AC Milan will take on Monza in Trofeo Silvio Berlusconi on Tuesday evening and Stefano Pioli is expected to field a strong XI. Compared to the game against Barcelona, the manager could make one change.
In the last two fridnlis, Pioli has relied on the same starting XI and it’s clear that he already has a pretty good idea of what it could look like in the opener against Bologna. Against Monza, he’s set to continue on the same path.
According to MilanNews, the only battle is between Alessandro Florenzi and Pierre Kalulu for the right-back spot. Should Pioli opt for the Frenchman, then he would make one change compared to the game against Barcelona.
Probable Milan XI (4-3-3): Maignan; Kalulu/Florenzi, Thiaw, Tomori, Theo; Loftus-Cheek, Krunic, Reijnders; Pulisic, Giroud, Leao.
Pioli will also have Samuel Chukwueze, Yunus Musah and Noah Okafor at his disposal for the game. The latter was also in the US with the team but he hadn’t trained with the group up until today’s afternoon session at Milanello.
Now is the time to play Kalulu as RB. Florenzi is really out of form and a shadow of the player he was.
Agreed. We already know what we have in Florenzi. Give Kalulu the minutes. Seems we are looking for a CB (Estivee, Kabak) so that means Pioli will use Kalulu as a RB. Give him the minutes. Also put in Musah for Krunic and Chukwueze for Pulisic and we have our starting 11:
Leao Giroud Chukuweze
Reijders Musah RLC
Theo Tomori Thiaw Kalulu
Mike
Esteve. No Kabak. We’ve been rejected by that fool once and he really isn’t anything special.
Agree
True!
Suspendons cette 4 33 jusqu’à ce que ce krunic soit remplacé sinon ça ne marchera pas à mon avis. On est pas protégé il faut un stopper parmi ces milieux.
Musah & Chuk are fresh off the boat. I’m sure Pioli will throw them on in the second half. Krunic is a transitional figure and Puli has already played in this lineup. But I’m excited to see Chuk play.
Problem is that Kalulu isn’t good at the base of the box midfield when tucking into midfield.
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RB should be between Kalulu and SaladMaster. Not sure how Flo-Flo is even an option. Weren’t we trying to move on from him?
He is Italian , I guess for the homegrown players quota
Agreed.
What battle, this is the best time to start Kalulu on that flank.
4-2-1-3 the best formation to be as follow,
Mag
Kalulu – thiaw , tomori – theo
Rlc – rejd
Pulisic
Chekw – giroud – leo
I basically agree with your comment..4-2-1 -3
Mag
Kalulu – thiaw ,tomori – Theo
Rlc – rejd ?
Pulisic
Chekw Giroud – leao
I also predict the score 4 – 1 ….Giroud to score twice ..
It does look an exciting line up
Je suis d’avis avec toi cette formation serait mieux pour cet effectif
It’s looking more like we needed to sign Kamada afterall for dept purposes, I really hope it works out for Pioli cus if he returns to this formation we’d be lacking experience depth in the AM position, it wouldn’t have killed to sign the dude before the whole Soap operas. Just saying
Florenzi is washed up, Kalulu all day
The only battle Florenzi should be in with another teammate is which seat on the bench they would sit on.
Looks like you need an extra right back, so Singo is brought in???
The day Krunic is at fenerbahce is the day I genuinely believe we can have a good midfield because as long as he’s here he’s being started
Because he deserve starting spot
Pioli has already stated that Kalulu is a cB. What is all this back and forth. Sale is a option for the RB. Florenzi won’t play much,so Salad man is the buck up
LMAO Salad never plays as RB. There is already talk of switching Kalulu to RB where he has played before.
Saelemaekers has definitely played as a right back and did well. He even has played there at Anderlecht and the Belgian national team. In one of the latest games of the Red Devils he played as a left back but that didn’t go so well because he’s used to playing on the right.
Not for Milan he did.
He did play in RB on his few first games on his first spell (still on loan) with Milan. On these last pre season matches, it’s pretty clear too that he’s fielded on RB post as a substitute.
Flarensi is a good
I lost word for Piolis stubbornness by keeping krunic as starter.
Krunic needs to leave ASAP and he can take Pioli with him as well..
We need to bring another DM. And Musah is still training.
We should use 3:3:4 formation to accommodate all our deadly attackers
Why would we start Krunic if we’re getting rid of him?
I mean I know we’ve played quite a few players this and most preseasons who were not going to play for us during the actual season. But hey it’s only preseason, we can probably just skip it altogether and focus on the transfer market.
It’s an expected line up. And could change. We don’t have many others to pick on. In addition, since it’s a friendly, he may really only pay 45 minutes with large numbers of subs at the break.
Give it a rest and stop complaining about single thing. The preseason still matters for most players who are staying. Or else they won’t be in better fitness once the season starts.
You should know better.
Pobega could play instead or even a youth team player heaven forbid!
Or points to a general lack of focus and happens every preseason.
But don’t worry this god forsaken transfer window will be shut soon and I can stop complaining about it and instead get into arguments with people when I defend the very players I didn’t want signed in the first place!
Or pintos
Kalulu is a pure diamond…a joungster have shown tremendeous build up in the last two years.Krunić is of no use for longer time…it is a wonder how a guy like him made up to move to AC Milan.I just hope he’ll move on,and we shall not lose our time in comments on him anymore.Florenzi is a clown,nice guy,funny character…but that’s all.To let Kalulu sit on bench an watch Florenzi making theater it’s pervers.After longer time AC Milan has competitive Team….it’s time tu put those child games with Krunić,Florenzi,Messias,etc. behind,and start with champion level again.We have more then enough material for it this year…FORZA MILAN!
What battle ? Give kalulu that RB spot and let florenzi as depth
The team is too unbalanced. We need one of the wingback to be a purely defensive player that does not go upfront. We suffer negative transitions, by replacing Tonali and Benaccer with Rejnders and Lotus Cheek you are probably better off offensively but for sure worst defensively. Kalulu should be starting right back and we need a very strong defensive, both physically and tactically. Not sure Musah can be that player. Man City won UCL with 4 center backs + Rodri!
First season in years that I’m equally as excited to see players come off the bench
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Why nobody talk about the captain (Calabria)?