AC Milan head coach Stefano Pioli has submitted the final starting line-up of his nearly five-year tenure at the club, and he saved some surprises for the last one.
It will be a night of emotions at San Siro as Pioli will not be the only one who bids farewell to the Milan fans. Olivier Giroud and Simon Kjaer will leave when their contracts expire meaning they will get a great send-off too.
The rather surprising reports from this morning have been confirmed. Antonio Mirante a farewell appearance in goal, with Davide Calabria, Fikayo Tomori, Matteo Gabbia and Theo Hernandez the back four in front of him.
Alessandro Florenzi is playing as part of the midfield, a position that he has often taken up during games coming in from the right, with Tijjani Reijnders next to him. Ismael Bennacer completes the trio, but he might have a slightly more advanced role.
Either way, the two flanks are comprised of Christian Pulisic on the right wing and Rafael Leao on the left, then finally Olivier Giroud will lead the line in his final appearance looking for two goals to hit 50 for the club.
Official Milan XI (4-2-3-1): Mirante; Calabria, Gabbia, Tomori, Hernández; Florenzi, Reijnders; Pulisic, Bennacer, Leão; Giroud.
Bench: Nava, Sportiello; Caldara, Kalulu, Kjær, Terracciano, Thiaw; Adli, Loftus-Cheek, Musah, Pobega; Jovic, Okafor.
Official Salernitana XI (3-4-2-1): Fiorillo; Pierozzi, Pasaridīs, Gyömbér; Sambia, Coulibaly, Maggiore, Zanoli; Candreva, Kastanos; Tchaouna.
Bench: Costil, Salvati; Ferrari, Guccione, Pellegrino; Di Vico, Łęgowski, Sfait, Vignato; Boncori, Fusco, Simy.
Rumor has it Milan is wearing their new kits tonight.
Time for new beginnings – on the pitch and all around.
why dont play caldara
Even in his last game he is fielding some old fart in a wrong position instead of playing the players that suppose to play.
What is Florenzi doing in the midfield, when you have Adli, Musah , Pobega, RLC and even Terracciano on the bench? It better be because it’s Florenzi’s last game too.
Uh, it’s a last game. Chill.
Thank God it’s Pioli’s last game.
Good riddance.
hahaha I made the same post on a different thread. Pioli is still experimenting… 5 years in. LOL!!!
Playing Fonseca’s plan I see
Adli hasnt seen any gametime this month
What’s up with this wide white collars. That’s one ugly shirt.
I made my self watch some Fonseca game – well to be honest no real difference to Pioli – same wingers, same strikers drop back, same stacking output from wide backs , same defensive woes in the middle. What was the point of that change? You will come to realise it already in the preseason – no reason at all.
Im freaking missing the match as those clowns at tv has decided to show darts, ice hockey and badminton and then a la liga match on a fourth channel. how is the match even though ive checked the score and who has scored. any suggestions for a free non subscription site for pc and already tried rojadirecta and hesgoal but neither seems to work properly today.
Jump on footybite for a nice stream..
They been dominating and 3rd goal was in the air. One was denied duo to semi real offside
But yeah, most links on there didn’t work. Had to work for it
Thanks a bunch as i was starting to get furious 😀
Yeah my anti virus didnt like it too much and had to try a couple of times but in the end didnt get any issues with it after running it and it was in good quality and even on english which for me is preferable.
In the end i cant say i enjoyed the 30-35 minutes i watched of the second half but at least i saw the players, coach and fans say farewell to eachother and that will suffice for today even though i watched salernitana score 3 against our 1 goal 😀
Nevertheless much appreciated 🙂
Curva sud are killing it. Terrific atmosphere
Exactly. Too much red on the shirt again. And why can’t we have the black shorts back !!
@ted
Caldara for his second or something appearance for Milan.
As usual..tomori lost his man yet again.
Gabbia off, the whole def goes away 😀
Like 8 Milan players inside the six yards box and no one even closed to the goal scorer. Who’s telling the team this is effective way of defending set pieces?
Agreed I’m posting a bit too quickly 😊
Adli..what a player..LOL
Theo is a beast!! A must keep
Capitano!! Good run into the box and glancing header. Nice goal
Oh boy. Serie B team pulling this come back. It’s ok tho – one of the most meaningless league matches I’ve to watch.
Boy we experienced a Fonseca moment tonight for the first time – how to draw a won game! That’s what I call a management – they preparing the fans before the coach is even announced 🤡
Laughable performance, thanks pepioli