Pre-season tournaments serve several purposes. They can be used to foster tactical organisation and team spirit, blood youngsters and offer a stiff test prior to the upcoming campaign. Unfortunately for AC Milan, they gained little from their two displays in the Audi Cup.
On the back of being outclassed en route to losing 3-0 against Bayern Munich in their opener on Tuesday, Milan entered their second and final match of the tournament with Tottenham on Wednesday with a point, or several, to prove. That they failed to do, stumbling to a 2-0 loss.
The result itself was far from ideal, but what may alarm Rossoneri coach Sinisa Mihajlovic more was the lack of positives to gleam from the team’s performance.