AC Milan boss Massimiliano Allegri has named his starting line-up for the Saturday night Serie A clash at San Siro against Lazio.
It feels like a tricky test against Maurizio Sarri’s men is a certainty given that they have lost just once in their last eight league games. However, Milan are 11 unbeaten in Serie A themselves, and they beat Inter in the derby last Sunday to move second.
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AC Milan vs. Lazio: Official starting XIs
Allegri has a notable absence to contend with: Christian Pulisic complained of muscle fatigue in training during the week, and will sit out. Santiago Gimenez and Zachary Athekame are the other two unavailable players.
Mike Maignan will be between the posts with the captain’s armband on again, hoping to repeat his derby heroics, or ideally have less work to do. Fikayo Tomori, Matteo Gabbia and Strahinja Pavlovic will line up ahead of him as the three-man defence.
Alexis Saelemaekers has overcome a back issue that forced him to leave training early during on of the sessions during the week and he starts at right wing-back, while Davide Bartesaghi is on the other flank. Adrien Rabiot, Luka Modric and Youssouf Fofana are the unchanged midfield trio.
Christopher Nkunku has been given the nod to start up front alongside Rafael Leao given the absence of other forwards. The likes of Koni De Winter, Pervis Estupinan, Samuele Ricci, Ardon Jashari and Ruben Loftus-Cheek are on the bench, but the squad is looking depleted again.
Official Milan XI (3-5-2): Maignan; Tomori, Gabbia, Pavlovic; Saelemaekers, Fofana, Modric, Rabiot, Bartesaghi; Nkunku, Leao.
Bench: Maignan; Tomori, Gabbia, Pavlovic; Saelemaekers, Fofana, Modric, Rabiot, Bartesaghi; Nkunku, Leao.
Official Lazio XI (4-3-3): Provedel; Marusic, Gila, Romagnoli, Pellegrini; Guendouzi, Vecino, Basic; Isaksen, Dia, Zaccagni.
Bench: Mandas, Furlanetto, Lazzari, Nuno Tavares, Patric, Provstgaard, Belahyane, Pedro, Noslin, Dele-Bashiru, Castellanos.
the bench is the same as the official xi? thank you sirs
Bench players like first 11. Very unprofessional 😡
We sold Thiaw and Tomori. Lmao.
*And kept Tomori
Lazio with a transfer embargo have a bigger bench than us.
Unreal Mike save again.
We’d be lost without him
Fofana is a bum
I like our energy and ambition.
Unfortunately there are just so many mistakes.
We haven’t had a shot on target in 30 mins!
No cutting edge.
Pulisic is a big absence
Very solid defensively but offer nothing offensively. We really need a striker, even if he don’t score he will atleast run in to spaces, stretch and create space for others. Two false nine is just not working
Pulisic is so important for our attack. Hope we have him back soon
We need to change something as this is not working. 0 shots on target at half time, that’s bad
Unfortunately we have no options in attack.
I’d be inclined to bring on RLC for Fofana and Ricci for Modric.
This is a huge opportunity to go top and Roma playing Napoli this weekend
Rafa with a strikers goal.
Fofana to Tomorri to make it happen.
Bartesaghi is clearly a starter.
All in all good game so far
Heyyyyy!!!😄😄😄😄
Fofana is useless
I was having a bad day trying to solve some coding issues, it has been a bad day. Then Fofana tried to shoot.
I laughed my ass off, best comical experience so far,,
Mike not taking the goal kicks. Sigh.
Fofana does so much right, but when he is wrong, he is oh so wrong.
Nkunku is playing like he is doing us a favor. Not impressed.
Modric looks tired. Let’s see Jashari.
Rabiot is a stud.
Pavlovic is playing as a 9 in some situations. Interesting.
Rafa header looks 9-ish.
RLC on for Fofana. Bummer. He should come on for Nkunku. Ricci for Fofana would have been better.
Bartesaghi has a sweet cross. Yet he still manages to play defense and take water breaks with the team. 4 stars … Would recommend.
It’s official Fofana is NOT a shooter. Have you seen that completely misfired shot ?. After a beautiful run tho.
Well nice to see him doing something other than shooting inside the box for the hockey assist
Now, can we stop this 1-0 lead games. It’s causing too much tension at the last 10mins of games.
I never understood parallel lines better because it fofana and the goal. They never meet.
Another clean sheet . Our defence and midfield together are very impressive . With Rabiot along Modric in front of our three central defenders plus Maignan we are very hard to beat.