Topic: Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A) - page 1155. (Read 862134 times)

this season Napoli are experiencing a lot of problems so that failing to get the Scudetto is a risk that must be accepted and yesterday I said about the problems that occurred and most importantly the change of coach will have a negative impact in the next few matches because the new coach will not possibly be able to understand the character and the instant skill of each player definitely requires a lot of time spent adapting because the coach plays a very important role in improving a team's performance and this is the mistake of Napoli management in replacing the coach quickly without thinking about the long term.

and to compete in the UCL it seems like Napoli is still able to compete competitively but to achieve the UCL title seems very impossible because many teams are more consistent and have a lot of experience even if they can get past Barcelona in the UCL Napoli still has to get past Man City and Real Madrid who are the challengers strongest in the UCL later.
however, we are still in the middle of the season, there are still many matches to go and we'll see if there are any positive changes for Napoli.

Yeah, 14 points behind it is almost impossible for Napoli to catch up especially with inconsistent performance while their competitors continue to advance by collecting points from each game obviously Napoli have no chance for the title this season, as you said even for the Champions League it is uncertain and if it's true that next season Napoli will not get a ticket to the Champions League then I'm sure their mainstay player will move moreover Osimhen is now uncomfortable there because of internal conflict. This week Napoli will come to the Stadio Olimpico to face AS Roma and I think Napoli will lose more points at the same time AS Roma will take over Napoli position in the 5th place, I did not underestimate Napoli but Roma could be relied upon when playing at home.

Another match this week that is worth waiting for is Bologna vs Atalanta, both teams are in good condition but of course Bologna has another advantage as a home team especially recently Bologna defeated 2 strong teams AS Roma in Serie A and Inter Milan in Coppa of course these 2 positive results will have an impact on their confidence. Bologna also has a good record while playing at home, so far they have only lost 2 times so I don't see Atalanta having a chance to win, but yeah sometimes the match in Serie A cannot be predicted.

It looks like Inter Milan is doing the same thing as Napoli. Because Inter Milan also rotated players in this match, we can see that Inter Milan wanted to play safely, that is, they avoided injuries to key players. And it could be said that Inter Milan could lose by Bologna because Inter Milan did not prioritize this match. Yesterday Napoli lost to Frosinone which surprised everyone because they lost with a big score. Now Inter Milan lost the Coppa Italia to Bologna. And now maybe we can find the answer. Well, Napoli and Inter Milan seem to want to be more serious and more focused on the UCL this season. But in terms of performance, Bologna has shown quite frightening improvements. AS Roma also lost to Bologna and now Inter Milan also lost to Bologna.

And I'm sure Inter Milan also doesn't want this defeat. But Inter Milan probably didn't expect Bologna to make things difficult for them. And I checked how Bologna performed when facing strong teams in Serie A this season. And I was surprised that in Serie A this season, Napoli and Inter Milan were held to a draw by Bologna. And even Lazio and Roma lost. So it looks like Bologna will indeed be fighting for tickets to the UCL this season. They are even ranked 4th now.

I think, Napoli will embrace victory from this match to defeat Roma because their players are playing in unity which is what gave them the opportunity to return back to third position in this Italian league competition and their strikers are ready to do more to improve to make their fans happy. If you predict for the favour of Roma in this match, you will loss in your prediction because Napoli strikers has show some efforts in the champion league competition that made people to believed that they can still make it happen again to win this Italian league title.  Roma will score goal in this match but the match will end up 1-2 in the favour of Napoli because they are capable to take victory from the match.

Bologna vs Atlanta will be one of the tighter matches in this seventeenth week apart from the Roma vs Napoli match.
Both teams get almost the same odds, Bologna @2.78 and Atlanta @2.79 with a draw of around @3.37 and each bookie gives different odds but all of them favor Bologna as the home team to win this match.
The two teams are in conditions that are not much different and in the last two matches both managed to win, also in these two wins, one was obtained when facing a weak team, and the other was obtained when facing a team whose strength could be said to be the same, Bologna beat Roma and Atlanta convincingly beat AC Milan.
This will be a match that is quite difficult to predict, only Bologna who is playing at home will get full support from the spectators, only if something unexpected happens it is very possible for the away team to win because Atlanta is also trying to improve their ranking which is quite far from top fourth because of the previous two consecutive defeats.

I perceived towards the end of last season that Napoli will struggle this season. Towards the end of the season, they began to struggle to win games which made them wait for several games before they finally won the Scudetto. The departure of Luciano Spalletti and the erroneous signing Rudi Garcia . The French coach has never won any major trophy in his coaching career. I was surprised that Aureli De Laurentiis had to settle for a coach that was sacked by Al-Nassr due to his poor tactics when there were options to get coaches like Luis Enrique, Roberto De Zerbi, Thiago Motta and Vincenzo Italiano. Rudi came and almost destroyed the team with his poor tactics and divisive leadership style.

Walter Mazzarri might not be a top-class coach that Napoli fans will hope to take over the club but he is not doing badly. Qualifying for the Champions League second round is a remarkable achievement. The coach has also put more effort into uniting the players as we are seeing the combination of Victor Osimhen and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia bearing more fruit. The club has started winning more games, so all hope is not lost. They still have the chance of defending the Seria A title.     

It is quite obvious that Napoli are struggling this season,and there is no way they can get to where they were last season because the team has lost that team spirit that was in their team,and the thrive towards breaking the yoke of not winning the Scudetto tittle for years.This season,they have been so poor in form,and if they do not push towards winning more games,they won't qualify for the Champions league next season.They were able to keep some of their best players of last season till this season,but if they do not qualify for the Champions league next season,it will make those players want to leave.For instance, Osimhen is considering moving to England,and his prefered destination is any of the London teams,either Chelsea or Arsenal.

Inter Milan have play not so good in recent matches vs Bologna. In October there was a 2:2 in Milan and in February this year Bologna won 1:0, the game was in Bologna. And now the defeat in extra time, mybe we can say that Bologna are becoming a scary team for Inter. They are not playing for the championship in italy, they are far away. Inter Milan will lose a bit of motivation, they play against a weak team at the weekend. Again at home against US Lecce, which they should win without any problems.

With the current situation, it is very difficult for Napoli to maintain their situation as the current defending champions.
Napoli is currently still very difficult to maintain its current consistency and performance even though there have been several improvements including the change of coach that has occurred but indeed this is still a fairness when talking about the Scudetto in Serie A.
Until now since the last few seasons the club that won Serie A has never been able to go back to back to get the Scudetto after prime Juventus until the 2020 season until now no one has been able to last for several seasons for the Scudetto including Inter, Milan and Napoli who took turns every season in the last 3 seasons.

Napoli chances are now only possible to be in the top 4 and must try to appear there because it would be very bad if they failed to qualify for the Champions League next season after previously winning very convincingly. 

Napoli is quite superior compared to the roma. I would rather than pick double chance for this match caused by i will take multi bet. The chance for napoli to beat roma is very big. Im not feeling good with the performance from roma.
I don't underestimate it but seeing how roma was also placed at the second place of europa league made me feel doubt with it. Napoli is far stronger compared roma and the chance to win the game is quite big right now.
im also putting the inconsistent performance from roma as the main concern. Napolis also in the same situation as roma and it makes me feel that if roma is not even deserving to win the game against napoli. Osimhen may be scoring some goals against roma.
Lukaku has become the only hope owned by roma to take three points from napoli. Jose has been putting UCL spot as the main target to be achieved by as rome. We will see a tough game to happen between roma and napoli.
Roma needs to be careful caused by osimhen and kvarat are the biggest threats for the club. As long as roma can block the movement from those guys and the club will be safe.

That's how it goes on a single legged knock out. There are no second chances. And we should appreciate the performance from Bologna and Frosinone. They outperformed their opponents on their games.
Bologna hat a great defense, good goal keeping, a penalty saved and injury time best finished goals to win. They deserved the win.
Napoli was excellent on the first half but there bad luck with the hand ball and were unable to score while Frosinone played a good game and scored in the later part of 2nd half.
Bologna could go for the trophy but I think Frosinone just got lucky there.

Like it's really been a dramatic week to see the both clubs out of the Coppa Italia is really unbelievable, football is just one game that's really difficult to predict because no matter how strong a team is, they may just lose to a mediocre team at a time when no one expected them to lose so it isn't a new thing at all. Well, Napoli and Inter Milan have got more important matches to face both in their domestic league and the European competition so definitely, they will do better in their upcoming matches but notwithstanding, their exit from the Coppa Italia is really not a good development but regardless the two clubs are wonderful.

Every time a team plays, they do try to win, but we all know that sometimes a draw is enough too. Like whoever is at the bottom of the table, you think they go out every game trying to win? So napoli playing against Inter will not think about "I hope we do not lose by much"? Sometimes that's life, you know you will lose, you would be super happy if you get a draw, and you will be fine if you lose 4-0 as well.

I think it should be something that would benefit everyone if Napoli tries to win, but they should realize their situation and not get hyped about every game, try to beat teams under you would be enough, if they can beat about 10-13 teams, instead of getting an unexpected draw or loss, then they will be fine in the end.

Here is the current odds for both teams

Roma @2.95
Napoli @2.49

At this time Napoli is slightly the favourite than Roma and if we see from head to head statistics Roma was unable to win in the last 5 meetings so maybe that's why the bookmakers putting Napoli as the favourite although from the conditions Napoli performance still unstable because changing manager and for Roma too last week their performance were very dissapointing because they lose from Bologna for away match and this makes they stayed at 8th place on league standings

Napoli is very ready to facing this match because they rested some of their key players while against Frosinone this because they want to more focus for this match and Napoli also want to bounce back and to compete with other team for top 4 and for this match Osimhen and Kvaratskhelia who played as substitution player while Napoli beated by Frosinone will be played at the beginning of match by Walter Mazzari and this time i have to agree with you that because Napoli condition was more good than Roma so i think Napoli will being an the winner of this match

Even though Napoli failed in the Coppa Italia with quite a big defeat. But at least there are positive things that Napoli can take after they out from the Coppa Italia. Namely they can focus more on Serie A and UCL. I hope Mazzarri learns from the mistakes he made in the match against Frosinone in the Coppa Italia. And I hope Mazzarri can really bring good changes to Napoli in Serie A and in the UCL.

Although currently Napoli is 14 points behind Inter Milan who are at the top of the standings. But Napoli still has the opportunity to work harder to get a ticket to the UCL next season. And work better at UCL. Because realistically I also think that Napoli are out of the title race and will only be in the hunt for the top 4 rankings. Because the point difference is widening, it is certainly difficult to catch up Inter with Napoli's current condition.

Last season Inter Milan also only targeted the top 4 rankings and they focused on the UCL. I hope Napoli can do the same thing like Inter Milan last season.

It is good news for Serie A because with two defeats in Coppa Italia, both Inter Milan and Napoli can focus on Champions League where they are two representatives of Serie A in a round of 16. They will not have easy matches with opponents are Atletico Madrid and Barcelona.

Their sacrifice in Coppa Italia will help them in theory can play better in Champions League because they will no longer be distracted by Coppa Italia. Without matches in Coppa Italia, their players will have better fitness for coming two matches in Champions League.

It is common problem type with all non giant clubs because they are not familiar with feeling to stay on top of the league and their star players will always want to leave and join bigger clubs. They even don't have enough deep budget to satisfy more lucrative demands from their star players so usually they will lose best star players after one or two successful seasons.

If Napoli can complete this season in top four, it is their big achievement even they lose Scudetto to another club.

Getting knocked out on penalties is not something strange in a situation like this, luck is needed and Bologna are luckier
Next, which big team will be kicked out?

Just hope there will be no strange thing like the match against frosinone by napoli. I meant look at the line up and napoli was not playing seriously in copa italia but it lookes weird that if onl a few of us are aware about that. I would rather than called that if the copa italia has been owning by some who was doing shady things. Napoli and intermilan out from copa italita. Roma can take it as an opportunity to steal three points from napoli but this is not going to be an easy game for roma.


Osimhen is not yet performing so well and he was rarely scoring right now unlike last season when he was at his prime time. Im not even seeing napoli as a strange team right now. Its performance is always going up and down like there was something wrong with the club.
Roma needs to only use defensive strategy and waiting for the chance to do counter attack. This most likely helping roma to win the game against napoli and secure three points as the result. 

Mourinho can consider using the boring strategy against napoli.

No team really throws away their chances of winning every game they play. Each team is looking for 3 points and it is not natural for to think that they are deliberately losing even though they are in need of points. Yes, of course Napoli are not strong this season because under Rudi Garcia coaching they lost a lot of points so Rudi had to accept the consequences by being fired early. In fact, this season Napoli is having difficulty staying in the top 4 because other teams are able to perform better, such as Bologna. I think under the coaching of Walter Mazzarri Napoli have not shown their strength in the last 5 matches where they were only able to achieve 2 wins and 3 losses.

Napoli also had strong opponents in the Champions League this season, so Napoli faced many obstacles this season. One of the things that Mazzarri must do is re-form the team and give them full confidence to be able to record another winning streak like they did last season.

It's true, it's impossible if we think Napoli can climb to the top of the standings moreover, currently Napoli are 14 points behind I have to say there is no way for Napoli to repeat the success like last season, Napoli's mission for this season is to get a place in the Champions League and now they have a new competitor there, Bologna. This week Napoli will face a tough match against AS Roma, as the away team it is certainly not easy to get points there and usually AS Roma is very difficult to beat when playing at home meaning Napoli need luck to get points for example, hoping that Lukaku will be absent lol because Lukaku is a goal machine for Roma so imagine if Lukaku wasn't in the lineup AS Roma attack line will definitely get weaker.

By the way, I just checked the top score list and I was a little surprised because of the 39 goals scored by Inter Milan 29 goals scored by 3 players this means that Inter Milan has many players in attack line as a goal machine and if one of them is injured then it's not a big problem because there are still some alternative players. We can also assume that this is Inter Milan's indication ready to become a Serie A champion this season with an aggressive attacker and solid defense, called a complete package.