Serie A Superthread

I'm working til 5:30 so i'de love the later game myself. I was worried they would go for even earlier.

Roma have confirmed their Europa League place after a comfortable win at Torino tonight. Good game from Tammy Abraham.

Hope they win the Conference League on Wednesday.

A bit of light reading about an obscure piece of Italian football history and the early days of one of it's greats

Here we go

Thank God for that

Leao Mio 😘

Calabria then Leao steal the ball form defenders and then Leao produces a carbon copy shoulder drop and pass to Giroud

2-0

Milan 3-0 up at halftime.

What could possibly go wrong.

Its on BT but I don't know which channel as I'm doing it through Now.

Commentary just mentioned the Radu mistake vs Bologna and I realized it's funny the huge impact of both teams Romanian sub keepers.

Radu's mistake and Tatarusanu's penalty save and man of the match derby performance that was a huge point in Milan's season

Michael Stipe putting on a show for the fans on the Mapei sideline

Congratulations to Milan.

Pleased for Leao, Maignan, Ibra, Tomori and Giroud in particular.

Still have the final relegation spot to be decided in an hour.

Hard to pick a player of the year.

Mike was magic.

Kalulu and especially young Tomori stepped up big time especially when experienced players were dropping like flies. Theo is an artist.

Keisse was great and will be missed but Tonali has become the true beating heart of the team. The most all or nothing die for the cause man since Gattuso.

And Leao what a turn round. From flop to talk of top teams in Europe wanting him.

And who couldn't be happy for Earl Simon.

As always the Maldini family are never far from the centre of the story. Daniel has a Serie A medal like his father and grandfather before him. But Paulo's contribution cant be understated. It took a long time to convince him back to the fold but he has been immense behind the scenes.

Party starting in Milan

Dio di Milano

Full-time and Cagliari are down. Salernitana won't be able to believe their luck having been thrashed by Udinese. Cagliari can't have any complaints as all they had to do was beat the worst team in the league and they couldn't manage it.

Really disappointing for Inter and it was desire that decided the championship more than ability. Well done Milan. Any year Juventus don't win a trophy is a good year. But Inter really were well positioned and let it slip.

I see Berlusconi and Galliani are back in the top flight with his new venture Monza.

Whatever about having him around again at least it's nice to see a club making their first trip of Serie A

Serie A returns on Saturday evening.

Looks a very open field in the title race with Juve seemingly getting their act together. PP latest odds:

Inter - 17/10

Juve - 9/5

Milan - 7/2

Roma - 15/2

Napoli - 22/1

Atalanta - 33/1

Lazio - 80/1

Others - 100/1 or more.

I think Juve will win it this season. I can see Di Maria and Pogba doing well, and Kostic looks a smart bit of business. I'm sure Vlahovic will do better this time for them with the service they'll provide.

Who do you see winning?

Yeah it's a difficult one to call this season, if I was putting money down I'd probably go with Roma as an outside bet. I think it could be Milan and Roma as the top 2 with Inter and Juve 3rd and 4th.

Inter have made a couple of decent signings but I think a CB is needed to cover, the defence has been poor in preseason and I wouldn't be confident with Dimarco and D'Ambrisio and Darmian as CB cover. I also think Inzaghi will persist with Handa in goal even though he's not good enough anymore, I would have preferred if he'd just have been let go and Radu was allowed to compete with Onana this season.

Juve have brought in a few players but I don't think they're that much stronger than last year, I do think Bremer is better than de Ligt but they lack cover at CB too. I'm not convinced by Pogba or Di Maria, Pogba has been terrible and had an awful attitude the last few years and Di Maria is past his best and coming from league where there was no competition.

Milan haven't really changed a lot but I didn't think they'd win it last year and this year they have the advantage of experience, which could be a benefit for them. They also have a few players who have improved over the last year so I think they should be competing for the scudetto this year too.

Roma have brought in a few good players who will improve their squad and bring them up a level, Dybala, Matic and Wijnaldum all have great experience and have all won trophies. I also think Mourinho has them playing well and with others maybe not performing to their best I think they could end up competing for the scudetto.

Of course, all of this could change with the transfer window still open though. Should be a competitive season anyway.

I think Juve are still good enough to make the top 4 but challenge for the title. Napoli could be in a bit of trouble this year.

Brave move starting Rebic but it's really worked out.

Yeah the kick-off times for games 6-16 will be released on the 30th, they've actually be quite organised this season and given a schedule for when the kick-off times will be released. What match are you looking at going to?

Kvaratskhelia was fantastic with Rubin Kazan the last few years when I watched the Russian Premier League highlights. Really skilful winger who was a joy to watch. Definitely one to watch with Napoli.

Sassuolo won't be up to much this year. Berardi needs to get out of there if he wants to kick on.