Topic: Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A) - page 2112. (Read 859058 times)

It is very difficult indeed if we talk for other teams to stop Napoli so far this season. But indeed, Napoli actually doesn't need to focus too much on Serie A because they have confirmed that they have locked the Scudetto title for this season. Now Napoli only needs to focus on the champions league match which we know there will be many big teams competing. For the key players, I think it will be a challenge for Napoli whether they remain consistent at the start of the next season or instead experience a decline after the players leave to choose another club at the end of the season.

Atalanta were too focused on attacking so there were gaps in their defense. overall Atalanta did well in the match against Lecce. and yeah I also think that Atalanta was unlucky in this fight. And luck was on Lecce's side. Lecce didn't get many chances. Of the 4 kicks, 2 of them turned out to be goals. while Atalanta had 10 shots on target but only 1 was a goal. Lecce was successful with their strategy of defending and counterattacking. and now Atalanta must be willing to lose points. Atalanta is now in 6th place. and Juventus is in 7th. and it seems that slowly Juventus wants to restore the points they have lost as a result of the punishment they received.

usually teams with medium financial strength will immediately be attracted by big money offers. PSG - madrid - bayern - man city - chelsea until now continue to be linked with these two players, if there is a fantastic offer I'm sure these two players will also be tempted and Napoli can't do anything to keep both of them in the team.
Becoming a Serie A champion this season and going as far as possible in the UCL is a very good thing for Napoli, even though Napoli's chances of achieving that again next season will be difficult if these two players really move to another club.


faced lecce a few days ago, in fact, atalanta really dominated the match there were even many opportunities for atalanta created (10 shots on target), atalanta this season doesn't have anything special, they are very weak on the front and back lines, and it seems that they have to buy a few new players in next transfer market to fill the gaps in the front and back lines.

I think, Napoli will not miss this Italian league title because their performance in this season has made people to believed that they will not allow what happened last season to happen in this season than to do everything possible within their power to maintain this first position in the Italian league table. Napoli strikers are doing well in this season which other big teams will definitely want them in their team after the tournament, because they have displayed some tactics that gave other teams attention to sign them in their team. Inter and AC Milan are still experiencing some challenges that will make them not to win this season title, because their performance is reducing gradually compared the beginning of this tournament.

Napolist just need to be careful. Winning with small scores is  not even a problem for napoli as long as it can always take full points in serie a. napoli needs to make sure if it must have won until the remaining matches will be equal with the points gap between napoli and intermilan. There are 15 points gap worth 5 matches in total. It will be so good if napoli able to make the gap even bigger like 18 points or even 21 points.
That will make napoli can lock the trophy and players can play without any pressure anymore. I think that this season is not so competitive caused by napoli has been dominating the league since early season. The next season may be different with this time.

Napoli have shown solidity so far and after being questioned in European competition last night they proved that they must be considered a fairly strong competitor in the competition, also in the league the difference in points that Inter or Ac Milan will find it difficult to catch up with will make them even more comfortable playing in the UCL and the League, But will next season be as competitive as this season? because some of the main players have been targeted by other big clubs.

Napoli should savor the situation while it lasts since more clubs will return to greater form and present a full challenge for the scudetto the following season. It is undoubtedly impossible to break the rules by moving up a slot only to keep a player from leaving because Napoli lacks the funds to handle those players, especially when they want raises in their salary. It is undeniable that major league teams will make enormous offers for Parthenopean important players in the upcoming transfer market, and these offers will always be alluring to the players. It is the major reason Luciano Spalleti should take advantage of this opportunity to persuade players to sign long-term contracts with the team, or better yet, find suitable backup players to take the place of the crucial players.

It usually happens with many clubs like Napoli after a great successful season. Leeds United, Dortmund and Sevilla are examples. Sevilla are the only club that can maintain their performance at good level after many successful years. Their scout team are amazing to bring young players to Sevilla year by year.

Napoli will be able to keep those players up to one more season only. I am really not believing in Napoli ability to keep up their excellent performance in a next season. With those star players, they will not feel satisfy when a club performance is down. Together with many good offers from bigger clubs, they will make requests to Napoli for leaving. It's hard for Napoli to convince those players to stay with them more than two more seasons.

I think that ac milan is a bit better than atalanta but who knows if atalanta may able to defeat ac milan. The problem is ac milan's performance is also declining. That means if atalanta was also having a good chance to beat ac milan. Ac milan may still use three backs as its strategy. I would not be surprised if ac milan may able to win against atalanta with small score like 1-0. It's caused by the new strategy that being used by pioli was also making ac milan was not able to do more attacks intensively. As long as atalantan knows about how to counter it and i think atalanta has a chance for that.

Atalanta has a problem with its defenders. This problem must be solved as soon as possible. The result against lecce is a shame for atalanta. It's caused atalanta already won 70% ball possessions but it was losing due to the counter attack by lecce.

Come on guys, in this game Milan won 1-0 =) you can't lose faith in your teams because Milan AC is an elite team in Italy, all the fans of Milan seemed to be praying in the last minutes of the game because it didn't seem to end never, Milan AC is one of the strongest teams, just like La Roma de Mou, now Napoli cannot make mistakes like losing or drawing games.

Napoli have a big point lead in the standings, he wanted to see Ibrahimovic play, the TV cameras were on him a lot, you could tell how eager he was to play that match against Torino, but due to his injury he couldn't.


Eintracht’s Glasner: ‘Napoli are anti-Italian, very aggressive’




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I hope Napoli don't do that because both are the main player who made this achievement. If Napoli sell them for money, I believe they can't do like this anymore on next session until they find a decent player. Maybe better for management to create a new contract and do a big deal to make them keep stay on Napoli because hard to find a successor in the middle of a player crisis because all experienced players are getting all and will need a time again to recruit the young players.

I haven't seen the whole match between Atalanta and Lecce, but from the few clips of the match I've seen I can well say that Atalanta were really unlucky, lots of wasted scoring chances and Lecce were much more cynical in front of goal! it's a real shame for Atalanta who had to wait for a defensive mistake to score. this defeat will be decisive during the continuation of the championship, now they have slipped to sixth position in the standings with Juventus behind them who are slowly catching up and are now -9 behind them

Poor Atalanta
I don't know whether they really underestimated their opponent or they were really only not lucky at that match. They really couldn't utilize those many chances to score at least one higher than Lecce. Because we all know how the performance of Atalanta is so far. That day becomes one of the worst days for them. With that loss, they lost the point and decreased their position on the standing again.

I agree with you on this, Napoli is in a very good form likewise the players and they appear to even get stronger and better in every match they player and with this, I believe nothing can stop them from becoming the Champions of Italian League. Considering the performance of Victor Osimhen, he keeps scoring goals in each match of Napoli and the prolific striker never gets tired of showing good performance s and that has given him more confidence in every match and because of this he never stops scoring goals and I don't think nothing can stop him from becoming the highest goal score in the League this season because he got all the chances within him.

Napoli fans would love to hear that, they haven't won the seria A for 33 years now, and to now win it the way they are doing this season is the best feeling for them, leading the table with 15 points, with the top goal scorer Victor Osimhen in their team, and with the good football that their club is playing, their fans cannot ask for more than this, and even Maradona would be proud of Napoli in heaven. The only fear i have for Napoli is in the summer, because i know the clubs that have money will come for their best players like Osimhen and Kvaratskhelia, if they sell them, then they may not be so strong by next season.

I don't think this can be overtaken and indeed for now it looks like Osimhen is the top scorer. Judging from his current form and the opportunities of other players I think it's a little difficult to happen because nothing can hinder Osimhen's productivity and performance this season.
He and Napoli are both unstoppable and this will be something that has happened with Napoli winning at the end of the season and Osimhen being the top scorer this season.

AC Milan is obviously the favorite team to win but it seems not so easy to predict the result.
Previously, on matchday 2, Atalanta vs AC Milan got a draw result (1-1). Even if it will be a bit different because the next match will be in AC Milan home, AC Milan can underestimate Atalanta. Winning the latest 2 matches cannot be a clear indicator that AC Milan returns to its best form. It won't be the same match as they played against Monza or Torino.

Yeah, it has been clear that Serie A seems like having had the winner of the trophy because no other club will have the chance. They are now focusing on the UCL qualification. This expectation will be much better for some clubs like Inter, Roma, Milan, Lazio, Atalanta, and also Juventus probably.

But inn this match, none underestimated each other. Napoli as always, plays very seriously whoever the opponent and they are able to be leading as always. They are big and high motivation during this season. We can see how statistics they have not only during this game but also in previous games with other clubs. But indeed, if a club is underestimating others, it will be sometimes dangerous because they will not know exactly what will happen in the field during the match.

I get your point, but that's wrong at all. Not sure where did you get that theory. First of all, let's separate the remaining contract duration and the desire of the wanting club on the player as the key aspects on football transfer. As I believe that we are discussing the second one, then we can ignore the desire of the interested team. So, imagine if in your team, there is one player who has 1 remaining season left in his contract. It means that in the next season, he can leave the club for free. Then, instead of getting 0$ in the next year from this player, you could get some good amount of money by selling him with fair fee. Because of what? Yeah if you keep putting high cost on this player, the interested teams will just wait until the player contract expired in next season. Why you risk of not getting any pennies by putting high price on a player whose contract about to expire next year?

Let me give you an example. Shinji Kagawa, brought by Man Utd from Dortmund with a bargain fee, afaik it was under $20M, while his value was higher at that time. But since his contract about to expire, Dortmund had no other choice except getting fair money by letting Kagawa go. That's also happened because Fergie didn't want him that bad. That means it's okay at all if Man Utd failed to sign Kagawa, so the situation favored Man Utd.

And now, finally the aspect that support your opinion, the desire of the interested team on a player. The fact is, that team dont care about how many year left on the player contract, as long as they can bring him, especially when they have strong financial support. But if we talk about the remaining contract duration alone, no, the less remaining contract duration, the lower transfer fee. You can read this journal paper for reference; Econometric Approach to Assessing the Transfer Fees and Values of Professional Football Players. It's not related directly to our main discussion but there are interesting points mentioned there about transfer fee.

Milan are favoured to beat Atalanta for their match ahead in five days. Playing the match in San Siro is an advantage for Milan of course. But I still have doubts about their defending style especially. There are still visible weaknesses in their defense. We saw it in the Monza match as well even though Milan won the match. If they really can't figure out a way to fix their defensive issues yet then they should focus on increasing the number of goals they score in a match.

You know how much drop they have in their scoring performance as well. They won their last two matches maybe but both of them ended 1-0. I hope to see Milan being more productive against Atalanta and getting a win.