Milan-Roma faced two teams that had a disappointing season and were desperate to end the year giving joy to their fans with a prestigious victory. In the end, neither of them achieved their goal and a 1-1 draw at the San Siro could have resulted in relegation to Paulo Fonseca, who was expelled, on the Rossonero bench.
Rafael Leao and Christian Pulisic They lead the list of casualties of Paulo Fonseca who gave ownership Theo Hernandez after benching him for the last two games due to poor performances. instead, Claudio Ranieri the tandem P is lined upaulo Dybala-Artem Dovbyk.
Reijnders opened the scoring
The Ukrainian had the first chance in a very open match, with constant give and take, ending with a good combination of play by Roma with a low low shot deflecting off the post.
In this first phase, Milan flew with their counters and with one of them, very well woven, Tijani Reijnders opened the scoring. Alvaro Morata located on the balcony of the area Youssouf Fofana and he made room for the Dutchman to put the ball in the net (16′).
Álex Jiménez, on loan at Real Madrid, He advanced to his position today when Theo occupied the left-handed side and was surprised by some gallops that forced Roma to stop him with fouls.
Dobvyk assisted with a spur and Dybala scored with a volley
However, the quality of the Roman attack brought the score to a draw. Dovbyk provided lavish assistancea wonderful left spur towards Dybala, who, without letting the ball bounce, scored a goal with a sensational volley on his right foot, his ‘bad’ leg. This is the Argentine’s fifth goal in Serie A after his double the previous day against Parma (5-0).
In a spirited battle between two teams that could not control the game, before half time Paulo Fonseca was fired for protesting, furiously, after the fall in place of Reijnders before the entrance of Niccolò Pisilli.
In the second half the chances continued to happen, but Mike Maignan he took a shot to the short post Dovbyk and Mile Svilar fly to deflect a whip Samuel Chukwueze shortly before he retired wounded.
Milan had extensive periods of dominance, creating chances but being successful in taking them out, while Roma, seemingly content, finished the match better and managed to take the victory. The ‘rossoneri’ remain sixth, the ‘giallorossi’, eighth, separated by two points, very far from the leadership shared by Atalanta and Naples.
match lineup
16
22
19
42
46
28
21
29
7
14
20
99
56
3
5
15
23
17
16
11
21
61
Giuseppe Meazza Stadium
Mile Svilar99
Alexis Saelemaekers56
78′
42′
Angelino3
45′
Evan Ndicka5
93′
Mats Hummels15
12′
45′
Gianluca Mancini23
61′
Manu Kone17
3′
45′
Leandro Paredes16
66′
43′
85′
Artem Dovbyk11
85′
15′
81′
Paulo Dybala21
22′
Niccolò Pisilli61
Replacements
Giorgio De Marzi Giorgio70
Renato Marin89
Saud Abdulhamid12
Zeki Celik19
45′
70′
Mario is beautiful22
Samuel Dahl26
45′
Buba Sangare66
Lorenzo Pellegrini7
45′
Enzo Le Fee28
85′
Tommaso Baldanzi35
61′
Nicola Zalewski59
Eldor Shomurodov14
85′
Matías Soulé18
Stephan El Shaarawy92
78′
coach
Paulo Alexandre Rodrigues Fonseca
Claudio Ranieri
Source: La Verdad
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