Why is Napoli winning the title outright and how the standings dictate what happens next in the Italian top league.
If anyone has been off the ground in the last year and is now looking at the Serie A standings they will be amazed: Napoli in first place, five wins away. This hasn’t been heard of since the 20th century, since the second millennium, since the days of Diego Armando Maradona.
It’s increasingly certain: Napoli will win another title. Was it a miracle? Not quite. For one thing, it had Kvara, who really played like a Diego. It’s the new Diego – Diego from the Caucasus. The young Georgian had wings this season. Then, there’s Osimhen, a top player any super-club in the world would want. But he’s at Napoli. And, of course, there’s the wisdom of Spalletti, the coach.
Napoli’s triumph is perfectly explicable, it’s a complete story that has a beginning, a content and will know a conclusion. An exceptional generation, which benefited from a favourable conjuncture: all three big rivals, Juventus, Inter and AC Milan, had big internal problems and had a bad season. It’s as simple as that. And that also explains why Lazio is so high in the standings.
I’ve already used the word “standings” several times because repetition is important for the basic idea. This is where I wanted to bring you: to the standings.
The Serie A bets from mid-March onwards should be dictated not by tradition, not by the form of the moment, but by the needs of the standings. More than any other major league, Serie A is a league of immediate results. Study the standings very carefully and what can happen depending on each individual result and you will see that you will be shown, as if in a crystal bowl (except that it’s science) some results so surprising that you would never have guessed them. And don’t forget that we also have artificial intelligence at your disposal to do even the most improbable calculations for you.
There will be seemingly inexplicable results stage after stage in Serie A from now on. They are not inexplicable. If you haven’t seen them, it means you haven’t studied the standings carefully.
