Paulo Fonseca is expected to make some rather bold changes to the starting XI for AC Milan’s game against Genoa. According to a report, the Futuro duo Alex Jimenez and Mattia Liberali will be named by the manager.
Milan are in desperate need of a win in the league, having lost last time out, and the stakes are even higher tomorrow as the club also will celebrate its 125th anniversary. Fonseca made sure to highlight this in his presser, saying that the players need to honour the history.
According to Sky Italia (see below), the manager will make quite a few changes to the starting XI. Theo Hernandez will be replaced by Jimenez, who has done very well for the Futuro, and Liberali will get the chance in the No.10 role amid Yunus Musah’s injury.
Probable Milan XI (4-2-3-1): Maignan; Emerson Royal, Gabbia, Thiaw, Jimenez; Fofana, Reijnders; Chukwueze, Liberali, Leao; Abraham.
Alvaro Morata will be called up for the game, but Fonseca is expected to go with Tammy Abraham instead. He scored the winner against Red Star and also worked incredibly hard, which is something few players did in that game.
It remains to be seen how the youngsters will get on, but at least Fonseca is sticking to his words.
🔴 XI probable pour #MilanGenoa !
Vos avis ?
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— AC Milan – FR (@AC_MilanFR) December 14, 2024
Looks good to me
He’s got nerve.
Why can Liberali suddenly start? If he is ready to take that step, why did not Fonseca give him a few minutes in the last few games? So either Fonseca is starting a player who is not ready to play first team football, or Liberali was ready all this time but Fonseca did not give him a chance.
Because pulisic and ruben and morata are out and musah was a disaster on AM
And Musah is now out too. 🙂
Right. He’s always out in my head so I forgot to mention
He wasn’t without Pulisic and RLC (from the start) until this game.
Presume for the last game they thought it was better for Liberali to play in the U19 UCL that warm the bench for the seniors.
Desperate times.
Not necessarily desperate. If Liberali does well, it could be a blessing in disguise for Milan. Plus it might push the management to get real and buy a good midfielder for rotation in January.
I don’t know why he still stand on formation 4-2-3-1 … I expecting suffering game tomorrow and now when we know Milan’s mentality is broken I think we score, but don’t win.. the win is massively needed, this is great round , Juve draw and Inter play Lazio, also Fiore with Bologna… this round we can go up fast, but only with win
I hope Liberali and Camarda shine… that would fix a lot of holes in the squad, including the Italian/Home-grown quota. Also the final games of this year aren’t that difficult or unrealistic for them to consistently shown growth and development.
Jimenez also has quality, but let’s see if he’s mature enough. Defending takes time and experience.
If Jimenez steps up then we just need a starting quality RB.
Fofana, Reijnders, Liberali, Musah, Bennacer, Zeroli and another CM/CDM in winter can give us a complete midfield. (RLC -> Frendrup?!)
Fifa boy
I don’t think Liberali is ready but I guess we’re gonna find out. We don’t even have any midfield depth outside of Futuro players if anyone else gets hurt….
Livin’ life on the edge…
Jiménez and Bartesaghi are a perfect example of the issue we have with a lack of focus.
I’ve no idea who is better and what their levels even are but we just need to decide who is better, and back that player.
Every second one is on the pitch or in training or spending with the coaches or team mates is a second when the other isn’t.
So we can’t have both.