Serie A | Genoa 0-1 Milan: Pulisic and goalkeeper Giroud to the rescue

Milan go prime of the desk after a chaotic win away to Genoa, which noticed a late Christian Pulisic aim, each goalkeepers despatched off and Olivier Giroud take the gloves for a double save.

The Rossoneri rested a number of stars after the Champions League draw with Borussia Dortmund, whereas Simon Kjaer, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Rade Krunic, Ismael Bennacer, Pierre Kalulu and Mattia Caldara have been nonetheless out of motion, so Luka Jovic bought his first begin. The Grifone missed Mateo Retegui, Junior Messias, Milan Badelj and Kevin Strootman.

Noah Okafor’s first contact was just a little too heavy on the Samuel Chukwueze ball excessive, permitting Josep Martinez to smother.

Genoa had penalty appeals waved away when Johan Vasquez went down over Alessandro Florenzi’s trailing leg, however the referee was in a very good place and thought of the Genoa man to have been in search of the contact.

Florenzi examined Martinez from distance and the goalkeeper was alert utilizing his leg to parry from Tijani Reijnders, though Yunus Musah was offside within the build-up.

Theo Hernandez was booked and shall be suspended for the subsequent match towards Juventus. Milan wanted a lift, so launched Pulisic and Leao for the second half.

They lastly created a scoring alternative when Florenzi’s cross discovered Rafael Leao on the again publish for a header into the bottom, which Martinez flew to palm out from beneath the crossbar.

For the ultimate 20 minutes, Milan moved to 4-4-2 whereas Genoa switched to a three-man defence. Mike Maignan was referred to as into a rare save as a result of the Rade Dragusin strike from exterior the field took a deflection to wrong-foot the goalkeeper, however he nonetheless managed to scramble throughout and together with his trailing hand prod it around the far publish.

On the ensuing nook, Caleb Ekuban bought to the cross earlier than Maignan solely to nod over the bar.

Mattia Bani threw himself in the way in which to cost down an acrobatic Jovic volley, whereas Dragusin blocked the Pulisic effort.

The breakthrough arrived on 87 minutes when Pulisic managed a Musah cross together with his again to aim, turned and cushioned it on his abdomen to fireplace in from 12 yards. There was a really lengthy VAR verify for potential handball, however the aim was given, a lot to the anger of Genoa.

VAR did get entangled deep into stoppages when Maignan got here tearing out to move a ball clear exterior the penalty space, crashing knee-first into the chest of Caleb Ekuban and the referee thought-about it to be a crimson card offence. With all of the substitutions accomplished, Olivier Giroud went in aim to face an Albert Gudmundsson free kick.

It was deflected off Tomori onto the crossbar, then Tomori nodded it away for a nook. From that incident, Genoa goalkeeper Martinez got here up, however made a multitude of his contribution and scythed down Musah for his second yellow card. Genoa did nonetheless have a substitution left, so have been capable of introduce a brand new goalkeeper.

It nonetheless wasn’t over, as within the remaining kick of the sport Giroud confirmed courageous goalkeeping to hurry off his line and make a determined double save on George Puscas and smother the free ball. On the remaining whistle, all his teammates rushed over to hug the veteran striker, a goalkeeper for an evening.

Genoa 0-1 Milan

Pulisic 87 (M)

Despatched off: Maignan 99 (M), Martinez 102 (G)

07-10-2023 19:45

MatchDay 8

Stadio Luigi Ferraris

Genoa

Milan

0 – 1

Participant statistic

1st half

		21′		Theo Hernández
		22′		Alessandro Florenzi

2nd half

		47′		Yunus Musah
		62′		Yacine Adli
Koni De Winter		68′
Josep Martínez		86′
		87′		Christian Pulisic (Help: Yunus Musah)
Josep Martínez		90+13′
		90+9′		Mike Maignan
		90+11′		Fikayo Tomori

Match statistic

41

Possession %

59

7

Complete photographs

12

1

Pictures on track

3

2

Pictures off course

4

4

Blocked photographs

5

3

Corners

2

0

Offsides

3

10

Fouls

13

Genoa

Milan

Beginning lineups

1

Josep Martínez

Goalkeeper

22

Johan Vásquez

Defender

4

Koni De Winter

Defender

90′

13

Mattia Bani

Defender

5

Radu Dragusin

Defender

55

Ridgeciano Haps

Defender

90′

20

Stefano Sabelli

Defender

68′

32

Morten Frendrup

Midfielder

2

Morten Thorsby

Midfielder

17

Ruslan Malinovskyi

Midfielder

68′

11

Albert Gudmundsson

Attacker

16

Mike Maignan

Goalkeeper

42

Alessandro Florenzi

Defender

66′

23

Fikayo Tomori

Defender

28

Malick Thiaw

Defender

19

Theo Hernández

Defender

90′

14

Tijjani Reijnders

Midfielder

7

Yacine Adli

Midfielder

66′

80

Yunus Musah

Midfielder

15

Luka Jovic

Attacker

17

Noah Okafor

Attacker

46′

21

Samuel Chukwueze

Attacker

46′

Substitutes

36

Silvan Hefti

Defender

99

Pablo Galdames

Midfielder

24

Filip Jagiello

Midfielder

14

Alessandro Vogliacco

Defender

39

Daniele Sommariva

Goalkeeper

33

Alan Matturro

Defender

40

Seydou Fini

Attacker

3

Aarón Martín

Defender

18

Caleb Ekuban

Attacker

68′

25

Berkan Kutlu

Midfielder

68′

37

George Puscas

Attacker

90′

16

Nicola Leali

Goalkeeper

90′

18

Luka Romero

Attacker

83

Antonio Mirante

Goalkeeper

32

Tommaso Pobega

Midfielder

57

Marco Sportiello

Goalkeeper

31

Marco Pellegrino

Defender

10

Rafael Leão

Attacker

46′

11

Christian Pulisic

Attacker

46′

9

Olivier Giroud

Attacker

66′

2

Davide Calabria

Defender

66′

95

Davide Bartesaghi

Defender

90′

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