Juventus coach Antonio Conte insists AC Milan are the favourites for tonight's clash.

Conte was asked if he truly believed that the Bianconeri are underdogs this weekend.

"Let's not forget, they beat us in the Trofeo Berlusconi. Milan are a strong team - us, as I have said, have reached an important step, to be competitive again. I had set myself this step, I set myself several steps, but the most important was to become competitive again.

"I think we have achieved this and this is a beautiful thing and should be a source of pride and satisfaction for the players, for me, for the club and for the fans.

"Look, quite frankly, it would be nice to open up a gap between us and third place. I do not know if this will happen based on what we do against Milan. It's inevitable that I'd like to selfishly that the top two cut themselves off.

"But we know that the Italian League is very competitive, there are teams like Udinese, Lazio, Roma and Inter.

"That said, we look to ourselves, which is most important, we look forward and try to do the best we can, starting tomorrow night, which is the first game in which we face."