Massimiliano Allegri has named the AC Milan team for the penultimate game of the 2025-26 season, at the Marassi against Genoa.
Back-to-back defeats at the hands of Atalanta and Sassuolo have complicated the hopes of securing Champions League qualification. So, two wins from two are needed to guarantee a top four spot, starting today against Daniele De Rossi’s Rossoblu.
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Genoa vs. AC Milan: Official starting XIs
Pervis Estupinan, Alexis Saelemaekers and Rafael Leao are all out due to suspension, while Samuele Ricci picked up a knock in training and isn’t 100%. On a positive note, Luka Modric has made a swift recovery from his cheekbone surgery and has made the bench.
Allegri has chosen to go with a three-man defence of Fikayo Tomori, Matteo Gabbia and Strahinja Pavlovic ahead of Mike Maignan. Zachary Athekame and Davide Bartesaghi are the wing-backs almost by obligation, given the suspension situation.
In midfield, Youssouf Fofana and Adrien Rabiot are the Frenchman flanking the regista Ardon Jashari. Up front, Christopher Nkunku partners Santiago Gimenez in a front two we haven’t seen very often.
Official Milan XI (3-5-2): Maignan, Tomori, Gabbia, Pavlovic, Athekame, Fofana, Jashari, Rabiot, Bartesaghi, Gimenez, Nkunku.
Bench: Terracciano, Torriani, De Winter, Odogu, Ricci, Modric, Loftus-Cheek, Pulisic, Fullkrug, Balentien, Sardo, Vladimirov.
Official Genoa XI (3-5-2): Bijlow; Marcandalli, Otoa, Vasquez; Ellertsson, Malinovskyi, Frendrup, Baldanzi, Amorim; Vitinha, Colombo.
Bench: Leali, Sommariva, Ekuban, Zatterstrom, Masini, Martin, Sabelli, Ekhator, Latif, Grossi, Doucourè, Klysis, Lafont.
We should have gone for Xabi Alonso with everything we have. Smh
He wasn’t interested.
The question is did we even try ??
He wasn’t interested. You can try asking the most beautiful girl on the planet to go out with you. But she isn’t interested. 😂
lol. I heard that sometimes the most beautiful girl can agree with some proper courting and maybe money. Haha
If you’re a player you know. If you heard about it you have no chance 😂
15 mins in and all we’ve achieved is long balls and not a single pass completed. Allegri is truly very bad at this coaching job. Wtf!
Yeh I want him out even if by some miracle we qualify..
22 minutes in – zero shot and not one good pass. Allegri really needs to go, this is shameful.
Why am I watching this?
Because you are a fan.
I’m confused. Who’s playing for CL qualifications here, Milan or Genoa?
having a game like this early on our independence day in Norway might be bad for the celebrations later
But somehow the media never sees how bad a coach Allegri is.
You can’t tell me this team is not good enough to win a Genoa team. The problem is definitely in the way we are set up to play. Pls fire this guy immediately. I can’t keep watching this team play like this. This is hands down embarrassing to watch and anybody applauding this nonsense game style needs a new team. Not my Milan.
Yes. Milan was always famous for playing beautiful football and winning games with 3-0. Which club did you watch? 😂😂😂😂
Good thing I haven’t been watching or even following much of the team in the second half of the season. Why would anyone be eager to watch his team playing like this week in week out not to mention regularly losing on top of that
Great poaching by Nkunku to win the penalty
Jashari horror show today, so bad. Terrible defending on Genoa goal.
And he gave them a chance before this. Every time he is in a pickle he does something stupid. You can’t play in that position and be so insecure on the ball under pressure.
We win, but yet again I fear for our performance in the champions League. I decided not to watch the 1st half because I know it will as terrible as the word itself. As for allegri, I was part of those who called for his return, but it’s the most disgraceful thing I have ever done.
How on earth do we defend so deep, can’t do simple passes, there’s no beauty in our play. It like let play anyhow and win.
Terrible team