Topic: Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A) - page 2070. (Read 857943 times)

I would say this is an unexpected result. Napoli was favorites in this match. And Napoli's overall performance was much better than Lazio's. But even then, Napoli lost the home match. I watched the match. I never once felt Napoli's performance was poor. Napoli performed as in previous matches. Lazio's goalkeeper Provedel's performance in this match impressed me. He made some great saves. Also, Lazio's defense was very strong in this match. Maybe Lazio's aim was perhaps to draw the match goalless and share the points. But Matias Vecino's goal achieved them full points in the match.

Napoli must suffer defeat at home, during the match Napoli played quite well and got several scoring opportunities, but Ivan Provedel played quite well under the crossbar and Lazio's defense was also quite compact and solid in breaking the attacks built by Napoli. Matias Vecino had the chance to shoot on target outside the box, so that the shot could not be denied by the Napoli goalkeeper and became the only winning goal for Lazio. This is Napoli's second defeat this season in Serie A, however, the standings have not changed and still puts Napoli in first place with 65 points, while Lazio has moved up to second in the standings because Ac Milan and Inter Milan haven't played for the next game.

If you look at the ranking in the standings Monza is above Empoli and maybe that's the factor Monza is far the favorite in the match later, but in the last 2 matches Monza have lost and maybe they don't want to add to their losing record again, so this is Monza's chance to get a win against Empoli later, let alone playing as the host, will clearly benefit from Monza. If I bet then I will bet on Monza

When we look at the odds, Monza is a bit favorite to win tonight, both teams are not good, Monza is lost 2 matches in a row, while Empoli is never won in the last 5 matches. Of course, when we look at that statistic, Monza is seems potential to win tonight but, it's not enough to be sure because they was lost 3-0 vs Salernitana before, where in fact a weak team. and which I think is still fifty-fifty for me if bet win to Monza.

Giving a guess who will come out second isn't easy right now. It could essentially be six clubs with realistic chances, Juventus Turin included and Napoli is going to make it to the title anyway. I would count Lazio in as a serious contender for second as this win against Napoli was vital for them to strengthen their position in the upper part of the table and keep the distance from Juventus Turin. The least chances in my opinion is there for Atalanta. They are struggling right now and can't find back to a decent level of consistency.

I doubt that the appeal will have any chances for success. This seems to me as if the authorities have done their job properly and then imposed a penalty. I doubt they would be sloppy, then the whole process goes on for so long and after months there is an appeal. Could be of course, but I wouldn't count on Juventus getting those 15 points back for now. It would also lead to a lot of trouble within the league if that's decided like in the last days of the season and then another team who thought to have qualified eventually gets kicked out again because of a revoked penalty. If there is a decision, it should be made soon. Imagine Juventus isn't going to make the cut and only then will the penalty be revoked and they make the cut. I would really think there could be corruption at play.

It would be a joke if the sanction will be lifted after Juventus appeal. It's very slim chance for Juventus to succeed with their appeal to revert that point deduction. I have never seen any club successfully appeal their sanctions after all. Especially if punishments are point deductions, not financial charges or restrictions on eligibility on transfer market or being eligible as a representative of a national league in Europe like Champions League or Europa League.

That sounds good but it is unrealistic. Juventus will likely not get any reversion of the punishment and they are no longer be able to compete with Napoli for Scudetto.
Anyway Juventus did became stronger than they were in early months of this season. Even with 15 point deduction, they still have chance to join top four. In next days, they will host match with AS Roma in Turin that will be a big mark for them to increase their chance to join top four.

Napoli had to admit defeat at home, but the result is clear, now let's move on to Monza and Empoli.

Monza will have a match to welcome Empoli at home, Monza is showing signs of slowing down in the last 2 rounds. Specifically, they respectively lost to AC Milan with a score of 0-1 and lost heavily to Salernitana with a score of 0-3. Empoli is in stable form since the first leg period in 2023, as evidenced by the fact that they only lost to the top team Napoli and the 5th ranked team Roma, the rest have 2 wins and 5 draws. Calculating the two sides standing close together on the rankings, Napoli is only 1 point behind Monza.
The performance of the two teams is not much different, it is true that Empoli can not scare anyone but with the current form Empoli is very confident to win at least 1 point against Monza. I think the match will probably end in a draw and few goals are scored in this match.

Second defeat for Napoli this season and this time in a home match against Lazio, Napoli tried hard to score the equalizer but unfortunately luck was in lazio sid, with this victory Napoli climbed to the second position waiting for the remaining matches, while Napoli still the first with 17 points Gap

Lazio surprised the fans because they were able to defeat Napoli's power, and finally there was a team that was able to make Napoli not move after all this time they always got wins. Matas Vecino was very lucky to be able to score goals and give Lazio victory. Hopefully Napoli can come back from defeat and get another winning streak.

They were really disciplined in defense in this game, they were quite patient in defending and used the smallest possible opportunities to their advantage and the results were quite good.
on target they were on par with Napoli who dominated especially after they fell behind but admittedly Lazio did not falter and instead they got better defensively.
With this result they are in 2nd place now.

Well, you can see that here Napoli will always be the protagonist of good games, and since they are the first in the table, I think they will not let Sassuolo or any other team win for anything in the world, with how motivated the players are, it is a fact that That helps them a lot to believe in themselves, also the fact of extending the advantage is something that encourages them much more, and I like that because it shows that a team that we were not used to being named like in Napoli is succeeding, that He speaks highly of Italian football.

I hope they continue like this, and the fight will be for second place and the team that I see fighting the most is Milan AC.

This is great news, if Juve reaches 50 points it is very close to Napoli, of course not to reach it but if it puts itself in the best position compared to the other teams, if this happens it will be interesting how the others will react teams that are fighting for the first places, Mou's Roma, Inter, Milan, are the teams that I see a lot of heart in and they are fighting a lot, they are adopting an attitude that I like, they do not want to regulate anything, and if it occurs to me I'm happy for Juve, aside from the fact that they're not doing badly at all, I hope they can be awarded those points.

Yeah, the odd was really something to have taken advantage of but, who would have done that, who would have gone for Lazio Roma with a 5.60 odd over the inform Napoli, playing from a home side with 1.65 odd and have only recorded a single defeat all season before this defeat.
It's just got to go to waste sometimes but, I won't say Lazio Roma are lucky with this win. They are a good team, a strong side and are 2nd place on the table. They've been good and today, they not only were cautious in there attack but, they defended good too.

Correct. Lazio greatly benefited from the victory in this match. Lazio is now comfortable in second place for a while. But for Napoli they can still feel calm with this result. considering the points they have are still very far above the other teams. but Napoli must be able to win for the next match or they will be trapped in a negative trend that will undermine the mentality of the players who have always been optimistic in every match. and Napoli's defeat in this match was indeed an extraordinary surprise.

What a bad day for napoli. After a long win streak and then finally napoli must have faced another reality if it must be losing against lazio. Napoli was always dominating the ball. I have seen napoli have made some chances but it's still able to be blocked. Lazio was so lucky enough to make one goal against napoli. Lazio's stake is very big IMO. I would believe if someone who picked lazio will be getting decent money from there.

What a good result for lazio. Lazio was making its revenge after it was losing playing at him last year and lazio was making it. Will this trend gonna affect the performance from napoli? that's pretty interesting to see that.

Lazio was almost making its first goal from matic but napoli's defender is still able blocking heading that almost goal. Lazio had better chance than napoli in this match. This is actually a good achievement by lazio

it was definitely a very boring game, lately lazio have been using the strategy of all their players staying in defense, so the game gets boring, napoli had no space to attack, I myself was already irritated with this game even before the 45 minutes , napoli didn't even look like the same team, they didn't manage to cause many dangers to lazio, it's unfortunate that i lost my bet


a defeat changes a lot, the team starts to get demotivated, the other teams will be more motivated to win and reduce the difference in points a lot, with this defeat it is enough that in the next games napoli suffer more defeats for them to be reached by the opponents, napoli's next opponent is atalanta, and without a doubt that if atalanta puts a lot of effort into their defense, they can also manage to beat napoli, then there's milan who will also make an effort to beat napoli, napoli needs to be very careful, because they still may not become champions

I put them on a team that I think has the potential to win but it seems like this week isn't going well. The condition was a little unexpected, indeed, because looking at the statistics for the last few matches Napoli has always been superior because in the last 2020 Lazio won, but now they have to accept that their statistics have stopped.
Now it's actually not too much of a problem for Napoli, but indeed this condition is clearly profitable for Lazio.

I even checked whether Napoli will play with their best squad possible and I think they mostly did. But this was a typical Lazio. They used to be more offensive but now they are all about defense and then wait for that decisive attack. But I am sure that Napoli, the whole team and the coach are not really bothered. All of them have the Champions League on their mind and want to make sure that they don't get injured and can play at their maximum.

But Napoli was dominating the game from the first to the last minute except for a few moments. Their passing accuracy was again around 90%, but they couldn't capitalize on that.

For Juventus it would have been better if Napoli won. All the points those teams now lose are good for Juventus if they want to fight their way back.

The match ended in conditions that were not expected by me in this regard.
My bet didn't go well and it was a different situation when Matias Vecino scored the only goal in the match which with 1 goal lasted until the end.
Napoli's performance is still very good as usual but Lazio's defense in this game is very good. because after all Napoli had many opportunities with the dominance of large possession, but it was really a pity they had to lose points and my bet was lost in this match.

The week Lazio wins, Inter and the other teams in the race will not want to lose points this week. After beating a team like Napoli, Lazio is comfortable for now.
Inter will host lecce. I think they will win without difficulty because they have home advantage.
The most important match will be Roma vs Juventus. It could actually be a great opportunity for Juventus. It is very important for them to win this match. They might want to make good use of this opportunity. If they win, the points difference with Roma will drop to 6.

although Napoli lost this match. but we can see that coach Luciano Spalletti still shows a very relaxed expression. Because for Napoli this defeat may not mean much. because their point difference is still very wide with Lazio who are now in second place. Napoli must focus on not repeating the defeat in the next match against Atalanta. and of course Napoli must also maintain the performance of every player so they can continue to play well in the second leg of the Champions League.