JAKARTA - AC Milan will visit Sassuolo headquarters in Week 38 of Serie A on Sunday night. Not only as the closing match of the season, the agenda for visiting the Mapei Stadium carries an important mission to win the 2021/2022 Scudetto title.
In order to make this happen, Stefano Pioli as a coach is predicted to maintain his last best lineup in the 2-0 win over Atalanta. The decision was inevitably made by Pioli in order to reach at least one point or a draw to ensure the title.
Quoted from La Gazzetta dello Sport, all AC Milan players are ready to appear in the final match. Only Simon Kjaer is confirmed absent because he is still injured.
With this news, Milan will almost certainly appear against Sassuolo with the same formation in the last two league games against Verona and Atalanta. If it's Pioli's right, then Mike Maignan will stand guard in the last defense in goal.
For the four defenders in front of him, Pioli can field Davide Calabria, Pierre Kalulu, Fikayo Tomori and Theo Hernandez. Then, the double shafts of Sandro Tonali and Franck Kessie will be played together again, so Ismael Bennacer is ready to come off the bench.
For the center forward position belongs to Olivier Giroud. Rafael Leao is also confirmed up front for the Rossoneri and Ante Rebic could be his replacement as happened in the second half against Atalanta. Rade Krunic and Alexis Saelmaekers also started from the start, although Junior Messias could still be used by Pioli.
Meanwhile, in the Sassuolo camp, this meeting with AC Milan is actually a mission for the hosts, outside of Milan's interest in the title hunt. Sassuolo is now in eleventh position, but Sassuolo's lunge and performance cannot be underestimated.
Inter Milan, AC Milan, Atalanta, Lazio are a row of teams that Sassuolo has defeated this season. Milan in particular, they lost 1-3 in the first meeting of the season at the San Siro Stadium.
The achievement of positive results seemed to be a valuable provision for Sassuolo to make it difficult for AC Milan again. If Sassuolo is able to beat AC Milan, Inter Milan has a chance to win the Scudetto if they can beat their rivals in the last match.
In response to this, Giovanni Carnevali as CEO of Sassuolo confirmed his team will struggle to secure the three points against AC Milan. Carnevali thinks that winning against big teams will have a positive impact on his team's development.
"Getting a good result will be an extraordinary performance for the team. We know what we have and we want to prove it once again," Carnevali said as reported by Semper Inter.
Sassuolo also hinted that they don't really care about the advantages that other teams will get if they are able to beat AC Milan. This was emphasized by Carnevalli who wanted to put aside his closeness to Beppe Morata (Inter Milan).
"Lately when we have dinner together, we never talk about it," Carnevalli said.
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