With Malick Thiaw facing a long spell on the sidelines, AC Milan head coach Stefano Pioli is left with just one fit central defender: Fikayo Tomori.
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As Sky reports, this means that Pioli needs to invent something in view of the game against Frosinone on Saturday because Simon Kjaer is not expected to recover from muscle fatigue in order to face the newly-promoted side.
One solution is to play Rade Krunic at centre-back again, after the central midfielder came off the bench and played in that role last night after Thiaw limped off the field. However, the Calabria-Krunic-Tomori-Theo back four conceded two goals and lost the game.
Another hypothesis could be to move Davide Calabria to the right centre-back position, with one of Alessandro Florenzi and Yunus Musah taking his position on the right flank.
However, there is a more obvious and natural choice: the 18-year-old Primavera defender Jan-Carlo Simic. He was part of the first team squad during the last summer tour – starting against Real Madrid – and this season he has made 14 appearances for Ignazio Abate’s side.
