Topic: Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A) - page 816. (Read 850638 times)

I know that, this is still one match played in the Calzona era. However, I think the draw that Napoli got in the UCL match was a good result because Napoli previously even lost to mid-table Serie A teams like Torino, Frosinone and others. We'll see in the next Serie A match. Of course, Calzona will not be able to change instantly like a magic powers. However, if the strategy is matches with Napoli player, we will see an increase in performance showed by Napoli.

Roma was able to perform very well with De Rossi. They managed to improve their ranking in the standings. After losing to Inter they won again against Frosinone with a score of 3-0. It was a good win. But Atalanta is also playing very well and they have won the last 5 matches in the league. Bologna is also in good form despite drawing several matches. I think this will be a challenge for De Rossi and Roma. Even so, I still choose Atalanta who will go to the Champions League next season.

The club gave Rudi Garcia more time than Walter Mazzarri, meanwhile, in my judgment, the latter is far better. Garcia brought the corporation and psychology of the players to the minimum level. But Walter is more friendly with the players and is trying to rebuild the team. Maybe Aurelio De Laurentiis knows what we don't and feels that Francesco Calzona will do better.

But it looks like Calzona is trying to take the authoritarian  dances of Rudi. I read when he was insisting that every player would win his shirt that he would not look at names when selecting players for games. This might be a swipe on key players like Victor Osimhen and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia who might not be enjoying good performance recently but they are players that you can't keep on the bench. Some important players cannot be kept on the bench even if they are not doing well. These players are given enough time to improve. I think he should be friendly and give the players the privilege of stepping up their game because need the support of the players to succeed.

I watched the last game of Bologna against Lazio away, I will say that I did not expect that the guests would dominate the match, Bologna showed a very meaningful game. Verona is trying to survive and stay in Serie A, such opponents are always dangerous at the end of the season, but Bologna is definitely stronger now and their motivation for the top 4 is very strong. In addition, the last time Bologna lost at home was back in August last year in a match with Milan.
And you correctly noted that Atalanta will play away against Milan in this round, and will most likely lose points, so this is a great chance for Bologna to move up. Also, they should not let Roma closer to them, under the leadership of De Rossi, they have received new impetus and are playing positively.

In fact, if we look at the statistics, Torino has better statistics and they have a greater goal expectation than Lazio. But indeed anything is possible when a team doesn't give up and Lazio proved that even though they didn't have much of an advantage because they played with 10 people, they actually took the lead with the 2 goals they scored first. So Lazio just had to defend with their existing lead and they did their job well.

The competition with Roma will be the next headline because a narrow difference of 1 point makes almost no difference and one failure will change the standings between these two clubs. I think now Lazio just has to be able to make a difference with the quality they have and we know they could finish in 4th place in the standings last season. The season will be increasingly unpredictable and both Roma, Lazio, Bologna and Atalanta will be fighting for a crucial place in the champions league.

I don't want to say it's impossible, but the performance shown by Napoli at the moment is quite bad. Facing Cagliari might not be difficult for Napoli, but they will have difficulty facing mid-table or even stronger teams.
Napoli this season is not like last season, I wouldn't expect much from Napoli this season, in fact, next season might be even worse for them. I've lost several bets on Napoli.

The match against Cagliari should be an easy match for Napoli, because so far Cagliari is the second team after Salernitana that has conceded the most goals, even though Napoli have also been in inconsistent performance in their last few matches, but of course Napoli is still very strong compared to Cagliari, In my opinion, the top 10 is not a position that a team like Napoli should maintain, because however Napoli can still be better and in fact I think they should be able to have higher motivation to qualify for European competitions, at least the conference league next season, if Napoli only focus on maintaining the top 10, it will be difficult for them to become an attraction for star players next season because they are absent from European competitions, because so far we all know that apart from having to have a large spending budget, of course clubs that play in European competitions are one of the strong attractions for star players to play at the club.

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