AC Milan’s first training session of the pre-season, also known as the Raduno, took place earlier today and there were many fans present at Milanello. Down below, we take a look at the key bits from the session.
Stefano Pioli spoke to the media prior to the training session and you can read his press conference in full here. At 5 pm, the players headed out on the pitch and in addition to the fans present, many were watching on from home as Milan streamed the training.
The Rossoneri played an in-house friendly, as they always do for the Raduno, and the game finished 2-2 after goals from Divock Origi (brace), Junior Messias and Ante Rebic. Ruben Loftus-Cheek, the new signing, got the assist for the first goal of the game (see highlights here).
Another interesting thing to highlight is the skills of Hugo Cuenca, the Primavera star who got to train with the first team today along with a few other Primavera players. As you can see in the video below, he almost toyed with Milan captain Davide Calabria.
Hugo Cuenca vs Calabria
Breaking ankles on the first day of Training 💎
Like I said the most ready Primavera Playerpic.twitter.com/nYpXzDzjom— ꜱᴄᴏᴜᴛ7ᴄᴀʟᴄɪᴏ (@Scout7Calcio) July 10, 2023
Geoffrey Moncada also made a rare appearance at Milanello today, along with the newly-appointed sporting director Antonio D’Ottavio. The trio, including Giorgio Furlani, is committed to improving the Milan squad on the market as was made clear by the CEO.
💼 Furlani x Moncada x D’Ottavio 👔 pic.twitter.com/1RK33zbtqZ
— SempreMilan (@SempreMilanCom) July 10, 2023
Luka Romero, just like Loftus-Cheek, made his first training for Milan and scored a nice goal in the build-up to the friendly. You can see the strike in the video below, which certainly got the appreciation of the fans present.
😍 A lovely finish from Luka Romero 👏
— SempreMilanTV (@SempreMilanTV) July 10, 2023
Cuenca seemed like a great talent, need to be given some minutes this season surely.
Hopefully this is just because Calabria is still return to fitness after holiday… if he stay like that when serie a start we’ll fked 😅
It was like watching him against Inter again 😅
Maybe that’s why the rumours of Singo/Fresneda 😂
Good flair we need to encourage academy players by syncing them into the first team , take that chance on them at least 2 players every season then see how they fair
Yes, you are right 👍✅
Cuenca dribbles, assist and a good scorer. Check highlights on YouTube. Am not suprise
cuenca already looked promising before his arrival but even as someone who wants to keep cdk at ac milan, he actually scored a hattrick in his debut training match for us so i wouldnt put too much into those appearances of today,
Yep , that will be good if he can join in first team . He looks promising
well as promising as he is and i do hope he joins the first team……eventually, BUT it was cdk who made a hattrick in his first training match with us so i wouldnt really expect cuenca to join it already. He is a talented player nevertheless but its not like all the players is up in gear at this point,
I see Calabria is still bad at defense. Kalulu should be starting over him.
Lol, so much for standing by players who “bleed red and black”. This guy came through the academy and is captain. But, he’s not “good enough”, so goodbye.
That’s actually good defense by Calabria, just a better offense by Cuenca.
Tricky wingers do that to the best full backs in the world.
Calabria isn’t a world beater but defensively he is much better than Kalulu. Kalulu is better going forward
Doesn’t Calabria have more assists?
In fact when this Milan side were at their peak ie during our title run, Calabria and Hernandez as inverted wing backs were two of our most important players.
But hey let’s give our captain the benefit of the doubt….
I totally agree 💯
And most people here doesn’t know how good Calabria is one vs one.
Kalulu is just not really good from midfield positions, with him as RB our build up suffers. Kalulu is still a good option as back up RB but he is a much better CB.
So based on one 5 second clip from the first training sessions since break Calabria has already been labeled “bad at defense”.
Some people… I tell ya… 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
Calabria had bad season cause he was out with injury for a long time. He was a beast in our Scudetto season. Slack him some will you.
Calabria is too underrated, he’s one of the best defender’s one vs one Incase some of you don’t know.
These youngsters look promising, getting them some game time this season will be pivotal.