The 2021-2022 Serie A fixtures has ended and has shown all its unpredictability until the last few days.
Four teams qualified for the next Champions League: Pioli’s Milan, Inzaghi’s Inter, Spalletti’s Napoli and Allegri’s Juventus.
Aurelio De Laurentiis’ club is back in the Champions League after having failed to position itself among the top four in the league for two consecutive years.
On the other hand, there will not be Gasperini’s Atalanta which this year failed to repeat itself as seen in past editions.
Atalanta for three consecutive years had in fact positioned itself among the top four, while this year there was a more or less recent return to the past with the consolidation in the standings of the Milanese formations in condominium with Napoli and Juventus in the upper floors of this Serie A.
Apart from the European Cups, where the result of Josè Mourinho’s Roma who won a place in the final for the first edition of the Conference League, it was a very balanced championship, given that the media formations and low rankings have given a hard time to the top of the class.
The fight for the Serie A c
A truly spectacular salvation fight, especially as regards teams like Cagliari, Salernitana, Spezia, Sampdoria and so on.
Venice and Genoa were relegated to Serie B.
This means that the Grifone returns to play in a Serie B championship after having played for fifteen seasons in the top division.
The last time of Genoa in Serie B dates back to the 2006-2007 championship, an aspect that will in fact make the next Serie A season a little different, given that unlike teams like Brescia, Benevento or Lecce, Genoa had become a point of reference for our top league.
Waiting to know which will be the third team promoted to Serie A, after Cremonese and Lecce, we therefore see that the news will be many compared to past seasons.
An open and hard-fought championship to the end
We have seen how the 2021-2022 Serie A championship was really hard fought, open and with a rather unpredictable outcome, right up to the last minute of the last day.
Not only with regard to the battle for salvation that involved various clubs and teams, but also for the valid placements for Europe.
In fact, if the first four teams qualified for the Champions League a few days early, things went differently for the Europa League and Conference.
The difference compared to previous seasons was given by the fact that there was greater competitiveness with the return of the so-called seven sisters.
In fact, the Roman teams are back, with alternating moments of good results and express play, thanks also to the two coaches from Lazio and Rome.
Maurizio Sarri’s Lazio, for example, expressed a rather proactive and offensive game, which we have also seen through Vincenzo Italiano’s Fiorentina.
Despite having remained out of the European zone, other teams such as Turin, Sassuolo and above all like Igor Tudor’s Verona have had a good season.
Just behind the revelation of Vincenzo Italiano’s Fiorentina, there are in fact these teams, but Bologna and Udinese for many parts of the season have also proved to be solid teams, compact and at the level of our championship.
A seasonal balance between lights and shadows for Italian football
A season where once again we failed in the Champions League and in the Europa League, but where the average level has significantly increased, also considering the head vs tail results we have recorded throughout the Serie A championship.
Past years, the teams promoted to Serie A have become more competitive and able to compete against leaders or against teams of an international dimension.
An aspect that makes the Italian football movement more competitive, despite the fact that there are still numerous gaps and gaps that must be filled in order to really compete against the Premier League and the Spanish Liga, above all.
Once again, in fact, the Italian teams did not go beyond the round of 16 of the Champions League, eliminated by an English team (Klopp’s Liverpool) and by a Spanish team (the revelation of the year of Emery’s Villareal).
How will the Serie A 2022-2023 championship be
It is not easy to hazard a guess and guess a prediction with respect to next season as regards Italy bets, where, however, it must be said that Milan and Inter have consolidated their role as protagonists, as had already happened during the last two seasons, with Juventus ending the winning cycle by winning the ninth championship with Maurizio Sarri at the helm of the bianconeri.
So next year we could see which team will be able to contend for the title with the Milanese, still recording the return of Spalletti’s Napoli and the potential return of Lazio and Rome with international coaches such as Sarri and Mourinho.