Milan, Sportiello also goes down. With Juve there is Mirante

Milan, 19 October 2023 – Milan is ready to face what can undoubtedly be defined as a fiery and revealing week on the Devil's real ambitions between the championship and Europe.

We start on Sunday with the big match at San Siro against Juventus, then the Rossoneri will fly to Paris to face the psg and, finally, the following Sunday they will try to conquer Maradona in Naples. A triptych of impressive challenges that require careful management of the forces on the field, which is why Pioli will have to intelligently study which moves to make while having to deal with an infirmary that shows no signs of emptying.

Goalkeeper emergency

 October 19th is a bad day at Milanello: if a year ago, in fact, Maignan was at get injured, yesterday it was the turn of Marco sportiello, designated to replace the suspended Magic Mike on Sunday night. The former Atalanta player conceded one injury to the medial twin of the left calf and recovery times are around two months. Against Juventus, therefore, it will be up to Antonio Mirante make his absolute debut from the first minute with the Devil's shirt, 898 days after his last start for Roma: the goalkeeper born in '83 has, in fact, so far played only one part of the match against Verona last season and he is ready for a complicated baptism against his former colours, having worn the black and white gloves in 2003/04 (without ever playing) and subsequently in 2006/07 as vice-Buffon.

Rotations

If the disqualified Maignan and Theo Hernandez (with Florence ahead of the young Bartesaghi to occupy the left lane) will be available again after Sunday, the same cannot be said of the other last-minute injured player, namely Chukwueze, forced into the pits until the next international break, while Rabbit, Loftus Cheek e krunic they could be called up against Allegri's ranks but starting from the bench. In Pioli's plans, therefore, the median could be composed of musah, Judicial e Reinders, then hoping to find both the Bosnian and the Englishman again from the first minute, two very useful players for the Parisian match.

Waiting for Leao

The rotation adopted so far by Pioli has always given good responses, being able to count on a range of level choices: who, however, seems truly essential in the next 7 days is Rafa Leao. The Portuguese has always been the group's driving force in all the matches and, in addition to dividing his time between assists and spectacular plays at the service of his teammates, he aims to break free in front of goal starting from Sunday: the goal, in fact, did not come from the home match at Verona a month ago. Considering Chukwueze's knockout, too Pulisic he will be forced into overtime, after two tests played with the United States and a transoceanic flight on his shoulders, while Giroud will necessarily have to take a breather: the coach could deploy him against Juventus, at least initially, trying to preserve him in view of PSG.

Meanwhile he reappeared

Emil Roback, the 20-year-old owned by the Rossoneri (brought to Milan by Ibrahimovic) who had lost track of himself at Norrkoping, the Swedish club that took him on loan. He appeared again in front of the sporting director. The reasons for the departure are still mysterious.