Topic: Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A) - page 568. (Read 848839 times)

The initial good start for DeRossi was provided by the calendar - three games in a row with teams from the very bottom of the standings. Then Roma really became better, at least more interesting - they scored a lot and conceded a lot. But the irony is that those who praised Mourinho's sacking suddenly realize that Roma are finishing the season worse than under him 

Udinese have scored in home games against all the top clubs this season... It would be easier to say in which home matches Udinese have not scored... Napoli are playing very poorly this season compared to last season, when they like Inter became champions early... To be honest I am surprised that Napoli are now in the Conference League zone, but I doubt they can qualify for the Europa League...

De Rossi as a new manager tried his best for the tea, he recovered from What Mourinho stops and make the team a bit more competitive than it used to be during Mourinho’s time; I think he deserves another chance to sign some players that he thinks might lead the team to success next season.

Losing to Bologna and a draw at Napoli is the main reason they are now at the sixth position, but it is understandable that these teams are not an average teams, they are teams that are very good.
Roma still have chance to make it to top four if Bologna didn’t perform well in their next matches, but if they all perform well, they might end up playing in the Europa League next season.

Juventus got a draw against Roma yesterday so that their chances of getting a ticket to the Champions League next season are again delayed and maybe even the opportunity can disappear if the team below them can perform optimally in the rest of the matches later, for now Allegri position seems to be still safe at Juventus because so far Juventus management has not given a statement implying the sacking of Allegri next season,  Despite all that, it is appropriate for Juventus to sack Allegri after all of Juventus poor performance in recent seasons, yes any are currently several names of coaches who are rumored to be Allegri successor at Juventus although in fact it is only limited to speculation from the media.


Thiago Motta is the first name rumored to be Juventus coach, but I think for now it seems very unlikely because Motta has previously stated to the media that he is currently comfortable with Bologna, besides Motta of course there are several other names linked with Juventus at the moment, as for Conte, isn't he just one step away from coaching Napoli next season?
But as you say, it seems that Allegri  future at Juventus is still a puzzle that is difficult to guess and better for us to see at the end of the season.

It is very likely that De Rossi will indeed get a contract extension from Roma management, his performance since taking over the club from Mourinho hands is quite impressive, even though it is not enough to get them into the top four of the standings. Roma opportunity to finish in the Champions League zone is certainly still open, provided they have to be consistent in the remaining three matches, of coursewith Bologna and Atalanta slipping. Especially for Atalanta, De Rossi and his squad will have to do it themselves next week, after they finish the second leg match versus Leverkusen. I think Roma chances in the Europa League are already very low, and they can maximize their full potential in three Serie A matches to achieve the target.

On the other hand, Roma management has to prepare a certain amount of budget to build the club so that it can compete in the top four of the standings. De Rossi has even shown signs that he can make Roma a Scudetto challenging team if he has better squad depth. But if De Rossi doesn't get it, he will suffer the same fate as Mourinho. Competition in Serie A next season will certainly be more competitive, Inter, Milan, Juventus and even Napoli will try to build the depth of their squad again. But before that starts, let's see what will happen to Roma in the next three remaining matches.

I am aware of the rumors of the dismissal and Juventus wants Thiago Motta's services to handle Juventus for next season, but Thiago Motta is not the only one who is being targeted by Juventus management, here Juventus also has a second option if Thiago Motta refuses to handle Juventus and the candidate is Conte, but If Massimiliano Allegri is able to bring Juventus to win the Coppa Italia, it is likely that he will be given a new contract extension for one season. If he fails, his dismissal is certain to occur at the end of this season.

Yes, I agree, seeing that Napoli this season is not like last season when they managed to become Serie A champions, perhaps one of the reasons is the decline in performance this season due to the change of coach.
I see that the composition of players this season is mostly last season's squad that won the title with Luciano Spalletti,
I saw that the change of coach made Napoli's game change and not run like Luciano Spalletti handled it,
For next season, perhaps by adding new players according to the coach's wishes, Napoli can improve their playing performance and compete again for the Serie A league title competing with Inter, AC Milan and Juventus.
and eighth position in the standings may be the best achievement this season, it will be very difficult to catch Lazio, especially when they face Bologna who is in good form.

But, it seems De Rossi is also already to get a contract extension, maybe in the transfer window later De Rossi can really build a better team for next season. At least, AS Roma still needs De Rossi and thus, of course De Rossi will do his best for next season. Although indeed, AS Roma is also overtaken by Atalanta in the Serie A standings but anyway, in the next Serie A match AS Roma will also play against Atalanta. But indeed, it seems very unfortunate because AS Roma will play away and thus, it seems difficult for AS Roma to beat Atalanta. But perhaps, De Rossi will still manage to give the best results in the match against Atalanta later but perhaps, by no longer prioritizing the second leg match in the Europa League.

I think all Juventus supporters are happy with this because Allegri can no longer be relied on because his failure to win the Italian league title alone is enough to see that he hasn't really made a good contribution lately, Juventus has to find a new coach and several players to be able to become a team. which will be better next season, because if Juventus finishes in the top four they will definitely play in the UCL and the challenges will be even tougher, I think there must be changes both from the coach and some of their players.

I also hope they have some forward players who are hungry for goals because so far Juventus have never won with a landslide score, it can be seen because the striker or players in the front line are not very productive in scoring goals, I think they have to find a striker or player in the front line who is really productive in scoring goals, because if they have that they will be even better next season, I am sure the changes made to the main squad and Juventus coach will have a good impact on them next season and I agree that Allegri was fired by Juventus.

Yes, Napoli, who were champions last season, are now a team that is having difficulty competing in the top 8 of Serie A. I personally don't really understand what makes Napoli what it is today. Because if you look at the performance of the players, it can be said to be quite good, because in every match Napoli always have lots of opportunities to score goals, and can always control the course of the match. But the problem is, Napoli often cannot win their matches. Like in the match against Udinese, Napoli could have won the match. The reason is that in the second half Osimhen was able to score 2 goals, but the referee had to disallow the second goal because Osimhen was in an offside position. Then after that I still assumed Napoli would still win, because at that time it looked very difficult for Udinese to equalize. The reason is, almost throughout the second half the Napoli players controlled a lot of the ball. However, in crucial minutes, Udinese players managed to break through Napoli's goal, and in the end the match only ended in a draw.

And this match which ended in a draw adds to Napoli's bad record this season. The reason is that in previous matches, Napoli were often only able to draw, even having to lose to weak teams. Apart from that, what I noticed from Napoli's game. It seems that the mentality of the players is a little bad. The reason is that in the last few matches, the reason Napoli always brings home a draw is because they always concede in the final minutes. In my opinion, this could happen because Napoli players often panic in the final minutes of the match, causing the team's performance to decline.

And my speculation is that Napoli will not be able to overtake Lazio this season. Moreover, next week Napoli will face Bologna so it is a little less convincing if Napoli can take home the full 3 points. The reason is that currently Bologna's performance can be said to be quite good in Serie A.

I am really sad to see that this De Rossi period of Roma and their improvement took so little and they suddenly started to be not that great again. I mean they played so well when he first came in, went up in positions, and now looking at it they are back to sixth place.

A team that could have been fourth and do so well, ended up being sixth because of the last few weeks and that is not really that great for them, I hope that they get better and they do not end up with losing much more points. Very few games left, I do not know how they could recover from this and I am fearing that we are going to end up with something that will take some time. I get that we are going to see them be better when De Rossi gets the transfers he wants, but not sure if they will be top four next season either.

I think Juventus will be in a good position or qualify for the Champions League, with three games left I think Juventus will win all three, in general Juventus is a pretty strong team and has a high mentality, so for Juventus fans I think Juventus will be in comfort zone or can compete in the Champions League for next season.

We have to be realistic in looking at this. Juventus is not a team that is easy to beat in the Italian Serie A. Juventus is one of the teams that often qualifies for the Champions League, so in my opinion, for the Champions League, Juventus will be a part of it for next season.

Yup, Atalanta managed to win the match with 2 goals in the 2nd half. Yesterday I only watched until the 35th minute, after which I fell asleep. With this victory, the opportunity for 4 teams to compete for (at least) 5th position will be even more interesting. However, if Bologna qualify for the UCL, this will be new history for them. Although it is likely that they will only survive in the group phase, but bologna to UCL this is an achievement that Serie A fans never expected before.

Another news, Thiago Motta is reportedly being targeted by Juventus. So, if Juventus loses in that match, it looks like the rumors that Juve wants to fire Allegri and replace him with Motta at the end of the season will come true.

I did say in this thread that Atalanta will be able to make a comeback in this match in the second half. And that is exactly what happened.
I just did not think that they were going to lose against a team that was in the relegation zone. At the same time, Atalanta was actually fighting for the fifth position of the table. Now they have successfully removed Roma from the fifth position. Atalanta and Roma are on the same points. But Atalanta has played one match less and they are also ahead in terms of goal difference.

Now I think this is very bad news for Roma and it is very much possible that Atalanta will actually finish in the fifth position. The improvement that we saw from Roma right after the new coach came, that has been really hard to continue for them. And it looks like it is not going to be a very good motivating end of this season for Roma.

Atalanta won the match and currently take the 5th position from Roma but with the same points (60).
The pressure is now more on Roma because they will have to win all the 3 remaining matches while at the same time hoping the other 3 teams (Juve, Bologna and Atalanta) lose some points.
Any scenario is still possible between these 4 teams to decide which teams that will take the 3 remaining UCL spots.
Juventus vs Bologna, Atalanta vs Roma <-- I think these 2 matches will be the key for which teams to take the UCL spots.

In last three games, AS Roma difficult return to winning track actually after beating by Bayern Leverkusen in first leg of Europe League match, I think huge problem and get pressure for Daniele De Rossi had quit well performance at the early become Roma manager but loss opportunity reach top fourth position. Being draw against Juventus actually is not good result for Roma want reach top fourth position and make close points with Bologna,  current standings Roma have drop to 5th position place and Atalanta with one match remaining has chance to fight Champion League spot race with Bologna with four points remaining.

Atalanta will be huge pressure team for Bologna reaching top fourth position behind Roma, currently with four points remaining and Atalanta still has one match left get make three points against Fiorentina on postponed match just remaining 1 points left to reach Bologna position.

what you say is absolutely true, as a fan who loves his team, Juventus, I can only agree with you and imagine how much a fan can suffer from this uncertainty
in the end our goal is to go to the Champions League
if we miss this the season will have been a total failure, so lets hope we can reach this goal
i hope we can go in UCL

Being in the top four of the standings is indeed the final goal for the Atalanta team this season, so they have to really show their good performance in each remaining match and be able to get full points so that their position is not shifted by the Roma team which is in sixth place in the standings at the moment, so I think There is still a possibility for Atalanta because if you look at the match that the Bologna team will play, they will have to face a tough team in Week 36, namely the Napoli team.

Actually, Napoli have played quite well. But unfortunately Napoli was careless at the end of the match. Udinese was also quite good at blocking every attack made by Napoli. And Udinese did not lose their enthusiasm to equalize until the last minute. And as a result, Udinese dramatically managed to equalize the score in the match. But I think if Udinese could have been braver in building attacks from the start then maybe they could have even scored an earlier equaliser. But Udinese players are often caught offside. A draw may be quite disappointing for Napoli fans but for Udinese fans this is a match result that is not too bad. Because they finally managed to get 1 goal in the added minute of time thanks to their persistence.

In fact, if you pay attention to Bologna and AS Roma both failed to take advantage of opportunities, Bologna achieved a draw in the last four matches and failed to overtake Juventus even though this was a good opportunity for Bologna to overtake when Juventus was only able to achieve a draw in many matches, the same thing was also done. AS Roma in their last five matches suffered one defeat and two draws, they also failed to overtake Bologna to be in fourth place. To be honest, the competition between Juventus, Bologna, AS Roma and Atalanta is very interesting to watch because they still have the opportunity to improve their position depending on their performance in the remaining matches and I see Atalanta doing well by achieving consecutive wins and currently occupying the previous position occupied by AS Roma.

Atalanta this time was really impressive to compete in series A despite having a very important schedule in the final UEL and this is one proof that Atalanta is able to maintain his position not to be shifted by Roma, although De Rossi is currently trying to pursue the difference in points. It will be very in vain because Atalanta will continue to add points to the rest of this match.
Roma only needs a great striker in the next season because of this weakness I see from the attack line that does not have the ability to get a score in every match.