Newcastle played 433 with Schär, Lascelles, Livramento, Trippier, Joelinton, Guimarães, Miley, Wilson, Gordon, Almiron, Newcastle had to replace Isak due to the large number of injuries, but the rest of the lineup was the same as before. The rest of the lineup was exactly the same as before.
Milan played 4231 with Tomori, Théo Hernandez, Calabria, Florenzi, Reijnders, Musah, Loftus-Cheek, Pulisic, Leão and Giroud.
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Newcastle started the game looking strong, constantly pressing Milan at high pressure. In fact, we all know that Newcastle's substitute goalkeeper Dúbravka was not as good as Pope after the injury of his main goalkeeper Pope, and Newcastle's purpose of aggressively attacking was actually to keep the war zone away from their own half, especially in front of Milan's Giroud, who has this kind of center and Leão, who is good at breakthroughs, and Newcastle didn't want to let the goalkeeper face their shots. Nuçação didn't want to let the goalkeeper face their shots.
Nuçaço's position was very forward, and you could see Joelinton pressing forward. Nuçaço seemed to intend for Joelinton to stand further forward than Guimarães, allowing Guimarães to deliver passes, and allowing Joelinton to get into the penalty area with his taller stature, and his shots from the top of the penalty area alone were threatening, and Milan was in a defensive position for the first 20 minutes. Milan were on the defensive in the first 20 minutes.
Newcastle had a very dangerous goal on 19 minutes when Trippier's cross from 25 yards was played straight into the box by Joelinton and crossed just outside the area, Almiron almost broke through on the six yard line, Tomori was on the goal line and barely cleared, Almiron then had another header which was caught by Maignan.
Newcastle continued their recent tactics of increasing the number of attackers on the right side of the pitch, as the main passer of the ball was Trippier, and this tactic worked in the 33rd minute, when Gordon received the ball in the middle of the pitch and rushed to the right, he passed to the right side of the pitch to Miley, who then pulled a defender out of the way to cross the ball, and Joelinton was already in position to take the shot. Joelinton was already in position to score from 17 yards, and the goal was broken by Milan.
Milan were also short of a center back, so they had to call on Théo Hernandez to play center back, and Florenzi on the left side. Milan had been pressed heavily by Newcastle's right side from the start of the game, and by this stage had already exposed a gap, and the left side of the field was finally broken.
The second half started with Newcastle still pressing Milan strongly, this time they switched to attacking the left side of the field with Gordon as the main attacker, maybe it was because they wanted to give Trippier and others on the right side a little bit of rest, but Milan was able to get a little bit of freedom and Milan didn't have to retreat from the left side of the field at all after all.
At the 58:00 mark, Milan's corner kick was taken out of play, Musah sent a short pass down the left side of the field, Leão made a small diagonal run to get out of position to receive the ball, and then crossed the ball into the end zone, he passed it directly to Tomori at the 12-yard line, who missed, but the ball rolled to the feet of Giroud, who flicked the ball to the right side of the field to the completely empty space of Pulisic. Pulisic scored from the 6-yard line!
Milan relied on Giroud's instantaneous handling of the ball is very calm, Milan's well-designed tactics are also very subtle, the first breakthrough to the left will be the opposing side of the defender pushed back to create a larger space in the central area, and then passes to the center of the goal, but at the same time, Pulisic has already sneaked into the outside of the penalty area, but also shows that the original Leão's pass to Tomori with a little bit of the Nueceso center back or the left back to press forward to defend the intention of the two flanks in and out to create a Pulisic completely offside that block should have been Tomori shot. The two flanks of the goalkeeper were in and out of position, and Pulisic was not offside at all. Tomori should have scored, and Giroud and Pulisic would have been able to pick up the slack if the ball had been blocked. Although there were some variables in the situation, Giroud's instantaneous corrections made it easy for Pulisic to score.
