AC Milan will celebrate their 125th birthday in tonight’s game against Genoa, and Paulo Fonseca is expected to name an interesting side.
Milan managed to extend their winning run in the Champions League earlier this week, but only just as a late 2-1 winner was needed against Red Star. After that game Fonseca went on a bit of a rant about the attitude of the team, which has dominated the headlines since.
As a result, some big changes have been predicted for the game against Patrick Vieira’s side, also due to a shortage of attacking options with an injury bug having hit that particular department.
The predicted XIs
According to La Gazzetta dello Sport (seen below), Fonseca is expected to name a back four of Emerson Royal, Matteo Gabbia, Malick Thiaw and Alex Jimenez ahead of Mike Maignan, with Theo Hernandez therefore dropping to the bench.
Tijjani Reijnders and Youssouf Fofana are expected to be in the midfield double pivot, with Samuel Chukwueze and Rafael Leao occupying the positions as the right and left wingers respectively.
Alvaro Morata is injured so Tammy Abraham will lead the line, while Christian Pulisic, Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Yunus Musah also being missing means Mattia Liberali should be the playmaker.
Predicted Milan XI (4-2-3-1): Maignan; Emerson Royal, Gabbia, Thiaw, Jimenez; Fofana, Reijnders; Chukwueze, Liberali, Leao; Abraham.
Predicted Genoa XI (4-3-3): Leali; Sabelli, Bani, Vasquez, Martin; Thorsby, Badelj, Frendrup; Zanoli, Pinamonti, Miretti.
Fun fact ,jimenez is mainly RB but he never get a chance vs calabria and emerson 🤦🤣 just like terraciano who was also forced to play LB everytime 😁
Finally, Liberali will get his chance to play for the senior team. I have been expecting this after what he did during the pre-season. Alex Jiminez too will get his chance too ahead of Theo who has been underperforming.
This is the kind of move we need to get all our players performing at the top level week-in week-out. If there is enough competition, everyone will get his head straight.
Winning team
It looks to me like a great Line-up except that I prefer Calabria on the right, or anyone.
terraciano as a RB and we are ready
also nice to see balotelli in serie A again 🙂
Yeah, would have liked to see Terraciano at RB
I hope vos gets some minutes and glad Abraham gets some time as he’s been very unlucky of late with his chances but been more threatening than morata. Here’s hoping liberali can step up and claim that spot while pulisic is out. If he explodes then it would be good to put puli back on the right when fully fit again. Some minutes for okafor in the second after hopefully a good performance from leao in the first. Or push Jimenez in leaos position in the second and put bart in as left back. Shame chaka didn’t make the cut. Maybe as okafor is back.
Of only Management would have trusted Bart as LB seconder and Jimenez as RB seconder in the summer
First it was Leao that we needed to get rid off, now its Theo. But in reality we have a subpar couch who has a tendency to play players out of position with the guys for that position sitting on the bench.
So Thiaw is now effectively ahead of Tomori in pecking order
I hope we don’t break those shiny toys called Fofana and Reijnders.