Massimiliano Allegri believes that the rule of champions Napoli are favorites to win the Serie A title this season.
AC Milan, who organizes the side of Antonio Conte on Sunday in the competition, hopes to end the perfect start of Napoli for the competition campaign.
The Rossoneri are currently three points in the back of the third after Juventus’s draw against Atalanta, but can go the top of the table if they beat Napoli.
Allegri acknowledged the size of the task that lies for us at San Siro, but hopes to cause an upset for their home fans.
“Tomorrow we will be confronted with Napoli, who rightly won the Scudetto last season,” said Allegri.
“They had an important transfer window and I still believe they are the favorites for the title. Conte is excellent in getting the best out of players.
“In their last 26 games they won 18 times. In recent years, Milan has always lost at home against Napoli. We hope to destroy those figures. It will certainly be a great match.
“It’s a great game, the first big game of the season. It will be an important test.”
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Napoli maintained their 100% start of their title defense with a 3-2 victory at Pisa Last Time Out, who followed the victories against Sassuolo, Cagliari and Fiorentina.
Despite the fact that the road in the Italian flight refused, Conte refused to be attracted to the conversation about favorites.
“I personally thought it was strange when people called our favorites, given that we were completed in the previous campaign of the European competitions,” said Conte.
“I don’t label anyone as favorites. I just know, and I repeat that Milan, Inter and Juve, because of their history, tradition, wages and financial value, have always written important chapters in football history.
“They are strong teams. As far as who is the favorite or not, I will leave those games to the media. We just have to stay focused.”
Players to watch
AC Milan – Christian Pulisic
Christian Pulisic has made a strong start of his season and registered three goals and one assist in just two competition -start.
Since making his series a debut (2023-24), Pulisic has been involved in 44 goals (26 goals, 18 assists); No player is involved in more goals in the last three seasons of the top flight than the American (Lautaro Martinez also has 44).
Naples – Matteo Politano
Matteo Politano scored six goals against Milan in the Serie A. of those six goals, four came in San Siro (two for Sassuolo and two for Napoli).
The 32-year-old, however, has to find the back of the net in the competition this season and offers an assist about four games.
Match forecast – Draw
Milan has won their last three league matches without giving a goal. The Rossoneri could make it for the first time in the Serie A four consecutive victories and a clean magazine in the Serie A.
Napoli has only lost two of their 21 Serie A-from matches (W12 D7) under Conte-a record layer for the least road between teams in the last two Serie A seasons. They also kept 11 clean sheets of home during this period, only Atalanta (12) has more.
Conte is also unbeaten in seven of his nine meetings with Allegri in all competitions and wins each of the last three. This is the first time that the two coaches have met in 11 years and 357 days (3-2 for Antonio Conte in Serie A, on October 6, 2013).
Napoli has won each of their first four Series A matches this season; Only three times before they won their first five games of a Serie A campaign (1987-88, 2017-18, 2021-22), but on none of those occasions they won the Scudetto.
Milan has only won two of their last 12 Serie A-home matches against Napoli (D3 L7), after an unbeaten run of 19 game against them in the competition in the Meazza (W10 D9).
Opta wins probability
AC Milan – 41.4%
Drawing – 27.4%
Napoli – 31.2%
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