Topic: Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A) - page 3431. (Read 867114 times)

I think that inter are the favorite too but it seems that they are not as strong as last year with their top scorer gone but this year there are lot of good contenders and to be a champion they need to consistency in their performance and not wasting oppurtunites like what weve seen in the first half of the last game.

Honestly Milan is still a very good team, the only problem is that they do not have the fully optimized strategy, which they lacked last year as well. It is like bunch of good players thrown in together and told to play, which is the main problem with the situation. I believe that we should not be shocked when they win like this because they have the talent to win games like this, when players speak their talent then we end up with these results.

However whenever they face an opponent that has a good strategy built in and been playing with it for a long time, they face a challenge, doesn't matter if that is a huge team in UCL or something, or it is a very bad team at the bottom of the table here, their biggest challenge is always facing a team with a deadly specific and used strategy, which cagliari didn't have at all, and hence the score difference.

Tomorrow the transfer window is closed juventus don't have much time so it's certain that juventus is going through the season with the existing squad
I think Juventus' performance will be worse than the previous season maybe even out of the fight for champions league tickets
AC milan and Inter or Lazio will take part in the title race without juventus of course.

After Ronaldo left Juventus going bad is this going to continue? Against Empoli alone, they lost 1-0 to him, maybe because this has little influence because every great player brings together other players.

I haven't even heard about this news whether at the end of this transfer window it will be finished or not because the decision may not be as fast as Ronaldo to Manchester United, so Juventus must still play as much as possible with the existing players, I think this is enough and Allegri just needs to adjust his strategy.

Are they not targeting the Serie A champions? I think they are still able to compete for the championship. Last season's problems should be a valuable lesson. They must be able to appear stable and not lose strength at the end of the season. Especially now that they are filled with senior players. They are not young anymore. Coach and rotation factors will certainly have a very high effect on players' physicality. Especially if they will play more one competition like Coppa Italia, Serie A and UCL.

Serie A, after two matches, are very interesting and the biggest surprise is from AS Roma and Jose Mourinho. They manage to win all matches and take 6 points. Their attacking system operates very well in their first matches in this season, in Serie A and UEFA Conference Cup.

AC Milan seems to keep up their growth in the last season and if they manage to do it, I think the Great AC Milan has finally return after one decade of chaotic fall. They might not win Scudetto this year and AS Roma as well, but they are good at building up their development plan, for next seasons.

Giroud is good at scoring if he is given opportunities from midfielders.

Yes it shouldn't be but there are some goals that are called luck free kick, penalty and another unexpected goal due to hitting another player
But after all the process is still a goal and adds to the score, overall Milan managed to control the match from all sides. Next we will see how they play against Lazio there we will see the real game against the leader of the standings.

I was quite surprised by the result of the match between AC Milan and Cagliari, my previous prediction, AC Milan might not be able to score more than 3 goals in this match. Milan turned out to be able to score 4 goals. Giroud is still showing that he is a striker who has not lost his goal-scoring instinct. Milan's consistency is important to maintain a chance for top 3 position this season.

I was happy when looking at his performance, Giroud was according to his expectations, I had a few doubts when he joined Milan but that game shows me he has still confidence as a strong forward that is equal with Milan's formation which gives him a real forward and another support from Diaz. About defense, they use 4 defenders which are effective when having support from a central midfielder also.

AC Milan finally won very convincingly against Cagliari without Ibrahimovic, it looks like Giroud has succeeded in replacing Ibrahimovic's role so far.
Even from the 4 goals scored by AC Milan, Giroud managed to score two goals. Hopefully the next match Giroud can contribute again. And what is
amazing is that AC Milan's defense is quite solid, even from two games conceded only one goal, this proves without Donnarumma AC Milan
proved successful in keeping the defense solid. Indeed, AC Milan so far have not met a strong team, so we still have to see how when AC Milan face
a strong team.

Juventus is definitely not doing the best they could do and that is why it is a big challenge for them this year. However at the end of the day it is still juventus and I think they could find a way to get better in the long run. It is just a whole season of games vs few games so far and I am sure that there is going to be something that is better in the long run, they will do a lot better and finally start to feel something.

I do not know what it will be like but I know that we are going to end up being a lot better. What we could however expect from them is a look for another player, they do not have Ronaldo anymore and I am sure they will get another player to replace him, will he be better or worse than Ronaldo? I do not know but there will be some new player for sure and that could change things.

Great beginning for Inter Milan but two matches are not enough to say they will be fine without Lukaku. 36 more matches till the end and I think Inter Milan have to work very hard to get a position in top 4. Roma are likely very strong with Mourinho and they will make the competition for top 4 very tough.

Roma and Mourinho have honey-moon time but Mourinho has problems to control his emotion and sometimes he triggers internal conflicts that are never good things for club. I wish that Mr Special will revive his career in Roma and bring the first Scudetto to Roma next year.

Lazio still rely too much on Immobile and they won't go far with this depedence. Immobile is not a striker for big matches and Euro 2020 is very good example for Lazio. He is good but not belong to best strikers.

Juventus will have a few tough weeks ahead to get rid of Ronaldo effects and go next but I think they will be back soon with Allegri.

AC Milan still need more time to prepare for a team without Ibra but they have to do so because Ibra will retire next 2 or 3 seasons. That last match of Cagliari shows that they are very strong mentally and don't give up too easily. So AC Milan will have to play this match very carefully and if they are careless, Cagliari will punish Milan mistakes.

In this season, it's interesting to see how AC Milan defense system will work without Gigi Donnarumma.

It is early to say which team will be favorite basing in the first round. Inter is doing great so far but its opponents weren't that fit. Lazio scoring big but I don't think they will keep performing that way for a long time. Milan is supposed to have a good season but didn't show until now so. All eyes on Roma under Mourinho management and for Juve 1 point from 6 is indeed a bad start but the team will count on itself without CR7 and might improve better under Allegri. We will have a better vision by the 6th round at least.

In the first match Milan managed to beat Sampdoria, although without being strengthened by Zlatan Ibrahimovic. So I believe Milan can win
the game against Cagliari even without Ibrahimovic. Cagliari is in terms of player quality is still below Milan, but that does not mean Milan
can underestimate Cagliari. If we look at Cagliari when they faced Spezia, they fell behind by 2 goals first, but surprisingly Cagliari scored
two goals and the game ended in a draw. Moreover, surprisingly Juventus were defeated by Empoli, meaning Milan cannot underestimate
weaker opponents.

Juventus is very actively looking for a replacement for Ronaldo, the main candidates: the 24-year-old Brazilian striker of Manchester City Gabriel Jesus, and two forwards of London Arsenal - Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Alexander Lacazette, and also returned from loan to PSG Italian striker “Everton” Moise Keene. If Juventus managed to get Jesus and Aubameyang, it would be a great deal for Juventus. Although Ronaldo is a great player, he is not getting younger every year.

We are starting today's games with these ones:

Genoa vs Napoli
Sassuolo vs Sampdoria

Napoli defeated Venezia 2-0 on the first week. And Genoa are another easy opponent for them. Even if it is an away game, Napoli shouldn't have much problem on demolishing their opponent. When it comes to Sassuolo, they are the favorite team of this game. They started with the 3-2 Verona victory. And there is no hindrance for them to defeat Sampdoria here also.

Yesterday I think we all witnessed the worst Juventus ever seen on the pitch!
Juventus with only one point after two games it's something we could've never expected and I'm glad I didn't place any bet on that game.
Juventus supporters booed the team loudly at the end of the first half and at the end of the match for a performance not considered up to the mark. If against Udinese were two mistakes of the goalkeeper Szczesny to weigh on the final result, against Empoli was the whole team to not convince, with Allegri quite irritated and nervous on the bench. Allegri's not helping Juve right now while the top rivals of the Bianconeri keep on winning.

Milan are going to have a home game against Cagliari tonight. Zlatan Ibrahimovic was injured for a long time but he bounced back today as it seems. However, it is not certain whether he would be fit enough to play in this game. This is still an easy game for Milan with or without him. I think that they will win this game by 2 goals at least.

Losing at home is really embarrassing especially against Empoli totally unexpected chaos is happening to Juventus
I don't know what's going on there but I hope this doesn't last long so that Inter can find a worthy competitor

Just catching up with what happened yesterday and I see we have a surprise result, Juventus lost their home match to Empoli by one goal to nil. Could this be because of the Ronaldo effect? Hard to say but looking at the stats of what transpired you can see that Juventus threw everything they had at the game,they had over 20 shots at goal and enjoyed more ball possession, but unfortunately the day was never going to be theirs...Hope they move on and find their feet to win games.