Kids this age get snapped up by European clubs all the time, so the chances that he's one day teaming up with Cristian Totti to help a 30 - year - old Gerson win his fourth
Scudetto with Roma is pretty slim.
«My client is a good kid, he is focused on fighting for
the Scudetto with his club and plays for one of the top national teams in the world,» he said.
Few outside of Italy will know of Fulvio Bernardini, but it would be wrong to leave off this list a manager who won
the Scudetto with two unfancied clubs outside of calcio's traditional elite.
Gianluigi Buffon is set to celebrate
another Scudetto with Juventus.
He helped them to win a third successive
Scudetto with a Serie A record 102 points.
It's shocking that Mr Roma himself only has one
Scudetto with his beloved club but he will never forget the 2000/01 season where he truly announced himself as one of the world's best attacking footballers.
This Season: After winning
the Scudetto with the Primavera last season Bakayoko has been sent to France for his first season in senior football, and so far he's found life amongst the big boys fairly difficult.
They were the Italian champions, battling for
another scudetto with Juventus, who eventually ended their campaign with an Invincible status, they had the best centre back in the world — Thiago Silva and one of the best strikers — Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
The drama didn't end there either, with Napoli then getting thumped at home by an inspired AS Roma 2 - 4 to lead Juve by only one point in
the Scudetto with Juve having a game in hand.
And though he has won
the Scudetto with the club twice before, he has intimated that his preferred choice would be to stay with the club and stay until they tell him that he is no longer wanted.
He also saw another Antonio Conte in Montella, that will win d
scudetto with Milan unbeaten.
Not exact matches
With five games to go, their 16 point lead over second - placed Lazio meant that a draw would have been enough to claim another
Scudetto.
Higuain topped the goalscoring charts in the Italian top flight last season
with 36 goals in 35 games for the Partenopei, but has now been linked
with a shock move to their
Scudetto rivals.
With another
Scudetto is on the way this season, Juve are in the last four in Europe where they face Monaco next month while they have the chance for the treble when they take on Lazio in the cup final.
As a result, it is difficult to see how Sarri's men will fight their way back, particularly without Higuain,
with Juve undoubtedly now in the driving seat to secure what would be a fifth consecutive
Scudetto.
Meanwhile, the club have already been busy this week
with the signing Sampdoria striker Eder, as Mancini looks to arrest their current slide which has seen them not only slip off the pace in the race for the
Scudetto, but also out of the Champions League qualification spots.
As a result, Mancini will be expected to be active in the final few days of the transfer market
with their
Scudetto hopes arguably on the line.
Juventus went into their game
with city - rivals Torino knowing that if results went their way, they could clinch their fourth straight
Scudetto.
The
Scudetto battle continues to heat up throughout the season
with the rivals on course to go the distance.
A Uruguayan international, Caceres won the Champions League
with Barcelona before leaving the club to join Juve, where he has played a part in their past three
Scudetto's, albeit a small part.
As it stands the Partenopei sit top of Serie A, one point ahead of the reigning champions from Turin and
with real hope of a first
Scudetto since 1990.
Since his arrival from Lazio, Lichtsteiner has grown into an integral part of Antonio Conte's side,
with six goals in over 70 appearances for the Bianconeri as the Turin giants successfully claimed the
Scudetto two seasons in a row.
Despite attempts to minimise the scope of Sunday's direct clash, the game should decide the championship
with a seven - point advantage probably meaning a seventh consecutive
Scudetto for Juventus.
«Right now Napoli are ahead of us, they're favourites for the
Scudetto and we need to be good at chasing and keeping up
with them, getting to March in the best condition to make the final push.
Napoli might be the second most talented team in Serie A after Juventus, and
with Juventus looking shell - shocked after their loss to Real Madrid, Napoli has to believe that they can catch the Old Lady and nick the
Scudetto out from underneath them.
He has been a key cog in Napoli's
Scudetto bid,
with his sublime performances from the centre of the park making him every bit as important as Kalidou Koulibaly, Marek Hamsik or Dries Mertens.
Juventus, after weeks of chasing down Napoli, will have a chance to get their noses in front of the
Scudetto as they take on Udinese on Sunday
with the Naples side away at Inter Milan later in the day.
Bergomi's time at Inter coincided
with one of the less successful eras in their history, as he only won one
scudetto in 1989, but did manage to win three UEFA cups in 1991, 1994 and 1998.
After spending six - consecutive
Scudetto winning seasons
with Juve, it's only normal that it took him time to adapt to life at a rebuilding Milan.
However,
with the Roma result being what it is, Juventus enters their final game at Juventus Stadium for the next four months or so
with the same kind of result needed to wrap up another
Scudetto and turn Turin into a party - like atmosphere.
The first match will be massive for both teams, especially
with Roma being many Serie A followers» favourites to win the
Scudetto.
A.S. Roma inched closer toward the «Pseudo
Scudetto»
with a 4 - 1 dismantling of A.C. Milan this past Sunday.
A win would put Juve four points up on Napoli and put them very much in the driver's seat in the
scudetto race
with 10 games to go.
In one of the other games, this Saturday against Napoli, Juventus will be presented
with their
Scudetto and subsequently have a party because of it.
The
Scudetto hopeful will play Real Madrid next week in the Champions League and hope to approach that clash
with the utmost confidence.
Juventus, champions since 2012, spent a concerted period on the proverbial ropes,
with a terrible start to the campaign all but derailing their chances of recording a fifth successive
Scudetto.
«First of all we're in a good period, because
with a month - and - a-half to go we're playing for the final of the Coppa Italia, for the chance to go to the Champions League Semi-Finals and we're currently still first in the
Scudetto race.
We knew that Juventus didn't necessarily need to win to see a sixth straight
Scudetto come back
with them to Turin.
Roma needed a Milan meltdown to win their 2nd
scudetto of the decade and Ancelotti's previous history
with Juventus was what gave them hope.
That's just the luxury of having won the
Scudetto weeks ago and playing the last handful of games
with little pressure attached to them.
A little over a week ago, the Berretti (U-18s) picked up the only hardware for the club this season
with a 2 - 1 win over Fiorentina in the Primavera
Scudetto at Sassuolo.
Ahead of Sunday's Derby della Madonnina, Joao Cancelo sat down
with Gazzetta dello Sport this week to discuss how his first (and hopefully not last) season at Inter is going, as well as his affection for Milan (the city...), his thoughts on the
Scudetto race and the unique bond he shares
with his two dogs.
As for the opponents, Gennaro Gattuso's men have had a real up and down season
with the Rossoneri reportedly spending close to $ 200M in the summer in the hope to challenge for the
Scudetto and at the very least qualify for the UEFA Champions League again.
Curiously enough, Lopez will become the fifth footballer born in the city of Villa Constitución to play in Serie A, following in the footsteps of Abel Balbo (a
Scudetto winner
with Roma and a UEFA Cup winner
with Parma at the turn of the century), Leonel Vangioni (who spent last season at Milan), Esteban Herrera and Sergio Berti.
Massimiliano Allegri calls on his team to seal the
Scudetto title
with a win against Roma at the Stadio Olimpico on Sunday night
It's trophy day in Turin,
with Juventus looking to win their 10th straight before lifting Lo
Scudetto.
King Giorgio stays on his throne
with yet another
Scudetto under his belt.
With the likes of Pogba firing on all cylinders however, title challengers Napoli will find it tough to overturn the three point gap at the top in the race for the
Scudetto.
And not only changes, but a whole bunch of them
with a mid-week away match after a weekend full of
Scudetto celebrations.
We should never think too much about our gap
with Roma but face every match as if it were the decisive one for the
scudetto, also because seven points is basically two losses: it doesn't take much to obliterate the gap».