AC Milan were 11 minutes away from making it five wins from five to begin the Serie A season, but were ultimately halted by a Roma equaliser as they drew 3-3 on Monday night.
The Rossoneri took the lead three times in the game through a Zlatan Ibrahimovic brace either side of Alexis Saelemaekers’ strike, but it was not enough as a leaky defence and some individual errors cost the team the chance to move four points clear at the top.
The first equaliser came from a corner that Tatarusanu flapped at and allowed Edin Dzeko to head into a virtually empty net, while the second was a controversial penalty awarded by referee Piero Giacomelli.
The third Roma goal was also avoidable, as Marash Kumbulla had the easy task of bundling into an empty net after Ibra had flicked on a low corner at the near post.
Below is an inquest into the tactical approach of Milan, courtesy of our writer Rohit Rajeev…
Milan started off in the best possible manner with a goal within 2 minutes with some amazing work from Leão and Ibra pic.twitter.com/DzkiRnru23
— Rohit Rajeev (@milantactics) October 28, 2020
Roma however did make a few chances of their own with good combination play pic.twitter.com/B4gHdC7cCL
— Rohit Rajeev (@milantactics) October 28, 2020
Bennacer had quite an interesting role. With Roma crowding out the centre Milan used their full backs to stretch Roma and create spaces.
Here are 2 instances of Milan drawing bennacer back to stretch Roma with our full backs creating space for Alessio to make long balls to Leao pic.twitter.com/wGRN3kH882— Rohit Rajeev (@milantactics) October 28, 2020
