AC Milan head coach Paulo Fonseca has named his starting line-up for the game against Udinese this evening, and he has opted to make several changes from the team that lost to Fiorentina before the break.
In terms of absences for Milan, Davide Calabria is the only player who is not yet out of the treatment room in terms of the short-term absences. Ismael Bennacer, Alessandro Florenzi and Marco Sportiello remain out as they continue recovery from surgery.
Mike Maignan is in goal with Emerson Royal at right-back, while as of last night it seemed it would be Matteo Gabbia alongside Strahinja Pavlovic at centre-back. However, the former has a muscle issue and it will be Malick Thiaw who pairs up with the Serbian.
Filippo Terracciano will take the spot of the suspended Theo Hernandez at left-back after winning the duel with Alex Jimenez, and there are no changes in the double pivot which means Youssouf Fofana and Tijjani Reijnders keep their spot.
Samuel Chukwueze returned early from Nigeria duty with an injury scare earlier in the week but he will is fine and starts on the right, with Christian Pulisic as the attacking midfielder and Noah Okafor on the left in place of Rafael Leao.
The Portuguese winger is believed to be having his workload managed given that the games will now come thick and fast. Finally, Alvaro Morata taking Tammy Abraham’s place and thus leading the line.
Official Milan XI (4-2-3-1): Maignan; Emerson, Thiaw, Pavlovic, Terracciano; Fofana, Reijnders; Chukwueze, Pulisic, Okafor; Morata.
Bench: Sportiello, Torriani, Loftus-Cheek, Leao, Jimenez, Tomori, Liberali, Bartesaghi, Musah, Abraham.
Official Udinese XI (3-5-2): Okoye; Kabasele, Bijol, Toure; Ehizibue, Zemura, Lovric, Karlstrom, Ekkelenkamp, Zemura; Iker Bravo, Lucca.
Bench: Sava, Padelli, Abankwah, Payero, Davis, Kamara, Palma, Brenner, Ebosse, Giannetti, Ekkelenkamp, Rui Modesto, Pizarro.
Thiaw and Pav???….the utter dunceness. What’s wrong with Gab? Injury?
How about learning the facts before commenting like a moron
Bro relax. I don’t always have time to read EVERY news article..I literally came from bball to check the lineup 🤷♂️
Gabbia is not better than either Thiaw or Pavlovic, buddy. What, you think just because he scored the derby winner and is Italian, he’s somehow better?
He is better because since he has been playing our defence is looking more solid.
Don’t dis a good player with your ignorance
He has been better in every way, buddy. Maybe watch more games than the Derby highlights …
Where in my comments did I say because of the derby winner he’s better than Thiaw and Pav??? LMAO 😂😂😂 u guys r weird
But still, nonetheless he’s better than both, better positioning, better tactically, better slide and standing tackle, better or as good aerially. The only thing is probably pace and he makes up for in positioning
These defenders line ups cannot be worse because it is the most….
Udinese 2-1. We always have a hard time with them and with this back line…
Oh he was injured.
Yeah, Gabbia is out due to injury.
I don’t think this back 4 have not played together this season. I fear calamity. But keeping fingers crossed. Thiaw can give one a heart attack. But let’s be hopeful.
4231, Bad feeling about it.
Milan needs a twin striker strategy
We been playing 4231 this whole time…
Hat trick by the Emerson. One by pulisic, one morata
Lol
Now fofana and rejndeers will have to cover the defense line
As much as Thiaw sometimes has nearly given me a heart attack I’m quite intrigued to see how the Thiaw/Pavlovic partnership will turn out. If both can get up in gears and Thiaw finds his form of the first season with us it could become a strong defender pairing. It should also be taken into the equation that Udinese has the tallest field player in Serie A so hopefully this will prevent Lucca capitalizing on his tall frame.
Hopefully we will also see Liberali in action later on in the match.
Nice take. Yea at first I thought it was bonkers but now looking at it, I’m intrigued at the CB pairing
I was fairly calm up until the red card which I have a difficult time seeing even being a freekick.
Hopefully we will still be able to win the match though.
I’d throw Musah into the starting lineup and prefer Jimenez to Terra but I’m happy enough with this and confident of a good performance at least. So glad to see Okafor up there.
This is scary!
I don’t like it!
Where is it on tv in the UK – not on Bet365 as advertised
just try hesgoal or rojadirecta
Thanks -hesgoal has an ‘FBI seized ‘ on the homepage – found it on a random channel
It can still be accessed but good you found a solution.
Try soccerstreams if you have pc. Might need adblocker on.
Teams looking good so far.
Good goal. Sorry for the positive comment lol
Nice one Chuk – if anyone needed a goal it was him. Fantastic work by Okafor too 👏
I’d like to say, for people who always talk how fonseca lost the locker room has no respect of the players and other bs.
Does this team look like it? Because I see players trying hard. Even in the games we lost this season.
Beautiful setup for that goal. Need more like that 🤩🤩🤩
I don’t see the contact as even a freekick let alone a red card.
Maybe it was a bit of it but lovric went down like he got hit with a sledgehammer. Bs card
Didnt seem like it was clear but maybe I’m too fast in my reaction but indeed seems like he overreacted.
Thank god that Udinese goal was disallowed.
Look at the legs. He clipped him from behind. He tried to pull his run but was too late. Serie A players know how to make the most of situations. A bit of naivety there from Deers
Didn’t really look like it to me as the player overplayed the slim contact but maybe when I see a replay later I might change my view. Its atleast always a possibility.
Here we go – down to 10 men because of the ref… But the twat Gino on MLM podcast says “You should still win despite ridiculous ref decisions going against you”. Okay dude – this decision won’t affect the game at all…..
Oh FFS 🤦♂️
That was a card. Why did he give lovric a yellow just know?
Okafor off at the half for a central midfielder, Pulisic to the left. 4-4-1.
Not a red card. A minimum touch. Shame on referee
On a completely different matter I keep wondering why its so popular to have those flashing lights at half time when its actually not very good for people with epilepsy as they risk seizures. Not very including.
If that ref wanna give us a red card then he maybe should consider the one committed on Chukwueze as a red card as well.
Yes, my thought too!
10 against 12 here – I hate this ref
#metoo – why is the standard of refereeing in Serie A so bad?
Or just in general come to think of it – maybe they should get cameras involved and a team of refs in a box checking the play… oh wait.
Morata really needs to stop playing for the whistle. Smh
Maybe Abraham needs to take his place now. Need some subs. Just not leao. Don’t need to be another player down haha
How can Tammy Miss This one…
And injured too.
Abraham fftt
What the hell did Abraha just do??? Missed a glorious chance and took himself out of the game – unreal.
Pulisic ought to be wearing the no. 10 on this squad. He’s the only one that approaches the kind of player that represents that number.
He’s ten times the player people dream of the current No10 to be.
Abraham is too dramatic in one way or another. Hope it’s not a serious injury tho
Chucky is quite invincible since the goal
Even if we will win, this is a shameful display!
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Do you realize Milan is playing with one less player for an hour? Limited Udinese to no clear chance on goal. SMH
Very careless statement
🥸🥸🥸
What will make you happy, winning 4-0 playing with a man down after 30 minutes?.
And here it is…
In the end you pay.
Wow, so lucky.
Worst ref ever.
Tomori comes on and we concede a goal. What a surprise
Relax, it was no goal lol
Why? After 4 minutes of var they decided a pinky was in the offside. We won’t get that lucky next time
Wow – finally something goes our way… so sick of this bs.
Hnnmm more than 12 minutes added time ! This is insane
The added time was insane, red was horrible today. Not the prettiest game but hard fought win considering we played with 10 players most of the game. Udinese didn’t have one scoring chance entire game. Well done Milan.
The disallowed goal for Udinese seemed to me to be disallowed in compensation for the unfair red card given to Reijnders
Pavlovic is actually quite error prone honestly.
For me it looked like a clear red being the last man but I didn’t see the replay. Will have to watch it again. We looked like we were going to dominate the game before the red. Bit lucky in the end but a decent effort playing with ten men. Not sure what people expect from a ten man Milan.