Short week for some. Long week for others. Big games top to bottom as we get into the meat of the schedule in the BEST LEAGUE IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!
Matchups
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INTER V PARMA Inter at home against a team that hasn’t kept a clean sheet since dinosaurs roamed the earth? Sign me up! Inter ML and an over/ Maybe a BTTS since Parma always seem to snag one. Lots of Inter shots and corners. MAYBE Lautaro finally breaks out? Lots of different options here if you wanna get greedy. I like Inter to score over one in the first half at +160. I also really like an Inter win and BTTS at +150 but to each their own! INTER WINS
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ATALANTA V MILAN Tune into the matchday post for some wild and crazy ideas!
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GENOA V TORINO Two teams headed in completely different directions here. Torino have 1 goal in their last 5 and coincidentally have 1 point in those 5 games. After playing high scoring games to start the year they have gone completely dry after the Zapata injury. The defense has gotten better making them an under machine. After a terrible start Genoa has rebounded well under Viera. They are unbeaten in 4 and if not for a bonkers late PK would have 3 wins in there. A win here and they pass up Torino and will all of a sudden be over a point a game for the year. Pinamonti has scored in 3 of 4 and Frendrup has been getting a couple shots per game. Both solid shouts. I like Genoa to defend their home turf here. A DC and under or a DNB are both good options. Viera gets his first success in front of the home fans. GENOA WINS
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JUVENTUS V BOLOGNA The under masters collide! Especially considering both have a mountain of injuries. Bologna have been scoring more of late but without Orsolini that’s trouble. Feels like a dull draw. FYI: There might be a few of those this week. Uncle Nick recommends parlaying a bunch of them together. I won’t waste your time. JUVE DC and under 2.5. Take that to the bank. DRAW
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ROMA V LECCE Does Raineri FINALLY get that new manager bounce? Or does he dip before Christmas? Roma stinks. Reminds me of Banter era Milan where they went through managers like toilet paper. They gotta win sooner or later though, right? Also don’t look now but Lecce have only lost once in 5. Giampaolo got a road win at Venezia and stole a point late against Juve. ALSO THEY ARE LEVEL ON POINTS WITH ROMA IN 15TH. LOL. Loser enters the relegation zone. To me this is a stay away. Roma really SHOULD win but will they? Eh. The only thing I like here is BTTS. I can’t in my right mind bet on Roma here. DRAW
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FIORENTINA V CAGLIARI Great matchup here of fun teams, both FUN GOOD and FUN BAD. Fiorentina are the fun good team of the year. Every game seems to feature 2+ goals an more often than not there are 4-5 goals. Cagliari mirror that by also playing in some wild high scoring games, especially on the road. Love over 1.5 before halftime here. Also love over 1.5 in each half. Might be a blowout but we are gonna see goals here. Moise Kean just keeps scoring for La Viola. Piccoli has been red hot for Cagliari. Yerry Mina is always worth a shot bet for Cagliari. Luvumbo too. This really could be a fun game here folks. FIORENTINA WINS
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HELLAS V EMPOLI Hellas can’t defend and are missing their starting CB. Perhaps that’s a good thing? They will want to go forward and Empoli will invite that. Lazovic SOT is a must here at +150. Also check Hellas total shots. Anything over say 10 should be solid. Empoli will defend though. This is standard Empoli stuff. Play well in the first half of the season and rack up enough points to survive, then sell everything off in January and just barely stay up. We’ve seen this story before. Empoli DC and under 2.5 for sure. DRAW
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VENEZIA V COMO STAB MY EYES!!! Seriously. Two teams with completely different preseason evaluations that currently sit 18th and 20th. Como was gonna finish top 10 if you listen to some clowns. Seriously? Hahahaha. Can barely score, can’t defend and none of their big name signings really worked out. Reina in goal is a joke. Venezia is bad but at least more entertaining, especially at home. Their home games usually feature goals and they are always tough there. It’s ugly but I think we get goals here. Try this on for size: Venezia DC at home and between 2-3 goals at +210. At 2-4 goals it’s still +140. I think it’s either 1-1 or a 2-1 Venezia win. Also don’t forget our boy Pohjanpolo to get a SOT. DRAW.Â
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NAPOLI V LAZIO GAME OF THE WEEK!!! I’m no Napoli fan but they are home here, it’s a league game and Lazio is gonna be without Rovella. You all know I love me some Lazio but that’s gonna make things tough. Also hurts Castellanos has been cold with just 1 goal in his last 8 appearances. Napoli laid down yesterday in the Coppa, AS USUAL, so now all they have to worry about is the league. I like the Napoli ML here sprinkled with over 1.5. A 2-0 or 2-1 Napoli win sounds about right. NAPOLI WINS
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MONZA V UDINESE WOW! Usually these Monday nighty games have a little sizzle…but not this one. Between them their last 10 games feature 0 wins. Feels like a relegation 6 pointer even though Udinese is 9th. Honestly, are these teams really 10 places from each other in the table. Feels impossible. On paper Udinese has the better players and should win. Eyeball wise and stat wise though? Very similar. So much so they have the same exact GD for the year, -5. Form wise Udinese is dead last. That’s enough to tell me Monza is the favorite here. I’ll even stretch my legs and say this is a victory for Nesta’s men. MONZA WINS
Final Thoughts
Battles all the way up and down the table as the rubber starts to meet the road in what your momma told me is GREATEST LEAGUE IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Forza Milan
Lisi
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