{"id":258200,"date":"2025-09-27T07:48:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T07:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/258200\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T07:48:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T07:48:24","slug":"serafini-calls-out-conte-for-studied-lies-amid-pressure-from-milan-and-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/258200\/","title":{"rendered":"Serafini calls out Conte for &#8216;studied lies&#8217; amid pressure from Milan and others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Antonio Conte is already playing a game in the media about suggestions that Napoli are the Scudetto favourites. As highlighted by Luca Serafini, it\u2019s something AC Milan and the other teams shouldn\u2019t fall for.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a summer of change in Serie A, with multiple managers switching teams, and that is also what made the season so hard to predict. The only top candidates that have remained fairly stable are Napoli, having retained Conte\u2019s services for at least one more season.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, Conte has made it sound like Napoli have changed just as much as anyone else, if not more. It\u2019s a clear game that he\u2019s playing with the media, hoping to throw Milan and other rivals off balance. This was argued by Luca Serafini in his latest editorial for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milannews.it\/editoriale\/perdonate-conte-non-perdonate-sala-e-basta-con-maignan-cosa-cambia-leao-la-storia-di-michele-591756\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">MilanNews<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not true that the Milan-Napoli result can change the season. On matchday 5, all that matters is the effect it has on the path of a team like Milan, half rebuilt from last season in terms of players, but entirely so when it comes to their playing system and formations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNapoli have different foundations and completely different certainties that Antonio Conte hides with his studied lies. He says his team has changed more than the others: we all know that\u2019s not true.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly Inter haven\u2019t changed much player-wise, but they have a new coach, new concepts, and a terrible season behind them,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Milan-Napoli is scheduled for Sunday evening and there should be a big crowd at San Siro, with <a href=\"https:\/\/sempremilan.com\/vitiello-milan-napoli-2025-sell-out-72k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>more than 72k tickets sold so far<\/strong><\/a>. Max Allegri will be back in the dugout for this one as well, following his two-game suspension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Antonio Conte is already playing a game in the media about suggestions that Napoli are the Scudetto favourites.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":258201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-258200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115275163604862577","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}