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Gianluigi Buffon: 'Four teams can challenge Juventus for Serie A title'

Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon admits that retaining the Serie A title will not be easy, as AC Milan, Inter Milan, Roma and Napoli all will challenge them.

By Subhankar Mondal, Reporter | 14 September 2012

Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon believes that four teams can challenge them for the Serie A title this season.

The Bianconeri won the Scudetto last season and have started the 2012-13 campaign with two successive wins.

"There are three or four teams who might start behind us, but could be dangerous along the way," Buffon told Sky Sport24.

"I'm talking about AC Milan, but also, Inter [Milan], Roma and Napoli, who don't have the Champions League, but have an experienced group of players.

"We are missing [coach Antonio] Conte and his absence is felt on the bench. He is a coach who gave us new belief and did a great job of turning the team around with his determination."

Juventus are at Genoa in Serie A on Sunday.

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C	Inter Milan	37	29	6	2	87	20	67	93
2	AC Milan	37	22	8	7	73	46	27	74
3	Bologna	37	18	14	5	54	30	24	68
4	Juventus	37	18	14	5	52	31	21	68
5	Atalanta BC Atalanta	36	20	6	10	67	39	28	66
6	Roma	37	18	9	10	64	44	20	63
7	Lazio	37	18	6	13	48	38	10	60
8	Fiorentina	36	15	9	12	55	42	13	54
9	Torino	37	13	14	10	36	33	3	53
10	Napoli	37	13	13	11	55	48	7	52
11	Genoa	37	11	13	13	43	45	-2	46
12	Monza	37	11	12	14	39	49	-10	45
13	Hellas Verona Hellas Verona	37	9	10	18	36	49	-13	37
14	Lecce	37	8	13	16	32	54	-22	37
15	Cagliari Cagliari	37	8	12	17	40	65	-25	36
16	Frosinone Frosinone	37	8	11	18	44	68	-24	35
17	Udinese	37	5	19	13	36	53	-17	34
18	Empoli	37	8	9	20	27	53	-26	33
R	Sassuolo Sassuolo	37	7	8	22	42	74	-32	29
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