The 2026-2027 Serie A season kicked off last weekend in Italy, with Inter, the 2025-2026 Scudetto winners, looking to defend the title in the new season. AC Milan, their cross-city rivals, made some key signings in the summer after replacing the coach and the whole club hierarchy after the disappointing end to the last campaign, and they appointed former Manchester United coach Ruben Amorim to lead the new cycle. Six teams replaced their coaches, including Napoli, which saw Antonio Conte leave the Azzurri after two seasons and appointed former AC Milan and Juventus manager Massimiliano Allegri.
Let's take a look at our power rankings after the second weekend of action: The 2025-2026 title holders won away against Cagliari but had to face the first real challenge of the season. Cristian Chivu's team delivered a strong performance in attack with 26 shots, but only scored one goal with Hakan Calhanoglu and in the end they were lucky as Cagliari could have scored in the final minutes. They need to improve with the new signings.
By far, the best team of the opening two weekends of Serie A soccer. AS Roma delivered again with their first away win of the season at Lecce. The second 4-0 in less than a week after the opening match won 4-0 against Fiorentina.
Donny Malen scored two more goals, and he's already at five goals scored in two matches. It looks like AS Roma can be a title contender finally. The expected struggles of Ruben Amorim at his first season at AC Milan were also evident against Venezia in their second win of the season.
Goncalo Ramos has scored his first goal at San Siro while Rafael Leao offically left the Rossoneri over the weekend as he joined Galatasaray. It really feels like a new era at the club, hopefully a better one. They didn't really need a win at Napoli to consolidate their status as a potential top four contender, if not more.
Cesc Fabregas and his team are one of the best soccer projects around Europe and just to make it even better they are about to add Moise Kean as their new striker on transfer deadline day. There is an urgent need for improvement, but the problem is that there is very little time to put things right. This weekend, they travel to San Siro to face Inter (you can catch the action front and center on CBS and Paramount+) before hosting Arsenal the following week in their Champions League opener.
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