it must be admitted that Osimhen contribution to Napoli last season was truly extraordinary in fact almost 1/2 of Napoli's goals came from Osimhen but unfortunately this season the situation is very different and Victor Osimhen has only scored 7 goals so far also unable to compete with 5 other strikers.

Now our attention turns to Roma who are slowly starting to find their game Roma collected 10 points from 5 matches not a bad achievement, if they are stable like this then Roma could climb to 5th position. Next Roma needs to pay a little attention to defense, needs improvement because so far Roma have conceded 19 goals these weaknesses can interfere with its performance.

Roma will try to get into the top 4 of the Serie A standings. This will help them get Lukaku permanently, which is said to be one of the conditions for Roma if they want to get Lukaku permanently. It's still quite confusing why not let Lukaku go permanently if Chelsea doesn't really need his services.
Even though Roma's current performance is not consistent enough, I am sure they can get a place in the UCL next season by finishing in the top 4 of the standings.

But it is quite sad to see Napoli this season. Because after losing to Roma, Napoli must now be willing to stand in 7th place. In fact, Roma is now 1 rank above Napoli, namely Roma is now ranked 6th.

Lukaku is always a concern wherever he is. Last season he received a lot of attention when he was able to play well for Inter Milan. And now he is also in the spotlight when he becomes one of the mainstays in Roma. There is no doubt about Lukaku's sharpness. But this player is actually quite rough when playing. And sometimes this also carries over to other players in the squad. So I no longer feel surprised when there will be lots of violations and a rain of yellow and red cards occurring in a match where Lukaku is in it. I don't know if it's just a coincidence or not. But that has happened quite often, even since last season when he was at Inter Milan. But that happens when facing a strong team.

Napoli may have to fight harder without their mainstay striker back. Luckily Monza is not a strong team. So Napoli must be able to win even with a narrow score in this match.

Having Lukaku back in the team and in the shape he is currently in is never bad of course, but the really decisive scenes in this game were the red cards. Those cards pulled the rug under Napoli's feet.

Lukaku got his goal, which helps him to quickly get back to normal and nobody cares whether he scored that against 9 Napoli players or 11 Napoli players. But for Napoli the tendency for the moment is bad and stopping it is hard.

The offense of Napoli staggered as it was Roma coming down on them. Lukaku coming from suspension was instrumental in the success, he was a danger and required attention. Napoli was falling apart in the match when Victor Osimhen exchanged words with Mourinho and was given his second yellow card adding harm to the loss.

Osimehen just came up with an agreement and renewed his contract with Napoli, it should give an extra lift to the club. But it is the opposite. A loss to Roma and in the next match, Osimhen and Politano are unavailable. Napoli should be able to win over Monza and get the points they need, but without their strikers, this could be another disaster for the club already in trouble.

He is an important piece for Napoli success but he is not the only piece for that success and there are other staffs in Napoli and many contributions from their players. It's unfair to only name Kravatskhelia and Osimhen because other players made great contributions for their Scudetto past season. These attacking players themselves have worse performances in this season and they are part of reasons for Napoli's worse performances in this season. Not only their new coach Mazzari is responsible for this.

They are at a bad position but chance is big enough for them because differences from top four to their temporary position are not too big. The bigger problem comes from Napoli, will they be able to improve their performances in coming months.

The defeat over AS Roma at Olimpico stadium is bad but it is not the end of this season for Napoli.

Luciano Spalletti was an important actor in Napoli's success last season, he managed to turn Napoli into a club that was very difficult to beat and in the end he managed to become the best in Serie A after winning the Scudetto. After Spalletti left Napoli's performance gradually declined, his replacement as coach was unable to maintain Napoli's performance as they achieved success last season.

Now Napoli is in seventh place in the standings, this position is not ideal for a team that won the Scudetto last season. If his performance continues like this, his suffering will continue in the next match. Finally, Roma managed to humiliate Napoli 2-0 and force them to drop to seventh place. It took a miracle for Napoli to be able to return to competition in the top four.

Napoli performance have turned and downgraded to become one of these random mediocre performance. Since the exits of their former coach that won the the scudetto this season, the club have grown to become one the club's with flopping records in the Seria A this season. Alot of things have fallen apart but we still have hope for Napoli to bounce back stronger than expected. The present of Napoli, Aurelio De Laurentiis makes attempts to revived the club but it's not working at the moment, he has single-handedly appointed and sack numerous coach and have become of the vital problems the club faces. Napoli will suffer this season, I'm seeing it coming their path gradually.

Yes, you could say that, after all, when Victor Oshimen had not received a red card, Napoli had already lost control when Matteo Pollitano left the game due to receiving a red card. Napoli seemed to have difficulty creating opportunities, so in the end Roma took the lead after Napoli played with 10 players. And Napoli found it increasingly difficult when Victor Oshimen received a red card which caused Napoli to become even worse with their fate of losing against Roma.

Technically and the depth of Bologna squad seems to be still below Napoli but Bologna was able to beat Roma with the same score as Roma did when they faced Napoli, even though they have an ordinary squad depth, Bologna was able to appear more impressive than Napoli, you can see in 5 In the last match, Bologna has not experienced a defeat while Napoli has experienced 3 defeats, which means that Bologna is much better than Napoli at the moment.

I agree with you, it's just that sometimes players can get out of control and make such mistakes. Napoli must have been very disadvantaged by this incident when their performance was not yet stable and their mainstay player had to miss 2 matches of course this will have an impact on the results of their future matches and Lazio and Atalanta were able to shift Napoli from 7th position. I don't know what to say to Napoli their performance is much different compared to last season even had to lose their place in the champions league. Napoli's only chance is to be in the Europa League and Napoli have to compete with 4 other teams, really bad season for Napoli.

Jose Mourinho just knows how to set any team out of balance and he managed to do that with Napoli. I watched the game and to be honest, the two sides played equally good but I guess there has to be one winner and that was were Roma outsmarted them. First half was tight, Napoli was playing with confidence that they would have opened the scoring but missed chances and then second half came in and I saw the walls of Napoli coming down after Politano got the red card. To be frank, that game was all about wittiness and it seemed Napoli let their emotions get the better of them and it showed more after Osimhen got booked. Truly the Nigerian would have caused a fight of he hadn't been properly tended. That's a big humiliation to hit him after he was being praised for his stellar performances after winning the African Best player award.
Roma made them see red and turned their Christmas blue after that lose pushed them a bit far from the title race.

Napoli may be evaluating the ersult from mazzarri at the end of season. The club has sacked rudi from coaching the club at the middle of season. Napoli may take the current result as another evaluation. I meant mazzarri didn't have long term contract with napoli.
It will be so good for napoli to get rid of him and then try to recruit someone who can help the club to play better. The club needs someone like spalletti or jose mourinho which was able helping the club to compete at the top place even with low budeget squad.

This is the main point that must be fulfilled by napoli. We can expect napoli to change its coach again at the end of season. I will be giving mazzarri 5/10 for his score caused by it is just another flop like rudi garcia.
Napoli needs to be careful in hiring the new coach caused by when it was hiring the wrong coach and it will give big impact to the peformance from club.

However, Rudi Garcia ever won a trophy with LOSC Lille. It was a proof that Rudi Garcia has the quality as a coach. If he failed to maintain the performance of Napoli, he may be not suitable to manage Napoli. For UCL, Rudi Garcia surely has no good experience, he is not the right coach for any team to target for UCL title. I also think Mazzarri not a very suitable to manage Napoli. I doubt if Mazzarri will stay a long time in Napoli.

Inter Milan performed well during this season, they are in a good form. No doubt if Inter Milan is the favorite team to win Scudetto. Sure, Inter Milan mustn't underestimate other teams in Serie A, it will bring bad impacts for them. Inter Milan also must be careful that Juventus also has the chance to be the champion.

That's all not the problem here I think. Players are playing with emotions and that is a good thing, but as the word "professional" suggests, the players have a duty towards the rest of the team and that is to avoid unnecessary harm during the game. That red card for Osimhen was such an unnecessary thing. Sometimes I know coincidences can kick in and it is not the best and luckiest day in the life of a player, but after they already lost a striker, he should have known that more caution is required to limit the harm and prevent further harm from being inflicted on the team.

It's not trivial to find out what their biggest problems are. I think the good beginning this season could have disguised some of the bigger problems and if you look at Giroud, he has scored quite often in the first few games, but then his performance went down. I thought that he is not the perfect striker for AC Milan as they should more focus on pace and Giroud is not really the fastest player anymore. Having someone who understands where to be at the right time is great, but this seems to have stopped working for them. There is not enough variation in their attacking line despite having players like Leao and Pulisic, but as it was the same in Chelsea, Pulisic can't play on a constant level for several weeks in a row. That can harm the team's performance when some of the players can't perform all the time and now we can see the result of that.