Serie A, a thrilling triumph of mediocrity

Serie A has reserved good and bad news for the Italian

in the final stretch of the championship.

The bad news is that the competition has a clearly accredited medium-low level, it hasn't painted anything for a long time in Europe and the stars have been leaving little by little.

Calcium, despite the mirage of the last European Championship won by the Nazionale, has not recovered the vigor of the nineties and 2000s, and the investment funds, especially the United States, detect the situation and have taken over half of the clubs.

The good news, on the other hand, is that the season is hilarious and that, for the first time in many years, four teams (Milan, Napoli, Inter and Juventus) will compete for a very even title in the last 10 games.

Although that joy is due to an unexpected and joyous triumph of mediocrity rather than the quality of their teams.

It was the worst of times, it was the best of times, as Dickens wrote.

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The origin of the entertaining paradox may be found in the pronounced rise and fall of Juventus, who had won the

and that the previous one succumbed to Antonio Conte's Inter.

This season Allegri returned to the bench to sweep away the broken dishes of Andrea Pirlo and Cristiano Ronaldo (he left the team without a game idea and without a euro).

But he couldn't have started any worse and lost points for every corner the team turned.

He has cost him talks, efforts and a fortune (the 80 million paid by Vlahovic in the winter market).

But the club has managed to reverse the trend, avoiding defeat in the last 14 games and cutting back to seven points off the lead and scaring the Ave Maria Three, as Allegri himself calls them, from fourth position: Napoli, Milan and Inter.

The statistics say that he will not be able to cut all the points he has left, but the history of Juventus, like that of Madrid,

The nerves will be the unit of measurement to decipher the end of the championship.

Milan is now the one with the least pressure.

The

they are the most austere team and the one that plays with a greater number of young people.

He grows little by little and Pioli has obtained his doctorate in just two years, in which he has managed to mix well the experience of players like Ibrahimovic and the youth of talents like Brahim Díaz and Rafael Leao.

A merit of dimensions similar to that of Inter, that he was able to recover from the traumatic departure of Antonio Conte this summer, that he did the same thing he had done at Juve years before when he saw that they would not buy what he wanted.

This season, without Lukaku or Achraf and with Simone Inzaghi in the dugout, the team has managed to continue competing at home, even if it wasn't enough to do so against Liverpool, who knocked them out of the Champions League.

But it doesn't matter and the coach - the club announced last week - are going to renew him to raise his salary.

The objective, it seems, is already fulfilled.

Napoli, who lost an ephemeral lead against Milan a few weeks ago, feel the weight of history.

The party in the streets of the city could last a year.

Or two.

As in 1990, the last time the Partenopeo team raised a

, still with Maradona in their ranks.

Nobody wants to talk openly about an issue that could be capable of sparking a new eruption of Vesuvius, but the tension - as happened in the season in which Maurizio Sarri caressed the title and absurdly lost it in April 2018 against Fiorentina - can bill the players.

Everything will be decided in the last games, with direct crosses and large television audiences.

And here's the good news that comes from the field to the stands.

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