Key matches in race for Serie A title and Champions League spot | OneFootball

Only eight games remain in the 2024-25 Serie A campaign and Football Italia look at the most thrilling matches in the race for the Scudetto and a Champions League placement.

The final weeks of the Serie A season will be filled with excitement and unpredictability as Inter and Napoli fight for the Scudetto, while six teams will battle it out for the remaining two Champions League placements.

Football Italia looks to the top five Serie A matches to watch and bet on with the excellent Picklebet affiliate code.

Milan-Fiorentina on April 5 surely is one of the big matches in the last two months of action.

The Rossoneri will be pushing for a win to get back into a European placement, while La Viola will be looking for three more points to boost their top-four hopes. The Tuscans already beat the Rossoneri on October 6 seeing David de Gea save two penalty kicks and infuriating ex-Milan coach Paulo Fonseca.

Christian Pulisic should have taken the spot-kicks, but Theo Hernandez and Tammy Abraham showed up instead.

“Of course I am upset [that players changed the penalty kick taker]. Christian [Pulisic] should take penalties. It must never happen again, and I told the players,” Fonseca said after the first-leg game in Florence.

Roma-Juventus is another game to watch on the same weekend with both Serie A giants fighting for a Champions League spot. Roma have been unbeaten since December 15 in Serie A, while Juventus welcomed their new coach Igor Tudor with a 1-0 win over Genoa last week.

ROME, ITALY – JANUARY 05: Marco Baroni, Head Coach of Lazio, reacts towards Referee Luca Pairetto after a brawl during the Serie A match between AS Roma and SS Lazio at Stadio Olimpico on January 05, 2025 in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Paolo Bruno/Getty Images)

Another game in the capital, Lazio-Roma will be crucial in the race for a Champions League placement. It’s one of the most anticipated games of the season and it will be played on Sunday, April 13 at 19:45 BST. As thing stand, Roma and Lazio are level on 52 points, just four below fourth-placed Bologna.

Claudio Ranieri’s Roma have a tough fixture list as they’ll visit defending champions Inter the following weekend (April 27). The Nerazzurri are enjoying a three-point lead over second-placed Napoli, but Simone Inzaghi’s men are still involved in three competitions this season: Coppa Italia, Serie A and Champions League so they may be more tired than their opponents on the long run.

Napoli, on the other hand, only have Serie A to play four and their most challenging game, on paper, is an upcoming away meeting with Bologna at the Stadio Dall’Ara.

Napoli coach Antonio Conte has recently boosted the Partenopei’s title hopes by saying: “We’d be mad not to believe.

“We have nine games left to the end of the season, we’re three points off the leaders, who wouldn’t give it some thought?

“Even with all our strengths and weaknesses, we are still up there, a position nobody could’ve imagined at the start of the season. It is therefore only right to believe and give it all we’ve got. We must leave the field with our jerseys soaked through with sweat.”