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Listed here are 5 causes you may’t afford to overlook this weekend’s Serie A motion.
One other tough check for Napoli
Since their opening day catastrophe, league leaders Napoli have shortly put issues proper and picked up some spectacular outcomes towards Juventus, Milan (each away from dwelling) and Bologna.
However one other very powerful check of their credentials comes this weekend once they tackle Atalanta, who’re using a seven-game unbeaten run forward of this mouthwatering match-up in Campania.
A winner has usually been produced of late and within the final 18 video games these sides have performed towards one another, there was only one draw, a 2-2 thriller in Naples in 2019.
Napoli, who’re the one workforce with a 100% dwelling file this season, have gained 4 of the final 5 league showdowns with La Dea – though they did lose 3-0 at dwelling of their most up-to-date assembly in March.
Rafael Leão’s Milan crossroads
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Forward of Milan’s journey to Monza on Saturday night time, La Gazzetta dello Sport supplied an attention-grabbing replace into the state of affairs surrounding winger Rafael Leão – who it’s reported has now reached ‘battle or farewell’ time at San Siro.
Inconsistency has been a problem for the Portugal worldwide who appears to be a shadow of the person who gained Serie A’s MVP two years in the past primarily based on his present type.
Because of his troublesome relationship with Paulo Fonseca and his standing being downgraded (he is now not a sure starter), there are strategies that Saudi Arabia or Barcelona might make a transfer to supply him a recent begin.
However there may be plenty of time between now and January and there’s no doubt concerning the particular person potential he does possess – if he’s given the prospect to showcase it.
A fired-up Lautaro
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Amid the entire furore relating to Actual Madrid’s unimaginable Ballon d’Or snub and the tantrum which accompanied Vinícius Júnior failing to get his palms on the highest particular person honour, it straightforward to neglect about one other South American striker who was additionally neglected.
Inter captain Lautaro Martínez is having fun with a yr through which he gained Serie A and the Copa América – ending as prime scorer in each competitions however when the votes had been introduced in Paris on Monday, he discovered himself in seventh place total.
“Actually, I anticipated extra,” he admitted on Wednesday to DAZN. “Positive there may be room to enhance however these awards are unfair generally.”
He took his rapid frustrations out on Empoli, scoring his 134th purpose for the membership to surpass Stefano Nyers and turn into the membership’s highest scoring overseas participant ever and can purpose to proceed displaying why he was additionally deserving of larger Ballon d’Or recognition towards Venezia.
If he does discover the online this weekend will probably be lengthy overdue too – having failed to attain at dwelling in Serie A since February.
What has occurred to Juve’s defence?
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For the primary eight video games of the season, Juventus had been the very best defence wherever in Europe – and it wasn’t even shut.
Throughout that span, they conceded no objectives from open play and shipped only one in any respect, which got here for Cagliari through the penalty spot however during the last week, all of that defensive solidity and organisation has been worryingly missing.
The Bianconeri adopted up a chaotic 4-4 draw with champions Inter at San Siro with one other irritating defensive displaying in a 2-2 draw at dwelling to Parma because the absence of long-term absentee Bremer lastly appears to be hitting dwelling.
Nonetheless, it is not merely that straightforward. Within the first 10 video games of the marketing campaign in all competitions, they gave up 8.8 pictures per sport and simply 2.3 on course however over their final three (additionally together with Stuttgart within the Champions League), these numbers have rocketed to 17.7 and eight.1 respectively, whereas Danilo specifically has struggled individually.
Can they lock issues down once more in Udine?
Roma’s revival
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Admittedly one victory following a humiliating loss can’t be classed as a revival however when issues are going as badly as they’re for Roma proper now, they will take it.
Previous to the Giallorossi’s nervy and slim win over Torino at dwelling on Thursday night time, they had been booed onto the park by their very own supporters, who continued to voice their displeasure all through the warm-up.
A lone Paulo Dybala lifted the strain considerably however issues are removed from rosy within the Roma backyard and coach Ivan Jurić acknowledged afterwards that they ‘can’t be happy’ given how a lot they’ve underperformed to this point.
A visit to Hellas Verona, who beat league leaders Napoli 3-0 at dwelling on the opening weekend, guarantees to be removed from straightforward as they purpose to seek out some consistency however given the fan feeling, the squad might be solely to conscious that they need to discover a solution to depart with three factors.
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