Fikayo Tomori of AC Milan

SM: Predicted Milan XI vs. Real Madrid – Fonseca decides on midfield configuration

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AC Milan head coach Paulo Fonseca appears to have settled on the team that he will field tomorrow night against Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu.

It will be a tough test for Milan against the current and 15-time champions of Europe, made more difficult by the absence of Matteo Gabbia who is still coming back from a calf issue. Alessandro Florenzi and Ismael Bennacer are continuing their recovery after surgery too.

As reported by our correspondent Luca Maninetti, the current predicted line-up sees Mike Maignan in goal with Emerson Royal, Fikayo Tomori, Strahinja Pavlovic and Theo Hernandez the back four. For Theo, it will be a return to his former club Real.

Youssouf Fofana and Tijjani Reijnders are currently expected to be in the double pivot with Ruben Loftus-Cheek further forward as an attacking midfielder.

Christian Pulisic and Rafael Leao should be on the right and left wings of the attack respectively, with another former Madridista in Alvaro Morata leading the line.

That means the likes of Tammy Abraham, Noah Okafor, Samuel Chukwueze – who knows Real Madrid well given his Villarreal past – and Yunus Musah represent options off the bench.

Predicted Milan XI (4-2-3-1): Maignan; Emerson, Gabbia, Tomori, Theo Hernandez; Fofana, Reijnders; Pulisic, Loftus-Cheek, Leao; Morata.

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20 Comments

  1. Okey but switch Raijnders for RLC and I’m OK with it. under Fonseca RLC is better in DM and Reijnders more like AM with his eye on game..
    And hope Morata will play more like striker , not another AM like against Monza. It is grat he want to help all teammates but first we need his goals

  2. Please I begged again Loftus cheek must not start this match this is realmadrid not Liverpool or liverkusen and another thing is that Acmilan must not give realmadrid a chance to hold ball talk more of to play attacked I prefer Yunus musah that guy is far better he used to help Milan team very well despite he doesn’t score goals but he contribute to the team.

  3. Tried Loftus-Cheek as AM, didn’t work.
    Tried Reijnders as AM, didn’t work.
    Tried Pulisic as AM, didn’t work.
    Perhaps it’s about time to switch to a 4-3-3 ? Or that 4-4-2 thing with which we had our ONLY good game this season.

    1. Whatever we do, RLC, Reijnders, Puli, 4-3-3, 4-4-2, 4-2-3-1, anything else… we’ll lose by a large score. This Fonseca version of AC Milan is miles behind Real Madrid (they are the best team in the world, we are a mid-table team in Italy); there is no way we can compete with them regardless of what we try in terms of lineup and formation.

  4. Puli does work as the 10 and even Morata as the 10 worked with another striker present. Those points may be arguable but RLC as a 10 I think everyone agrees is a bad option. He doesn’t even plug up the passing lanes in defense well enough to say well we’ll play a low block and RLC will help, no he doesn’t so what is he good for? Chuck has a good history against Madrid, so maybe Fonseca figures he’ll be a super sub. Idk, but I’m tired of seeing RLC on the pitch.

  5. We’re not going to win. At least not if RLC is ”playing” as ACM. He never even gets the ball up there. He has no business being on the pitch. It’s like playing with ten men. And why have both Pavlo and Tomori? It’s going to be chaos.

    This can’t be the real deal. If so then I’m about to join the #Fonsecaout crew on the Titanic because we are about to sink.

  6. Loftus-Cheek’s best performance in a Milan shirt came as a 10 against a better opponent (against PSG).

    He offers next to nothing in attack when Milan have a majority of the possession, but his ability to compete for long balls and disrupt better teams’ build up make him well-suited to the 10 in this situation.

    That said, it might be better to play Musah and Reijnders in the 10 since Musah has more energy and can cover ground better.

    1. Facts, but this coach doesn’t even watch the replays of our games, he is in love with RLC, although we play better without him.

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