Champions League Milan-Inter, latest news and formations | Leao auditions and retires. Pioli: “If he’s a good starter”

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(Carlos Passerini) The final decision on Rafael Leao will only be made after this afternoon’s technical meeting, scheduled for around 5pm. Really last, then. The player underwent a test at Milanello this morning, but in agreement with the medical staff it was decided to take it again a few hours to decide whether to bring him to the bench at least or not. The attacker would like to play, but remains in doubt: they don’t want to take any risks in view of the second leg. So before deciding there will also be an interview (deciding) with Pioli.

The Portuguese Rafa Leao joined the team at the hotel in via Masaccio, near the San Siro, for lunch. He was welcomed in front of the Melià hotel by a few dozen cheering fans. Will it be a good sign in view of tonight’s match? The prognosis has not yet been dissolved.

(Monica Colombo) The pre-match will start at 18. The faces of the property and top managers will take part in the event, as well as institutional guests as well as celebrities. From chef Berton to dj Oliva, from Formula 1 drivers Gasly and Giovinazzi to tennis icon Novak Djokovic, then the couple of the moment Berrettini-Satta, Afrojack with Elettra Lambroghini, Lazza, Irama… Who will be there tonight and what will happen ? Here all the details.

Inter in the semifinals of the Champions League after 13 years, Milan had to wait 16. What were their current players doing then?

Inter-Milan, it’s still a derby in Europe: what were today’s players doing in the last Champions League semi-final?

(Paul Tomaselli) «Are Pioli the favourites? We are not hiding, we know the importance of this match. There must be no fears, but a great desire to make our fans happy as we have done up to now: we are a single block, to experience these two evenings in the best possible way. We are 180 minutes away from what was a dream in August. But Milan is a huge stumbling block». HERE the complete article

(Carlos Passerini) Milan, here is the squad. Waiting to understand what will happen with Leao
GOALKEEPER: Maignan, Mirante.
DEFENDERS: Theo, Calabria, Tomori, Kjaer, Thiaw, Kalulu, Gabbia, Ballo-Touré.
MIDFIELDS: Tonali, Bennacer, Krunic, Pobega, Saelemaekers. FORWARDS: Giroud, Brahim Diaz, Messias, Origi, De Ketelaere, Rebic.

(Carlos Passerini) No training camp for Milan: the players each slept at home and reached the Melià hotel, in the San Siro area, individually this morning. It has been since after the lockdown that Pioli has chosen this type of organization for the evening matches.

(Carlos Passerini) Raphael Leo Milanello arrived around 10.20 and there, as expected, he will undergo a decisive test to see if he will be available for tonight’s first leg against Inter. If so, the Portuguese will join his companions at the Hotel Melià. “If he’s fine, he can also play as a starter,” said Pioli.

But there will be no forcing: no risks. He’ll only play if he’s really clinically one hundred percent.

«Players, staff and the public must have a behavior worthy of a big event like the Champions League semi-final». This was stated by the minister for sport and young people Andrea Abodi on the sidelines of the presentation of the `Common Mission Sport´ call to the Chamber of Deputies. «We have 5 teams in the European semi-finals, let’s enjoy this result. I have already spoken of episodes like that of Vlahovic in Bergamo and they must not repeat themselves, we need unity of purpose for this », adds Abodi.

(Andrea Stramaccioni) Inter and Milan have very different formations, this involves a series of tactical adaptations in the non-possession phase from which the destinies of the semi-final will pass.

Let’s start from the bottom: the construction of Inter, one of the best in Italy, doesn’t encourage Milan to put up very high pressure, also because the players (Giroud and Leao) don’t have the characteristics. Inter have two main outings: Bastoni who pushes the ball and the participation of a double playmaker, or rather an alternation between the lower top (Brozovic or Calha) and the left midfielder (the Turk or Mkhitaryan). Barella, the box-to-box midfielder, has the task of attacking the area as a third man who joins the two strikers.

Here the complete article.

Not just football: here’s where Stefano Pioli and Simone Inzaghi live in Milan, the description of their families, what they do in their free time, what their favorite places are. HERE all the curiosities.

Stefano Pioli and Simone Inzaghi: Milan, Inter, private life, wives, free time in Milan

(Beppe Severgnini) Now I’ll explain why Inter is better. I’m not talking about the Champions League semi-final — who knows. Inter is better historically, ideally, poetically, temperamentally, chromatically. Milan has quality, I admit it. It’s an almost nice team, especially when they don’t win; it is necessary for mutual glory. I’m not sorry, I must say. As soon as San Siro intones “He who doesn’t jump, Rossonero is!” I jump and sing, but replace the red with another, paler color.

The historic primacy does not depend on the year of foundation. The International Football Club was established in Milan on 9 March 1908 by a group of AC Milan rebels. What were they rebelling against?

Here the complete article.

(Marco Imarisio) In some archives there is a photo dated May 6, 1979, which portrays a child with an ecstatic expression under a huge star raised by a group of fans on the San Siro lawn after winning the tenth championship. That child is me.

The first joy that Milan gave me was put in grave danger by Inter. Everyone remembers the breakneck race of the lawyer Walter De Vecchi, author of the improbable brace that made us reassemble a now lost derby. Instead, I still think of the anguish of the previous eighty minutes, of that feeling of agony that gripped my stomach many years later after Oba Martins’ equalizer in the 2003 Champions League semifinal.

Here the complete article.

Everything is ready for the third Euroderby in history after the 2003 semi-final and the 2005 quarter-final. For Milan-Inter, first leg of the Champions League semi-final, San Siro will be sold out. The race will begin at 21 today Wednesday 10 May, and will be broadcast free-to-air by Tv8 and Amazon Prime Video.

Fikayo Tomori to Sky Sport News: «In the last match against Napoli, they gave us up for dead. Instead we managed to field three great performances in something like ten days and we didn’t lose. We know what we can do and now many know that Ac Milan is a great team: we will do our best».

The decision on Rafa Leao’s call-up will only be made this morning after a test at Milanello.

(Carlos Passerini and Paolo Tomaselli) Dangerous crosses and long-distance challenges, melee that cause sparks and confrontations in key roles, such as goalkeeper and striker. «Milan-Inter Atto I» is the night of the great duels. Four tables where the challenge is arm wrestling. And the muscles are nice and warm.

Here the complete article.

(Alessandro Bocci) Stefano Pioli became UEFA Pro coach eleven years before Simone Inzaghi and both come, like Carlo Ancelotti, from the Coverciano school, the best in the world, which brought three out of four coaches in the semi-finals of the Champions League.

The AC Milan player took his license in 2003 with a 26-page thesis on the “chains of lateral play in the 4-4-2”. The Interista attended the Masters together with Gattuso and graduated with a 25-page thesis on the “dynamics between the coach and the team group”. Tonight Pioli and Inzaghi will face each other for the fourth time in the season, the eighth in these two frenetic years in Milan and even if they are very different from when they graduated, they will restart from that experience of carefree students.

Here the complete article.