Preview: Cagliari vs. AC Milan

Milan will eye an ascent to the Serie A leaders spot after they face Cagliari on the Unipol Domus.

After exiting the Supercoppa Italiana within the semi-final spherical, Milan rebounded with a 3-0 victory over Hellas Verona of their final match. Christian Pulisic scored the opener and Christopher Nkunku lastly made his mark with a brace in a while.

Massimiliano Allegri’s males are only a level away from league leaders Inter within the standings, and any slip-up from the Nerazzurri might assist Milan regain high spot, supplied they continue to be excellent of their subsequent few matches. Nonetheless, Milan are carefully adopted by Napoli, Roma and Juventus, who’re a degree off one another within the pecking order.

Following a 2-1 loss to Cremonese earlier within the season, the Rossoneri have mustered a 14-game unbeaten run, and that is one thing followers will cherish as they see their membership again on observe after a dismal finish to final marketing campaign. Allegri has saved his playing cards near his chest, counting on gamers like Luka Modric and Pulisic to return away with optimistic outcomes for many of the season. He’s enjoying a decent and inflexible construction, and Milan have made the least quantity of substitutions throughout Europe’s top-five leagues until now.

In the meantime, Cagliari won’t have a lot to look ahead to on this match as they’ve gained simply 5 instances out of the 46 conferences with Milan. The Sardinia-based facet are six factors away from the dropzone, and they’ll hope to maintain it that means by including a secure quantity of factors from their subsequent few video games.

Fabio Pisacane’s males have simply gained as soon as of their 12 earlier Serie A matches earlier than going through Torino final weekend. Strikes from Matteo Prati and Semih Kilicsoy cancelled Nikola Vlasic’s opener and helped Cagliari get the three factors. A wrestle for survival awaits Cagliari this season they usually might want to pull off a near-perfect efficiency in the event that they wish to get something out of the Milan encounter.

Outcomes from their final 5 matches throughout all competitions

Rafael Leao ought to be again on the squad as he has resumed full coaching, however Allegri would possibly decide to begin Pulisic and Nkunku up entrance after which ease the Portuguese into motion later.

Matteo Gabbia and Santiago Gimenez are nonetheless injured.

As for Cagliari, Juan Rodriguez and Yerry Mina are again from respective illnesses. Andrea Belotti, Ze Pedro, Mattia Felici and Michael Folorunsho are injured.

Cagliari (3-5-2): Caprile; Zappa, Mina, Luperto; Gymnasium, Adopo, Deiola, Prati, Idrissi; Esposito, Kilicsoy.

Milan (3-4-1-2): Maignan; Tomomo, Of Winter, Pavlov; Salemaeans, Loftus-Cheek, Modric, Rabiot, Bartesaghi; Pulisic, Nkunku.