Agree William, re lots of factors playing into it. But it's going to be very difficult this year. The issue with Serie A is that the bottom half are walkovers while the top half is very competitive. So you have to be inch perfect against the smaller sides while being able to win 60% of the big match ups imo.
And imo this squad is 2 quality players away from being able to compete with Inter, but sadly we're not going to make these moves happen
Top 4 is going to be a big fight imo
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Watched the whole match, Juve were appalling. Such a disorganised side, no ideas whatsoever. And now that they've lost Ronaldo who secured them 30 goals per season they're really going to struggle big time unless Allegri works some magic which I highly doubt.
Lazio have been impressive thus far. 9 goals in the first two games, saw the highlights vs Spezia and their combinations were fantastic. Maybe they'll turn out the big surprise this year with Sarri.
Atalanta have been completely underwhelming. 0-0 at home vs Bologna and last week they only won at the 93rd minute.
I agree re the Roman clubs. Lazio will be ups and downs imo. They don't have it in them to go the entire stretch as they have a pretty thin squad. If we had any sort of budget, this would have been the year to push for Milenkovic-Savic. He'd be a perfect Hakan replacement imo. But sadly we're acting like a mid-table club on the transfer market and would neven even attempt to go for a big player, which is disheartening.
Roma with Mourinho we'll have to see how they fair. But they will be better than they were last season for sure.
I think we'll start to see Atalanta slowly fade away. Gasperini has squeezed all he can out of that squad and with losing players each window, the house of cards won't hold up for much longer.
Allegri playing Danilo as a regista and McKennie as an AM with no recognisable CF in the squad is laughable, and reminded me of when he used to play Urby as an AM (PTSD episode incoming). He could really be exposed for the fraud he is this season