Can either of the Milan clubs or Napoli realistically push Juventus this term?
What do you think sports betting fans?
Have they got enough talent to win enough football games over the course of nine months to deny the top team in Italy a seventh successive Serie A crown?
After these results, those who study football betting closely may think twice.
Benevento 0-1 Bologna
Spare a thought for new boys Benevento who thought they had secured their first ever Serie A point.
That is until Fabio Lucioni’s last-gasp finish was ruled out for offside (he had earlier hit the bar).
An equaliser denied, it meant Godfred Donsah, who later went off injured, was the match-winner with a wonderful solo goal.
Genoa 2-4 Juventus
I suppose that’s why Juve are champions!
Two goals down inside seven minutes, they levelled by the break and clinched victory with a fourth in stoppage time.
The often underrated Paulo Dybala was the hero with a hat-trick as the Old Lady of Italian football made it two wins from two.
AS Roma 1-3 Inter Milan
What a win for Luciano Spalletti – marking his first return to the Olympic Stadium with victory for his new club.
What impact he has on Inter remains to be seen, but the start is certainly impressive.
Roma, who can ill afford results like this if they are to mount a sustained title challenge, can point to the fact it wasn’t their day – they hit the woodwork three times!
Torino 3-0 Sassuolo
An early contender for goal of the season set Torino on their way.
Who else but Andrea Belotti provided it, and in the end it was a comfortable home success.
The visitors were very much in the contest before late goals from Adem Ljajic and Joel Obi.
Chievo 1-2 Lazio
There are few feelings better than a last-minute winner.
Just ask Sergej Milinkovic-Savic. His 89th-minute right-foot missile was fitting to win any game and ensured Lazio leapfrog city rivals Roma in the fledgling table.
They always enjoy that!
Crotone 0-0 Hellas Verona
An early relegation battle or two sides just glad to claim their first points of the campaign?
Whichever way you look at it, both clubs are off the mark.
Bigger tests, of course, will follow.
Fiorentina 1-2 Sampdoria
Sampdoria made it two wins from two and never really looked back after two goals in four first-half minutes.
Their first victory in Florence since 2004was secured courtesy of Gianluca Caprari and Fabio Quagliarella.
Viola improved in the second half but it wasn’t enough.
AC Milan 2-1 Cagliari
They made hard work of it but in the end, Milan will just be glad to have maintained their winning start.
Suso’s 70th-minute free-kick clinched maximum points after he had earlier set up young Patrick Cutrone for the opener.
The Sardinians had given the Rossoneri a scare and equalised through Joao Pedro.
Napoli 3-1 Atalanta
This was an important victory for Napoli.
They lost home and away to Atalanta last term and a repeat was a distinct possibility as they trailed at the break.
In the end, however, Maurizio Sarri’s side prevailed, although the reaction goalkeeper Pepe Reina gave home fans at full-time suggests the player may be PSG bound.
SPAL 3-2 Udinese
When you’ve waited nearly half a century, you tend to want your first Serie A win to come with some style.
A stoppage-time goal from Luca Rizzo sent the majority inside the Stadio Mazza wild.
Now, can they prove their doubters wrong?
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