Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A)

[doomloop]

I do not think he'll be Injury prone after all these four years without football. If you follow him closely on Instagram, you'll see that he has been involved with personal trainings and work out to keep fit. He'll be back stronger and better than we know him truthfully.

Two sides of every story. I will not want to judge him already, rather I'd love to read or hear his own side of the story so I can evaluate and filter what's said. The deed has been done now let's wait to see what happens in the next few years.

As much ass he believes in himself, there is nothing you can do to pull him down. I'm expecting a better Paul Pogba. During the European Championship, we saw how France missed his creativity in midfied. He will be back! Pogback!!

Pogba is going to play again in August 2027 mean after three years, and he could be 34 at this time with having his 35th birthday on March 28 mean things are clearly not favourable for him to be play again at the top level but his social media accounts and his activity is clearly showing he is doing his all activities and ready for having coming back into soccer after end of this ban.

There were few suggestions about his future, but currently he rejected all and doing his stuff as he wants to stay fit and have his desired for the game keep alive no doubt France missed his performance in last Euro 2024, but now we can't do anything about this as this is just because of his own mistakes, but now he will be back or not it's never been easy to predict because three years can bring many changes and things can take many turns as well.

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Pogba is going to play again in August 2027 mean after three years, and he could be 34 at this time with having his 35th birthday on March 28 mean things are clearly not favourable for him to be play again at the top level but his social media accounts and his activity is clearly showing he is doing his all activities and ready for having coming back into soccer after end of this ban.

3 more years for his return and with attitude of Pogba through his career, I really don't believe he will return if there is no money and income pressure. If he is abundant with money, has good finance, he will never return. Because in golden years of his career, he lacked of concentration on football in training and matches. He is not a man who obsesses with his player career and has little reasons to come back after some years out of professional football.

There were few suggestions about his future, but currently he rejected all and doing his stuff as he wants to stay fit and have his desired for the game keep alive no doubt France missed his performance in last Euro 2024, but now we can't do anything about this as this is just because of his own mistakes, but now he will be back or not it's never been easy to predict because three years can bring many changes and things can take many turns as well.

France missed a best version of Pogba, but recent years he was no longer at his best shape and performances so he less possibly contributes best things for France in Euro 2024 if he can join it. France will need a long time to find another player who can be strong physically and creatively in their midfield but now they can forget about Pogba. His career ends already and it's unrealistic to hope that he will return and come back with his best.

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Preseason matches are not a benchmark for being stronger in the next season, but being able to beat two great teams like Man City and Real Madrid will certainly have an impact on AC Milan players as a whole, especially regarding the players' mentality which is getting better. In my opinion, it's not just Real Madrid and Man City who play young players, but AC Milan also plays young players in preseason matches. So even though preseason matches are meaningless, preseason matches are very important to start the league well. The next preseason match is against Barcelona, ​​​​if AC Milan manages to beat Barcelona I think next season AC Milan will really be a tough contender in the fight for the Serie A trophy and the UCL League.

What is clear in this match is that they are only conducting trials for each team and I am sure that Real Madrid will not use the players they used in this pre-season match. Manchester City and Real Madrid will use their main players who are stronger and their mentality is no longer in doubt, but I must admit that Milan's performance was quite good when they beat Real Madrid and Man City, they are trying to use various strategies to prepare for next season.
It is no need to explain again indeed that Milan has always been a strong competitor to win the Serie A scudetto from year to year with its tough rivals Juventus and also Inter Milan.

They also drew with Barcelona yesterday. In other words, they have never lost in these difficult matches and this is a great success. Fonseca has started to adapt to Milan. He showed his influence in Milan. He managed to make Milan a scary team for Serie A. Now they are in the position of being one of the biggest candidates for the championship next year. They have not lost to the two strongest teams in La Liga. This is a great success.

[Jatiluhung]

What is clear in this match is that they are only conducting trials for each team and I am sure that Real Madrid will not use the players they used in this pre-season match. Manchester City and Real Madrid will use their main players who are stronger and their mentality is no longer in doubt, but I must admit that Milan's performance was quite good when they beat Real Madrid and Man City, they are trying to use various strategies to prepare for next season.
It is no need to explain again indeed that Milan has always been a strong competitor to win the Serie A scudetto from year to year with its tough rivals Juventus and also Inter Milan.

AC Milan's new coach will definitely try to make AC Milan perform well even in pre-season. Because in reality he is trying to gain the trust of everyone at the club. Well, this is necessary to build the players' confidence in the instructions from the coach. Good results from pre-season can show that Paulo Fonseca can indeed be trusted. And when all the players have high hopes for the coach, a harmonious situation will exist within the club. And this will make the team's performance better. I think Paulo Fonseca is building on this while testing out the strategies and players he wants to use in the real season. Real Madrid and Man city are in a condition where they don't need to show their full strength. They just want to assess their players and test out some new compositions and strategies without caring about winning or losing.

[rendravolt]

Playing against Barcelona in the pre-season match was not easy because the Spanish team performed very well in the last few matches but Milan were very enthusiastic to be able to beat them. The result was a 2-2 draw in the normal 90 minutes and the match continued to the penalty shootout. Luckily the Rossoneri managed to beat Barcelona with a 3-4 advantage from the penalty spot and at least this was a positive result for them.

Milan's victory in the pre-season match continued and with this result it became their third consecutive victory. I think coach Paulo Fonseca has found the right formula for his players and it remains to be seen how the next preparation will be when Serie A starts again. I see the mentality of the Milan players is ready to compete and there is not a little that they will risk in order to win the title. I miss how Inter and Milan race each other in the standings and I really want to see that happen later.

[Uruhara]

AC Milan's new coach will definitely try to make AC Milan perform well even in pre-season. Because in reality he is trying to gain the trust of everyone at the club. Well, this is necessary to build the players' confidence in the instructions from the coach. Good results from pre-season can show that Paulo Fonseca can indeed be trusted. And when all the players have high hopes for the coach, a harmonious situation will exist within the club. And this will make the team's performance better. I think Paulo Fonseca is building on this while testing out the strategies and players he wants to use in the real season. Real Madrid and Man city are in a condition where they don't need to show their full strength. They just want to assess their players and test out some new compositions and strategies without caring about winning or losing.

Well I agree with this. And Man City or Real Madrid are not serious about winning matches in pre-season. They have more important things they have to do in pre-season games. Namely finding good players and several compositions that are suitable for use in the coming season. Every team that has a new coach will always do everything to the maximum even if it is in pre-season. Just look at the results shown by Napoli which are the same as Milan. They also showed positive results with the many wins they obtained in pre-season. Even though yesterday Napoli lost in pre-season to Girona. But in other pre-season matches, Napoli also always won. Just like what was achieved by AC Milan, which will also start the season with a new coach. Even one of the premier league teams, namely Liverpool, and its new coach also showed the same thing in the pre-season match. Namely, they achieved victory after victory in pre-season matches. So I agree that a new coach in a team seems to have to show their quality even if it is in a pre-season match.

[karabiber]

Am I not seeing this wrong? Isn't this too cruel for Atalanta? even they can't do anything in front of Parma.

It seems that Serie A next season will present a new strong figure and actually this is an old face that has started to show its revival again. Parma wants to prove that they are a team full of history and try to make history again in Serie A as a promotion team next season. Atalanta looks helpless in front of Parma and we know that these two teams will also face each other for a season and what if Atalanta can't avenge their defeat in this pre-season match, wouldn't it be a little annoying?

Well, Atalanta have to work hard because after winning the Europa League they can't lower their quality and as a fairly favored team I hope they won't weaken.

Sometimes it is good to get bad results. Atalanta had a successful season last season, both in the league and in the conference. Atalanta fans had high hopes for the upcoming season after a successful season. I think that's why the team got complacent and the important thing here is not to get complacent and always aim for better. But in the Atalanta-Parma match I think Atalanta got complacent. Atalanta's defeat against Parma was good for Atalanta before the season started. Because they realized that they shouldn't be complacent before the start of the season and the Parma game was a good opportunity for them to see their shortcomings for next season. Parma will start the season in a good way with this win. I'm happy to see a good team like Parma back in Serie A.

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If a team wants to achieve maximum glory, what is needed is good management, a qualified squad composition and good relationships between the club, coach and players. And we can see all of this at Inter Milan in the last few seasons. And I think AC Milan will also be able to do it this season. Because AC Milan has also tried well to improve their squad by taking advantage of the current player transfer window. It's just that one thing we may not be able to confirm is whether the current coach will be able to build good chemistry between the players in the main squad. Because this is also very important to enable all players to play more optimally.

It is difficult for Paulo Fonseca to be able to immediately make the AC Milan team develop in his first season, especially compared to Inter Milan, I think it is still not feasible.
AC Milan will of course try to build this team with its new coach even though in the pre-season match we saw Paulo Fonseca could make the AC Milan team's performance much better, but I think that is not a guarantee.

It may take several seasons for Paulo Fonseca to make the AC Milan team successful, because in football nothing is instant, everything takes a process.

So far we can only make an assessment from the pre-season matches they have played. And yes, in the end, the good results shown in pre-season matches may indeed be different from the actual matches when the season starts. It's just that from the way Paulo Fonseca makes strategies in pre-season matches, I think this coach can be expected to bring about good changes. but yes, it will definitely take time and will not happen instantly. At the start of the season, AC Milan might not immediately find their best game. But as the season progresses I am sure Paulo Fonseca will make the AC Milan squad better and better. Maybe I seem too optimistic. But yeah, this is just my guess. And of course my guess could be very inaccurate.

AC Milan showed a great performance in the friendly matches. I, and probably you, did not expect to see such a good performance from them. Right now, it seems like Fonseca has managed to add good things to the team, but when the league starts, everything will start to become clearer. Because the teams will be on the field with their best squad to compete in the best way. For now, everything is going very well, but we should not forget that these matches were friendly matches. The opponents may not have taken it very seriously, the real struggle will be in the league.

How a team performs in the preliminaries does not predict how it will perform in the main season. There are many differences between a friendly match and a main stage match. A team's objective in the main stage match is to win against the opponent at any cost and earn 3 points. In the friendlies that are now taking place before the main stage matches begin, we see the big teams not using their main weapons. Managers of big teams are trying to use players who sit on the bench for most of the season. But if AC Milan can perform like this in the main stage match like the friendly match and that performance is maintained then the matter is much more happy for the Milan fans.

[Altryist]

AC Milan's new coach will definitely try to make AC Milan perform well even in pre-season. Because in reality he is trying to gain the trust of everyone at the club. Well, this is necessary to build the players' confidence in the instructions from the coach. Good results from pre-season can show that Paulo Fonseca can indeed be trusted. And when all the players have high hopes for the coach, a harmonious situation will exist within the club. And this will make the team's performance better. I think Paulo Fonseca is building on this while testing out the strategies and players he wants to use in the real season. Real Madrid and Man city are in a condition where they don't need to show their full strength. They just want to assess their players and test out some new compositions and strategies without caring about winning or losing.

Perhaps he takes friendly matches too seriously, I don't see the point in achieving a position in pre-season matches that don't decide anything. There are 10 days left before the start of the season, and the first games will show how well the results in friendly matches correspond to the team's form. Fonseca is a very ambitious coach and said that Milan's main goal for this season is to win the Scudetto. A very self-confident statement, but I think it should be like that, when a team understands where it needs to go, there is a greater chance that it will be able to achieve its goal.

[bastisisca]

Ladies and gentlemen, I am totally amazed by Milan's performances, I never expected this kind of performance.
I have to say that Fonseca is working well and I didn't expect these results, even if they are only friendly.
Well done, I'm happy for the Milan fans and not only that, we won't see a one-sided championship.

It's still a pre season games, and the first real test for Ac Milan has not yet come. I think the better if you're lowering your expectations to them. Im not saying Ac Milan was bad, but nothing to take from the Pre-season when they were against kids from the different clubs,

Fonsesca is still quite new in Ac Milan, and his real test is gonna start once Serie A will be starting soon.

I said this too, I said the performances are good and I didn't expect it.  But I also said that they are friendly matches and that we will therefore see the real test during the championship.

Obviously we cannot rely on these matches to understand how the team will fare in the championship.  They are batches of experiments.

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In terms of score, it is quite a striking score for a team that last season managed to become champions in the Europa League, but it should be remembered that this is a friendly match which does not affect them at all, in fact a defeat like this in a friendly match can make them more aware of what is still lacking in their game so that they can evaluate everything to be better in the official competition.

In general, we will always see that some teams do not play to their best strength, because their main focus is not to win but to test how strong their squad depth is. Atalanta are also aware that they will be in the Champions League next season, so they will prepare for it as best they can.

If we look at some clubs you would notice that most of their main players who are more like guaranteed starters are not part of the main squad for the preseason this is because they don’t want to risk it by allowing them to play as most of them had participated in the international tournaments but aside that I noticed a culture of team like Manchester city and Real Madrid not usually playing their best players In the preseason friendlies and even if they do feature they don’t play to the level we all knew they can. This is clearly telling us that they don’t rate the friendlies and it shouldn’t be use to test a team performance level for the new season

Now things will get even more complicated for Atalanta. They have to be ready with a busy schedule but on the other hand they also have to lose their core players where Scamacca is affected by ACL and has to rest for at least 6 months even almost a season he has to undergo recovery which makes this a difficult job for Gasperini.

Though for this season I expect a lot from them because even though the Atalanta players seem ordinary without any star players but it cannot be denied that they are dark horses for Serie A so I expect more in this season.
But when the loss of Scamacca is clear this will disrupt their performance even though Atalanta players are not only good Scamacca but he is a good striker and targetman so when losing this player for a long time I think this will be the biggest loss and loss for Atalanta in undergoing Serie A and the Champions League.

[giammangiato]

Well, indeed, Roma is still watching and expecting to bid more top players to enhance their squad.

Latest rumors:
1. Federico Chiesa
He is a good Juventus Left Winger, ready to join Roma, negotiations are working on, for around 20-25 million euros, worth it?
Source: Federico Chiesa opens to Roma transfer

2. Marc Pubill
Almería right-back, as the option of Torino's Raoul Bellanova that is too expensive for them. They will meet the agent this week.
Source: Roma to meet with Marc Pubill?s agent this week

Nooooooooo
why sell Federico Chiesa, who is a very good, promising and young player!  What nonsense Juventus is doing!
I absolutely don't agree, in fact, this thing even makes me a little angry.  We don't sell players like that!
I am really angry for this.

[Baki202]

Teams like Real Madrid or Man City will not show their best performance in pre-season matches, they will only make some changes and this is different from AC Milan who are looking for their best performance with their new coach. However, even so, what has been seen in several pre-season matches, AC Milan's performance deserves to be appreciated, they played quite well and this is an indication that they will be able to do better next season and are ready to compete for the Serie A title.

They don't bother about preseason since their is no price for the preseason and they don't even use their main squad during the preseason they like using the players on bench that's another reason to tell you that they don't care at all, it is not necessary for us to show our best performance in a preseason it is not worth it at all. Especially when the main season is about to start we need to store up all the energies we can store up before the main season starts. Their was a lot of changes especially coaches and AC Milan have be an amazing club and with a new coach now let's see the performance they will put up with their new coach, this season is going to be different, there have been a lot of changes this season.  As far it is preseason everyone's performance is supposed to be appreciated, since they are just practicing out after season, and they all did great I won't condemn any club until the main season.

[pusaka]

Ladies and gentlemen, I am totally amazed by Milan's performances, I never expected this kind of performance.
I have to say that Fonseca is working well and I didn't expect these results, even if they are only friendly.
Well done, I'm happy for the Milan fans and not only that, we won't see a one-sided championship.

It's still a pre season games, and the first real test for Ac Milan has not yet come. I think the better if you're lowering your expectations to them. Im not saying Ac Milan was bad, but nothing to take from the Pre-season when they were against kids from the different clubs,

Fonsesca is still quite new in Ac Milan, and his real test is gonna start once Serie A will be starting soon.

I said this too, I said the performances are good and I didn't expect it.  But I also said that they are friendly matches and that we will therefore see the real test during the championship.

Obviously we cannot rely on these matches to understand how the team will fare in the championship.  They are batches of experiments.

I can't say no, because their performance is good in this pre-season match, but I agree that we have to lower our expectations of them. Pre-season matches are unpredictable matches, I mean sometimes they are good in pre-season but not in the competition, and there are also the opposite, they are bad in pre-season but they are good in the competition.
Now it is AC Milan's job to answer all of that, they have to answer that their performance in pre-season is a true picture of their performance in the competition. And the answer we will only get when Serie A starts. We have to be patient first to see their performance in Serie A or other official competitions.

[SOKO-DEKE]

Teams like Real Madrid or Man City will not show their best performance in pre-season matches, they will only make some changes and this is different from AC Milan who are looking for their best performance with their new coach. However, even so, what has been seen in several pre-season matches, AC Milan's performance deserves to be appreciated, they played quite well and this is an indication that they will be able to do better next season and are ready to compete for the Serie A title.

They don't bother about preseason since their is no price for the preseason and they don't even use their main squad during the preseason they like using the players on bench that's another reason to tell you that they don't care at all, it is not necessary for us to show our best performance in a preseason it is not worth it at all. Especially when the main season is about to start we need to store up all the energies we can store up before the main season starts. Their was a lot of changes especially coaches and AC Milan have be an amazing club and with a new coach now let's see the performance they will put up with their new coach, this season is going to be different, there have been a lot of changes this season.  As far it is preseason everyone's performance is supposed to be appreciated, since they are just practicing out after season, and they all did great I won't condemn any club until the main season.

I don't think every others teams are always uses their best squad as you may be thinking. What all teams always do during preseason matches they give chances to other players who are not in the main squad and by doing this, the coaches are just trying to know some players' abilities, maybe if possible, if those new players can be introduced to the main squad. So, as you see, Real Madrid or other strong teams are not using their best squad, which is what others are also doing.One thing I want you to understand is that during preseason, teams always use available players. Not all players are always available in the clubs due to some reasons, like when they play other international competitions and they are not well rested. They always give them time to rest, and that is the reason why some players in Real Madrid are not available on the pitch and even they available I don't think the coach will use the full and same applicable to others clubs.

Preseason is not the best form of teams, but from preseason, we can judge their players. I don't see any reason why a team that will perform well in the main season will performed very poorly throughout their preseason matches. Real Madrid is not performing poorly; they lose some matches and also won some games, and that is how Real Madrid's preseason always looks. As for AC Milan, from their performances I have seen good performances and I may predict that they will surely do well. I can't say that they will win the Serie A league next season, but it is very possible they will be among the top four next season.

[Leviathan.007]

It seems Conte wants to make more chances in Napoli since he joined in this team and he wants to get the team improved by hiring more players in Napoli and that's why he should say goodbye to some other player he already has in this team.
Alex Meret is the goalkeeper of Napoli but now they decided to put Alex Meret for sale because Conte asked for it and Napoli is trying to hire another player since they will stop working with Alex Meret soon.
 

  

[Iranus]

Of course this Serie A competition will be interesting with big Italian clubs also very active in the transfer market at this time by hunting for new players to compete for the title next season, lately it has been seen that Inter is very strong in Serie A they were once down but now they are rising and amazingly they did their best last season, but in my opinion next season will not be beautiful for Inter they will compete with AC Milan who are currently getting positive results in pre-season and Inter on the contrary even though Inter are not playing with top European clubs, AC Milan who continue to win I think they will surprise Inter next season and of course Roma and Napoli will also be ready to block the defending champion Inter next season. The feeling with what happened in the Italian Serie A will be more interesting to wait for but I'm sure Inter is not as great as last season because currently AC Milan is better if you look at what they have done so far, and I'm sure the meeting in Serie A will be fierce and what the promotion team Como is doing is also very eager to hijack their place in Serie A next season, of course Serie A will present something that did not happen last season, and I hope this match at the end of the season will end hot and fierce between all of them.

It does look like there is something different about the passion in Serie A this season. For example, in this transfer market, all the Serie A teams seem to be very enthusiastic about bringing in great players. And one of the newcomers to Serie A, COMO, has also shown that it is the promotional team that is most enthusiastic about taking advantage of the transfer market.

If you look at the pre-season matches, AC Milan does look very reliable. But we don't know when the season starts. But I also believe AC Milan can surprise Inter Milan. But I probably see more big surprises coming from Roma and Napoli. I think Napoli will be surprising not because of the depth of their squad but because they have Conte who is a legendary coach with many achievements in the past. Meanwhile, I think Roma will be a strong challenger because De Rossi looks like a young coach who can bring out the maximum potential of every player at the club. He is similar to Arteta and we can see that Arteta has succeeded in making Arsenal compete at the top.

In this season Serie A is going to be very competitive. all the clubs are bringing in new players to make the squad stronger. and I think that is going to make the competition very fierce. In the last season inter literally ran away with things. But i think in this season this is not going to be the case and this season I am very hopeful about a certain club called juventus. In the last season they have performed really badly. and towards the end of the season they were almost unable to win any match at all. but with a new coach I think things are going to change. at least I hope so. I also hope that they will be able to complete for the title.

personally I would like to see a good competition between at least for teams for the title. it is very boring to see a certain club run away with that I tell with 5-10 matches left in the season. I just want that to change, and I think it will.

[Palakka]

It seems Conte wants to make more chances in Napoli since he joined in this team and he wants to get the team improved by hiring more players in Napoli and that's why he should say goodbye to some other player he already has in this team.
Alex Meret is the goalkeeper of Napoli but now they decided to put Alex Meret for sale because Conte asked for it and Napoli is trying to hire another player since they will stop working with Alex Meret soon.
 

  

Some of the new coaches in Serie A are making really crazy moves right now in overhauling their squad, when we see the big move from Motta at Juventus right now which is throwing away a lot of players, in fact Conte in napoli also continuing to make crazy move by throwing away their mainstay players last season, Previously, Conte forced Napoli to sell Osimhen to bring in Lukaku, but before Osimhen was sold, now Conte also asked Napoli to sell Alex Meret. who is their main goalkeeper last season, Meret managed to appear quite formidable as Napoli last bastion in the last two seasons so it is very surprising that Conte does not want to keep him in the squad next season although currently Napoli only has Contini and Caprile as backup goalkeepers, what Conte is doing is of course unexpected and I think he knows what is best for Napoli next season but so far I haven't heard who will be recruited by Napoli to replace Alex Meret if leave later?

[hahay]

Well, indeed, Roma is still watching and expecting to bid more top players to enhance their squad.

Latest rumors:
1. Federico Chiesa
He is a good Juventus Left Winger, ready to join Roma, negotiations are working on, for around 20-25 million euros, worth it?
Source: Federico Chiesa opens to Roma transfer

2. Marc Pubill
Almería right-back, as the option of Torino's Raoul Bellanova that is too expensive for them. They will meet the agent this week.
Source: Roma to meet with Marc Pubill?s agent this week

Nooooooooo
why sell Federico Chiesa, who is a very good, promising and young player!  What nonsense Juventus is doing!
I absolutely don't agree, in fact, this thing even makes me a little angry.  We don't sell players like that!
I am really angry for this.

Rumors like this always seem to exist in every open transfer window because after all, in the transfer market at the beginning of last season too if I'm not mistaken, that Vlahovic was also rumored to leave. Not only that, because as far as I remember also at that time Juventus had also stated that they were open to negotiations for Vlahovic. But anyway, the reality is that Vlahovic is still at Juventus, and I also hope that Vlahovic will remain at Juventus for a long time.

Now it's happening again and not reluctantly, as the rumors prove about Chiesa being open to negotiations as well. What's more, the interested team is AS Roma, which is basically also Juventus rival. Thus, then of course there will be many people who disagree because after all, Chiesa is a young player who is the first choice of Juventus. In fact, when Chiesa was injured with a long recovery, the fact is that Juventus still really needed Chiesa at that time. So yes, it seems to be something unreal if Chiesa later leaves for AS Roma, and of course it will be very unfortunate and many Juventus fans will also disagree.

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It's still a pre season games, and the first real test for Ac Milan has not yet come. I think the better if you're lowering your expectations to them. Im not saying Ac Milan was bad, but nothing to take from the Pre-season when they were against kids from the different clubs,

Fonsesca is still quite new in Ac Milan, and his real test is gonna start once Serie A will be starting soon.

I said this too, I said the performances are good and I didn't expect it.  But I also said that they are friendly matches and that we will therefore see the real test during the championship.

Obviously we cannot rely on these matches to understand how the team will fare in the championship.  They are batches of experiments.

I can't say no, because their performance is good in this pre-season match, but I agree that we have to lower our expectations of them. Pre-season matches are unpredictable matches, I mean sometimes they are good in pre-season but not in the competition, and there are also the opposite, they are bad in pre-season but they are good in the competition.
Now it is AC Milan's job to answer all of that, they have to answer that their performance in pre-season is a true picture of their performance in the competition. And the answer we will only get when Serie A starts. We have to be patient first to see their performance in Serie A or other official competitions.

Milan are currently making a roadmap to success next season, a number of their pre-season tour results indicate that they are very ready to compete for the Scudetto. However, I predict their chances of winning it are lower than Inter Milan, despite their impressive victories against Barcelona, Madrid, and Man City. At least, the series of wins can increase the players confidence, and indicate that they have adapted quickly and are ready to face the new season. Meanwhile, to assess Milan true strength, their first match against Torino in the next ten days can be used as a reference.

Paulo Fonseca who was appointed as the new manager is fully responsible for Milan performance next season, his experience coaching Roma can at least shorten his time to adapt to the Serie A game culture. Last season Milan was quite far behind Inter Milan, also losing when the two faced each other directly in the derby match. With the overhaul that has been carried out in the transfer window, Milan performance next season should be even better, following the good results they got in the pre-season tour. Hopefully, this will not only be proven in Serie A, but should also be shown in their journey in the Champions League.