Team news: Sparta were without the suspended Ondřej Čelůstka and Bořek Dočkal as well as without, Lukáš Štetina, Adam Hložek and Libor Kozák. Milan were without Gianluigi Donnarumma, Simon Kjær, Alessio Romagnoli, Ismaël Bennacer, Hakan Çalhanoğlu and Zlatan Ibrahimović. Kickoff time for Matchday 6 of the Europa League was 21:00 CET / Italian time at Generali Česká pojišťovna Arena.
Goal: Hauge (23′)
Red card: Plechatý (77′)
AC Sparta Prague (3-5-2) – Václav Kotal
Milan Heča; Martin Vitík, Dominik Plechatý, David Lischka; Tomáš Wiesner, Michal Sáček, Filip Souček (82′ Ladislav Krejčí), Adam Karabec (45′ Ladislav Krejčí), Matěj Polidar; Martin Minchev (66′ Lukáš Juliš), Srđan Plavšić (66′ David Moberg Karlsson).
Unused: Niță, Holec, Hanousek, Vindheim, Trávník, Gabriel, Ryneš.
AC Milan (4-2-3-1) – Stefano Pioli
Ciprian Tătăruşanu; Andrea Conti, Pierre Kalulu, Léo Duarte, Diogo Dalot; Sandro Tonali, Rade Krunić; Samu Castillejo, Daniel Maldini (78′ Franck Kessié), Jens Petter Hauge (90′ Brahim Díaz); Lorenzo Colombo (68′ Rafael Leão).
Unused: A. Donnarumma, Moleri, Calabria, Gabbia, Hernández, Musacchio, Mionić, Rebić.
Referee: Daniel Siebert (GER).
I really want to watch kalulu play today.. Lets see how far he has improved
currently watching napoli – sociedad, what a good game. such a shame that baka and januzaj didnt join milan
Why so obsessed with Baka? He’s a little inconsistent and slow to our current set up. But definitely much better than Krunic lol. I’m glad we got tonali over him.
But yeah it’s a good game for sure!
for the hundredth time, krunic and tonali aint pure dm. hell, not even ben is pure dm. baka could’ve been cheap quick back up for kessie, the only dm milan have. pray for kessie’s wellbeing because no way milan could survive without him.
also, it was tonali and krunic’s fault milan are below lille. their performance vs lille at san siro was abysmal.
25M and with his salary demands, i would not call baka a cheap backup.
really? then why do napoli only pay 2.5m for a dry loan and are negotiating for 20m fee to make him permanent?
We are bigger and better than Napoli though. I like baka,just not the cost. He’ll id love Messi to join for our right wing, but you know the cost.
lol “we are bigger than napoli” followed swiftly by “just not the cost”. what part of 2.5m dry loan deal dont u understand mate?
Baka is a very good backup and partner for Kessie, yes. But he was too expensive. We’ll find someone younger, with more potential and cheaper salary, in a slightly better price (eg Soumare).
soumare’s price range is 25m – 30m mate, and lille are not under pressure to sell. in short, he aint cheaper. he’s younger, yes but is he really better than best player of rino’s milan era? i’ve been watching napoli for months now and baka is really great addition to the team
Not better now, unlikely, but with more potential perhaps. And Chleski wanted something in the range of 40 mil if I recall. Plus, don’t forget that Baka demands a sizeable salary as a former french international.
i read that chelsea are willing to sell baka to napoli for 20m, and napoli pay 2.5m for baka’s salary. so either nazidis was penny pinching during baka negotiations or maldini was bad negotiator. i blame nazidis
One possible explanation is that Milan already have potential loanees for that position in Brescianini and Pobega..
Yep, Pobega in particular. We need to remember that we’re talking about a backup for Kessie, a guy that can play 2-3 times a week all season long. Most durable player in seria a probably.
and the biggest problem of them all. You are assuming baka would have been ok with a backup role. He wanted to leave Chelsea because he was a backup. Why would he agree to that here? and why would we want to pay that much for a second string guy.
I like him, and he did good while he was here, but he just wasnt what we needed.
he doesnt always play for napoli as well. inter, napoli and juve have much better squad depth whereas milan is kessie injury away from total disaster
The problem is that Baka will not outperform Kessie nor Ben, so he will stay as a back up. He wanted to leave Chelsea so he could have regular play time.
are we just gonna pretend that baka himself didnt want milan return no matter what? he literally refused offers from other teams like psg until last weeks of mercato because he wanted to come back to milan. he, like szoboszlai, even liked and supported milan related posts on socmed. he wanted to come back and maldini/pioli wanted him to come back. milan even let pobega go and were willing to sell krunic to freiburg to make way for baka but freiburg didnt want to wait until milan played vs shamrock hence they bought other player. thats when baka negotiation went… Read more »
So true.Gazidis is the problem. I miss boban we could HV gotten modric too. Good dept and continuity
correctamundo mate. modric would’ve been fantastic. dont forget nazidis also vetoed ibra TWICE and refused to give pioli time to build his milan hence that rangnick fiasco that resulted in boban AND rangnick being jobless. nazidis and his youngling fetish and salary cap he tries to impose are milan’s main problems. anyone who actually follows football knows ts33, pedro, ibra, vidal have been great signings this season. even maldini himself once eloquently said that a young team without experience cant win anything. my point is, it was nazidis and his stupid salary cap’s fault baka didnt come back. anyone who… Read more »
So why we did not get them?
WE NOW RETURN TO LIKE MILAN10 PROGRAM
“nazidis and his youngling fetish and salary cap he tries to impose are milan’s main problems. anyone who actually follows football knows ts33, pedro, ibra, vidal have been great signings this season. even maldini himself once eloquently said that a young team without experience cant win anything. my point is, it was nazidis and his stupid salary cap’s fault baka didnt come back.”
isnt it obvious mate? i mentioned it twice in that paragraph
I believe even without Kessie the team would still go on and play the way their playing maybe not the dominance Kessie brings in the middle of the park but the team can still coup without any of the first team players
please, milan barely could handle celtic’s attack without kessie on the field mate
true but then again that means they shouldn’t have loaned pobega out
Perhaps maldini was already looking further ahead towards next season when he allowed pobega and brescianini leave on loan. Perhaps with one year of first team football away from milan in a less pressure environment would help prevent those two lads ending up like de sciglio or SES. For now, milan will have to settle with krunic as 4th choice cm but if everything goes according to plan, we’ll have 5 good young midfielders for next season.
that is the most logical reason but milan did want to sell krunic and replace him with baka. too bad krunic sale to freiburg didnt happen and now milan is stuck with him leaving only kessie as pure dm
What happened to kalulu
I guess winning isn’t the objective tonight. I don’t mind. The boys need some rest. Kinda like a make or break game for several youngsters tonight.
Link pls. hesgoal.com is not working for me pls.
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Hauge!
Maybe one day Rebic will be sacrificed to give a place in the left wing for this kid..
Man hauge is on fire. Every time he decides to take his man on it leads to a chance!
hauge’s diagonal run/dribbling followed by neat bottom corner of far post finish really reminds me of young messi and henry. good stuff by quality player
krunic plays better
Hauge doesn’t need help to make a goal. lol
how the F was that not a penalty? he used his arm to foul haugiggs
Bruh exactly! He’s playing the man and not the ball! It’s a foul all day anywhere else on the field!
and the german ref compensate for it by giving red card for that poor sparta player. i say thats fair trade lol
Lol true but I’d rather have the goal chance. The refs still for the most part give a big fuck your to Milan when it comes to pk decisions
not really. milan have won many penalties this season. 10 penalties totalled so far, and its only december. its just that ibra sucks so bad at taking them. hell, even kessie missed one vs samp
I’m talking historically and this year as well. All of our pks except for the Roma one were all legit. Idc if we get a mil pks, if it’s the right call then it’s the right call
then this season there’s nothing to complain about because milan have been awarded 9 legit pens and even 1 dubious one for good measure
This is the perfect lineup for Europa league.
Hauge is a beast but what about Kalulu? He looks good as a CB. Wishing him the very best.
He is actually good, all along I thought he was a fullback.
He is a fullback too but he played mostly as a CB in Ligue 1. He’s pretty good as a CB.
kalulu did well playing cb at junior level at lyon but he never actually played in ligue 1 for lyon. believe it or not THIS match was his debut match as pro footballer. out of position and paired with shaky duarte, still he delivered. what a debut, what a player. great signing by moncada/maldini
TONITE ON LIKE MILAN10 SAID “Milan10 4 months ago Reply to Martin Bernhard maldini is far from serie a ready and slow player like him should play as am not lw. now brescianini, this guy is the real deal; calm, collected and possesses a good distribution skill. he should definitely play more next season. him and gabbia“ “Milan10 5 months ago i’ve never seen kalulu play before but judging by clips on utube, he seems to be solid modern fullback who can also play cb, just like my old fav thuram. i hope he does well at milan” maldini seriously… Read more »
Colombo should improve his positioning
What more is there to say ? These young boys are going to be tough to beat when they mature.
convincing performance by both Kalulu and Duarte
Maldini played better in defensive phase than attacking phase. is in his blood. lol
His gesture on the ball is really his dad’s..
Should we try maldini at cdm?
i thought so. like what happened to Pirlo
I don’t understand why it was a straight red card..
Krunic can’t even string together a simple pass? How’s he a soccer player ?? Smh
Celtic did the Lord’s work for us. I’m happy for our lads. Sempre milan
Celtic beat Lille!
My heart almost jumped out when Leao went rolling down in pains on the pitch. Somebody that just came back from injury. .Thank God we won and he didn’t pick up another injury . To cap it all, we are topping the table. Things are just working in our favour.
Same here, I hope Leo stays healthy. On the said note, we do have 3 starting LW material in Rebic, Hague, and Leo. It’s a problem I know but a good one.
With all fairness to Europa-nothing league – This was a respectable group we just passed through. Celtic are a big team with a huge history, and S Prague, while smaller, still have some decent achievements in Europe for a Czech team. Definitely not a nobody in Europe. And Lille are currently playing at a champions league level, definitely a strong team by any standard (second place in the French league doesn’t come for nothing). Admittingly both Celtic and Prague are in bad phases, but still considering all the rotation Pioli had to do, we did a very good job. And… Read more »
well, that was bad match full of errors and bad decisions but a win is a win. that celtic also rising up to the occasion at the exact right moment to indirectly help milan also was pleasant surprise. topping the group means no early meetings with strong teams like tottenham. hauge was decisive with his now trademark “cut inside and score” move but he needs to work on his decision making skills; sometimes its better to pass the ball to teammates. kaluluan thuram, tonali and tata also had good game. the rest was meh, and im not even trying to… Read more »
You forgot our goalie that saved us several times today.
“kaluluan thuram, tonali and tata also had good game.”
no i didnt
Kalulu is more like Desailly/Thiago silva than Thuram. I agree with you on Hauge in decision making. He became a little predictable
desailly was a dm/cb, ts33 is pure cb but he could also play dm at milan, like david luiz. kalulu is a rb/cb hybrid. thuram was rb/cb hybrid. i’ll allow u to deduce from those facts whether kalulu is next thuram or desailly
AC Milan kids did well today. Now we have a rested squad for Parma. Forza Milan!
Colombo needs to improve!
That’s why I wanted roback to play to see what he can do
I like him but It’s to early for him I saw him once playing with first team but he wasn’t good enough the movement it’s the most important things in football especially when you are striker look at Ibra he’s 39 but he can’t run or press but he’s cleaver the movement and positioning what really matters and Rocbak doesn’t have that
Age is just a number, these players have been playing all their life. Look at Dortmund using their young players all the time. Prime Barca did the same thing even in games like el Classico. This game Meant zero to Milan so why not test the waters.
Right but he needs to be with primveira and maybe loan for one year then is ready to go but look at Hague you can tell he’s ready from first moment and Gabbia he looks real deal I don’t thing we need a defender I thing we need a play maker like Gortzka of Bayern Munich or zalliszborg of red bull and right Wenger like Thauvin and striker
The lad is not even 20 yet. Obviously he has a lot more to learn. A year of learning from ibra followed by a loan spell away next season for him and maldini would hopefully make them both better players
Well fuckin Milan missed out on szoboszlai! These fucking ppl are forgetting we won’t have a single cam come June! We could and should have secured szoboszlai who has 15 years of playing ahead of him! Yes there are other young players but none are playing at his level! Very disappointed in Milan management today!
its a drag. no worries though, milan just need to renew hakan, who seems to enjoy playing for milan.
“Hakan Çalhanoğlu has created more chances in Serie A than any other player in 2020:
⬡ 29 games
⬢ 82 chances created
⬡ 9 assists
⬡ 7 goals”
– squawkafootball
awesome stats by the turkish playmaker. and if he’s fooling around then de paul is available. inter and juve are reportedly interested as well though
Bruh Hakan has been garbage this season. A few good games doesn’t make up for 3 years of trash. Of those chances created, how many were speculative chances. Any time you shot it’s a chance on goal, doesn’t mean his pass to that player put them in a real advantage to score. How many key passes does he make that leads to a real chance? That is the stat worth looking at. If he continued from the end of last season I’d say give him a new contract but he went back to his old ways. He needs to go… Read more »
lol ok, lemme just copy paste meself here: “Hakan Çalhanoğlu has created more chances in Serie A than any other player in 2020: ⬡ 29 games ⬢ 82 chances created ⬡ 9 assists ⬡ 7 goals” – squawkafootball“ it means hakan is better at creating chances than literally >100 other players of serie a. milan have been the best serie a team in 2020 in terms of points generated and quality of football being displayed, and hakan has been milan’s key player. u can spew ur “ibra needs to be benched. hakan needs to go” bs again and again but… Read more »
Missing out on Szoboslai hurts my soul idc who we get, i wanted him at Milan so so bad. And he wanted it too.
I agree. I’ve been wanting him to join Milan as well. Look at his stats. He’s 20 and already performing in the champions league. We missed out for real
Pioli is the reason Milan didn’t win this night, he’s feeling like he has won the league already.. Every match is important and you need to start with your best legs, I’m really disappointed this night