this match
AC Milan (football club)
At home to Paris, Milan played a 4231 with Thiaw, Tomori, Theo Hernandez, Calabria, Musah, Reijnders, attacking midfielder Loftus-Cheek, Rafael Leão, Pulisic and Giroud.
Paris in 433, defenders Marquihhos, Škriniar, Hakimi, Lucas Hernandez, midfielders Ugarte, Zaïre-Emery, Vitinha, Muani, Mbappé, Dembélé.
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Paris were playing an open attack from the start of the game, confident from their big win in the last meeting, and the midfield as a whole was sending the ball straight forward, trying to give Mbappé a direct shot on goal, while Milan were more careful here, with Giroud full of spills from the start, moving all the way to the wing to try and get Pulisic to rush up the field.
But Paris' advantage was still full of strength, only 8 minutes into the match, Paris opened the right corner, Marquinhos 7 yards outside the penalty area with a header directly to the center of the 5-yard box, Škriniar rushed straight up to the header to connect with the goal!
Milan's defense is still porous, LucasHernandez takes TheoHernandez at the far post, then Loftus-Cheek completely misses Škriniar going up, Milan's center backs are completely drawn to the front point, resulting in an empty back post position, and what's more interesting is the duel on the side of the Hernandez brothers, where the older brother tricks the younger brother out of a defensive position. The Hernandez brothers' side of the duel, the elder brother tricked the younger brother out of his defensive position.
But it soon became clear that Paris was really a bit careless, they played very openly and didn't compress the space in the center of the field, the three attackers were basically pressuring in front of them and then ready to attack, the center of the field was also ready to attack, and as a result, there was a bit too much space between Milan and the defenders, and Milan then attacked, and Leão picked up the ball in the center of the line at the 11th minute, and after carrying the opponents on his shoulders, he completely turned around and started breaking through. Leão took the ball from the center line and turned around and started to run forward, and he was able to withstand the pursuit of Marquinhos, and he took the ball all the way to the left side of the penalty area, Giroud shot directly from the left side of the penalty area from 14 yards and Donnarumma parried it away, but at that moment, Leão had already rushed to the front of the penalty area, and Marquinhos who was chasing after him was thrown away by the rush of the stop he made, and then Leão scored a goal with an inverted hook from the 6-yard box, and Milan tied the match at 1-1. Milan tied the game at 1-1.
Marquinhos pressed too far forward, although there were enough defenders left at the back, but the good defense of Marquinhos gave Leão a chance to charge forward, but Marquinhos couldn't pull Leão even when he was chasing back, letting him split the ball. In the end, when Donnarumma cleared the ball, Marquinhos was chasing back and it was hard for him to stop Leão, who suddenly braked and hung up the ball upside down. Overall, Leão's form was quite good, and it was a mistake for Paris not to have a single player to guard him.
Then Paris continued to attack, but you can see that although Milan defended very hard, but the overall formation has not been messed up, Musah and Reijnders have been standing at the top of the penalty area, the intention is to never let Mbappé and Dembélé to produce the effect of the cross to the center of the goal, and Leão and Giroud are constantly back to the midfield to grab the ball, in order to maintain the density of the midfield, Giroud seems to be running very hard, Leão is running very actively, he had several shots in the first half. Leão and Giroud kept retreating to the center of the field to grab the ball, in order to maintain the density of the center of the field. Giroud seemed to be running very hard, Leão was very active, and he had several shots on goal in the first half.
Paris also produced a few threatening attacks, Mbappé got at least 3 chances to shoot, but Milan never let go of his defense, although Paris is always playing Milan, but Milan try to keep the defense from having empty positions, on the other hand, Paris looked too casual, the wingbacks pressed forward to attack, but the three in the midfield were also eager to attack, but Milan's intensive response in the midfield allowed them to break the ball. However, Milan's ability to break up the ball in the midfield made them stronger, resulting in Milan's counterattacks could often only face the defense of the Parisian backfield with only two center backs, and the situation between the two teams was not the same at the end of the first half.
