Paulo Fonseca has decided that he will stay loyal to Fikayo Tomori and Strahinja Pavlovic as a partnership at centre-back when the Rossoneri face Lazio this weekend.
As reported by Corriere dello Sport (via Milan News), the Portuguese coach is not going to make any rash decisions with his team selection in the wake of the defeat against Parma last weekend.
Milan have started the season poorly with a 2-2 draw at home to Torino and then a particularly unimpressive 2-1 defeat at Parma in which the scoreline could have been worse.
In the Torino match, Malick Thiaw started alongside Fikayo Tomori. Against Parma, Thaiw was dropped in favour of Pavlovic getting his first start for the club.
The Serbian had a tough game but he was no worse than other members of the defence, and Fonseca is expected to show confidence in the 23-year-old and start him again alongside Tomori who seems to be the first-choice defender.
The decision has been made easier by the fact that Thiaw has an ankle issue and may struggle to have any involvement at the Stadio Olimpico on Saturday evening. That would mean that there is one less defensive option on the bench for Fonseca if Milan are defending a lead.
If it wasn’t for pavlovic we would have lost 4-1. For his first game in our colors he had a good game.
Thiaw needs to mature fast and improve his form, otherwise he’s gone next summer.
Gabbia should put in a transfer request. The disrespect he gets is insane. Tomori and pav were caught out sooo often, if we weren’t playing Parma, the game would have ended 5-1. Making last ditch tackles does not mean you did a good job, especially when the other team refuses to shoot the ball inside the box.
Imagine Tomori as the first choice on the defenders list at àc Milan, Chai! Who do Milan this thing?!
Waht are you going on about? You make zero sense.
Bro I agreed with you. Tomori is not a defender, ah nah chop player cost am that’s why, Tomori became the best in Milan shirt. Lock back to our old glory days.
Dida maldini, stam, nestar, oddo, custarcuta, kalaze, seginiho, cafu. Who born you as top 9 to treating Milan defense or bring in avarage player from small club like Chelsea to fix our great Milan.
Chelsea are not a small club.
Will you call them back to Milan?
i no know oo
Tomori is terrible. I’m so tired of seeing this guys in the starting line-up when he hasn’t had a good season since we won the Scudetto. Pavlovic-Thiaw should be the partnership. Tomori is awful.
You criticize Tomori and your answer to him is Thiaw??? Are you for real??? He’s the only defender we have that’s actually worse than Tomori right now
the levels tomori put in during the scudetto year are a distant memory now, steady decline are al what we are now accustomed to, and thiaw is also no better at all…i think for the remainder of the season fonseca should try and avoid a CB pairing with both of them, because we will caught out back every counter the opposition team gets…
I disagree. Thiaw had a rough season last year but his ability is far better than Tomori’s. Tomori has been garbage for over 2 years now, there’s no hope for him anymore. At least Thiaw is talented and young.
Thiaw is worse as garbage.
We need pavlovic gabbia
Gabbia can’t pass even if his life depends on it but at least he can tackle.. its much better the tomori lately
It’s crazy that Gabbia didn’t get any chance at all.
But i don’t expect anything from Fonseca.