Topic: Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A) - page 228. (Read 866274 times)

This state of the points table is interesting to watch because the teams that we have always seen at the bottom of the points table are now at the top of the points table and the teams that we are used to seeing at the top of the points table are now looking at the bottom of the points table. Although Inter Milan is at the fourth position of the points table, we cannot see AC Milan between 1 and 5 of the points table, while this AC Milan was at the second position of the points table last season. Not only last season but in this season's Champions League match AC Milan faced against Real Madrid we saw that AC Milan was able to defeat Real Madrid by a big margin. However, as much as AC Milan is behind the other teams in the Italian league, it seems that they cannot be between 1 and 5 in terms of points this season.

Milan has started to recover. Considering this, they are still one of the important championship candidates in the Italian league. In the Italian league, each team seems to be equal in strength. There is a battle of equal powers in the league this year. Napoli and Inter are the teams I think of for the championship, but each team still has a chance to become champion because the points are very close to each other.

To be fair, Napoli plays a huge defensive scheme with Conte, which was known before the season started, we knew that is how they are going to play. While it's true that last two games were bad, I am pretty sure that they are going to end up getting better results. This doesn't mean that I believe Napoli will win the league, of course they could lose, but that doesn't mean we are going to end up with something that would profit us, that is not going to happen.

We need to make sure that things aren't always that great, and because of that we need to make sure that we are dealing with a better result one way or another, and Napoli can't keep losing points every game. They did that already, and they aren't suddenly a terrible team neither, so that means they will keep winning some games.

Also, they are followed by Atalanta and Fiorentina, which nobody expects to keep going like this, I bet that they are going to have some losses and bad games, they are on a winning streak and they are expected to lose. Atalanta would be a shocking result while also not be a shocking result, they won Europa last season, so they are expected to do well, not sure if they are expected to do well enough to win the league though.

Not only tempting, this match will be won by Napoli easily. Why is it easy, because as AS Roma has said this season is indeed in a slump, and this slump will continue until the end of this season, it was all seen when they fired coach Mourinho to replace De Rossi and in the end De Rossi was fired and replaced by Ivan Juric not long after he was also fired. The change of coach made by AS Roma at this time will certainly affect the mentality and psychology of its players and their self-confidence will also decrease. So of course with conditions like this, Napoli will take advantage of it, especially since Napoli is currently in its best form, even in their last match they managed to hold Inter to a draw which is their toughest competitor this season.

The most interesting thing about Napoli this season under Conte's guidance, is not only Napoli's overall performance that has changed and it is also about Napoli's mentality which is getting stronger. Conte can also maximize all the skills possessed by his players. We see that it is not only Lukaku whose performance has improved under Conte, even Napoli themselves, who last season had difficulty breaking into the top flight, are now at the top of the standings, at least for now and I think they will be consistent until the end of the season.

Juventus situation is indeed complex and is influenced by various factors especially after the big changes they made, although they have a strong squad with many new players of course so far their problem is adaptation and consistency and I think that is what really affects Juventus performance, In addition, the competition in Serie A is getting tighter making every match more challenging and they should be able to anticipate this if they still want to be challengers for the Scudetto this season.

With all the conditions and also the potential that exists, of course Juventus still have a great opportunity to be able to win the trophy this season, because after the draws obtained by Inter Milan and Napoli in other matches made them currently only two points behind the top standings, the difference of two points is not something that is difficult for them to pursue but even so at this time they must be able to appear consistent and hope their rivals teams slip.

Serie A has become quite competitive this season. The main reason for this is that almost every team's performance has been a bit unstable this season. Every team has lost points. So, Juventus, who are in sixth place in the table, are only 2 points behind Napoli, who are in the top position of the table. So, the change in the position of these 6 teams in the point table can happen at any time. Losing points in one match will change the position of the teams.

It is true that Juventus has the possibility of winning the title. However, I would say that Juventus' performance must definitely improve if they want to become champions. Juventus has drawn 6 matches out of 12 matches. If Juventus wants to continue their performance, the attacking players must perform better.

In general, Juventus is not far behind the other top teams and we can see this from the number of points owned by Juventus and from the number of points owned by Napoli as the current leader of the standings. Juventus is only two points behind the current leader of the standings and several positions in the top seven of the current standings will certainly tend to change after the matches in the following week. Because currently there are four teams that have scored the same number of points including the points owned by Inter Milan currently where the team is in the top four of the standings.

Even so far Lukaku has only created 4 goals from the 10 matches he has played, this shows that Lukaku is not very productive, so if it is concluded that Napoli cannot rely entirely on this striker in the front line, they should improve their front line to be more productive if they want to continue to compete competitively at the top of the standings, regarding the defense line. Napoli actually has a fairly strong defense, he has only conceded many goals against Atalanta, besides that he can maintain a fairly good defense, you can see for yourself that Napoli's total goals conceded are the least among the top 5 clubs.

What really interests me about this match is that Lukaku will be playing against the team he played for last season. And of course Lukaku will again prove that he is a truly quality player who deserves attention even though he is not as young as other players. But he is still at a pretty good age to maintain his performance on the field.

I will also predict a win for Napoli. Because currently AS Roma have even fired their new coach, Juric. So when a new coach is brought in, adjustments and adaptations will definitely occur again at the club. So it will not be easy for them to immediately find the best performance they have. Unless they really find a coach who can really bring drastic changes to AS Roma.

It's very obvious my choice is Napoli.

Napoli is gonna play at home, which is giving them very good advantages. Also, they're at their peak. This boosts their confidence. They're getting 1.80 from winning agaisnt AS Roma in a home game. It's a very tempting odds.

As for Roma, they have no coach now. They may sign a new one a few days before the Napoli game. I don't believe they will win the away game. They performed so badly against worse teams than Napoli. It's risky to bet on them.

All in all, Napoli seems to be the right choice for this game. i don't mind other other odds consider 1x2 Napoli is tempting enough.

No one knows for sure why Juventus have had a dip in performance even though if you look at the quality of the players they have they are not inferior to Inter Milan or Napoli. Juventus had a big problem in previous seasons where they got a point deduction and most recently their players were sanctioned for doping cases. The competition in Serie A is much more competitive this season where there are several clubs that have improved.

Napoli, Atalanta, Fiorentina and Inter Milan might be competing with each other with a very close points difference for the title. It depends on how they are able to maintain consistency in each game that will take place and a small mistake could see them drop down to the top three for the next match.

Yes, Lukaku is indeed a very sharp striker. Because as you said, when Lukaku played at Inter and Roma, he was able to make a very good contribution. The reason is, while playing at Inter, Lukaku was able to score 10 goals in the 25 matches he played. Then when Lukaku played at Roma, he was able to play well too. The reason is that from the 32 matches that Lukaku played with Roma, the result was that he was able to score 13 goals. So if you look at these records, Lukaku can be said to be quite a great player even though he is no longer young. Therefore, currently Napoli is quite lucky to be able to bring in Lukaku, because the current proof is that Lukaku is indeed able to make a very good contribution to Napoli. Even though currently Lukaku hasn't scored many goals for Napoli, Lukaku is still capable of being a very great player in Napoli's attack line. So if you see this, a team like Roma will clearly regret not making Lukaku's contract permanent.


Apart from that, in the coming week, Napoli will face Roma. I think this match will definitely be very exciting. My prediction for this match is that Napoli will definitely win the match. Apart from that, this match could be a very good proving ground for Lukaku.

I agree with you. Looking at the current position Juventus is not in the top 3 but every team in 2-5 has 25 points and Juventus has 24 points where Napoli is in first place with 26 points. This shows that anything can still happen. The ranking will change in every match. I think Juventus still has a chance to be champions. I think even all the teams in the top 7 currently still have a chance to be champions. This season Napoli has been impressive but Inter Milan and Juventus are still solid like last season. AC Milan is quite bad with 3 defeats but as you said, the season is still long. I think we have to wait until half of the season to see who has the biggest chance to get the scudetto.

That is correct and you could see that Juventus Turin saw some decline in their quality while other teams like Napoli and Inter Milan gained in strength. They literally closed the gap by a lot and now it makes Serie A one of the most competitive leagues as there are so many teams that are so close to each other in terms of quality. I think this season could become one of the most interesting Serie A seasons in a long time. Now there is also Lazio and some other teams that could well have a chance to compete for the title.

Well, last season, Bologna was really great enough and managed to enter the UCL. but this season, they are almost similar to what happened to AS Roma, fortunately in the last match, they won from Roma. so their position could securely rise to 8th position. it's just that the number of points of several clubs is exactly the same or the distance is not too far, so this will also be very competitive for Bologna and also Roma with other clubs to take over each other. But at least, Bologna's performance is not as bad as Roma, they have only lost once, it's just that the level of draw matches is very high, this is that's actually too bad for this club, so much times missed chances happened to this club matches.


Meanwhile, Roma, in 5 matches, only had 1 win and 4 losses. This is more than bad, they are too consistent of losing.
Finally AS Roma decided to fire Ivan Juric because of his failure to Roma so far. and They have chosen Claudio Ranieri as the head coach. The finalized is being talked about.
Source: Claudio Ranieri - AS Roma

Ranieri is not rumored to be in the top list for Roma new coach.
According on how fast rumors are going, it can be announced soon today or tommorow.

In the time Juventus got another ACL injuriy in the defence, not looking good for them.

Maybe they will go for ramos as free agent? lol

Yes, one of the few problems for Napoli this year is that the defense is bad. The defense makes more mistakes than necessary. Also, although Lukaku is a very good striker, he is a little less strong physically because he is older. Lukaku was an indispensable transfer for Napoli at the beginning of the year, but the expected performance from Lukaku did not come later in the year.

With the way things are going, Gasperini literally built a team from ground up to make them win the league if that happens. I am pretty sure that the yare going to end up with a lot more money with this way, and he knows how to get players that fits his system perfectly. It took him nearly a decade to make this work, but he got better and better and better. Management is aware of how great gasperini is and how lucky they are to keep him, actually the weirder part is how no other bigger team poached him yet.

For example United was looking for a manager, gasperini would have been perfect for them. In the end, Atalanta is looking like they have a chance to win this whole thing and I believe we are going to see this change long term. I bet that we are going to see greater returns, but that is not going to be easy, we need to make sure that we are dealing with a greater return whenever we can, and that's the most important part, profit and results come together.

Lukaku is indeed a player who really understands the game in Serie A. So he always adapts easily to any team in Serie A. we know Lukaku had 3 seasons with 3 different Serie A clubs. 2022-23 at Inter Milan, 2023-24 at AS Roma and now in 2024-25 at Napoli. And in all his previous clubs in Serie A we have really never been disappointed with Lukaku. And even at Napoli he was able to adapt quickly. Maybe because this team has a coach who really understands Lukaku because they have worked together before. And it could be said that Lukaku and Conte already understand each other. So the combination of the two brings good results.

But there is one interesting fact that I think is quite unique. Namely, Lukaku is always unable to contribute well enough when he plays with his own national team. Maybe this is just my opinion but from what I have noticed it is like that.

How can a well build attacker like Lukaku is unable to measure the top measures with the current situation at AS Roma? He parted ways with the club because his terms were not reached by the club's board and this have become one of the best decision made by the Belgium international, he had a move to join an elite side in Seria A. He grabbed such opportunity with boldness and he's now positioned to be one of the best players. Romelu Lukaku was recruited by Conte because he's promising attacker and capable of handling the top ranking board when it comes to high goal scorer. Antonio Conte did a great job by securing an essential spot for Napoli this season, we know they've been in some upside down momentum but in all, Napoli will thrive for promising season ahead.