Who Will Win Serie A? Europe’s Multi-Team Title Race

Alex Barker

21st September 2022 | 11:30 AM

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There’s really only one place in Europe right now where you can find a multi-team title race on the cards, and that’s in Italy for the 121st edition of Serie A.

While Leipzig, Dortmund and Leverkusen are flailing around in the realm of inconsistency in Germany, Marseille, Lyon and Monaco are constantly trying to rebuild to keep pace with PSG. Manchester City look set to lead the way in the Premier League while La Liga will most likely be won by Barcelona or Real Madrid. For Italian football fans, though, the 2022-23 Serie A season is hard to call. There’s no clear favourite running away with the competition even as we reach match week eight.

If the winner of the league was judged on who started the season with the most exciting squad, then Stefano Pioli’s AC Milan would render the title race useless. The Italian won the league with the fourth-youngest team in the division last season and has kept hold of his illustrious stars; Franck Kessié was the only first teamer to leave, and Pioli added Charles De Ketelaere, Malick Thiaw, Aster Vranckx and Sergiño Dest. Those four, plus the arrival of last summer’s signing Yacine Adli, are all 21-years-old or younger. It’s a squad oozing with potential, but it has not been plain sailing for the Rossoneri.

Two draws against Atalanta and Sassuolo have stuttered the start to the campaign for the champions and it’s worth remembering that by FBREF’s expected goal difference p90 statistics, it was eternal rivals Inter who ‘should’ have won the league last season.

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