This season's Serie A title race has become a two-man competition for Milan, and the current defending champion Inter Milan is two points behind AC Milan, ranking second, and the prerequisite for winning the championship is to maintain a full victory in the remaining 3 rounds. At 0:45 a.m. Beijing time on May 7, Inter Milan will play at home against promoted Polo Empoli, which is the 36th round of Serie A, and Inter Milan must win.
Originally, Inter Milan could have been in the lead at this time, so in the previous game against Bologna, goalkeeper Radu's low-level mistake led to a loss, and finally fell behind AC Milan by 2 points, and had no chance to return to the top of the table.
Compared with the same period last season, Inter Milan scored 10 points less, so now there are only 3 rounds of the league, and it is not wrong to be two points behind the top of the table. For the title race in Serie A this season, some big data agencies predict that Inter Milan has a 47% probability of winning the title, which is not as good as AC Milan's 52%, and the remaining 1% includes Napoli and Juventus.
In the last round of the league, AC Milan beat Fiorentina and refused to drop the chain at a critical moment, leaving Inter Milan without a chance to overtake the top. At present, the two teams are still 2 points apart, the number of rounds has decreased, which is not good for Inter Milan, the remaining 3 rounds must be won, and it is hoped that AC Milan will only get 6 points, so the Milan derby win-loss relationship Inter Milan is in the ascendant.
In the 36th round of the league, Inter Milan came first than AC Milan, sitting at home against Empoli. Empoli currently has 37 points in 35 rounds, 11 points ahead of the relegation zone, and has been relegated early, which is good news for Inter.
According to statistics, since the 4-3 win on June 2015, Inter Milan have overturned Empoli in the Serie A for eight consecutive times, the most recent of which was a 2-0 away win this season, and during the eight consecutive wins over Empoli, Inter Milan scored 16 goals and conceded only 5 goals, averaging 2 goals per game and conceding less than 1 goal per game.
Inter Milan play normally, taking Empoli is not a big problem, the points can reach 78 points, and one round of multiple matches to surpass AC Milan to the top of the table, throwing the pressure on competitors.
In the remaining two rounds, Inter Milan played against Cagliari and Sampdoria respectively, both of which are mid- and lower-tier teams, AC Milan played verona, Atalanta and Sassuolo, and may lose points by dropping the chain.
If Inter Milan finally wins, then the 20th time in the history of the team will be crowned the Serie A champion, and once AC Milan wins, it will be the 19th time in the history of the team to win the title, equaling Inter Milan.