Topic: Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A) - page 625. (Read 824248 times)

I expected it to be a boring match. Even though some parts were boring, it wasn't bad when Lazio was playing actively. The first half was especially bad, there was no game like that at all. Lazio started the second half well and took advantage of their first chance, scoring the Guendoizi goal.

Shortly after, Lazio scored the second goal and made the match a little more comfortable for themselves. There was also a red card, but it did not change the situation much.

In my opinion, sacking Napoli's coach at the moment would hurt Napoli a lot. Napoli should not have made such a decision at the end of the season. It takes some time for a new coach to take control of the team. In the mean time, Napoli's title race this season could go from bad to worse. Even though Napoli are not in a good position in the serie A points table, I think Napoli can slowly go further down due to the sacking of the coach this time. Now it remains to be seen how far Napoli can go with the new coach.

Inter Milan is much stronger this season because their squad has really been well organized in every aspect. the fact is that inter milan defense has been very strong this season they had no problems when onana left and they got the right replacement. Apart from that, Inter Milan attack line is so strong because Thuram presence has made their front line even more aggressive this season. Inter Milan have only suffered one defeat this season and then they appeared impressive by picking up points in every match they played.

Several previous seasons, Inter Milan was hit by a financial crisis, making it very difficult for them to make many changes. But if they succeed this season in becoming champions, of course their finances will improve and they will be ready to maintain their strength and become stronger by recruiting quality players in the coming season.

The newly elected headcoach of the Parthenopeans, Francesco Calzona will try his best inother not to follow the footsteps of other sacked managers, he should be extremely careful because if he's not progressive in matches, eyes from the board and the desperate president will be on him full-time. Napoli have been sacking and appointing new coach this season and there's no improvement with the team's stats till this very present period. I think Napoli president, Aurelio De Laurentiis should focused more of his time on the players and leave the coaches out of the picture. He should also learn to exercise patience with these newly appointed coaches, because if he continues to sack, there will be nothing left for the club.

Even though it was a pretty good debut for a new coach who was under great pressure but on the other hand it still hasn't proven anything so far for Napoli because in the early matches a good start can be a good thing but on the other hand their performance is also decisive in this regard and in the Barcelona match against Napoli it seems that we are aware that Napoli's situation is still not going very well which could have been in several other matches when the great pressure owned by Calzona actually took Napoli in a worse direction.

Currently, Napoli has fired 2 coaches and this is actually a very bad thing because after all, we realize that the more often Napoli sacks its coach, the more often the players will face a new adaptation which will have an impact on the performance they always play.

Torino vs Lazio
     0    -      2
Victory for Lazio

Lazio was able to take the lead from Torino in the second half, after the first half, the game was quite boring. However, in the second half, Lazio was able to optimize their dominance to attack and score 2 goals. but the problem was that they got a red card in the 79th minute. So this is quite worrying. However, fortunately this was Torino, and Torino was apparently unable to optimize their chances against 10 players well enough. It was proven that until the match was over, Torino was not even able to score 1 goal. This victory for Lazio brought them closer to 6th place with a very competitive points gap with Roma.

Comparison with Juventus or AC Milan has drastically consistent performance from  Inter Milan in this season, keep performing well although Inter had focus in UEFA Champion League and got good result on first leg match of 16 round.
Difference with Juventus performance in this season, they can't consistent although not participant in Europe League or Champion League and left many points from Inter Milan on current standings.
Scudetto race this season seems over and Inter Milan will be the winner this season, Juventus and Milan just secure their position for qualifying to champion league next season exactly for Juventus have absent last several years.

For the next few weeks of course Juventus will be playing in their domestic league, but my major concern is the fact that they should do well so that they can come for European competitions like the champions League, the Europa and other European competitions next season, because they've had enough time of rest as they are currently focusing on the domestic league for now. And even on the domestic League, I'm expecting them to do extremely well week in week out, because they have enough time of rest because if they do well, they might end up giving a good fight on inter Milan on the tittle race since they are in second position with 54 points behind inter Milan with 63 points.

I thought the management of Napoli would have allowed Walter Mazzarri to continue with the club till the end of the season because changing a coach now might have some negative effect. Francesco Calzona might not be a bad replacement but he would need time to understand the players which will aid in getting good results. An example is what happened in Bayern Munich where Thomas Tuchel will be allowed to be in charge of the Bavarians until the end of the season. Napoli was not impressive in the round of sixteen game against Barcelona but they were lucky to grab a win. The club was outplayed throughout the match and they showed less sign of winning the game. They will have a battle to get a win in Barca. But before then the new coach will have to prove that he is the right replacement when they meet Cagliari, Sassuolo, Juventus, and Torino.

Yes, I admit that Inter Milan much more consistent than the other 3 clubs you mentioned, but I slightly disagree if you compare Juventus with Milan because Milan actually didn't make a very serious mistake, it's just that their consistency looked bad when they lost against Monza and if at that time Milan not only competing with 10 players, you can definitely win and the results of the final match will be much better than Juventus.
It indeed a little difficult for Milan and Juventus to catch up with the points that Inter Milan has, but at least the two clubs can try to maintain their position so as not to be shifted by a club that is weak.

Edit :
It seems that what you said correct if AC Milan still having difficulty at the moment even in terms of catching up with Juventus because after yesterday's match Juventus managed to get a big score beating Frosinone and managed to get 3 points while Milan was only able to get a draw against Atalanta so they only managed to get 1 point. just.
The difference in points currently slightly wide between Juventus and Milan and it seems that Milan position still not safe at the moment because there are Bologna and Atalanta who continue to struggle to catch the position currently held by Milan, while Bologna and Atalanta are currently really very consistent in hoping to get it best ranking and get champions league tickets.

Milan will play a pretty tough match against Atalanta. I think there is a chance that they will not get all three points from this match. And that is going to give Juventus a very good opportunity to make a bigger difference with them in terms of points. As we all know Juventus is only ahead by 2 points right now from Milan.
 
Yes, it is also true that Juventus has fallen off pretty badly. But there is a chance for them to get ahead by more points if Milan somehow manages to lose this one or even drop points. Because the next match of Juventus is going to be pretty easy .

Duke Khan

It is certain that Inter, Juventus Milan will play in the Champions League next season, regardless of how they rebuild their squad after the season ends. One more slot involving the three teams Atalanta, Bologna and Roma could be said to continue to be fierce, but in terms of momentum, Roma could possibly reach the top four in the near future. Of course it's not easy, but with De Rossi presence, Roma is now better than before.

Atalanta will face a number of tough matches in the next few matches, where they will face Milan, Inter and Bologna. Meanwhile, Bologna itself will face Verona, Atalanta and Inter. On the other hand, in the next three matches, Roma will face slightly easier opponents, namely Torino, Monza and Fiorentina.

If De Rossi succeeds in bringing his team consistently, then they will succeed in breaking into the top four of the standings and accompany Inter, Juventus and Milan next season in appearing in the Champions League. But Serie A still has 13 matches left this season, where their fate is still very difficult to predict, including the fate of several coaches who are rumored to be leaving at the end of the season.

The idea in most cases isn't that a new coach magically changes the system, the tactics and the players and then there is a brand new team that out of a sudden is a true winner. It is often about giving the whole team some new input and motivation. It's about changing an environment of exhaustion and maybe low opinion of each other.

The game against Barcelona had two faces. The first half I was shocked how bad Napoli played, how little they got into the game and they were almost never able to control the ball for longer than 10-15 seconds. But that drastically changed during the second half where in my opinion it could have ended in the 2-1 lead with them when they pressured Barcelona and also had all the corners, but were not able to convert any of them into goals.

With a bit more luck they could have been off to a great start with the new coach. But he didn't take over a team that was in great shape and there are limits to what a coach can improve within a short period of time.

While there were bad results, Napoli changed the coach in order not to get worse. Of course, it would have been better if he had not changed it, but we do not know the results of the matches that will be played. Maybe if the coach had not changed, worse results would have been achieved. That's why they wanted to evaluate this possibility, I congratulate them on this. Actually, I think they did the right thing.

The season hasn't been quite adventurous for Juventus as they've been indicted to not taking part in the Europa League. They've been focusing their strength on the domestic Serie A league and they've been doing excellently well in it. They've even got a greater chance of being far ahead in the standings than the likes of Inter Milan because for others, after the league games, they'd still have to play the continental tournament and this will definitely affect players' physical capabilities too. Although inasmuch as a weighty gap is expected of them, Inter Milan has made it difficult because they've also been in their best form.Asides the Copa Italia this season, there's no other outside contest Juventus will be a part of. They're aimed at securing the Serie A trophy. The battle will be intense too and so many game wins are expected from both teams. So I'd say that this season, Juventus two trophy chances are just slim and with extra effort, the odds are either they take both or take one or take none. Thankfully , they were able to win and advance to the next stage of the Copa Italia. We anticipate how their next fixture for the league would turn out.

 The team are using this season to put in more work to ensure a spot in next season's European cup tournament and they definitely would earn it. Their encounter in the passing weeks were very much intense and the results were well deserving but it only pushes them ahead to prepare better for other games which they can take to their advantage too. Juventus are good to go to some extent only if extra energy wants to be pumped into the squad to increase their efficiency too. Let's see how the final weeks would unfold till the season is wrapped up. But I don't think they'll be able to  close the gap between them and Inter cause Inter doesn't look like a team that would give up anytime soon.

Of the 3 teams mentioned, I see that only Inter Milan is consistent with their perfrmance, while AC Milan and Juventus are still not completely consistent and sometimes they make a lot of mistakes so that they cannot win a match. We can see Juventus in the last 4 matches, the results they got in these matches kept them away from Inter Milan and allowed Inter Milan to comfortably be at the top of the standings without any significant pressure.

AC Milan is also the same, they still often make mistakes so that they are stuck in 3rd place in the standings. This week, for example, they missed the opportunity to overtake Juventus who are in second place because they failed to win against a team that was weaker than them. Juventus and AC Milan are still showing things like this, making it difficult for them to be in a better place. Indeed, their ranking in the standings is quite good, at least they are in the top 4 of the standings to maintain their hopes of qualifying for the Champions League next season. But once again they had many opportunities but they couldn't take advantage of them well.

Do you guys think that the new coach of Roma is doing good enough?

Are you guys actually satisfied with the results?

I can say they have done well in the last 5 matches. They do have a loss. But other than that it was decent.
But don't you think it is still a little too early to say anything?
I think the performance might not be as good as expected after the motivational phase is over.
It is easy to perform well for a certain period of time with a new coach.

The question is are they going to be consistent? The next match is easy for them though. Torino and Monza should be easy.
The next real test should be against Fiorentina.

Three of the biggest (historically) teams in the Serie A will be back at the top again, and they are doing something great as well. Inter has been great so far this season and last year they were the UCL finalist, and Juventus has been going through some tough time and with the punishment last year and all, they had some issues.

Milan is the only one and I am assuming that they will change the manager and a few players and be better again as well. I think when you think about it, we are going to see these three do very well at UCL next season for sure. I do not care who will be the fourth, Atalanta could be the one, but I think it's quite obvious that we are going to see these top three teams do very well next season.

Francesco Calzona had a tough job and indeed he made a brilliant debut in the Champions League. Holding Barcelona to a draw in the first leg of the round of 16 was not easy for Francesco Calzona, of course because of the differences in quality and strategy between the two teams. Barcelona dominated attacks, while Napoli only focused on defending while taking advantage of Barcelona's mistakes.

Francesco Calzona certainly has the same plans as the previous Napoli coach, but the challenge he accepts is so great that he is likely to fail due to experience. I believe Francesco Calzona can have a positive impact on Napoli's game in Serie A, but in the Champions League it looks like Barcelona will be the team that advances to the quarter-finals.

The match against Monza was not favorable for AC Milan, they had to fail in extra time with 2 goals from Monza, this defeat was even though Milan had to play with 10 people.
AC Milan in Serie A only needs a Champion League ticket next season because to catch up with Inter Milan it is very unlikely then it is one of Milan's comfort zones now.

In the Europa League AC Milan already have a pretty good aggregate, losing 1 goal is no problem let alone two but I'm not sure until losing 3 goals even though some players are not in good condition, but at least they can maintain to qualify in this play off.

AC Milan odds @2.35 but I doubt Milan can win unless they choose another odds option.