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Juve have been by far the strongest side in Italy for the last three years, but over the summer their main rivals have all made ground.
He will also have to show that he's able to adapt his game, because on the face of it, the Juve squad isn't perfectly suited to his style of play.
On the plus side for Allegri, he's never had a squad this talented.
The flip side of that is that the 47-year-old no longer has any excuses. Things are different in Turin, and if he fails it will be squarely on him.
Juve looked lively against the A-League All-Stars in Sydney last week but still managed to concede twice to a disparate mix of players hobbled together from a weaker league, so the 3-2 win shouldn't have anyone cheering too loudly.
In Australia, they needed some of Paul Pogba's genius to equalise in the 88th minute—Simone Pepe eventually snatched the winner in extra time.
They'll want to put things to bed quicker in Singapore, because a poor performance against such opposition would only serve to undermine confidence on the eve of the new league campaign.
Whether or not the line-up will be the same will be interesting.
Against the Australians, Allegri stuck to a 3-5-2 like the Juve of old, but he's more comfortable using four at the back.
The change to a 4-3-3 or 4-3-2-1 seems inevitable, so it would make sense for the manager to give it a spin now rather than waiting for the league to start, when he'll be under a lot more pressure.
Predicted Juventus XI: Buffon; Lichtsteiner, Bonucci, Ogbonna, Evra; Pirlo, Pogba, Marchisio; Tevez, Pereyra, Llorente.
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