AC Milan face Borussia Dortmund at the Signal Iduna Park tonight, hoping to get their first win of the 2023-24 Champions League group stages.
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According to what is being reported by La Gazzetta dello Sport (seen below) this morning, head coach Stefano Pioli will field Davide Calabria, Malick Thiaw, Fikayo Tomori and Theo Hernandez as the back four in front of Mike Maignan.
The midfield doubts have been resolved with Yunus Musah on the right of the three and Tommaso Pobega as the other box-to-box player, leaving Tijjani Reijnders in front of the back four as the ‘director’.
What is now the first choice front three of Christian Pulisic, Olivier Giroud and Rafael Leao should be chosen again, with the former returning to the club that he spent four years at from 2015 to 2019.
Probable Milan XI (4-3-3): Maignan; Calabria, Thiaw, Tomori, Theo Hernandez; Musah, Reijnders, Pobega; Pulisic, Giroud, Leao.
Probable Dortmund XI (4-2-3-1): Kobel; Ryerson, Hummels, Schlotterbeck, Bensebaini; Ozcan, Nmecha; Malen, Reus, Brandt; Füllkrug.
