Friday, August 23, 2013

Predicting top 2 of Serie A 2013/14


After predicting the 3rd and 4th lets see who could be the teams for 2nd and 1st position.

 Napoli : 2nd position

Having replaced Edinson Cavani with his country mate Gonzalo Higuain's , he 's about to find out just what it means to be the main man at Napoli. The Partenopei faithful are always a fiery bunch, but this season there's a genuine belief that they can challenge for the title and the San Paolo promises to be red hot.
Edinson Cavani has left for Paris Saint-Germain, but oddly enough the Azzurri look a better team without him. They've kept hold of Marek Hamsik, and the addition of Higuain calmed fears about where the goals would come from.
The excellent Belgian winger Dries Mertens will only strengthen what was already an excellent attacking line, in which local boy-wonder Lorenzo Insigne is also going to feature prominently. If new boss Rafa Benitez can get the chemistry right, this could be one of the continent's best forward lines.
It's worth noting that Benitez is a manager who tends to get results wherever he goes. His 44 games in charge at Chelsea had the same percentage of wins as Jose Mourinho's last 44, without the luxury of having hand-picked a squad of winners like the Portuguese did.
On top of that, only one manager at Liverpool post-WWII won more games than the Spaniard—and that was Kenny Dalglish's first stint during which he had one of the greatest teams of all time. On top of that, he's one of the few to ever break the Barcelona-Real Madrid duopoly in La Liga. Benitez' tactics, and the arrival of Raul Albiol to bolster an already solid defence, should mean that the Azzurri lose few games this season. But to overcome the team at number one, they'll need to win almost all of them.

 Juventus : 1st position 

Already their match against Lazio in Supercoppa has sent warning bells to othes Scudetto hopefuls when they humiliated Lazio .
Last season, the only flaw with Juve was that their strikers were far from world class. They were serviceable, and the quality of the midfield and the back-line saw them through. This year, that same core of talent behind the forwards will be feeding Carlos Tevez and Fernando Llorente—and the results should be devastating.
On top of that, Paul Pogba looks set to continue his development into one of the game's best players, leaving Antonio Conte with an embarrassment of riches.
The Bianconeri are the team to beat, and this reporter doesn't see anyone with the quality to do it.
There's no telling what can happen over the next 38 games, of course, but before it's even started it looks like the league is Conte's to lose.



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