Topic: Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A) - page 624. (Read 824248 times)

Torino didn't play badly in this match, it's just that as a team they had problems in terms of productivity, so that was Torino's main obstacle every time they scored a goal, while Lazio managed to break the deadlock in the second half by scoring two goals to get three points.
Lazio can catch Bologna which means they are also chasing Atlanta because both teams currently have the same points, namely 45 points, with a difference of 5 points it is quite difficult so what Lazio could possibly do is to overtake Roma because they only have a difference of one point.
The team that will be quite sad in the last few days is Torino because they might also experience defeat against Lazio when facing Roma, especially since Torino doesn't have good statistics when facing away games and they face Roma who play better when playing at home.
And Roma is currently motivated because four wins with a new coach and also successfully qualifying for the last 16 of the European league have opened up new hopes for Roma to continue to perform well and maybe start to get closer to Bologna.

Decisions like these making things more terrible for the defending champions which are currently at 9th spot and their Champions League dream is also going to end with their performance was not good in first leg match, and now they are going to Barcelona where most chance they will be face exit and Serie A is having good fight for the top six spots Napoli is surely struggling to keep themselves at the top half of the league table because their performance is going down day by day even former coach was not doing good but with just few matches remaining he deserves some more time in this difficult situation.

Now on Sunday they are going to face Cagliari which is currently in relegation zone and have just one win in last ten games, hopefully this will give Napoli win and some confidence for the remaining season as they will try to keep themselves in top ten.

However, Lazio still won at the end of the match because that was what the Lazio team expected even though one of their players had to get a red card and could not play in the next match. Currently, Lazio and Roma are actually trying to play as well as possible in order to get a better position because the top five positions in the standings are still quite possible for them to hope for this season. Although both of them must be able to always win and hope that Bologna can lose consecutively in the upcoming matches.

Bologna are really unstoppable lately. They played 3 tough matches in the league on the last 5 weeks which were against Lazio, Fiorentina and Milan. They collected 7 points from those ones too. This great series is helping them keep up with Atalanta for top 4 chance. Today I think Bologna would maintain their winning streak. Verona are technically easier to beat for them now. 

I wonder what Roma will do against this solid Atalanta - Bologna duo. It looks really challenging for them when it comes to joining the Champions League this year. They haven't played their second matches against Bologna and Atalanta yet so they had better get good results from those ones. 

Bologna has a great opportunity. They have been playing very well for weeks and have had a great winning streak. If they can win once again this week, they can surpass Atalanta. Atalanta will play against Milan this week, this will be one of the most exciting and critical matches this week. Milan is a very strong team, Atalanta is likely to lose points.
Bologna should definitely take advantage of this week's opportunity.

Verona is not playing bad in the last matches either, they have gained a lot of points in the last weeks considering their ranking and they will want to get out of the relegation zone. Therefore, a bet can be made that both teams will score

Lazio does these things, a truly strange team.
The position in the standings reflects this inconsistency, because in the end as a team they are also quite strong.
You should never underestimate her as an opponent since she can have that sprint that can hurt you and can cause you to lose points.

I love watching games that comes with suspense actions. Torino surpasses Lazio with everything on the stats, ball possession, shots, passes and corners kicks. But they just got unlucky when playing against Lazio that humbled them. None of the host fans believe they could lose against the visitors when everyone thought the worst to happen will be draw tie. How does it feel for the hosts to lose at home and gaining no dominance ground to net just a goal. This is really a terrible result on the end of Torino but they will strive better in next game. Lazio dealt with Torino with 2 nil victory.

To be honest in the Lazio vs torino game, Torino was much better in terms of opportunity creation and ball dominance, but unfortunately they could not maximize the opportunities available to create goals in the first and second half, on the other hand Lazio even with a few opportunities he managed to get a good mimentum and produce goals to mark their victory and break the bad trend, but it is also quite unfortunate that M.Gila had to be red carded, while Torino's defense received a lot of yellow cards, which was a sign that their emotions were unstable and became a weakness in Torino's defense that made them lose.

It was a tough match in the first half, because the two team where using the same tactics to play each other that made the two teams to find it difficult to score goals in the 45 minutes, but it was a surprised moved in the second half when Lazio manager introduced another tactics to his players that gave his players the opportunity to scored two goals to defeated Torino 0-2 to achieved three points from the match. Torino strikers was lacking ball supply in the front and their midfield was very weak to make ball available for their strikers to score goals but that opportunity was not there through out the match. I think, Lazio will still move higher above that 7 position they are now in the Italian league competition table because they have more strength to continue displaying to get a good results before the end of this tournament.

Lazio always try to play well but they have never been lucky enough to win the championship. they may be in the Top 10 in the points table often but the trophy is not possible for them. Bologna is not a potential team.  Lazio's players are very aggressive so they commit a lot of fouls.  In yesterday's match, where Mario Gila was cautioned once with a yellow card, he again committed a major foul, which resulted in him being red carded and will not play in the next matches.

So true. The impact of Spalletti's resignation as Napoli coach has been felt since the start of the season. Last season Napoli were strong in Serie A but now their play is very bad and now tends to be slow, the tempo has dropped. Changing Napoli coaches several times also failed to improve Napoli's performance, in fact it got worse. It could be said that the recent change of coaches at Napoli was caused by panic among the club owners who wanted their performance to improve quickly and were too hasty in firing the coach. Now with coach Calzona hoping that Napoli will improve soon, the draw with Barcelona in the UCL league is a good start to recover in the next match against Cagliari in order to improve its ranking in the Serie A standings.

Before him the entire team has been bad and it was also the heads in the club that cost it.why bring a poor manager from the start. It was just like a relay race for Napoli, the very first person to lead the chase stumped along the line so it affected the entire general team performance.
Napoli position also not encouraging at all these days they are just playing most of their best players would be sold out of the club for good fortunes so they can get new and fresh players.
I will blame Rudi Garcia not Walter because the damage already been done.

Bologna vs Verona

Few weeks ago Bologna was suffering several loses which make their position was out from European zone but recently Bologna can able to bounce back and they gets 4 winning streak in Serie A and so far until week 25 Bologna has been gets 12 wins and 10 of them is came from home matches so this proven Bologna has been very strong during playing at their home ground and Bologna even has same points to Atalanta 45 points and their chances to playing at european competitions is very wide open and for their opponent Verona  so far during this season Verona has gets 13 loses and 9 of them were happened from away matches so these records is proven Verona really have serious problem during playing away

Verona currently still struggling to avoiding relegation zone but it could be very hard for them to survive in Serie A because Verona still unable to showing their consistency and for Bologna just like i said before they now has been turn out became an dark horses team who potentially can broke the domination of big teams for Champion League spots and today all of Bologna main players will be available to play because so far they are in the good fitness and regarding the outcomes of this match i am very confident Bologna can beat Verona today and collect 3 points from this match but about betting options the bookmakers only give low odds for Bologna @1.55

Yep, that's right, it's natural that Juventus can beat Lazio in the Coppa Italia later. Because if you look at the quality of the players, Juventus is indeed superior to Lazio. Apart from that, Lazio will certainly not focus too much on the Coppa Italia, because unlike Juventus, Lazio is currently competing in the Champions League. So by dividing the focus of the Lazio players, the potential for Juventus to win the match in the Coppa Italia will be even greater.
So in the Coppa Italia I am very confident that Juventus will definitely be able to advance to the final round.
But even so, if you look at Lazio's journey in the Champions League, the results are also quite good. The reason is that in the last 16 of the Champions League when they faced Bayern Munich, Lazio managed to win the match in the first leg. So Lazio's performance in the Champions League could be said to be quite good. Because the opponent he faced in the last 16 of the Champions League was a very strong team from the Bundesliga (2nd place in the standings)

For this reason, Juventus must also remain vigilant and not relax the performance of its players. Because as far as I know, the Coppa Italia is Juventus' only hope of winning a trophy this season. So basically the Juventus players must be able to take advantage of the free time they currently have to be able to perform satisfactorily in the Coppa Italia later.

Lazio struggled to beat Torino in a boring match but they achieved three points from Torino with a home-away match. Torino failed to score even one goal at home and accepted a 4 points difference than Lazio. Before this match, two clubs have nearly same total points but the gap becomes bigger after the final whistle.

Lazio surely are happy with this result but their target will not only a six position but will be a higher one. It will be a fourth position that is eligible to participate in Champions League which means more money for their club.

This win helps Lazio to have only one point less than AS Roma and they are both racing with two above clubs Atalanta and Bologna in order to take a last position in top four. They also can aim at a fifth position with hope that Italian clubs will have good results in three UEFA leagues (Champions League, Europa League and Conference League) in this season, to help the league receives 5 spots for Champions League 2024 - 2025.

Lazio played very well against Victory but one of their players played with too much excitement and in addition to getting a yellow card he also got a red card even though he won the match it had a negative effect on their reputation. Mario Gila played a lot of fouls today.  But one positive for Lazio is that they are almost level with Roma on points. there is only 1 point gap between them. Accordingly, Lazio's position can be said to be very good. they are playing well but even if they can overtake Roma on points, they don't seem capable of overtaking Bologna.

Lazio managed to break their bad trend in Serie A because in the previous match they lost and in today's match they managed to steal 3 points at home to Torino. Lazio's game was not very good in today's match but that is not a benchmark because they managed to get 3 points. It is natural to see them defend more in today's match because they need to concentrate to make it difficult for their opponents when they counterattack. I think this victory is quite important for Lazio because for now the teams from the top 3 to 7th place have a point difference that is not too far, so Lazio opens up their hopes of getting into the big top in the upcoming matches.

Unfortunately for Torino in today's match because they were able to shoot a lot of shots but couldn't score a goal in this match. They need to improve the quality of their front lines, especially their attackers, to be able to take advantage of existing opportunities to score goals. Torino's chances were quite big in this match because in the 79th minute Lazio had to play with 10 players after Gila received a red card. But Torino couldn't improve their game for the better when they were superior in numbers player.

Napoli seems to have been very hasty in making a decision to change their coach since Spaletti left Napoli. Yes, they seem to have lost their direction and lack confidence in the abilities of the coach they choose. The problem is why did they take a coach who has no experience in a league like this, even if they change coaches several times, the results will probably still be the same. Let this season end with results like this, it even looks like they will fail even if they only get to the Europe League. Especially next season, there are already several clubs who want to bring in their players, making it possible for Napoli to become even worse if they don't do something even more extraordinary.

Napoli really had to do that because coach Walter Mazzarri's performance was not good and did not give Napoli a win. The desired coach should have experience in the world of football and understand the strategies that must be given to help the players on the field get a win, which is definitely a relationship between The players and coaches must be well looked after; that is one of the keys to victory for football coaches.

just a notice.

next week we will also have the skipped games for the italian supercup.

Wednesday 28th February
Sassuolo 17:00 Napoli
Inter Milan 19:45 Atalanta


Source: https://www.skysports.com/serie-a-fixtures