Palermo home is tricky, probably X.
Atalanta away, holy shit, we never win there. 1X
Cagliari away, another hattrick for Ekdal? Just kidding. Probably X.
I don't think you read the original post properly... 12 points were not "EXPECTED", they were "REQUIRED" if we were to challenge for the 3rd spot.
Actually the original post starts by explaining why 3rd spot was ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE for Inter - this at a time when a lot of FIF members were talking about 3rd spot being possible. The idea of this post was to analyse what Mancini/Inter need to do in Jan & Feb to make this impossible dream look plausible, and highlight how difficult & unlikely that goal is.
So this wasn't a jinx, it was a anti-jinx, and even that did not work blivious:
truth be told i doesn't seem as though anyone wants that 3rd spot as everyone fighting for it are so inconsistent..napoli included who are slowly but surely securing that 3rd spot.
lazio and fiorentina draw a lot, samp and genoa were never going to stay up for long. milan are milan and inter are.... well inter