AC Milan head coach Sergio Conceicao has named his starting line-up for tonight’s match against Napoli, and there are changes compared to the last game.
News broke on the day of the game that there is a last-minute absentee: Milan have confirmed that Ruben Loftus-Cheek has undergone surgery to fix a problem with his appendix. He joins the injured Emerson Royal and the suspended Yunus Musah as the players missing out.
Official starting XIs
Conceicao has named a back four of Kyle Walker, Matteo Gabbia, Strahinja Pavlovic and Theo Hernandez. Warren Bondo and Youssouf Fofana are the two central midfielders in the double pivot.
In attack, Christian Pulisic will play on the right wing, with Tijjani Reijnders as the attacking midfielder and Joao Felix on the left. Tammy Abraham will lead the line, meaning Santiago Gimenez and Rafael Leao start on the bench.
Official Milan XI (4-2-3-1): Maignan; Walker, Gabbia, Pavlovic, Theo Hernandez; Bondo, Fofana; Pulisic, Reijnders, Joao Felix; Abraham
Bench: Sportiello, Torriani, Tomori, Thiaw, Florenzi, Terracciano, Jimenez, Terracciano, Chukwueze, Sottil, Leao, Gimenez, Jovic.
Official Napoli XI (4-3-3): Meret; Di Lorenzo, Rrahmani, Buongiorno, Olivera; Gilmour, Lobotka, Anguissa; Politano, Lukaku, Neres.
Bench: Turi, Scuffet, Juan Jesus, Okafor, Billing, Marin, Simeone, Esposito, Ngonge, Hasa, Mazzocchi, Raspadori.
Fine lineup.
I would just prefer Thiaw rather than Pavlovich for this game. He could receive an a early yellow card and make things complicated.
I’m comforted knowing that Pavlovic is in there. You need a beast presence to go up against Lukaku and muscle him off the ball.
Conceiceo, what is Felix doing here?
He would put more responsibility on his team mate.
Lossing possession anyhow and falling down at the slightest touch.
Are you kidding me!!! How is it possible to start felix instead Leao!!! I can’t wait thos season to be over and get all rhis clowns out!!!
RLC is so injury prone. /s
Serie A is a joke.
They should just give Inter the scudetto and be done with it.
Mkhitaryan just kicked Udinese defender in the head in front of the ref and didn’t even get a yellow card. That’s with Inter being outplayed and pinned down by Udinese for most of the 2nd half and the score being 2-1.
I remember Leao getting a 2nd yellow for the exact same attempt that hit a Sampdoria defender in the head couple seasons ago.
I guess there are different rules for inter in serie A.
And according to Inzaghi inter are victims…. It’s quite shocking really..
None of these defenders can handle Lukaku. Why not play Thiaw? Smh
Gabbia is soft and should be sold in my opinion along with Tomori.
Sure, lets sell the Last italian….
Gabbia over Thiaw to handle Lukaku? My god
I hope Leao comes on early and becomes a super sub yet again, once Felix have been subed off for being invisable,
Otherwise good starting eleven.
Walker in our lineup is already showing we lost this match
Felix is less productive than Leao. So why?
What a wonderful coach.
Sarting Felix is a wonderful move…Conceicao is preventing pressure next season, he dont want to pressurize players with Europa League next season.
Greta start! Good defense. WOW!
Great start
No Musah, no party
It’s just Conte teaching Ibra a life lesson. That a real coach works with type of players he needs for his system not players parachuted to him from incompetent apes
So this man benched Thiaw that’s used to playing Lukaku for Pav that doesn’t know how to defend Lukaku ? lol. Clown show fr
Dead club
Time to go to bed
Watch MotoGP
If you’re putting Leao on the bench, then play Sottil – far better player than Felix; and don’t drop Thiaw – this is a sh*tshow
I was told Conte could and would only play with a three man defence, hence he wouldn’t feet in ACM.
Oh well
Chill guys, 2nd half is ours. We are afterall the comeback kings👑
So basically conceicao’s idea is to put leao and gimenez in on the 2nd half and hope for miracle.
Nice.
Horrific defending. I’m glad conceicao has had time to work with the players so we know he is a terrible coach.
Thiaw has been our best defender!
Pavlovic plays suicidal football that looks amazing when not punished, his inability to hold his position is childish. He’s the CB version of Musah.
But hey that’s Gerrys vision of a European Milan, big fast strong players. Musah, RLC, Pavlovic etc. Based on him watching 1 game where we got humped by Chelsea.
Pulisic and Felix look like a couple of school girls against men. Pathetic.
Torment
Gimenez going full Piatek.