Team news: Milan were without Junior Messias while Salernitana had to do without William Troost-Ekong. Kickoff time for Matchday 26 in Serie A was 20:45 CET at Stadio San Siro.
Goals: Giroud (45+1′), Dia (61′)
AC Milan (3-4-2-1) – Stefano Pioli
Mike Maignan; Pierre Kalulu, Malick Thiaw, Fikayo Tomori; Alexis Saelemaekers (77′ Alessandro Florenzi), Ismaël Bennacer (85′ Sandro Tonali), Rade Krunić, Theo Hernández; Brahim Díaz (62′ Charles De Ketelaere), Rafael Leão (62′ Divock Origi); Olivier Giroud (62′ Zlatan Ibrahimović).
Unused: Mirante, Tătărușanu; Ballo-Touré, Calabria, Gabbia, Kjær; Adli, Pobega, Vranckx; Rebić.
U.S. Salernitana 1919 (3-4-2-1) – Paulo Sousa
Guillermo Ochoa; Flavius Daniliuc, Norbert Gyömbér, Lorenzo Pirola (68′ Matteo Lovato); Pasquale Mazzocchi (83′ Junior Sambia), Emil Bohinen (83′ Domen Črnigoj), Lassana Coulibaly, Domagoj Bradarić; Antonio Candreva (68′ Federico Bonazzoli), Grigoris Kastanos (56′ Krzysztof Piątek); Boulaye Dia.
Unused: Fiorillo, Sepe; Maggiore, Nicolussi Caviglia, Vilhena; Botheim, Valencia.
Referee: Federico La Penna.
– our defense has problems
Pioli: Ok add one player to defense
– our attack has problems
Pioli: Ok add one to the attack
– Obviously our midfield has problems now
?? Krunic warms up
The look on Zlatan’s face following Leao’s pathetic attempt…
Leao needs to do better, this team relies on him.
Memo had 200 minutes without allowing goals. Giroud said that’s enough lol. Forza Milan!
This team would compete with any team in europe if only we could get a proper right winger, a younger version of Giroud and just one decent midfielder.
This team is garbage if you really want to be honest! No Rw, no good creative midfielder, old strikers. Milan will be the weakest team in the UCL quarter final and every team will love to play us.
lol look at it from another perspective and not because of tonights result. We have a good back line, young and with so much room for growth. We have a phenomenal gk, the midfield is slightly there, with one top tier midfielder, we can alternate between him, Ben and Tonali. Our attack is just really our weakness right now. Too much mediocrity, and that is why we have been so toothless. Somestimes we get in our zone and create so much, but very poor execution. We really need to do away with Rebic and Origi. As for Zlatan, we can… Read more »
U think dis defense is solid? Wait till we play against a high pressing team like Bayern or Mancity and see wat the scoreline will look like at half time.
Even if we the weakest am sure we will win benefica or fc Porto if there qualify that am sure off Napoli inter we use to ourself it go go anywhere but the ones am sure off it’s stated above
Lol! U think you can beat Benfica or Porto? Even last year that Milan was strong and competitive, they couldn’t beat Porto in a 2 legged fixture. This team is trash!
Last year form in CL is different from this year form and moral we having am very certain of this particular two I mentioned and I can bet my last card on that match if we meet them we will qualify
I can go on that with you! Milan is leaving in the next stage regardless of who they are to play. Don’t let your emotions cloud your sense of judgement. I am a Milan fan too, I love the club but this current team is very weak and can’t compete
Piatek is in, nice to see him. I still rate him higher than Paqueta and Hauge.
Damm it Thiaw, Salernitana is full of experienced men and you forget to think?
343 needs more time.
Memo vs Ibra what a fight! this is why I love Serie A
We have a lot of garbage players but no one tops Origi. I hope Pioli doesn’t start him next game since Giroud is suspended.
And this ref is pure trash
Tom is right this ref suck
Lol our wonderful reactionary tactics does wonders again. We’re the only “top” team in Europe that settles down when we’re up by one goal and then when the other team equalizes, we start trying to react by pressuring them more which we should have been doing all game!!!!!
how can you pressure a team when your team is tired???? Clueless freaking coach. You expect to do wonders with Krunic in your team all the damn time?? Rushing 90 yr old Florenzi back?
This team could definitely be better with a good coach.
Besides that outright biased referee,.. Milan was lucky to get a draw. Salernitana should’ve and would’ve won if they had half a good finisher. How on earth a team plays with Zero urgency in a must win game? No one except CDK and Saele was actually running in the game. HOW is that possible? BTW.. every penny spent on Diaz is a waste. Dude lost the ball EVERY time it was on his feet. How can a player be THIS bad? No wonder Mancity and Real decided that he is useless and kept him out of the squad. Agreed he… Read more »
Usually I’m always there to criticize, but lets cut them some slack today. Yes 1-1 vs salernitana is inexcusable but the team was tired in my opinion. Yes giroud didn’t do much, but don’t forget he is 36 years old and has been playing game in game out. Leao definitely needs to sharpen up, especially as he is looking for a teuck load of money. He has been very sloppy for some games now. Kudos to salernitana for parking the bus and being able to hold their line. This could have happened to any team folks. Hard to break a… Read more »
UCL surely did take a toll, but Pioli’s subs were a disaster. What was Pioli waiting for to make the first sub? Conceding a goal? This was only a 1-1 because Salernitana couldn’t finish their chances. Otherwise it would be a 3-1 for salernitana.
Then why not rotate the tired players ? If Pioli started with a starting eleven of tired players that’s on him. And before anyone say we don’t have good bench or this or that…you should know that even bottom seria A teams have played their subs more then Milan. Milan subs have the least amount of playing time compared to any other subs in seria A. Are Kjaer, De Katelare, Vranks, Pobega, (Thiaw some time ago as well) and even Origi worse then Lazio, Bologna, Torino.. subs or some 100k sub in some bottom team ? All of our bench… Read more »
Come on our bench is worthless. Bring who, origi? Vranx (bench ben or krunis who has been decent lately in his new role). Bring cdk? Who has shown nothing whole season despite plenty of opportunities.
Our team should offload these toxic players:
Origi
Krunich
Calabria
Saelmakers
Vrancks
Ballo
Dest
Bakayoko
This team is just not sufficient enough, the board needs to add more real superstars, too much dependent on one player can be tiring for that player, gilroud, leao and Theo are literally tired.
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