Strengthening Milan Milan's transfer campaign blew up the dance floor. Even the clubs of the Premier League, traditionally laying tens of millions for new acquisitions, failed to eclipse the growing Rossoneri. Thanks to Chinese money, Milanese bought a turnkey composition: 10 new acquisitions, in the amount of 189.5 million euros. Such impressive scope caused an incredible revival among Milan fans who bought almost 30 thousand season tickets (for comparison: last season they did not even reach 16 thousand) and set the record of attendance of the qualification of the League of Europe in the match against Craiova, collecting in the stands of San Siro 65 763 The viewer.
Update of Milan sharpens the struggle for the Scudetto. It seems that the times of the total hegemony of Juventus are retreating, the Turintsy if they win the championship, then in a fierce battle with competitors. A curious fact: La Gazzetta dello Sport, having arranged a vote of employees, suggested that the champion will be ... Napoli! Risky forecast of the leading sports edition of Italy. However, it's even more interesting.
Four teams in the UEFA Champions League, adjusting to the reality, slightly modified the scheme of hitting the Champions League. If previously the first three countries were particularly distinguished in the coefficient table, now the fourth was received - in fact, Italy. Starting with the season-2018/19 Serie A will delegate to the Champions League not three, but four teams, all of them, without qualifying, will be immediately in the group stage. Excellent help for the leaders of Calcio, especially for Milan clubs, missed without participation in the Champions League - of course, even the current conditions do not guarantee getting there, but the chances are now much higher.
This reform will give Italian football a noticeable influx of funds: for example, Napoli, who flew last season in the 1/8 finals, earned 65.7 million euros in the Champions League, including bonuses for participation and points earned, sponsorship money, proceeds from tickets and broadcasts. Even more impressive are the incomes of Juventus, who reached the final of the tournament - 109 million. A year later his piece of pie will have four teams at once.
Video Replay System Serie A connects the video! This long-awaited innovation was tested at the Confederations Cup, where it left not the most unambiguous impressions, but one thing is a transient tournament, and quite another is the European top-level championship of Italian or German, where also the help of video-assistants will be used. For Italy, with its abundance of judicial scandals, VAR should become a healing pill.
We will clarify that thanks to the video the referees will be able to clarify the decisions regarding the scoring of the goal, the appointment of a penalty, the removal, as well as the correct identification of the player who should show a yellow or red card. From the success of the use of VAR on the Apennines in many ways depends on the prospects: whether video assistants will get accustomed to football or not?.
High performance Italy, are you? Motherland Catenaccio last season broke all stereotypes. 1123 goals or 2.96 on average for the game - Serie A confidently punched "total more". The Italian championship was the most effective among the top 5 European leagues, having surpassed both the money submarine (1064 goals) and the traditionally super-punched Example (1118), not to mention the League 1 (991) with the Bundesliga (877). Do you still think that on the Apennines love to roll boring nulevki? There were only 19 of 380 played matches, this is 5% of the total number. On the other hand, regularly met with dashing accounts like 7: 3 or 5: 4.
This summer, Serie A has not lost any of the leading scorers. Dzeko, Mertens, Belotti, Higuain, Ikardi - they all stayed in Italy. Of the representatives of the "attack group" who left the country, they are of great importance only if Salah, Muriel and the unnecessary Milan clubs Bacca and Bagnoi. In exchange, Calco was replenished with clever craftsmen: Andre Silva, Chalkhanoglu, Douglas Costa, promising Cengiz Under. There is every reason to assume that the coming season will again give a lot of spectacular matches.
Five city derby Derby confrontation - flesh and blood of Serie A. From these matches is breathtaking even in the absence of tournament value. Now they will be a little more: the Milan, Roman, Turin and Genoese derby was added Verona - it is certainly not so promoted, but it is a dish for gourmets. Relatively successful Chievo against beloved local fans Verona, who wants to gain a foothold in the elite - one of the main intrigues of the bottom of the table.
Principal zarub suffice and in addition to intra-city derby. Both Milan club against Juventus, AS Roma vs Napoli, Fiorentina against Bologna and finally derby Campania - Napoli against debutants of Benevento. In each round there will be something like that!.