Spalletti spoke at his pre-match press conference on the eve of the trip to the San Siro.
Milan played and beat Inter in the Derby Della Madonnina earlier this month.
However, despite both teams having 14 points from their first six league games, which puts them tied for first place with Atalanta, the perception is that today’s match versus Napoli will be the most important of the season thus far.
After losing Lorenzo Insigne, Dries Mertens, Fabian Ruiz, and Kalidou Koulibaly this summer, Napoli is soaring. Tanguy Ndombele, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, and Giacomo Raspadori are just a few of the new recruits who have excelled.
He said:
“Yes, two teams doing well, it becomes difficult to say who is in the lead.
“Whoever takes the advance on the bets during the 90 minutes will be an advantage.
“They are two teams that pay little attention to the balance due to the desire to win games.
“Sometimes you find high spaces, and Milan knows how to readjust them immediately.
“Whoever manages the ball better will have the advantage.
“And then I can’t say anything else. I certainly can’t say it the day before.
“It would not be correct for the players to know today.
“I need more than 11 to get to the end of the game, and they must all be motivated.”
Will Napoli and Milan compete for the Scudetto?
“Milan are healthy because they have freshness and creativity.
“I don’t know about the comparison, and it’s still early.
“They are the Italian champions, and they have some advantage.
“And we will have to be good at increasing, more than them because having won given further strength and started again well, and he reconfirmed them.
“We will have to go faster if we want to grab them. They are in front.”
Pioli said Napoli had signed little-known but suitable players; Spaletti replied:
“A Napoli built with technical players, thinking it could be a group that plays compactly, with the same idea.
“A bit like them, even in this, they resemble us and take the best for the characteristics of our players.”
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