Topic: Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A) - page 3270. (Read 865251 times)

Juventus really dominated the match against Genoa, Genoa players couldn't shoot at all. So Juventus deserved to win against Genoa,
if the Genoa goalkeeper didn't play well, Genoa would have conceded more than 2 goals. Genoa have to thank Sirigu for making 11 saves,
so far Shevchenko as the new coach of Genoa has not been able to give a single victory for Genoa. But it's still too early to judge that Shevchenko is
a bad coach, because so far Shevchenko has only coached Genoa in 4 games, we still need to see some games ahead. Especially when Genoa
faced a middle and lower team that should have won. The journey of the Serie A competition this season is still long, so there are still many rounds
to be played. This means that Genoa still has a chance to get out of the relegation zone. Juventus appearance is also increasingly consistent,
so there is still hope for Juventus to enter the top 4.

Napoli will face a big Italian team in the coming weeks I think Atalanta can move up the table from 1st or 2nd position depending on Inter Milan, but I'm pretty sure Atalanta's game is quite competitive and makes them more confident with their game. continued to win at the beginning of the season until now had to shake because it was against a big team and if Milan had the same fate as Napoli it would be shifted too, Inter might be quite easy to beat Roma but Milan will not necessarily match like Inter Milan.

Atalanta now have only 2 points less than Napoli. They have 34 points, Napoli 36, Inter Milan 37 and AC Milan 38 points. Top 4 are all in Scudetto competition that is very interesting. With this table, every ground can make big change on table especially in top 4. Top 4 now have good gap against a fifth position and below with 7 point difference between Atalanta and Juventus.

They played not too bad but result is bad and a worse thing is their star players now are not healthy. With their injuries, more difficulty is waiting in coming matches. Napoli have to reunite their team and it's time for their substitute players to show their ability to help themselves as well as their club. If they can do it, they will have better position and might join into a main squad. If they fail, Napoli will have very bad period without many star players.

Actually in this match I don't think Juventus VS Genoa but Juventus VS Sirigu
Juventus seemed to be facing a Genoa goalkeeper in this match because their players didn't move at all except the goalkeeper.
27 kicks (12 on goal) is in contrast to Genoa who have never released a single kick towards the Juventus goal.
I can't imagine if Sirigu played badly in this match

Yes, I also didn't expect Atalanta to win, to be honest I placed a 2-2 draw in the Superbru tournament and also, only bet with the total goal option. I'm not sure which one will win but really can't choose if I have to choose Atalanta to win. Atalanta played very well because by being able to make goals quickly and being able to lead the match again with the final score, it proved that Atalanta really deserved to continue to improve in the standings and deserved these results. Considering Napoli which has also been unable to maintain its performance, which has already got defeats and draws when playing at home and away.

Top 3 are still in race for Scudetto and they are staying very closely with each other.

Atalanta are still showing that they are one of most interesting clubs in Serie A in last 4 years. Very impressive to see small club like Atalanta can manage to maintain their position in top range. They even manage to get 2nd or 3rd position sometimes. I think Atalanta growth in last few years is very sustainable. They don't join race of expensive transfers but focus on scouting for young, good and cheap players.

All of them are not in a position of Juventus in last 10 years when they totally dominated Serie A. They are the beast in that period and it is very hard for other teams to beat them.

Even when Napoli has a long win streak in early of this season, I know they will lose it and fall into troubles sooner or later. With their resource, they can get troubles when their star players either lose best forms or get injured. For now, they are facing with a wave of injuries for their star players.

Inter Milan won Scudetto last season and their team have good experience to stay at top but AC Milan are different, they only join the Scudetto competition in last 2 seasons. Their players need more time to gain valuable experience to fight for title and stay at top under pressure from opponents.

No problem we have 22 games didn't play yet, everything change can happen. When I look at Cagliari's statistic, the team has never to win in the last 8 games, the last win versus Sampdoria, nothing too special even Joao Pedro creates a goal on the injury time to step a win. they have bad on defense, the Coach always changes defense formation for this to find the better but still didn't find it yet except is buying another defender.

Atalanta still continue to impress me a lot. Because they played one of their toughest matches vs Napoli away. And honestly, I was never expecting Atalanta to win this match. Even it was doubtful for me whether they would be able to draw with Napoli. Atalanta scored first but Napoli were able to turn the match around and make the score 2-1. After that, I thought like they would open the gap a little more and win. But Atalanta made a really huge comeback and won a very big 3-2 victory. The players must be really proud of themselves for winning maybe the toughest match of the league.

It is still too early to draw far-reaching conclusions from the past games, because most of the championship is still ahead. Let's not forget how last year Milan also led at a certain stage, but still in the end their sworn friends from Inter became champions. For now, we can just say that Milan looks better and more stable than the other contenders for the Scudetto, but exactly the same thing a few rounds ago could have been said about a completely different club and this club was Napoli It's just that Napoli had a bad week and after a missed victory over Sassuolo, a defeat from Atalanta, which scored a good move under the leadership of Gasperini, followed.

There is a really great competition among the teams at upper positions now. After Milan won and Napoli lost last week, Milan are finally the new leader now. And as Inter won also, Napoli have gone down to even the 3rd position and Inter have taken the 2nd. Atalanta also started getting very close to all of these teams as the point gap is not too big with even the leader. And there is a Juventus that are watching them from a little far behind. As we are nearly in the first half of the season, everything can change in the future and I hope to see this big competition continuing even on the last weekend of the league.

Cagliari  1 - 1 Torino

this was a game I gave up watching right from the start, but I must say that I'm not surprised by this result and I'm very happy that I didn't bet on this game. it seems that in this round I was just unlucky


I hope inter wins, I'll bet on inter

Cagliari drew 1-1 with Torino and missed the chance to get out of relegation zone. now Cagliari is 2 points away from 17th place Spezia and next match is away vs Inter where will very hard to get even 1 point.

Genoa is a team that is at the very bottom right now, 18th or something I think, and Juventus is trying to reach to top once again. In a week where Napoli lost points, everyone else got a win at the top so that they got a little bit closer. Juventus needs to keep playing like this so that they could actually have a chance to be at top three, which is the least that would be accepted. It wasn't really unexpected for Juventus to win, it was clear that they would get 3 points out of this.

If we are shocked about just the stats, 27 shots and just 2 goals, versus zero shots, I could potentially understand a shock at 0 shots, because they play for 90 minutes and you would statistically expect at least 1 shot, but the 27 shots on Juventus' part was not really shocking because most of them were horrible just purely "here take this" tests and nothing more.

Quite surprised the result of Roma vs Inter, the score of 0-3 was a considerable distance for Roma. In fact I think they will play a draw or Roma win. Maybe it was the injury factor that made Roma lose that game. Because if you look at the line up of matches there are some core players who do not play. That's what caused Roma to lose quality to Inter. As guests Inter even had many chances, they also had the ball. So that means mourinho has to find a way to make Roma have a good game between the core players and the upholstery.

None of the top 3 teamd are invisible. They can all still lose a couple of games before the season ends. Napoli is just starting to experience a bad run of form. They seemed untouchable in the first couple of games but now, it's their point to lose points too. This season is an interesting one because there are teams contesting for the title and Juventus doesn't seem to be one of such teams.

Juventus managed to win by 2-0 against Genoa but they still don't seem very credible to me. Because I watched the game and Juventus' attacking players were just terrible when it comes to finishing. They wasted incredible amount of goal chances. Alvaro Morata can be one of the worst strikers ever.    He is very incapable of finishing even very clear chances. He needs to get better but I don't think that he will start playing much better than this in the near future. By the way, I must admit that I was delighted with Cuadrado's incredible goal from a corner-kick.

Empoli 3 - 1 Udinese

At the end of the game, this turnaround was really unexpected and empoli scored 3 goals, with this surprising victory Empoli climbed the table, I was expecting them to win but I didn't imagine they would score many goals


this result was a big surprise.

Empoli saved themselves of been wiped at home after playing 48' of 0:1 defeat and bouncing back in the 49' and still keep the game position till 90' ending the match in a 3-1 victory. It was worth watching and also an entertaining game. Empoli deserved the win as the gave in so much effort to see the win home against udenese

This season all the teams in the top three which are AC Milan, Inter Milan, and Napoli have the same chances of winning this League title. Because they are only one point separated then each other and all of them have shown some real commitment and good football. At first, I had Napoli in my mind but they have given up their position in the league because of some losses. Right now I think both Inter Milan and AC Milan have better chances to win the league title but I am still counting on Napoli to make a good performance.

Genoa is in awkward position, 2 points in the last five games and their games aren't that easy in December, Juve match was the best example. Now Juve moved to the 5th place as expected with 7 points difference from Atalanta so they will have to wait several rounds before advancing again.

Empoli 3 - 1 Udinese
Empoli secured the 3 points.