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Serie A | Milan 0-1 Udinese: Rossoneri in crisis

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1 year ago

6:12 am

Milan appeared confused after a change of ways and suffered a humiliating dwelling defeat to Udinese because of Roberto Pereyra’s penalty.

The Rossoneri had been in disaster after defeats to PSG and Juventus, then fumbling a 2-0 lead away to Napoli. Pierre Kalulu was dominated out for 4 months, with Theo Hernandez, Christian Pulisic, Samuel Chukwueze, Simon Kjaer, Marco Pellegrino, Ismael Bennacer, Mattia Caldara and Marco Sportiello all injured, although Malick Thiaw returned from suspension and Ruben Loftus-Cheek was again on the bench, so switched to a 4-4-2 formation.

The Friulani had been within the drop zone, with out a win all season, whereas new coach Gabriele Cioffi noticed his facet crash out of the Coppa Italia midweek in additional time to Cagliari. Thomas Kristensen, Enzo Ebosse, Vivaldo Semedo, Kingsley Ehizibue, Gerard Deulofeu, Brenner and Keinan Davis didn’t make the journey.

Udinese had been gifted an enormous likelihood after 10 minutes when Zemura pulled again from the by-line and Alessandro Florenzi cleared it right into a crowd of opponents, however Roberto Pereyra ballooned over the bar.

Zemura flashed one other ball throughout the face of objective with no one on the top of it, whereas Rade Krunic nodded a nook vast of the close to submit.

Davide Calabria surged ahead to sting Marco Silvestri’s gloves from distance, as did Yunus Musah slicing in from the appropriate.

Alessandro Florenzi managed to regulate the Leao cross and spin spherical in a single motion to ship himself clear on objective, however the bounce was not what he anticipated and he couldn’t poke within the end.

Rade Krunic had a slight muscular difficulty and went off at half-time, together with Luka Jovic to scrap the 4-4-2 experiment.

Kabasele anticipated his teammate Pereyra to fireplace over on the again submit on a nook, when the Argentine was in a a lot better place to attain.

Moments later Tijjani Reijnders sprinted by the centre solely to dink the end vast of the open objective as Silvestri got here speeding out.

Festy Ebosele bumped into the field and squirmed between a crowd of defenders, his toes caught by Yacine Adli and the referee pointed to the spot. Pereyra saved his cool to ship Mike Maignan the unsuitable means and provides Udinese the lead.

It was virtually 2-0, as Isaac Success was allowed a free header from a nook, it bounced off the bottom and Maignan pushed it away from six yards.

Leao obtained away down the left just for Neuhen Perez to cost down the shot from a decent angle, however they solely examined Silvestri in stoppages with a Giroud glancing header on Leao’s cross, which compelled a shocking response save.

Florenzi additionally introduced one other save out of Silvestri with a ferocious half-volley from the D that was heading beneath the bar, whereas Leao blasted off course.

Milan 0-1 Udinese

Pereyra pen 63 (U)