How to read the most important foreign sports newspapers (cover photo) BentornAta. In a few hours, the Juventus champion of Italy will face Rastelli's Cagliari in their own stadium and will be the starting point for the new 2017 / 2018 series. As we now know about PRP Channel, we have tried to construct a hypothetical starting grid, even though we have the PRP Channel, despite the fact that the market is not finished, but is still experiencing a very interesting phase and full of surprises. Today, of the Italian soccer championship.
The reform of the Champions League which again gives Italy four places for Europe that counts, has already begun to bear its fruit, as a market so full of investments was not seen in our country by different years. So it looks like a less-than-discounted championship over the last few years and this will only benefit the A-series that we had recently been less appealing than the past.
The first row of this hypothetical starting grid on which all the teams warm up their engines while waiting for the green signal, belongs by right to Juventus, winner of the last six titles and to Napoli which today appears to us as the main antagonist of the Bianconeri for the title of champion of Italy. Even with some shadows, which fell on the defending champions due to a pre-season not quite to their height, culminating in the defeat in the Supercoppa final against Lazio, Juventus has the difficult task of not making people of the caliber of Bonucci regret and Dani Alves, but considering the important arrivals of Douglas Costa, Bernardeschi and Matuidi is still the team to beat. The strength of Napoli, paired slightly behind the Bianconeri, lies instead in the reconfirmation of the block that last had proved, especially in the second round, an almost perfect machine that had probably delighted us with the best football of the tournament. This year he will also be able to rely on the unfortunate Polish center-forward Milik, who has returned from a serious injury that has kept him inactive for practically a year in addition to the young promise just bought in the summer, Adam Ounas. Market rumors speak of at least one large purchase to be completed by the end of the transfer market. We'll see.
In our opinion, the Milanese are positioned immediately behind Juventus and Napoli. Milan appears to have a slight advantage over their Nerazzurri cousins thanks to a pyrotechnic market led by the new Chinese company. The signings of Bonucci, Biglia, Kalinic, Conti, Borini, Rodriguez, Kessie and Andrè Silva, just to name a few, put Mr. Montella in a position to manage a sort of "all-star team" that has already started to give great reassurance of understanding, good game and concreteness. With such a market, not accessing one of the four Champions League seats would be a crime, frankly unthinkable to date.
Inter to redeem the last disappointing season, will undoubtedly count on a racial leader like Luciano Spalletti, the main actor of the recent brilliant results achieved by Rome. The Tuscan coach, in a market that is not exactly in line with what he had accustomed us to seeing the Nerazzurri club in recent years, managed to compact the team and the environment as only he knows how to do, transmitting serenity and bringing game and results in even little indicative football. in August. The Schick bet could represent the classic icing on the cake of an already strong team and Champions placement.
The third row is all Capitoline. Like the starting grid of the last Serie A championship, then subverted by the reality of the facts during the tournament, also this year, on paper, the Romans start behind the Milanese who undermine Rome and Lazio at least as an initial positioning, but mindful of the recent sporting events, we would like to say that it is a virtual overtaking. The distance is minimal and the fight for the Champions League places will be tight until the end of the tournament, when unfortunately some of these big players will be forced to stay out of the lap that matters. With the market still open, however, Roma seem less competitive than the one that closed with the record of points (87) and in the wake of Juventus. The excellent starts of Szczesny, Rudiger, Paredes and above all Salah were heavy, as well as the doubts that accompany Di Francesco in his debut on the bench of a great one. Roma is also preparing for the first time, after many years to face a competition without its historical flag, captain Francesco Totti whose heavy legacy will have to be well managed by De Rossi and his teammates. However, the incoming market does not appear to be closed yet and the feeling is that there is still work to be done for Monchi who finds himself managing a less competitive squad on paper than the one he had found.
Paired with the Giallorossi, fresh from the well-deserved success against Juventus in the Italian Super Cup, the irreducible Lazio of Simone Inzaghi. Underestimating it would mean showing your side to an opponent never tamed and well capable of subverting the most obvious predictions. The market takes Biglia and almost certainly Keità away, but Lucas Leiva might not make the Argentine regret it. Also this year, on paper, she starts behind compared to the other greats, but as she did a year ago, we would not be surprised if once again she managed to play the role of off-sider that during the last tournament led her to duel almost on a par with the big names for much of the tournament. To remain competitive, however, in addition to relying on Inzaghi's magic and the strength and cohesion of the group, you need at least one big purchase for the attack.
Even if every year there is a surprise team, the race for the Champions League ends here. The others do not seem to have the strength to go and undermine the first four places and on the grid, behind Juve-Napoli, the Milanese and the Roman side Gasperini's Atalanta. The market has taken away many valuable pieces that had actively contributed to the achievement of the unexpected qualification in the Europa League. However, some pillars have remained and Gasperini's game that enchanted last year, annoying many of the tournament's greats, cannot be faded.
Torino, if they manage to resist the assaults for the Belotti rooster until the end of the transfer market, they will be able to count on an extra year with the “maestro” Mihajlovic who has included reliable players in defense and midfield. At the moment it seems to have something more than Fiorentina which is preparing to live a sort of year zero after the reconstruction carried out by the Della Valle and of Sampdoria which lost its jewels Skriniar, Bruno Fernandes and Muriel and is preparing to greet the Schick talent.
Still behind, for a quiet championship, with the main goal of keeping the category without too much trouble and perhaps targeting some of the exploits that will allow us to climb some of the hierarchical positions of the championship, we see in order Sassuolo, Udinese, Genoa, Chievo and Cagliari. Among them, as always, will come out a disappointment that will risk being sucked in the red zone and a revelation that will also fight for a place in the Europa League.
Finally, in the bout that will be created for the fight not to retire, we find tradition as the three new promoted by the B series, with Hellas Verona on the card, thanks to players like Green, Cerci, Heurtaux, Caceres and Pazzini seems the most equipped To keep the category. Benevento and Spal will leverage the enthusiasm of those who look for the first time in his history in the national championship and who comes back after almost half a century. Benevento has secured the performance of the young talent, former Lazio, Danilo Cataldi and tries to take the guarantee Alessandro Matri, while the Ferrarese, who in any case have put in every ward men experience and experience the Borriello shot.
The summer rejected the Bologna transfer market which evidently did not understand the risk already taken at the end of last season. He seriously risks being sucked into very uncomfortable positions in the standings and having to fight with teams that are perhaps more accustomed to gritting their teeth to bring home the classic point of salvation. Crotone, on the other hand, is called upon to repeat last year's football miracle, when with a foot and a half in Serie B they managed to nibble points after points to their direct opponents, keeping that third team (Empoli) behind in extremis and earning the opportunity to play his second championship in the top flight.
As mentioned in the startup, the market is not over yet and all clubs have for a few days still been able to strengthen their position or improve it in what emerges as a true starting grid worthy of Formula 1.
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