The Rossoneri (with Allegri in the grandstand for disqualification) pass the turn with a goal in time. Bari never dangerous, in the second half inside the Croatian and Jashari

Journalist

August 17, 2025 (modification at 11:22 pm) – MILAN

The 71 thousand of San Siro -a sensational data -, Modric’s debut among the Osanna del Meazza, obviously the passage of the round, but also the release of the Leao scene after a quarter of an hour for a trouble in the calf. The Rossoneri world seems to be unable to break the curse: even in the evenings that, for various reasons, are born like all to be enjoyed, often something happens that hurts the party. In the next few days the conditions of Rafa will be better understood, but in a team where the appeal in the squad is missing an attacker, losing one – basic like him – a few days after the first championship, he leaves unpleasant sensations. The rest, however, was a party, which began before the game with the red carpet on which the new purchases climbed, the last of which was his majesty Modric in the presence of a pure ecstasy stage. The Bari practice was stored without making the Rossoneri people crawled their eyes, with a goal in time of Leao and Pulisic, but in the inside-furious matches what matters is passing further: at the end of September you will remain in the Apulian area, the sixteenths will bring Lecce to the devil. And in any case it was one of those games where the strongest obviously has everything to lose. Not to mention that while the other big names can still afford a weekend of friendlies and development, the devil does not. He discounted the sentence of the placement in the last championship. Allegri, disqualified, observed from above and in the end he remained with good sensations on the skin.

the choices

The Rossoneri coach confirmed the sensations transmitted in the previous days. That is, confirmations in the tactical setting-3-5-2 decidedly fluid, as mostly happened in the friendlies-and in the interpreters: attack entrusted to Pulisic and Leao, median with Loftus-Cheek, Ricci and Fofana. The former grenade and Estupinan were the only newbies in the departure eleven. Caserta, who has an incomplete rose, entrusted the attack to Pereiro, Moncini and Sibilli. It was precisely the Biancorosso 7 who turned the match with a well -performed right that paraded to a handful of centimeters from the Maignan pole: 47 seconds had passed and many Rossoneri fans looked at each other lost in the eyes, easy prey of past ghosts. The flow of the hands clarified that it was out of place pessimism. The technical scissor between the two teams, a factor that directed the game almost completely in one way even if Bari, as far as it was granted, has never gave up to raise the head and organize a maneuver in which Sibilli (subsequent super parade of Maignan) and Dorval have put anxious to the right side of the devil of the devil. Of the Bari of the first half, however, there have been no other concrete traces and Milan tried, without success, to close the practice in the first round.

hybrid module

Leao immediately put the game downhill (14 ‘, and then gave way to Gimenez three minutes later), then the rest of the production broke on the cerofoline gloves, slipped a few steps from the pole or broke on the crossbar (Pulisic). Noteworthy situations in tactical terms: as well as on several occasions along the pre -season, the game system was a hybrid between three and four defense, depending on the position of Tomori and the retreats of Estupinan and Saelemaekers. Not random situations, there is behind work, which has also made its fruits: Tomori, in this context, is the third on the right to which Allegri asks to widen a lot and, in the case, to release. Leao’s goal was born like this: Fik went to the band to the trocar and bowed for Rafa’s head. Two first fruits in one – that is definitely not the specialty of the Portuguese – to which we were not used to. The great intensity of the median, under medium ferocious pressure on the red and white bearers, also stood out. Of course, confirmation will be needed when the opponent’s level will be higher, but both Fofana and Loftus -Cheek – which Ricci looked at their respective shoulders – have held a rather high line, often and willingly release. Fofana, to say, only in the first 45 did he arrive three times at the shot in inviting circumstances. Situations to be reviewed: some too much mess on the trocar, at the time of the penultimate passage, and an excessive amount of cross, school, delivered by both bands. Not the most suitable solution, if you have Leao and Pulisic in the middle of the area.

ovations

At the dawn of the second half, Milan succeeded in what he had sought insistently in the first half. That is that second goal to turn off the Bari ambitions. Merit of the award-winning Pulisic-Gimenez company, which were disguised on the center left and made the action that led to the doubling on their own. The thrill following the minute number 66: inside Musah, but above all Jashari and Modric. Ovation to every touched and pure enjoyment of the Meazza when he went to the shot by freeing himself of hiss with a double dribbling in the middle handkerchief of Prato. To return home satisfied, and to be the first season, it can be enough.



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