AC Milan fell to a 2-1 defeat at Parma on Saturday because the seven-time European champions continued their gradual begin to life in Serie A underneath new coach Paulo Fonseca.
Matteo Cancellieri pushed house the decisive objective 13 minutes earlier than the tip of an entertaining encounter on the Stadio Ennio Tardini by which Parma defied their newly-promoted standing.
The 22-year-old winger completely met Pontus Almqvist’s low cross to attain his first objective since being loaned to Parma by Lazio, who misplaced 2-1 at Udinese.
Milan have collected one level from their first two league matches underneath Portuguese Fonseca, whose workforce regarded set to go on to take the win when within the 66th minute Christian Pulisic levelled Dennis Man’s early close-range end.
Nevertheless, Parma have been harmful each time they went on the counter-attack and will have been out of sight by half-time had their ending not been so wayward.
“I can’t disguise that it’s my accountability, nevertheless it appears clear to me that we now have an issue with defending and being aggressive,” Fonseca informed DAZN.
“We had issues towards Torino (a 2-2 draw) after we didn’t press very excessive. As we speak we tried to press larger and we nonetheless had issues.
“We had a very good pre-season, however the reality is that that is the place we’re.”
Milan didn’t actually get up till after the half-hour mark once they examined Zion Suzuki thrice within the area of some minutes, nevertheless it was nonetheless the hosts who have been the extra harmful.
– Milan punished –
Simon Sohm dragged extensive an amazing likelihood to double Parma’s lead 4 minutes earlier than the break after extra glorious work from Man, this time bursting down the proper and slicing in earlier than shedding for his Swiss team-mate.
And Valentin Mihaila in some way managed to not rating when set clear by means of on objective by Ange-Yoan Bonny, dawdling on the ball and permitting Fikayo Tomori to shut a yawning hole that had been left by Milan’s defence.
Milan have been a special workforce after the break and will have been degree twice within the first three minutes of the second half as Tijjani Reijnders noticed his deflected drive thud onto the crossbar and Suzuki did properly to maintain out Pulisic’s low effort.
Man fell to the turf in frustration within the 62nd minute when yet one more Parma counter-attack ended along with his delicate curling strike wafting simply extensive, and moments later Pulisic had Milan degree.
Rafael Leao jinked and skipped down the left earlier than exchanging passes with Theo Hernandez and rolling in USA star Pulisic for a easy end.
Milan pushed nevertheless it was one other lightning Parma break which led to Cancellieri scoring the winner and lapping up the adulation of the joyous house crowd.
Later, champions Inter Milan make their San Siro debut for the marketing campaign towards Lecce with out injured captain and star striker Lautaro Martinez, whereas Monza host Genoa.
Mehdi Taremi will make his first begin for Simone Inzaghi’s workforce since signing as a free agent final month, after being launched by Porto.
AFP
