After three disastrous days, lack of confidence in the new project and suspicion about the attitude of two stars like Leao and Theo, Milan confirmed themselves as a team against a recently promoted Venice (4-0) who paid the price in the form of defeat, a poor display by the ‘rossonero’ team, back on the path to victory at the gates of the ‘Champions’, just in time.
The Portuguese Paulo Fonseca played a storm of football, scoring four goals in 29 minutes, to show Italian football that Milan is still there, that it is not a project in limbo and that it can bring war The coach, in doubt until now, saved the tools before the match against Liverpool in the Champions League.
And what better way to start that collapse, to unmask the goals, than a game between Leao and Theo, one of those who reminded Milan of the 2022 ‘Scudetto’ with an unstoppable left wing . A control by Leao where he turned, a heel from the Portuguese winger that allowed Theo to get into the area quickly and shoot at Joronen, who was not very successful in stopping. This is how the first goal came about. In minute 2.
The San Siro began to breathe a sigh of relief as he saw how his team was drastically different from the other three days, for the first time clearly superior to its rival. It didn’t happen against Torino or Parma or Lazio. But the truth is that what fans saw in the first episodes was not a mirage.
Because in the 16th minute the goal came which at first seemed to be from Gabbia but ended up being awarded to Fofana. Pulisic crossed from the corner and found his perfect partner in the French midfielder to make it 2-0.
It didn’t take long for the third and fourth to arrive. Both from eleven meters. The first of the penalties was converted by Pulisic in the 25th minute; the second, Abraham, in the 29th minute, converting a penalty that he himself caused, which was beaten by the Venice goalkeeper in the middle of the small area with a loose ball in the mediations. He imitated the shot made by his American teammate just 4 minutes ago and scored his first goal as a Milan player.
Having controlled the game in the first half hour of the clash, Milan slowed down, tamed possession and controlled a dead Venice from then on. It wasn’t the day for the Laguna men, who managed to score but VAR disallowed it for Caviglia’s foul which, on top of that, earned him his second yellow card. With no options, the newly promoted tried not to suffer a greater hemorrhage as the ‘rossoneri began the carousel of changes.
Morata, injured in the last two games in Serie A and the Nations League with a problem in his left quadriceps, returned to play to regain his rhythm and start an important week for Milan fans. Liverpool’s first in the Champions League; then Inter at the San Siro, still with the painful memory of the title won by its biggest rivals in the ‘Derby’.
Milan woke up just in time. He wants to continue like this in the ‘Champions’ against a Liverpool side weakened by defeat against Nottingham Forest. And he wants revenge against Inter.
match lineup
16
22
19
29
46
31
14
8
90
11
10
1
27
7
4
30
25
11
32
20
14
6
Giuseppe Meazza Stadium
Jesse Joronen1
Antonio Candela27
1′
Francesco Zampano7
70′
88′
15′
78′
Jay Idzes4
37′
Michael Svoboda30
Joel Schingtienne25
27′
62′
Gaetano Oristanio11
63′
Alfred Duncan32
63′
28′
73′
Joel Pohjanpalo20
78′
24′
78′
Hans Nicolussi Caviglia14
66′
72′
63′
Gianluca Busio6
78′
Replacements
Bruno12
Matteo Grandi23
Philip Stankovic35
Richie Sacred21
78′
Franco Carboni79
88′
John Yeboah10
63′
73′
Domen Crnigoj22
63′
Magnus Kofod Andersen38
78′
Mikael Ellertsson77
62′
Said El Haddad80
78′
Issa Doumbia97
63′
Christian Gytkjær9
Antonio Raimondo45
78′
coach
Paulo Alexandre Rodrigues Fonseca
Eusebio Di Francesco
Source: La Verdad
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