Team news: Milan are without Ismaël Bennacer and Mario Mandžukić, while Inter have to do without Stefano Sensi. Kickoff time for the Derby della Madonnina and Matchday 23 of the 2020/21 Serie A campaign is 15:00 CET at Stadio San Siro.
Goals: Lautaro (5′, 57′), Lukaku (65′)
AC Milan (4-2-3-1) – Stefano Pioli
Gianluigi Donnarumma; Davide Calabria, Simon Kjær, Alessio Romagnoli, Theo Hernández; Sandro Tonali (67′ Soualiho Meïté), Franck Kessié; Alexis Saelemaekers (67′ Rafael Leão), Hakan Çalhanoğlu, Ante Rebić; Zlatan Ibrahimović (75′ Samu Castillejo).
Unused: A. Donnarumma, Tătărușanu, Dalot, Gabbia, Kalulu, Tomori, Díaz, Hauge, Krunić.
F.C. Internazionale Milano (3-5-2) – Antonio Conte
Samir Handanović; Milan Škriniar, Stefan de Vrij, Alessandro Bastoni; Achraf Hakimi (83′ Ashley Young), Nicolò Barella (83′ Arturo Vidal), Marcelo Brozović, Christian Eriksen (79′ Roberto Gagliardini), Ivan Perišić (79′ Matteo Darmian); Lautaro Martínez (79′ Alexis Sánchez), Romelu Lukaku.
Unused: Padelli, Radu, Darmian, Kolarov, D’Ambrosio, Ranocchia, Vecino, Pinamonti.
Referee: Daniele Doveri.
Forza Milan!!!
Go milan!!
before eriksen’s resurgence, conte inter’s put so much emphasis on wingplay and quick counterattacking strategy. but now they can also attack dangerously from the middle especially if eriksen and alexis can connect well. its calabria and theo’s job to stop inter’s wingbacks and tonali and kessie’s job to nullify barella and eriksen. i hope they’ll do their jobs well and i also hope rebic, hakan and ibra can connect well dissecting inter’s fairly weak defence.
lets win this. all the best
Big day for the boys!
I hope they give them hell!!
I am a little disappointed we are not starting Rebic and Leao. Leao was the match winner in derby 1.
Hopefully he will have a good impact off the bench.
Also surprised Tomori is not starting, his physical attributes would be useful v Lukaku
Dai, ragazzi, daaaaaaiii ! Milan always !
I would rather see Leao on the right. I am not that positive btw we have been playing badly since new year.
I’m also concerned. I hope we get a pleasant surprise
2 min gone and we are not pressing them and have not completed a single pass!
Not the right attitude
And there we go, goal for inter at 4 mins ffs
Why the hell is Tomori not playing!
I keep saying play Calabria in midfield for this game. Play leao left and Rebic right.
Everyone keeps telling me I’m wrong.
Well this is what happens when we continue to do the same thing and expect different results = madness
We need to try something new or it will finish 4-0
and play dalot as rb? because he did so well vs spezia?
NO. How many times do I need to explain, sladmaker and Kalulu can both play there and have the pace.
Anyway you have it the way you want so enjoy watching them get smashed by inter!!
Sometimes things need to be changed/freshener up if it’s not working which it is not
milan with calabria as dm got smashed by juve 3-1, kalulu played vs red star and milan conceded 2 goals. what exactly is ur point? would capello play maldini as dm? no way. milan need their best players playing in their preferred positions
Calabria was outstanding in his games in midfield. Kalulu is perfect as a player to cover rb and CB at the same time.
Anyway we are lucky it’s not 3-0, wait till inter pick up, they have been slow.
So yeah sure, keep playing with this formation that is being schooled again
inter are lucky theo and hakan didnt score too.
calabria wouldnt do anything more than tonali does but he’s needed on the flank. ffs he barely can contain perisic and u want him to go toe to toe with eriksen and barella? no way.
“So yeah sure, keep playing with this formation that is being schooled again”
what change would calabria provide regarding the formation? it would still be 4-2-3-1
2-0
At what point would you change what is not working?
3-0 perhaps?
and playing calabria would’ve solved that because? because he did so well vs juve? his goal was a result of clear foul on juve player btw so its actually same exact 3-0
Tomori had to start ffsake
Absolutely, we have no pace in the team. Lukaku breased past Roma.
Leao, Tomori and Kalulu would give us the pace we lack for both defense and attack
Pioli is a fucking idiot
I’d bring him on at half time kjaer on a yellow
Good idea. Bring on Leao for Saladman and Kalulu for Tonali ( or at least Meite), move Calabria to midfield. Hes the only player similar to Bennacer in that role
Hope for the best.
just dont let inter wingbacks send (low) crosses into the box because there will be at least 3 inter players standing in line within the trajectory of the ball waiting to pull a simple tap in. double team them if u have to
like i said, dont let inter player send cross into the box. let fast cb like tomori handle fast lukaku, not slow romag
Yep Tomori shud be marking Lukaku not Roma. This is madness
Yes it is madness
We all knew tomori had to start this game
Very frustrating
Leao shoulda started to
We need his pace
He tore inter up last time
Tonali& salemakers & chanaboglu need to get involved
Spot on mate
Sleeping cb. Bs
We’ve got a slow & out of form Romognoli
& a kjaer just back from injury & barely match fit
In defence we are Of the pace , ball watching
And we are defending a couple meters off them,
Saladmaker contributing nuthing right wing ,
start Leao on the right ffsake
Tomori& Leao shoulda started
We neeed their speed
Fuck nice start
Fukin hell. Chanaloglu
No shot nuthing
What a waste
I think we are missing Benacer and his GREAT form.
wtf ibra, u should’ve laid the ball off to rebic instead of doing a backhell
Ramagnoli….
Kjaer is coming back from an injury and yet Pioli starts him over Tomori. SMDH
Romagnoli slow. Kjaer slow yet we are playing with high defensive line without Tomori. Unbelievable
Kjaer is playing good. He blocked a bunch of passes in the box that stoped certain goals.
Both defenders are slow. Milan need Tomori. Kjaer needs to be sub. He’s at risk of a 2nd yellow and he was at fault on the goal.
It’s crazy!
Why cant Pioli adapt the team from time to time
Agreed. Tomori should have started ahead Kjaer. It was just stupid and kjaer was at fault for the goal by Lautaro.
Romagnoli has costed us so much this season. Why not start Kjaer/Tomori. I honestly think our defence was better with Gabia than with Romagnoli. In Pioli tactics the CB need to move a lot and this dosent suit Romagnoli who is very slow…
Yes Gabbia is back and He should be a starter again. ++ But in this specific situation Donna made the mistake. He just needed to walk two steps and gather the ball
any link?
The difference between current Milan and the Milan we had before is pressing. We are not pressing opponents anymore. we sit back and get pressed.
Spot on.
I said after 2 mins we are not pressing them.
Is it because Bennacer has been missing most times ???
It’s not just bennacer. Yes he Is important in the build up but not even Saelemaekers is pressing and this is his only Talent. I think our players are tired and can’t press anymore or it’s Pioli’s decision! I don’t know
That and we are not as fluid attacking. We played fast going up front with quick counters and 1-2s. Now we are slow as hell going forward.
Yes. Hakan is out of form again and he is crucial in our fluidity. He is either Zero or 100. He doesn’t have anything in middle
Your right about hakan. I’ve said the same thing but ppl take forever to see things sometimes. He’s not consistent, I don’t care if he had a few good games. He’s usually ass for the most part of his Milan career. I won’t forgive a player like that just bc he had a few good games.
We can’t play Hakan and ibrahimovic at the same time their defensive is 0
They are too slow to press. They can’t get into the right position to defend bc of their lack of pace. It’s that simple
Whenever I see Romagnoli up against Lukaku, I just become scared. Lukaku always out runs and over powers him all the damn time. In today’s game Romagnoli is the obvious weak link in our back four.
Passing the ball backwards all the damn time gives inter time get in their defensive line/position. Any smart coach could see that. Smh
Pioli is a good coach but he is a little slow. He gets there in time!!
Yes it’s worrying we all see it coach doesnt
It’s quite horrible cos they’re harder to break down once they get into position but very easy to breakdown when you continuously pressure them and don’t allow them to get into position. That’s how every conte’s team plays and if our coach really analyzed the team he would know that. Smh
That’s why I prefer to play a 352 variation. It’s very good at ball retention bc you have wing play, you flood the center as well on both offense and defense. Put that together with speed and you become a destructive force.
wow theo, so close.
Fuuuck olmost 11
Tonali has not reached Benacer ievel yet
Level
tonali’s positional sense is horrible; he always hides behind opponents rather than finding space so his teammates can pass the ball to him. ur the playmaking cm dammit, ask for the ball and make things happen
Exactly!! I just commented the same thing and then i read yours.
He hid behind inter’s players, and he never created space or asking for the ball
correctamundo mate
From that day Benecer picked up that injury, I knew we would struggle to press the opponent well.
That’s the day we should have tried a different formation. We’ve been riding our luck with the 4231 and now it’s showing
why tf didnt u shoot the ball hakan
ikr!
Like the high press and quick ball recovery from milan in the ladt 15 mins of the 1st half. But we have to materialize that possession.
Yesss when we high press they look like pussies
damn inter are always so dangerous whenever they send crosses into the box
I’m sorry but Tonali looked completely lost in that midfield.
It was like he doesn’t know where he supposed to position himself he keeps standing behind inter players
Whats new… he does that every game. The kid needs to develop some balls and eat something because he is always out of breath, doesnt even run a whole lot.
I’d rather see meite at this point.
Meite is better defensively and can actually distribute the ball forward
Pioli undoing his own work. I said it before the game Kjaer is coming back from an injury so we should have started with Romagnoli and Tomori.
Kjaer was at fault for the goal and Romagnoli doesn’t have the speed to keep up with Lukaku. Therefore having Tomori to play would have been much smarter.
Especially since Milan is playing a high defensive line.
Next half i want see Leao
Meite and Leao in Saladmaker and Tonali out
45 minutes: Inter started on fire and completely eliminated us for the first 20 minutes, but we managed to take control for most part of the remaining minutes. Inter still look better, but this is still a massive improvement over Spezia (which admittingly isn’t saying much, since that was such a horrendous performance). Hakan still completely out of form, and is really not able to give us that extra edge when we’re on Inter’s 30 meter line. Salasmaker also looks out of form, with very little contribution in attack but also very little coverage of Peresic. We have an extra… Read more »
U agree but tonali is playing well I’m looking at that boys positioning and work rate above all. I’m also looking at his pass completion. He seems very good so far ofcourse he doesn’t have drive bennacer brings and doesn’t really forward play but that could be down to instructions from the coach I don’t know. Tonali stays for me. Salamankers needs to be substituted for leao but I know Lear doesn’t play on that side but salamakers has been useless in attack and defence. My best bet is relic for leao. Relic isn’t playing bad but the 1 touch… Read more »
Good suggestions! We need to change something
If i see pioli playing mandzukic as lw in 2nd half, im gonna lose my belief in him…. lets hope he has learned from padt mistakes.
Mandzukic is injured and not available for this game bro. He and Bennacer wasn’t called up.
Oh yeah, forgot about that. I guess pioli is safe… lol
Munzukic injured
replace Tonali with Meite.
Fuck now they are just lucky
nice sense of urgency by the boys. keep it up
And inter fans are always saing handanovic is crap
First 10 minutes of the second half: This is the real Milan! Good job lads, keep on!
Agreere 100% that is our style press them and make them suffer.
The game is opening up now. It suits Leao pace. Hope he comes on for saladman
Yeah. Saladboy looks too agitated and he has a yeallow card already
I just wanted to write to you that Pioli wont make changes until they dont destroy us…as i was writing they went 3-0 up and he made the chages. Lol he does it every time, making the changes once the game is over theoreticly. What will Leao do at 3-0 now smh. Should have subed Sala at 1-0…
I know it’s very frustrating. When something is clearly not working, change your approach
like i said, dont let inter send crosses
Fuck the result they are not that better
I agree. This kind of urgency we have been missing in the last few games. Keep it up milan.
Hakan is just teribble today. You never know what you will get with him, very unconsistent player. Krunic is way worse any way, so we dont really have an AM that can replace Hakan and lead our mid. Very stupid to sell Paqueta for 20mil and not replace him with another good AM.
u forgot the TONITE ON LIKE MILAN10 SAID routine mate *wink
Like I said, hakan has always been as with a sprinkle of good games thrown in. I said in the summer what this team needed. Said the same thing in Jan what this team needed. I to also said we shouldn’t sell bona or paqueta UNLESS we have direct replacements. Paqueta wasn’t good for us but if you don’t replace him, you keep the player! This isn’t that hard to understand but our management seem to think otherwise
Damn lukaku is whiping his boots with roma.
Leao in Saelemaekers out
Brahim in Tonali out (Hakan to the defensive mid)
Of course Pioli will bring Castiejo, Krunic and Meite
Cmon put Leao in
At 2-0 we need changes quick!
It’s not working.
3 of our fastest players are on the bench.
Tomori, Kalulu and Leao shud all come on
Funk romagnioli. Useless, average at best.
Fucking horrible defender. I don’t even know why he’s wearing the captain’s armband. I will be highly disappointed if we don’t sell him this summer.
And now he is making subs
Just bout say that 3 nil down now makes subs lol
Same as every time bro.
like i said, romag is always beaten by left footed attacker cutting inside and shooting the ball with his left foot. romag just cant block the ball with his right foot. lukaku, rabiot and especially dybala have done it time and time again.
Left, right it dorsnt matter. He is slow lacks courage. Kjaer has way motr courage than roma. Not captain material thats for sure.
it does matter because romag keeps getting beaten by exact same cut inside and shoot routine. he can handle right footed attackers but left footed attackers keep owning him time and time again
He gets beaten by everyone who has a bit of pace. His blocking has alwayes been terrible. And now in a fluid tactic where he needs to move a lot from his original spot he is strugling with his positioning as well. But its the menager fault for constantly playing him when he has better players on the bench. I wont mind if we give him to Chelsea and get Tomori + some cash for him. We can do it since he still has good market value. But with the way he is playing that value will go down fast.
but at least he can block with his left foot (like he did vs bologna for example) but left footed attackers always own him big time
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“Hwyley 9 minutes ago This is very true. This reminds of dybala against romagnoli, he did it to him twice in a single match. One resulted in a goal and the other over the cross bar. He is a Very poor and weak defender to wear Milan jersey. In fact he should be sold for free” there i fixed it for u mate. i cant say i agree that romag should be sold, let alone for free though. he’s so good that liverpool and atl madrid wanted him. like i said, romag is technical leader at the back. he, like… Read more »
Romagnoli is quite horrible.
On the other hand, Milan should learn from Inter that this is how you play when you’re 2 goals up. Keep trying to score. I knew we would be destroyed in this game with our lazy players and clueless coach.