AC Milan will face the red-hot environment of De Kuip tonight, hoping for a constructive outcome within the first leg of their Champions League play-off tie towards Feyenoord.
Whereas quite a lot of the discuss Milan coming into the sport has been in regards to the potential use of or the ‘Fab 4’, it has been .
Firstly one of many 4 talked about is the star striker they offered to the Rossoneri, and secondly they sacked their head coach on Monday as they sit fifth within the league and are out of the cup.
The official beginning XIs
The unhealthy information for Milan is that they have eight unavailable gamers. Alessandro Florenzi, Emerson Royal and Ruben Loftus-Cheek are injured, Yunus Musah is suspended whereas Alex Jimenez, Warren Bondo, Riccardo Sottil and Luka Jovic aren’t within the UCL squad listing.
Tijjani Reijnders and Youssouf Fofana due to the shortage of midfield depth, and Conceicao has made one change to the defensive with Kyle Walker, Malick Thiaw, Strahinja Pavlovic and Theo Hernandez forward of Mike Maignan in purpose.
The coach has certainly gone for the 4 ahead gamers all collectively from minute one with Christian Pulisic and Rafael Leao flanking Santiago Gimenez, who makes after solely leaving them 9 days in the past.
Joao Felix additionally begins, nevertheless it stays to be seen if he will likely be alongside Gimenez in a 4-4-2 system or in behind the Mexican striker in additional of a 4-2-3-1.
Official Milan XI (4-2-3-1): Maignan; Walker, Tomori, Pavlovic, Theo Hernandez; Fofana, Reijnders; Pulisic, Joao Felix, Leao; Gimenez.
Bench: Sportiello, Torriani, Chukwueze, Tomori, Bartesaghi, Terracciano, Gabbia, Camarda, Abraham.
Official Feyenoord XI (4-3-3): Wellenreuther; Learn, Beelen, Hancko, Smal; Milambo, Moder, Timber; Hadji-Moussa, Ueda, Paixao.
Bench: Andreev, Ka, Bueno, Ivanusec, Carranza, Mitchell, ‘T Zand, Osman, Van den Elshout, Giersthove, Redmond.