Milan starts with Juventus in the Super Cup, Gabbia out

Sergio Conceiçao sends a text message to Fikayo Tomori. At the start of a January of matches and the transfer market, he will make him a starter in the Super Cup semi-final against Juventus. Matteo Gabbia, the most regular of Milan’s four defenders in the Fonseca era, will remain out. The training on the eve says this: the return of the Thiaw-Tomori duo, starters for a stretch under Pioli’s management, then seen little due to injuries and technical choices. Naturally, with the right caution 24 hours after the first training in Conceiçao, inevitably experimental: the match day can change something.

bennacer is the first

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Ismael Bennacer has similar hopes. He has a chance to play from the start in the middle of the pitch, where Milan have found the best news in the last six months with Fofana and Reijnders. They were both excellent, constant, sometimes enthralling, but they need a hand. They can’t always play alone as starters in the middle of the pitch. Bennacer hasn’t started since Milan-Turin, the first day of the championship: it was Fonseca’s first and this is Conceiçao’s first. There would be consistency.

tomori and market

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Tomori’s choice, however, must be interpreted (and in this case, Conceiçao will explain it). Fikayo was sought by Juve, who said they could offer 25-30 million for him. His priority, however, is clear: to stay at Milan. And Conceiçao seems to want to test him: for me you are strong, show me that you are up to it. Typically Conceiçao style, have everyone start (more or less…) at the same level. And then the ball is theirs, let them play it.