Team news: Roma were without the Marash Kumbulla, Renato Sanches, Tammy Abraham and Paulo Dybala while Milan had to do without Ismaël Bennacer. Kickoff time for Matchday 3 of the 2023/24 Serie A season was 20:45 CET at Stadio Olimpico.
Goals: Giroud (9′ pk), Leão (47′), Spinazzola (93′)
Red card: Tomori (60′)
A.S. Roma (3-5-1-1) – José Mourinho
Rui Patrício; Gianluca Mancini (79′ Riccardo Pagano), Chris Smalling, Diego Llorente; Zeki Çelik (70′ Leonardo Spinazzola), Bryan Cristante, Leandro Paredes (70′ Edoardo Bove), Houssem Aouar (31′ Lorenzo Pellegrini), Nicola Zalewski; Stephan El Shaarawy (70′ Romelu Lukaku); Andrea Belotti.
Unused: Boer, Svilar; Karsdorp, Kristensen, N’Dicka; Pisilli.
AC Milan (4-3-3) – Stefano Pioli
Mike Maignan; Davide Calabria, Malick Thiaw, Fikayo Tomori, Theo Hernández; Ruben Loftus-Cheek (65′ Pierre Kalulu), Rade Krunić, Tijjani Reijnders; Christian Pulisic (76′ Samuel Chukwueze), Olivier Giroud, Rafael Leão (76′ Noah Okafor).
Unused: Sportiello, Mirante; Florenzi, Kjær, Pellegrino; Adli, Musah, Romero.
Referee: Antonio Rapuano.
Jovic for free probably is not bad. Some body for depth at least.
And Giroud might get 36 pens this season! Would be brilliant.
The guy is a hot head but it’s an ok gamble. Madrid did pay 60m not long ago, so some potential is there. The main objective was to let Colombo leave on loan and let him get as many minutes as possible. We needed some depth and Jovic is depth. He can’t possibly be worse than Origi can he?
Indeed, if he scores like 5+ goals, it should be enough for the 1 year contract.
Will be interesting to see the CL.
PSG and Dortmund both are quite beatable now. Not so sure about Newcastle though.
Yes and imo New Castle should be easier than those two. In any case I’m confident of Milan qualifying to the next stage. Well for the first time in over a decade that I’m confident enough in having a say in Europe
Well in nearly 2 decades because I’ve never believed in Allegri’s Milan in the coppa Italia let alone in Europe !
Very good performance and dominant up to 60 mins. The team is efficient, calm, clever and compact. Tomori was the only negative from the match. The referee was a bit harsh on him but he was perhaps stupid to allowed Belotti used him. 9/9 points , what more can we ask for as fans. Bring on Inter, we are ready. Forza Milan
Now after 2 decades I can feel, yes this is Milan man, this is the AC MILAN, The 7 times UCL winner, 19 times Serie A winner