Team news: Milan were without Mike Maignan, Mattia Caldara, Pierre Kalulu, Davide Calabria, Theo Hernández and Ismaël Bennacer, while Verona had to do without Josh Doig, Jayden Braaf and Thomas Henry. Kickoff time for Matchday 5 was 15:00 CET at Stadio San Siro.
Goal: Leão (8′)
AC Milan (3-4-3) – Stefano Pioli
Marco Sportiello; Malick Thiaw, Simon Kjær, Fikayo Tomori; Yunus Musah, Rade Krunić (65′ Ruben Loftus-Cheek), Tijjani Reijnders, Alessandro Florenzi (75′ Davide Bartesaghi); Christian Pulisic (80′ Tommaso Pobega), Olivier Giroud (66′ Luka Jović), Rafael Leão (80′ Noah Okafor).
Unused: Mirante, Nava; Pellegrino; Adli, Romero; Chukwueze.
Hellas Verona (3-4-2-1) – Marco Baroni
Lorenzo Montipò; Giangiacomo Magnani, Isak Hien, Paweł Dawidowicz; Davide Faraoni (46′ Federico Bonazzoli), Martin Hongla, Ondrej Duda (70′ Riccardo Saponara), Filippo Terracciano (90′ Milan Đurić); Michael Folorunsho, Darko Lazović (70′ Juan David Cabal); Cyril Ngonge (80′ Tomáš Suslov).
Unused: Berardi, Perilli; Amione, Coppola; Charlys, Serdar; Cruz, Mboula.
Referee: Fabio Maresca.
Shouldn’t this be the game where this clueless coach tries Pellegrino in that 3-man backline ?? I wonder how some players keep coming to Milan after they see how this coach treats players. SMH
Musah as wingback … wtf is he thinking. Already abandoning the 4-3-3? It wasn’t bad, we created s lot of chances, we just couldn’t put them in . Ugh. Playing ppl out of position is not a good recipe .
Counter attack 343
No injuries today, Forza Milan, Forza Pioli you crazy mofo I love u. Giroud has tired legs, and Pulisic makes me miss Saelemaekers.
This coach is not convincing atall. Our tactics is so terrible. We started time management at a the 55 minute against Hellas Verona while up by only 1 ??? Embarrassing