Where Venezia stand after nine games
The table leaves little room for interpretation. Venezia are 20th in Serie A with 3 points from 9 matches: one win, no draws and eight defeats. They have scored 6 goals and conceded 19, a goal difference of minus 13. According to [1], they have lost seven of their first eight matches since returning to the top flight, and the only win in that spell came against Napoli. The Inter game on 28 October then became the eighth loss from nine.
The recent run shows the pattern. Venezia lost 2-0 at home to Lazio on 19 September and 3-1 away at Atalanta on 12 October. Five days later they beat Napoli 1-0 at home, which is still the season’s high point. They then lost 1-0 at Genoa on 25 October and 2-0 to Inter three days later.
Over those five matches Venezia scored two goals and conceded eight. The problem is at both ends. Only the Napoli game brought a clean sheet, and in three of the other four they failed to score at all. A side that creates so little and concedes this often has almost no margin for error. Every match turns into a search for one moment that settles it, and so far the moments have mostly gone against them.
The Inter defeat: unlucky or simply beaten
The 2-0 loss to Inter on Wednesday was less one-sided than the scoreline suggests, though it still ended in defeat. [2] reports that both goals came from deflections, and that the result moved Inter level with Lazio at the top of the table. A second report put Inter on 25 points from nine games.
The Inter coach was candid afterwards. [3] says Cristian Chivu admitted the win was partly lucky and said he had wanted to change several players at half-time with the derby against Milan approaching. That is not a flattering description of the leaders’ performance, and it gives Venezia something to hold on to.
The caution is that luck cuts both ways. Venezia’s own season has not been defined by freak goals. They have lost eight league games, and eight defeats rarely come down to bad bounces alone. The Inter match shows they can stay competitive for long periods against a strong side, but a deflection-assisted defeat still adds nothing to the points column. The challenge is to turn that kind of resistance into a goal at the other end, because six goals in nine games is too few to survive on.
Absences that limit the options
Squad depth is the other part of the story. [2] lists four long-term absentees for Venezia: Marin Šverko, Thierry Correia, Andrea Adorante and Bartol Franjić. All four are recorded as out, so none is a late-fitness doubt. They are simply unavailable for the foreseeable future.
Their absence matters because it removes options in several areas at once. Correia and Šverko are the kind of names that affect the back line and the wide areas. Adorante’s absence takes away a forward option for a team that has managed only six league goals. Franjić’s absence thins things further. The input does not give detailed minutes or roles for these players, so it would be wrong to claim exactly how each would have been used, but the cumulative effect is clear. A promoted side with a thin margin for error is carrying four unavailable players.
Inter had their own list, including Lautaro Martínez, Pavard, Stones, Curtis Jones and Luis Henrique, and still won. That is a reminder of the gap in resources. Venezia cannot absorb injuries the way the leaders can, so every further knock becomes a selection problem rather than a rotation choice. Until some of the four return, the coach has to work with a limited group and hope that the same eleven or so can keep a shape and a level of intensity across a congested autumn.
What it means
The numbers put Venezia in a hard place. They are 20th with 3 points from 9 games, and the one win came against Napoli on 17 October. Eight defeats, 6 goals scored and 19 conceded describe a team that is losing more than it is competing, even if the Inter result was narrower than the scoreline implies.
The form says the same thing. Two scored and eight conceded across the last five matches, plus back-to-back defeats to Genoa and Inter, means confidence cannot be high. The positive reading is that the Napoli win shows the side can take a result against a strong opponent when the match goes its way.
The next fixture asks a different question. Venezia travel to Como on 1 November in Serie A. Neither the table nor the form can tell us how that game will go, and the site’s forecast for it locks 24 hours before kick-off, so there is no number to quote yet. What the match does ask is whether Venezia can score first, protect a lead and avoid the early concession that has shaped so many of their defeats. With four players out long term, the answer will depend on getting more from the group that is available. A win would lift them to 6 points and give them a second victory to point to, while another defeat would deepen a gap that is already large.
Sources
- Football Italia: Serie A: Venezia vs. Inter – Probable line-ups and where to watch on TV football-italia.net ↩
- Football Italia: Serie A | Venezia 0-2 Inter: Nerazzurri leave it late and ride luck again football-italia.net ↩
- Football Italia: Chivu admits Inter ‘lucky’ to beat Venezia: ‘I wanted to replace everyone’ football-italia.net ↩
