MILANO (ITALPRESS) – Milan beats Turin for 3-2, takes second place answering Naples and returns to five points of departure from Inter capolista, waiting for the challenge between the Nerazzurri and Fiorentina. Pavlovic unlocks the match and Simeone responds in the first half, then Rabiot and Fofana sign the decisive goals for Allegri’s team, launch the Granata Network with the rigour in Vlasic’s final.
More lively Turin at the beginning of the race, when after a quarter of an hour it frightens Maignan twice, first on the deviation under the door of Vlasic a little wide, then on the head of Ismajli that the French goalkeeper rejects in the corner. Balance in the field, shows Milan at 36′, with Rabiot downloading a powerful left on which Paleari puts his fists. A great occasion for the Rossoneri, that not even a minute later find the advantage: Torino frees a ball from the trequarti Pavlovic hooks and kicks of mancino, fishing a trajectory that slams on the cross and ends on the net. Milan benefit, however, lasts only eight minutes, when Vlasic attempts the mancina conclusion that the pole and Maignan deviate decisively towards Simeone, cold in the tap-in that is worth the 1-1 with which the first time is closed.
The start of the shoot is, however, a red-black solo, with two goals within a minute between 54′ and 55′: first it is Rabiot to push on the net 2-1 after the Pulisic axis that frees it to open-door; then Fofana, imbeccato from the newly-income Athekame, is lethal in the right that Paleari touches but without avoiding 3-1. Hard hit for Turin, which at 67′ tries again with Simeone, good to turn a cross from the left but Maignan is responsive in the parade. The grenade remains dangerous and in the game, when at the 81’ Fourneau is recalled by the Var for the peeled in Pavlovic area on the face of Simeone which is judged by rigour after the revision. From the Vlasic disk spy Maignan and sign the 3-2. In the final it is assault Turin, which fails to close Milan in its trequarti and must therefore surrender.
For the redundant victory but, waiting for the challenge of Inter in Florence, however crucial in the Champions optics.
IL TABELLINO DELLA PARTITA
MILAN (3-5-2): Maignan 7; Tomori 5.5 (1′ st Athekame 6.5), De Winter 5.5, Pavlovic 7; Saelemaekers 6 (46′ st Odogu sv), Fofana 7 (25′ st Ricci 6), Modric 6, Rabiot 7, Bartesaghi 5.5; Pulisic 6.5 (32′ st Gimenez sv), Füllk On the bench: Pittarella, Terracciano, Estupiñan; Jashari. Coach: Cheers 7
TORINO (3-4-1-2): Paleari 5.5; Coco 5.5, Ismajli 5.5, Ebosse 5 (44′ st Kulenovic sv); Pedersen 5.5, Prati 6 (18′ st Ilkhan 6), Gineitis 5.5 (29′ st Casadei 6), Obrador 5.5 (44′ st Nkounkou sv); Vlašic 7.5; Simeone 7.5, Zapata 5.5 (18′ st Adams 6). On the bench: Israel, Siviero; Biraghi, Lazaro, Marianucci, Maripán; Anjorin, Ilic, Tameze. Coach: D’Aversa 5.5
ARBITRO: Fourneau di Roma 6
RETI: 36′ pt Pavlovic, 44′ pt Simeone, 9′ st Rabiot, 10′ st Fofana, 38′ st Vlasic (rigore) NOTE: evening serene, playing ground in good condition. Ammoniti: Tomori, Pavlovic, Gimenez, Ilkhan. Angles: 4-6. Recovery: 1′ pt, 5′ st.
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