Massimiliano Allegri has named AC Milan’s team to face Roma, and there are a couple of changes from the draw against Atalanta.
After back-to-back draws in the league against Pisa and La Dea, Milan are on the hunt for what would be their sixth win in their first 10 Serie A fixtures. However, they face a Roma side that are three points higher at the moment, and have conceded just four goals in nine games.
Read SempreMilan ad-free and get access to exclusive news. Click here for a free trial!
Allegri will be without four players due to injury this evening: forward duo Santiago Gimenez and Christian Pulisic, influential midfielder Adrien Rabiot and the young winger Cheveyo Balentien.
AC Milan vs. Roma: Official starting XIs
As was reported in the build-up to the game, Allegri has chosen to name Koni De Winter, Matteo Gabbia and Strahinja Pavlovic as the three centre-backs in the rearguard ahead of the captain Mike Maignan in goal.
Alexis Saelemaekers will be the right wing-back facing the club he was on loan at last season, with Davide Bartesaghi on the opposite side. They will flank a midfield trio of Youssouf Fofana, Luka Modric and Samuele Ricci.
The front two will be Rafael Leao and Christopher Nkunku, but this was almost a given because of Christian Pulisic and Santiago Gimenez’s injury problems.
Official Milan XI (3-5-2): Maignan; De Winter, Gabbia, Pavlovic; Saelemaekers, Fofana, Modric, Ricci, Bartesaghi; Leao, Nkunku.
Bench: Pittarella, Terracciano, Tomori, Odogu, Athekame, Estupinan, Jashari, Loftus-Cheek, Castiello.
Official Roma (3-4-1-2): Svilar; Mancini, Ndicka, Hermoso; Wesley, El Ayanoui, Kone, Celik; Soule, Cristante; Dybala.
Bench: Vasquez, Gollini, Rensch, Pellegrini, Dovbyk, Tsimikas, Ziolkowski, Bailey, Baldanzi, Pisilli, Ghilardi, El Shaarawy.
This ia a must win match for milan no dropping of points or else we say goodbye to d scuddeto and fight for top 4
Why are Roma overwhelming us at the San Soto?
Ready or not her we come. Gonna find you…♥️🖤
Very difficult match and pitch conditions will be poor as well, I think. We’re having trouble scoring and are not keeping clean sheets. Roma doesn’t score much, but has the best defense. This smells of a 1-1 draw, and maybe even 0-0, but Roma has a good chance to win given all of our injuries.
Agree with this – I’m not optimistic after being screwed over by injuries and everyone misfiring/ being overplayed – hope I’m wrong..
Good to see Tomori on the bench,his foolishness lead to Lukhman goal, could have cost us another goal.May be he needs rest to refresh his brain
If leao is inform, we gonna win 3-0, I now know that pulisic is our pillar upfront right now.
It’s a numbers game, Yo Fofana. Keep shooting, it’ll eventually go in. 🙂
Hopefully not. He should pass the ball. He can give some good assist…
I hope we at least show some ambition unlike last game
Think positive lads.. big game, at least at home and we’ll have a big game tonight… Better chance in mailand than in rome… Tick tack, tick tack only a half an hour…😊♥️🖤🫶🏽
Has he ever been consistent? U have to read a horoscope to know when he is on form. He is a lottery
Hope we will win the lottery tonight fingers crossed…😁
Very important and tough game tonight with Roma. We need a very good display from Leao tonight.
Modric is thinking – when the fk am I going to get a night off?
RLC on at the half for Leao or Nkunku if we are chasing.
Hope to see 15 min from Jashari that shows Fofana is the backup eventually.
I hope the fatigue I think I was seeing in Modric was something else
Is Mike drunk?
What is going on with Mike?
Do we need to sub him off?
Nkunku + Leao. We’re playing 9 v 11 in defense tonight…
Game after game I like Ricci less…
I hope Rabiot will come back as soon as possible and Jashari will recover full physical form sooner .
With Rabiot in the midfield and Pulisic in attack I watch our ganes more relaxed
It’s a poor team without Puli and Rabiot
Mama Mia we are being steam rolled.
Long ball to Leao, and Leao doesn’t play with his back to goal very well. That’s the strategy. Cristante is stuck to Modric.
Roma’s midfield is also heavier and taller than hours.
No one should say Bartesaghi is better than Estupinian ever again…
Stats at 30 mins
Shots
Roma 10 Milan 1
Football is a cruel game
As is baseball as an aside. Hard luck Blue Jays
Barthesagi showing why he isn’t ready for first team.
Fofana is all sweet and grit… No technique.
Estupinan?
Nkunku is playing, right?
Or is he injured? Because I haven’t seen him all game
Leaaaoooowwwww – one of the only ones actually playing football tonight
Rafa does what he does best from OUT WIDE and IN SPACE. Hire a damned manager that will play 4-3-3 please.
Clear as day that he’s just operates so much better in the wing, smh
Pavlovic to play striker?
He is actually more of a striker than a defender. A target man perhaps?
Pavlovic was our striker 😆😆
Maybe we should play him there 😆😆
Unbelievable Fofana…..it was harder to miss that chance…
Fofana will not be the death of me…. How did this idi*t miss that?
I have a feeling we might regret Fofana’s miss.
One of the worst performances by a Milan team I can remember until the goal and then a complete change.
The manager needs to sort this out and be proactive
It reminds me too much of last year. At least we didn’t wait to go down a goal before starting to play (but we sure tried to give them a goal)
1st half
*Maignan an old lady taking 40 touches before ballooning the ball to Antarctica.
*bartesaghi is plucking corn in an apple farm
* Ricci is still laying foundation on first floor, yet to know his positioning on the field.
*de winter, winter is nearby
*Modric, no grudge over the legend
* nkuku is playing in the mud, slipping every time
*FOFANA HAS THE BRAIN OF A CHICKEN, ALWAYS LOOKING FOR DIFFICULT PASSES WHEN SIMPLE ONES ARE THERE, HIS LEGS ARE OPPOSED TO THE GOAL.
Leao, well despite everything awfully lazy pressing, he did what he does best. One moment wonder
I hope 2nd half turns our way and we win.
OH RABIOT AND PULISIC, PLS RECOVER IN TIME
In fairness Rabiot and Pulisic play in positions we are most covered, Mezzala and 2nd striker.
It’s more about how we are trying to play as a team
NOfana needs to be benched. Holy moly what a miss
Isak, hope you’re watching… Unless he scores a hatrick somehow, I can’t see him more than 4 out of 10 for the ratings 🤭😅
Unbelievable how we miss so many clear chances…
This second half pressure needs to yield a goal or it will come back to bite us…
I fear we’ll pay for all of these missed chances…
Come on Leao gotta put away at least one of those or else it’s gonna be another week of those “articles”
Did you swap boots with NOfana?
RLC on for Nkunku soon.
Incredible… another huge chance missed…wtf…
Dovbik. Watch him be the 1-1 at like 90 +3.
Fcking Fofana… Like I said needs to be benched
Fofana has the in-game intelligence of a dog in heat
LMAO 😂😂😂
Fk me Mike about time
Exactly
Geez what a time to save one
Finally Magic Mike deflects a penalty !
But…Fofana… c’mon Allegri , Loftus in , Fofana out
Magic Mike, makes Dybala miss his first penalty.
Phew RLC is on for Nkunku. We’re no longer down a man. We’re down just half a man now lol
Player ratings for the Fof will be interesting tonight …
Him and Nkunku… Didn’t realize he was playing until like minute 35 when the camera sort of zoomed in
Fofana is almost always booked but never quite seen him suspended he’s been reckless all night
Leao so wasteful. Hoping to close this down else there will be a huge regret
Where’s my defibrillator?
The famous 5-5-0!
And we got. It before December as predicted lol 🤣
In this case we gotta do what we needed to do
In three games in a row, the team has been calamitous. It’s not something to belittle. This is scary. I was literally laughing (been sarcastic) throughout the entire game, wondering how two players in Pulisic and rabiot absence can impact so heavily on a team. Pheeeew
Exactly