🎇 Serie A summit: 4 clubs within 1 point, first time in 31 years😱 | OneFootball

Such a tight title race after 7 matchdays had never been seen in Serie A, history says so: because with Milan on 16 points and the chasers Inter, Napoli and Roma on 15, there are 4 teams within a single point.

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This is a unique event in the history of our league: because since wins have been worth 3 points (the 1994/95 season), a situation like this has never occurred.

Never 4 teams within one point after Matchday 7

1996/97: 5 teams within 2 points

In the 1996/97 season there were even more teams involved at the top, but spread over two points: they were Juventus and Inter (14 points), Vicenza (13 points), Milan and Perugia (12 points).

A hard-fought Scudetto that would be won by Lippi’s Juventus on the penultimate matchday, leaving behind a team that wasn’t in that “quintet” on Matchday 7: namely Parma. Ancelotti was on the bench and at the end of October they had 10 points, even in 13th place given the extremely tight standings at the start of that season.

Of that quintet, Perugia would even be relegated to Serie B (changing 3 coaches) due to the head-to-head tiebreaker, finishing third from bottom with 37 points, level with Cagliari.

2022/23: 3 teams within one point

In 2022/23, after Matchday 7 there were 3 teams within one point, but arranged differently: at the top Napoli and Atalanta (17 points), with Udinese (16 points) chasing.

Gasperini’s Atalanta started very strong also thanks to a not-too-difficult schedule (their only draw was against Milan, and note the win over Roma) while Napoli had already beaten Lazio and Milan and drawn with Fiorentina.

Udinese, meanwhile, were coming off an impressive run: 6 straight positive results and 5 wins, also beating Fiorentina, Roma (4-0) and Inter (3-1). The streak would continue until Matchday 11 against Torino. Sottil’s Udinese would finish the season in 12th place.

At the end of the season Napoli would triumph well in advance, with 5 matchdays to spare thanks to a draw in Udine after postponing the celebrations with a 2-2 home draw against Salernitana.

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