AC Milan will take on PSV Eindhoven in their final friendly of the winter break today in the Netherlands, and Stefano Pioli is expected to field an experimental XI.
According to this morning’s edition of La Gazzetta dello Sport (as seen below), Pioli is expected to entrust Antonio Mirante with the role of starting goalkeeper ahead of Ciprian Tatarusanu. Ahead of him should be a back four of Davide Calabria, Pierre Kalulu, Fikayo Tomori and Sergino Dest.
The midfield double pivot should be Sandro Tonali and Ismael Bennacer, with De Ketelaere expected to be the central attacking midfielder.
The rest of the attack should be comprised of Alexis Saelemaekers on the right winger, Yacine Adli over Rafael Leao on the left wing – given the Portuguese only returned to training on boxing day – and Ante Rebic leading the line.
Probable Milan XI (4-2-3-1): Mirante; Calabria, Kalulu, Tomori, Dest; Tonali, Bennacer; Saelemaekers, De Ketelaere, Adli; Rebic.
I’m intrigued to see Adli and De Ketelaere together!
Wonder what’s LGDS source for this.
I bet it will be Rebic LW, Adli CAM and CdK at striker.
I like it except for the left back.
Dest is awful defensively on his natural right side, but now he will have to go vs Madueke on his unnatural left side.
BTW Milan should have a chat with PSV about Madueke to be our RWer.
I’d like to see how CDK and Adli can play together