Topic: Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A) - page 500. (Read 825025 times)

Even though they didn't lose and still got 1 point from the draw, I think this is still a loss for Roma who should be able to steal 3 points from Lecce. Roma should be able to beat Lecce without any problems and it could be a close win if necessary. But it looks like Roma was not lucky enough because they were unable to score a single goal in this match.

They missed the opportunity to get closer to Bologna who have been consistent so far and I think Roma should not give up to ensure a place in the champions league at the end of the season. Now the difference is 5 points from Bologna and at least they have enough hope for Bologna to get bad results in the next match if they want to shift them from 4th position. But of course Roma also have to win again in the remaining matches and if they fail again like this then they will returning to the European league next season.

Team	Point
Inter	76
Milan	65
Juve	59
Bologna	54
Roma	51
Atalanta	50
Lazio	46
Napoli	45
Torino	44
Fiorentina	43
Monza	42
Genoa	35
Lecce	28
Udinese	27
Verona	26
Cagliari	26
Empoli	25
Frosinone	25
Sassuolo	23
Salernitana	14

my beloved Juventus is in crisis, lost with Lazio

Empoli is playing good football, but the gap between Inter Milan and Empoli is quite evident. Because of Empoli's good performance, Milan couldn't increase their goal's lead. Inter settled for just 2 goals, but they're still 14 points ahead. Inter has already secured the domestic championship trophy. They've truly made the league their own. It's just unfortunate that teams like Inter played flawlessly out of the Champions League this season.

I know that Bologna is in fourth place in the league table, and they are also leading AS Roma by five points. When I checked the 8 matches remaining for both Bologna and AS Roma, I found out that AS Roma has more tougher matches than Bologna in the league, which will be an advantage for Bologna to finally finish in the fourth place of the Serie A league this season.

Hahaha it is clear that Bologna is currently in 4th position in the Serie A standings and AS Roma is in 5th position with difference between the two of them reaching 5 points, this is clearly putting enough pressure on AS Roma because they need Bologna to lose 2 times to be able to surpass them.
In the Serie A competition this season, there are only 8 matches remaining and it could be said that AS Roma have missed quite lot of opportunities, with only 8 matches remaining, I not sure that AS Roma will be able to show superiority by winning the top 4 positions.
Just look at AS Roma, in the remaining matches they still have to play against Bologna and Juventus, which is clearly not an easy match for AS Roma, plus there are Lazio and also Atalanta who might be able to give AS Roma surprise.

Bologna actually has different conditions because the toughest match is against Juventus, from all this I can estimate that in the battle for points during the remaining matches Bologna will have the advantage.
AS Roma will not be able to surpass Bologna until this season competition is finished.

 There's no doubt about Inter winning the title this season and I can bet my money on this that there's no team that can overthrow them in the remaining eight games as it's impossible for the nerrazurri to lose the remaining. For the other contenders like Milan, Juventus and the rest, I'd say they focus more on qualifying for champions league next season because the point gap is too much.

Yesterday just showed how good Simeon Inaghi's men are and despite Empoli doing their best to get a point, they just couldn't match the standards of inter. To be honest, I thought they were going to lose the game since they had 11 points gap between them and Milan but to show that they aren't just good on paper, they thrashed the visitors 2-0.. One will call their performance a masterclass while others will feel they are just showing off but I think Inaghi is more invested in not taking chances and they may be on their way of setting a new record since Napoli finished last season with 90 points, with 16 points, Inter are opting for something higher.

Bologna has been amazing in Italy's Serie A this season, and they are serious contenders to finish in the top four of the Serie A League this season. I think Bologna will beat AS Roma to finish in fourth place in the league table because AS Roma has more difficult matches than Bologna this season. 

You are right that a draw is a bad result for AS Roma because AS Roma is targeting the UCL zone in the top four. If they continue to lose points due to draws or losses, AS Roma could lose this opportunity because now AS Roma is already five points behind Bologna, which was initially only three. The points are now increasing, AS Roma cannot lose any more points if they want to immediately occupy the UCL zone. If they can't be consistent, maybe Roma can only go to the UEL.

It seems that in this match there were also many people who lost their bets. Because I'm sure many are betting on Roma winning. because if Roma plays as well as before then I'm sure Roma can win. But a draw is still much better than losing points. And De Rossi must immediately evaluate their performance in this match. Because in the next match Roma have an opponent that will be very difficult for them to beat, namely Lazio. Lazio currently looks to be improving in Serie A after they were knocked out of the UCL. Even Juventus suffered defeat when facing Lazio. So Roma must be more alert and must be able to further improve their performance in the next match if they want to get full points.

You can assess Lecce's performance in attacking like they attacked well or Roma did not have good defense in the match. As I watched the match highlight, Roma players played carelessly and they gave Lecce too many space for dangerous counter attacks.

If Lecce actually played good, they would have scored at least one goal and beat Roma at their home stadium. By ending the match with a draw, no scored goal, Lecce actually have problems in their attacking power.

Chance for Roma will depend on performances of Bologna as with 5 points less than Bologna, if the competitor maintain stable performances in last matches, Roma will not have good chance to catch and surpass Bologna.

Roma even can not only think of Bologna as with one delayed match, Atalanta can take over the fifth position of Roma too. Because with only 2 points less than Roma, Atalanta will surpass Roma if they win that match.

I really underestimate Lecce's performance against Roma before the game started, the match didn't end as i expected because Lecce attacked more than I thought, from the beginning to the end of the game. 13th placed Lecce put pressure on Roma. Lecce has only won two of their previous ten games, and Roma is in good form, so I thought they will win the match despite of the challenges they face. Lecce had 27 shots in this match, while Roma had 10, three were on target.

Did you think Roma has a chance to break into the top four before the end of the season? I don't think so, because Bologna and Juventus will maintain their current positions until the end of the season. Juventus lost their last match against Lazio, putting them 7 points ahead of Roma, while Bologna remains 5 points ahead of them. Roma's chances of finishing in the top four will be difficult because they only got one point against Lecce, and I think Roma will continue to play in the Europa League next season.

So indirectly it can be said that Juventus' performance has decreased since being defeated by Inter Milan last February and until now Juventus' performance has actually decreased and has lost a lot of points which has caused its ranking to drop to 3rd place. Indeed when the club experiences defeat it affects the players' mentality and self-confidence are decreasing, but that doesn't mean that Juventus will continue to experience a decline like this. They have to get back up like they were at the start of the season so that they can stay in the top 3 or improve their position back to second place if Juventus returns to consistent performance, but this also has to be done. accompanied by Milan's declining performance.

Even though being in 4th place has also brought Juventus to win Champions League tickets, at least Juventus is in the ranks of the elite clubs Inter Milan and Milan, and Juventus should be able to do this if they remember their history in the league. Don't let Juventus continue to go down just because they keep losing points, if Later being overtaken by Bologna is a bad thing for Juventus as a top club, this can be done by Bologna if they see that the difference in points between the two is very close, even if Juventus loses one more game, Bologna can overtake Juventus in 3rd place.

You can say that De Rossi helped Roma to play more attacking and beautiful football but to say he helped Roma make great progress in top four race, it is not true.

Mourinho and Roma were 5 points less than top four before Mourinho was sacked and De Rossi came. Now, after a draw with Lecce, Roma are 5 points less than a fourth position again. It's the same gap like months ago with Mourinho.

Roma did not finish their chances well in a match with Lecce and it costs them 2 points. They could get 3 points if they would have successfully converted one of some opportunities to a winning goal.

Bologna are making very big surprise and 5 points are not big but not small difference if we look at very stunning form of Bologna. Roma still have chances but I believe that Bologna are able to defend their current difference against Roma.

The results of the Lecce and Roma matches are beyond our expectations at the moment, coming as the most favorite team in the match, but Roma actually had to lose 2 important points that made them now behind Bologna, I hopes  if there will be changes immediately in the second half after Roma were unable to score in first half, but unfortunately the change actually occurred when the game began to enter the final minute by inserting Dybala and El Shaarawy which was enough Late in my opinion, besides that replacing Baldanzi was a mistake from De Rossi, because it should have been Lukaku who did not play optimally throughout the match who had to be replaced by Dybala instead of Baldanzi who played quite well in the match.

I think De Rossi made the match against Lecce as an experiment in trying to find the right strategy, but unfortunately he failed to do it and made it more difficult for Roma to catch Bologna in 4 Serie A,  indeed the draw looks fair enough for both teams because their play quite impressively in the match, but still with that the draw shows that Roma have not really been able to rise to compete in the champions league zone this season.

The final result of the match between Inter Milan and Empoli was 2-0. Maybe the score should have been higher. However, in this match, Empoli also played quite well and were able to provide significant resistance to Inter Milan. So until the second half whistle sounded the score remained unchanged, namely 2-0. So, even though the goals scored by the Inter Milan players were not big, Inter Milan still managed to take home the full 3 points. And this is the main goal that Inter Milan wants. However, what is worrying is that Empoli is currently increasingly trapped at the bottom of the Serie A standings or more precisely in the relegation zone. The reason is, after being defeated by Inter Milan, Empoli is currently ranked 18th out of 20 in the Serie A standings with 25 points.

Actually, Empoli still has a chance to get out of the relegation zone. As long as in the next match, Empoli must be able to win. Then Frosinone, who was ranked 17th, lost their match. Maybe this will be a little difficult to happen. The reason is that in the upcoming match, Empoli will face Torino. Because if you look at Empoli and Torino's head to head record, the result is that Empoli has not been able to beat Torino in their last 5 meetings. So the possibility that Empoli can win over Torino is very small. Meanwhile, Frosinone, who is ranked 17th, will face Bologna and it is very likely that Frosinone will lose. So if this week Empoli wants to get out of the relegation zone, Empoli must be able to win against Torino or achieve a draw.

Apart from the draw against Lecce, at least Roma has made great progress after De Rossi became coach of this team because they have only lost once so far, but Roma did waste the opportunity to keep their chances of sticking with Bologna to reach a position in the top four.
Lecce played very well in this match, but they were not able to maximize every opportunity they had, because there were at least six shots on target that could not be converted into goals, likewise, Roma did not have more chances than Lecce even though De Rossi's squad had more controlled possession of the ball, but Lecce was better in attacking.
My prediction is that Roma will only compete in the European league next season because the remaining eight matches and half of them are tight matches for them, including facing Bologna, whose position they are currently targeting.

Roma display perfectly well from the home of Lecce, because Many people thought that Lecce will use home advantage to defeat Roma with many goals but they never allow such thing to happen from the match based on some kind players Roma coach used for the match to end up draw 0-0. Roma defenders really hold Lecce strikers very well, because they gain more opportunities in the Roma goalpost than Roma but Roma defenders never allow them to use all those opportunity positively through out the match. Roma has done well in this season to reach 5 position in the Italian league table, and there is a sign that Roma will definitely move to third position before the end of this tournament.

In my opinion, Lecce completely dominated the game, despite the statistics showing that Roma had more possession of the ball, even so, Lecce was the team that wasted the most opportunities. Lecce played very well. Since Lecce's new coach arrived at Lecce, there have been 2 games without Lecce having lost and with that in two games, Lecce obtained 4 points. and something very good for Lecce's new coach. As for Rome, well, when I saw that lineup



Nicola Zalewski = should have put the Stephan El Shaarawy from the beginning of the game

Edoardo Bove = Without Lorenzo Pellegrini, it seems to me that this position is left without giving much contribution to the team

Tommaso Baldanzi = should have put the Paulo Dybala from the beginning of the game

with these players that roma chose in their starting 11, it was predictable that roma would have a lot of difficulty winning in that game, i don't know why the roma coach rotated the team knowing that this was a game that they needed to win in order not to distance themselves from Bologna which is a strong team this season and also knowing that Atalanta is also in the race for position 4, when the Roma coach put in good players like Stephan El Shaarawy, Paulo Dybala it was already too late in my opinion, he put on Paulo Dybala in the 83rd minute of the game, he put on Stephan El Shaarawy in the 64th minute of the game, although in this case 64 minutes was still time for Stephan El Shaarawy to do something, the Roma coach had to have put on Stephan El Shaarawy together with Paulo Dybala at the start of the game. that way roma could have won this game

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cagliari 1 - 1 verona
Sassuolo 1 - 1 Udinese
Bologna 3 - 0 Salernitana
Inter 2 - 0 Empoli
Lecce 0 - 0 Roma



When I was placing Bologna in my parlay, the odds were 1.30, but after I clicked on bet, I saw that Bologna had scored a goal and the odds were 1.12, so my multi bet, which would have had an odds of 3.20, became at 2.80, I was irritated by this, I should have made this multi bet early to avoid this headache

Roma could not win the match and Lecce was the better team overall. They shot 27 shots against Rome and made 6 hits. In this case, it would not be wrong to say that Rome was lucky. Because Rome was lucky, they won 1 point in this match. If Lecce had been better offensively, they could have taken 3 points from Rome. Roma should not repeat the mistakes they made in this match in the coming weeks.

Inter is focused on the championship. It was risky when they were 1 goal ahead, but when they scored the second goal, they relaxed and won. Those who placed bets continued without making any mistakes. Milan and Lazio matches will be difficult for Inter in the upcoming matches. They can make their championship even better with the scores they get in these matches.