Inter and Milan for the championship sprint, Napoli and Atalanta suspended between the hope of hanging up the Milanese and the fear of not resisting the pursuit of Juve, Rome, Fiorentina and Lazio.
Empoli, Bologna, Verona, Turin and Sassuolo are beautiful high-ranking realities.
Udinese and Sampdoria in a quiet limbo without infamy and without praise.
Behind them Venice and Spezia cannot be distracted so as not to bring Genoa, Cagliari and Salernitana closer (regardless of the risk of disqualification for non-sale) destined for relegation for now.
At the halfway point, an initial assessment is possible after four months of interesting and hard-fought competitions, full of goals and, unlike in other years, not predictable in challenges between adults and children.
- FIORENTINA AND TURIN TO THE LEAP OF QUALITY
: Simone Inzaghi's greatest merit is not to have disfigured in the complicated confrontation with Antonio Conte. Indeed, his Inter travels with a 5-point advantage on the schedule of the Scudetto team with Lukaku and Hakimi. But the most significant progresses are those of Fiorentina and Turin who have gained 11 points in one year. In the ranking of virtuous teams, Mihajlovic's Bologna follows, at +7. There are many teams in regression: Juve and Roma are at -5, Lazio at -3. Only Verona and Sassuolo did worse with -6 and Genoa with -7. This is the ranking compared to the last first round: Fiorentina and Turin +11 points; Bologna +7; Inter +5; Udinese +3 (one race less); Atalanta and Naples +2; Milan -1; Spice -2; Lazio -3; Cagliari -4; Rome and Juventus -5; Verona, Sassuolo and Sampdoria -6; Genoa -7.
- KESSIE AND VLAHOVIC DECISIVE AND STARTING
: thorny chapter that of the players who do not want to renew the contract, pushed by voracious prosecutors.
AC Milan after the via crucis with Donnarumma and Calhanoglu find another separated at home, Kessie, who, however, is playing an excellent tournament.
A bit like Vlahovic, top scorer with 16 goals for Fiorentina.
Other difficult cases are Insigne with Napoli, Brozovic with Inter, Dybala, Bernardeschi and De Ligt with Juve, Belotti with Turin, Freuler with Atalanta, Romagnoli with Milan, Luiz Felipe with Lazio.
Similar speech in Europe also for Di Maria at PSG, Lacazette at Arsenal, Pogba and Lingard at Manchester United.
- VERONA, EMPOLI AND SASSUOLO AMMAZZA-GRANDI
: never as this year the big names know that they can fall into the trap of some presumed small. Inter dominate because they make a clear path with all of them. He lost to Inter, drew with Sampdoria, Atalanta, Juve and Milan, then struck seven consecutive victories. Verona, since Tudor, Empoli and Sassuolo have stood out in the role of spoilsport. Verona overcame Lazio 4-1, Roma 3-2 and Juve 2-1, even with goals from the rediscovered Simeone. Empoli won 2-1 over Fiorentina and, away from home, 1-0 over Juve and Napoli. A bit like Sassuolo who beat Lazio 2-1 and, away, Juventus 2-1 and Milan 3-1. Among other unexpected results, Spezia's 1-0 yesterday in Naples, Venice's 3-2 to Rome and Fiorentina's 2-1 away to Atalanta.In the return we will see if this trend will be confirmed and how much it will affect the different goals of the teams.
