The trend of giving Juventus credit again after having mocked them

If you think badly, you might slander the fact that Antonio Conte is doing everything he can to not win a championship that he could have won, or at least could have fought for it until the end, out of spite against a management that first gave in to "blackmail", at least according to them, carried out by Khvicha Kvaratskhelia's company to go to Paris Saint-Germain, and then was unable to replace Khvicha Kvaratskhelia. Antonio Conte always speaks with full words, but it is in half words that he really expresses himself. And in those half words, the rancor and disappointment for the promises, private, not kept, stand out. Napoli never recovered from the January transfer market, in the manner of certain guys who go on a crazy diet before the holidays and then find themselves too full already at the appetizers of Christmas lunch: a classic foolish mistake of those who have not understood despite the years how things work. But be careful , throwing a funeral at Napoli might be premature because Khvicha Kvaratskhelia aside - and it's not an aside of little importance - the Azzurri squad has enough talent to compete with an Inter team that has an average age of almost 29 for its starting lineup and is starting to suffer from the mid-seasons. And unlike what happens in the rest of the world, there are plenty of mid-seasons in football.

And be careful, convincing yourself that the fight for the Scudetto could reopen for Juventus is a bit of a stretch. Because if it is true that Thiago Motta's team has the talent and resources to compete with the strongest teams in Italy - we were convinced of this at the start of the championship, we are convinced of it now -, we must consider the fact that they are also moody and prone to mood swings. Good for the Bianconeri that they have managed to win a few games in a row, but the problems that have prevented them from getting closer to Inter and Napoli are still there. And they can be summed up in the mantra that is afflicting contemporary football: we fill our brains and legs with tactics, when in reality we need breath and feet to win .

This is Ocio , Giovanni Battistuzzi 's column on the Italian football championship, a small breviary to avoid taking the Serie A matchday just played too seriously.

Those who tried to bring back to the fore at Milan Sérgio Conceição . He tried. At least a little. He believed. At least a little. But be careful, now even the first-hour sanctifiers are forced to ask themselves a few more questions and replace the self-assurance of the first week with a question: has anything really changed at Milan? Can anything really change? It makes you think that despite his prickly character and his tendency to do everything myself and do it well , someone like Paolo Maldini could really be useful to the Rossoneri.

The next Champions League for the Rossoneri seems like a mirage. And not so much because of the gap from the fourth, but above all because at Milanello everything is confused, even more than any Democratic Party. Good times when you could put all the blame on Paulo Fonseca .

Thinking back to certain premature enthusiasms, Christian Chivu, the new coach of a Parma in bad shape due - they say - to the brilliant play of Fabio Pecchia, is touching wood after having beaten a Bologna with his head who knows where, certainly not on the pitch.

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