Preview: Cremonese vs AC Milan – prediction, team news, lineups

Having acquired a hammer blow to their title hopes final week, AC Milan should attempt to reply with a win over free-falling Cremonese on Sunday afternoon.

A 1-0 defeat towards Parma ended the Rossoneri’s lengthy unbeaten run in Serie A, additionally leaving them a distant second behind metropolis rivals Inter Milan. 

Match preview

After going 24 league video games with out defeat, Milan lastly faltered final Sunday, when in-kind Parma surprised San Siro with an eightieth-minute winner.

While that aim was hotly debated within the aftermath, a VAR test confirmed its validity and the Rossoneri have been unable to reply.

With 12 rounds remaining, they path first-positioned Inter by 13 factors, so any desires of the Scudetto appear to be fading.

Max Allegri’s males had beforehand wanted a final-gasp winner to beat lowly Pisa, earlier than scraping a 1-1 dwelling draw with Como, indicating their lack of momentum.

Nonetheless, Milan are nonetheless unbeaten on the street, with their solely different league loss coming at dwelling to Cremonese on the opening matchday.

They will now reconvene with their Lombardy rivals at Stadio Zini, the place the second-metropolis giants have failed to attain on their final three visits – albeit just one happened this century.

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Following their membership’s shock success in August – when Federico Bonazzoli‘s strike sealed a well-known 2-1 win – optimistic Cremonese followers will hope for an unprecedented league double over Milan.

However, changing into the primary promoted team to tug that feat off since Ascoli did so in 1987 appears a really lengthy shot, with Cremo enduring an terrible begin to the calendar 12 months.

The Grigiorossi are on their second-worst run ever in Italy’s high flight – failing to even rating in 10 of 12 winless matches – they usually final tasted success in December.

Last week’s 3-0 loss to Roma at Stadio Olimpico lastly allowed Fiorentina to overhaul them in a battle between six golf equipment to keep away from the ultimate relegation place.

As a outcome, Davide Nicola‘s facet are sliding in the direction of the trapdoor, sitting seventeenth within the standings and simply exterior the drop zone on aim distinction.

With Nicola’s job beneath critical menace, their comeback marketing campaign could also be heading for demotion, just one 12 months on from profitable the Serie B playoffs.

Cremonese Serie A kind:

D L L L D L

AC Milan Serie A kind:

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Team News

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After struggling a critical facial damage final Sunday, Milan midfielder Ruben Loftus-Cheek will be out of action for several weeks, whereas it stays to be seen whether or not Matteo Gabbia can recuperate from a flexor subject.

Mexico striker Santiago Gimenez is the guests’ solely different absentee, as high scorers Christian Pulisic and Rafael Leao not too long ago returned to health.

Alongside the latter pair, Christopher Nkunku and Niclas Fullkrug are additionally in rivalry for 2 attacking locations.

Luka Modric will certainly begin in midfield, so the 2 oldest gamers to have scored in Serie A this season ought to meet: 40-12 months-outdated Modric and Jamie Vardy, 39.

Cremonese’s entrance line is enduring an extended aim drought, inflicting Nicola to drop Vardy final week; Bonazzoli has failed to seek out the online this calendar 12 months. 

Once once more, they have to each vie with Antonio Sanabria and Vardy’s fellow veteran Milan Djuric for choice.

The hosts might be with out Michele Collocolo, Faris Moumbagna and key defender Federico Baschirotto resulting from damage, however Milan loanee Warren Bondo was again on the bench towards Roma and might be prepared to start out.

Cremonese attainable beginning lineup:

Audero; Terracciano, Luperto, Bianchetti; Zerbin, Thorsby, Bondo, Maleh, Pezzella; Bonazzoli, Vardy

AC Milan attainable beginning lineup:

Maignan; Tomori, De Winter, Pavlovic; Saelemaekers, Fofana, Modric, Rabiot, Bartesaghi; Pulisic, Leao

We say: Cremonese 0-2 AC Milan

While Milan rank third in Serie A for clear sheets, Cremonese have did not even rating of their final three matches at Stadio Zini.

So, the Rossoneri ought to comfortably hold their hosts in test whereas scoring at the very least twice on the different finish.

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