At the end of this season's Serie A season, the top three are in the top three, although AC Milan, Inter Milan and Napoli are all strong teams, but the managers of the three armies have never tasted the taste of Serie A title, and they have all lost at key moments near the championship: Napoli is 7 points behind the top of the table in the remaining three rounds, Luciano Spalletti seems to be passing the champions again; and AC Milan is only slightly two points ahead of Inter Milan, Stefano Pioli, Simone Inzaghi jr. vowed to make up for his regrets.
Napoli has already established a serie A power position in the past 10 years, but unfortunately, under the leadership of Mazzari, Sarri and Ancelotti, it has been the runner-up after Juventus for 4 seasons. This season was taken over by the experienced Luciano Spalletti, who started the season with seven consecutive wins and the first half of the season for 12 consecutive weeks, once giving people a breakthrough vision, but unfortunately the home record was unstable (10 wins, 3 draws and 5 losses were even worse), coupled with three consecutive weeks of points conceded in April (2-3 defeat to Fiorentina, 1-1 draw in stoppage time, 1-3 by Empoli in 10 minutes before the end of the game), especially after the last two games, the playing style was too conservative, but the late season was not guaranteed.
In fact, Luciano Spalletti in the 2016/17 season in Rome and the 2017/18 season of Inter Milan, there are familiar scenes: the former accumulated 87 points in the whole season is still the team's historical record, but unfortunately, the first week of March fell on the italian cup, league, Europa League three fronts, failed to complete the final season of "Prince" Totti. The latter climbed to the top of the charts once in 15 and 16 weeks, but then fell into an eight-game winless situation and finally finished the season in fourth place.
Inzaghi Jr., who previously coached Lazio for five seasons, was well received, including the 2019/20 season, which can be described as a season of "Blue Eagles" soaring high: a wave of 12 consecutive wins in the mid-season, and even 21 unbeaten league games before the suspension of the new crown, only one point away from Juventus, but after the reopening in June, it began to sink from the 2-3 defeat of Atalanta with a lead of two goals, resulting in 6 losses in 12 games after the resumption, only to cross the line in 4th place. This year's Junior Inzaghi mainly filled the gap in Lukaku's departure with Dzeko and "old" Joaquin Correaja, and the newly recruited Harkan Charhanoglu and Dumfries also delivered results, the Champions League round of 16 small defeat to Liverpool out of the performance is impressive, but Dzeko's performance in the second half of the season declined, Lautaro Martinez also fell into a brief goal drought, and substitute goalkeeper Radu lost to Bologna in the front battle, making the team currently two points behind AC Milan.
Thankfully, Inter were able to bounce back in time for the intense fixtures, and on May 2, 2-1, Udinese returned to victory, and Inzaghi Jr. did not give up lightly: "I am very satisfied with the response handed over by the players, there are still three league and Coppa Italia finals in front of us, we will try to meet them at our best. ”
As for Pioli taking over the then-13th-ranked AC Milan from Marco Giampaolo in October 2019, thinking that it would take a while to rebuild to return to the title race, he expected to be unbeaten in 15 games in the opening season and become the winter champion, thinking that he could rush to the championship in one fell swoop, but in the second half of the season, he lost points at the Home of San Siro, and finally managed to save the second place until the closing day, 12 points behind Inter Milan at the top of the table. The "Rossoneri" seems to be the opposite of this season's ranking trend, the second half of the season counter-pressure Inter rose to the top of the table, but the team has only scored 15 goals in the league in the past 14 weeks, which is obviously a dud, with very few goals conceded and won with "1-0" efficiency, the good news is that Ibrahimovic and Rafael Leo have returned in time, and the defense is attributed to goalkeeper McMayon's repeated rescue of the ball.
Although the remaining 3 opponents (Away vs Venezia, Home vs Atalanta, Away v Sassuolo) are more difficult on the card than Inter Milan's (Home vs Empoli, Ker vs Cagliari, Home vs. Sampdoria), Pioli's previous victory over Lazio may be a true reflection of AC Milan's current survival of the soldiers: "I tell the players that you are like lions: even if you are not the smartest, fastest, and largest, you know how to hunt, and you wake up every day with hunger and thirst, and we need this hunger and thirst. ”