Milan, current champions of Serie A, dropped two points (0-0) in their visit to Cremonese, third from the last classified, and now eight behind leaders Napoli, who previously extended their amazing run against Empoli (2- 0) .
Classified for the second round of the Champions League, now a gray Milan. as in his previous visit to the Giovanni Zini stadium in January 1996, he was unable to change the score. It was 0-0 in a special match for Ariedo Braida, historical manager of Milan and current sports director of Cremonese after passing through Barça.
There are many casualties and the system is changing
Milan entered the game with many casualties due to injury (Maignan, Calabria, Florenzi, Dest, Saelemaekers, Ibrahimovic) and suspension (Giroud and Theo Hernández) and, in addition, Stefano Pioli left Rafael Leao on the bench from the start.
The ‘rossonero’ coach lined up an alternative eleven and changed his usual 4-2-3-1 for a 3-4-1-2, with a defense of three central defenders and Brahim Díaz as playmaker.
Carnesecchi, a fence
Milan were thick in the first phase of the match, but midway through the first half they started to create chances with their best play on the wings. Brahim Díaz got it with a shot that went just wide before his teammates repeatedly fell to the inspired Marco Carnesecchi, who pulled off three excellent saves.
The Italian Under-21 goalkeeper was brilliant when he blocked a shot by Divok Origi after the Belgian was left alone after a deep pass by Anre Rebic (23′).
Immediately afterwards, Carnesecchi deflected a header from central defender Malick Thiaw into a corner that Sandro Tonali (36′) took and later a shot was deflected by Junior Messias (39′).
Goal disallowed against Origi and Leao came on
The unchanging approach of a Cremonese confined to his area and generous with his effort seemed to backfire when Origi scored, but the Belgian’s goal was disallowed by VAR for offside (56′).
Pioli moved pieces with playing time giving Rafael Leao an entry for Origi, but the Portuguese was not on his side tonight and his fantastic run down the left was not wasted.
Milan lacked depth and suffered their second straight stumble away from home in Serie A after falling to Torino on October 30 (2-1). The draw was glorious for the Cremonese despite still being in the relegation zone and without a win in 14 games since being promoted to Serie A.
CREMONEE
00
MILAN
Cremonese: Carnesecchi; Aiwu, Bianchetti, Johan Vaszquez; Ghiglione (Sernicola, 62′), Escalante, Castagnetti (Pickel, 70′), Valeri (Quagliata, 88′); Afena-Gyan (Buonaiuto, 63′) Meïté; Ciofani (Okereke, 63′)
Milan: Tatarusanu; Malick Thiaw (Kalulu, 60′), Kjaer, Tomori; Junior Messias, Bennacer, Tonali (Krunic, 83′), Ballo-Touré; Brahim Diaz (De Ketelaere, 74′); Origi (Rafael Leão, 60′) and Rebic (Lazetic, 83′)
Objectives: none
Referee: Antonio Rapuano. Yellow cards for Ghiglione (47′), Vásquez (67′), Rafael Leão (78′), Valeri (85′), Meïté (87′), Lazetic (87′), De Ketelaere (93′)
Spectators: 14,758 at the Stadio Giovanni Zini
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Source: La Verdad
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