Fiorentina honored Astori by beating Milan

Four straight wins, also without conceding a goal, are a resurgent Milan but now have their streak ended against Fiorentina (2-1) before visiting Tottenham on Wednesday with the aim of defending 1 -0 win at San Siro in the first leg of the Champions League.

The match at the Artemio Franchi stadium was marked by a tribute to Davide Astori, defender of the Tuscan team who died five years ago today, on March 4, 2018, in the hotel in Udine where he focused on playing the next day. In the 13th minute, the number on his shirt, the game was stopped tonight so the players and the public gave him an enthusiastic ovation.

A discarded Fiore

Fiorentina came out highly motivated, ready to dedicate the victory to Astori, took the ball, moved it with fluidity and besieged a Milan that could not get out of their field. Goalkeeper Mike Maignan fought back with a couple of meritorious saves and, after some good local collective play, he couldn’t keep out enough of Giacomo Bonaventura’s shot in a one-on-one and was saved by defender Fikayo Tomori by avoiding 1-0 in both matches. line (25′).

Milan, without Brahim Díaz due to a slight knee sprain or allowed by Rafael Leao and Rade Krunic, resisted the avalanche, managed to stretch gradually and before the break also poured in some dangerous arrivals with Olivier Giroud as the star.

Nicolás González, penalty

After the break, Fiorentina got fair reward for their good play when Jonathan Ikoné was brought down from behind by Tomori and Nicolás González converted the penalty (48′).

Milan’s reaction did not last long and became the clear dominator. If Maignan has been good until then, in the other goal, Pietro Terracciano also gives God to deflect a chopped header from Giroud (51′) and cover a one-on-one that Theo Hernández leaves in his goal after being left alone on a long ball from Tomori (57′).

Ibra came in but it was Jovic who scored

Stefano Pioli brought on Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who finished just once on goal with a discount already, but the sentence was another freshman player, former Real Madrid player Luka Jovic, with a header on the plate in the second after a excellent counter cross from the remaining Dodo (87′).

Cuesta believes that this Fiorentins occupy 11th place in Serie A but now he showed the high level of his squad with the hope of achieving the regularity in his game that he lacks.

Late goal from Theo Hernández

Theo Hernández scored a shot with his left foot with the whole squad discounted, but could not avoid defeat by a Milan who, after being overtaken on Friday by Lazio in their victory in Naples, tomorrow could be out of the Champions position if Roma wins the classic against Juventus.

FIORENTINA

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MILAN

Fiorentina: Terracciano; Dodô, Martínez Quarta, Julio, Biraghi (Ranieri, 74′); Bonaventura (Castrovilli, 81′), Amrabat (Barak, 91′), Mandragora; Ikoné, Arthur Cabral (Jovic, 81′), Nicolás González (Sottil, 91′)
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Milan: Magnan; Kalulu, Thiaw, Tomori; Junior Messias (Saelemaekers, 74′), Bennacer (Bakayoko, 66′), Tonali, Theo Hernández; De Ketelaere (Adli, 83′), Rebic (Origi, 66′); Giroud (Ibrahimovic, 66′)

Goals: 1-0 Nicolás González (pen.) (49′), 2-0 Jovic (87′), 2-1 Theo Hernández (95′)

Referee: Marco Di Bello. Yellow cards to Thiaw (12′), Arthur Cabral (29′), Junior Messias (35′), Ikoné (59′), Nicolás González (70′), Italian (79′), Kalulu (80′)

Spectators: 40,410 at Artemio Franchi​
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