Serie A Finally Produce Solid Week Of Champions League Results
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Ademola Lookman (Atalanta) controls the ball during the Champions League group game between Eintracht Frankfurt and Atalanta at the Deutsche Bank Park, Frankfurt, Germany, on November 26, 2025. (Photo by Ulrik Pedersen/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images After several mixed rounds in the Champions League this season, Serie A sides finally produced a solid run of results. Before going into match day five of Europe’s premiere competition, Inter Milan, Juventus, Napoli and Atalanta had won a combined seven games from 16 games, a fairly poor return. Inter had won the vast majority of the seven, winning four from four. Serie A champions Napoli had just the one, while Atalanta had picked up two. Juventus, the biggest team in the country, had no wins. With England almost assured of winning first place in the UEFA coefficient ranking, even at this early stage, and earning a fifth spot in next season’s competition, Italy knew it needed to start winning in order to chase the second spot along with Spain and Germany. The coefficient ranking, as most know, is based on winning games across UEFA’s three cup competitions. Italy had secured a fifth side in the competition last season on the back of a strong showing in Uefa’s two lesser cup competitions — the Europa League and Conference League — the year prior. Yet Uefa changed the rules ahead of last season, giving more weight to results earned in the Champions League. Serie A’s relative underperformance so far this season meant needing a good round or two of results to claw back into contention, and they got it this week. Juventus finally earned their first win in the Champions League this season with a slender — in the truest sense of the word — victory against Bodo Glimt in the Arctic…
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