✅ Here are AC Milan vs Porto official starting lineups for the Champions League Group Stage Group B Matchday 4 game on Wednesday 3 November 2021 at the San San Siro Stadium in Milan, Italy at 18:45.
🏆👉Lineup AC MILAN (4-2-3-1): Tătărușanu; Calabria, Tomori, Romagnoli, Hernández; Tonali, Bennacer; Saelemaekers, Díaz, Leão; Giroud.
🏆👉Lineup PORTO (4-4-2): D. Costa; João Mário, Mbemba, Pepe, Zaidu; Uribe, S. Oliveira, Vitinha, Otávio; L. Díaz, Taremi, Evanilson.
Subs: Marchesín; Cardoso, Manafá, Nanu; B. Costa, Grujic, Vieira, Vitinha; F. Conceição, Corona, Martínez, Pep.
Coach: S. Conceição.
French Referee Clement Turpin will be assisted by Assistant Referee 1: Nicolas Danos (FRA) and Assistant Referee 2: Cyril Gringore (FRA). The Fourth Official will be Jerôme Brisard (FRA). The VAR will be François Letexier (FRA) and the AVAR will be Bastian Dankert (GER). The Referee Observer will be Karen Nalbandyan (ARM)
🏆👉Here are AC Milan vs Porto official called up players by Coach StefanoPioli for the Champions League Group Stage Group B Matchday 4 game on Wednesday 3 November 2021 at the San San Siro Stadium in Milan, Italy at 18:45.
French Referee Clement Turpin will be assisted by Assistant Referee 1: Nicolas Danos (FRA) and Assistant Referee 2: Cyril Gringore (FRA). The Fourth Official will be Jerôme Brisard (FRA). The VAR will be François Letexier (FRA) and the AVAR will be Bastian Dankert (GER). The Referee Observer will be Karen Nalbandyan (ARM)
Good morning, my friends! Here are the front pages from the Italian newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport, Wednesday 3 November 2021
La Gazzetta dello Sport, Front Page, Wednesday 3 November 2021.
Front Page, La Gazzetta dello Sport, Wednesday 3 November
👉In Champions, it's another Juve. Already at the Round of 16 Euro Joya He scores 2 goals passing Platini in goals with Bianconeri (106) and honors him
Corriere dello Sport, Front Page, Wednesday 3 November 2021 .
Front Page Corriere dello Sport, Wednesday 3 November
👉Champions, Zenith KO (4-2): Bianconeri with full points, they're already qualified Dybala with Platini's style Paulo leads Juve with 2 goals: 106, passing Michel
🏆👉Here are AC Milan Coach Stefano Pioli and Davide Calabria press conference statements at Milanello on Tuesday 2 November 2021 ahead of the Champions League Group Stage Group B Matchday 4 game AC Milan vs Porto on Wednesday 3 November at the San San Siro Stadium in Milan, Italy at 18:45.
Here’s the situation. AC Milan with the pressure to win this game to dream with the qualification to the Round of 16 after losing the previous 3 games and being in the last position.
uefa champions league group stage standing
Played
Won
Drawn
Lost
For
Against
Goal difference
Points
Liverpool
3
3
0
0
11
5
6
9
Atlético
3
1
1
1
4
4
0
4
Porto
3
1
1
1
2
5
-3
4
AC Milan
3
0
0
3
3
6
-3
0
AC Milan Coach STEFANO PIOLI
THE SUPPORT OF SAN SIRO “Our fans are second to none; we haven’t yet been able to bring them the joy that they deserve in the Champions League. Tomorrow, we have another opportunity and the big teams know how to take their chances. I expect a lot from my team.”
DECISIONS AND UPCOMING GAMES “We can’t afford to think about anything else. Tomorrow is an important crossroad and we cannot mess it up. We have the belief because we have the quality. We have one game to make good on the situation following the defeat last time out. What happens on Sunday is another thing entirely.”
QUESTIONS MARKS ON THE REFEREEING IN ROMA V AC MILAN “I believe one thing; we beat Roma because we were the better team and lost against Porto because they were better than us. I can’t control anything else. We’re just going to keep our focus on what we are doing. We analysed the performance with the players and we know what we did well. We can’t waste our energy on external factors. Now, we are thinking about the Champions League because we feel like we deserve more than zero points in the table and we have this game to confirm that – against a really tough side.”
THE FIRST MATCH “Il Porto è stato aggressivo ma non così tanto da non permetterci di gestire la palla in sicurezza, abbiamo perso la partita perché non abbiamo saputo controllarla. Ci siamo mossi male e non siamo riusciti a saltare la loro pressione, questa è una fase che domani dovremo sviluppare sicuramente meglio”. “Porto were aggressive but but so much as to not allow us any time on the ball. We lost the game because we didn’t control it- We were poor and we didn’t beat their press; we need to be much better at that tomorrow.”
WHAT TO EXPECT FROM PORTO “This is their way of playing: they hold the pitch well and are always aggressive. They’re a strong side. We’ll need to be flexible and technically precise. We can’t make simple errors and we have to play positive football.”
HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE DIRECTORS “I think it’s important to recognise the work that is being done. I’m happy with the relationship that I have with the Club and the directors. We’ll discuss the future together.”
DAVIDE CALABRIA
THE LOOK OF THE SQUAD TOMORROW “We have an outlook prepared; it’s our last chance to stay in the Champions League. We believe in ourselves and we have the quality to put in a great performance right from kick-off and stay in the competition.”
DIFFERENCE IN FORM BETWEEN SERIE A AND THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE “Certain moments have led to the current standings. We don’t deserve it but I am convinced that we have the potential to do better and take points, starting from tomorrow.”
THAT FINAL CENTIMETRE “The Champions League is a competition that comes down to the finer details and some of the details have gone against us. It’s a shame because we deserve more but there’s not much to say. We’ve been decent in the group until now, except for the game in Portugal.”
TACTICAL EVOLUTION AND PIOLI’S ROLE “I think that we play attacking, positive football; this is essential in the modern game. In Italy, we are taking some great results and I think this will happen in Europe too. The coach has helped us a lot. He gives us the confidence and desire to all pull in the same direction.”
CONTROVERSY AFTER ROMA V AC MILAN “You’ll always get these things; everyone makes mistakes – even referees. We deserved to win, were the better team and we need to rise about the controversy.”
PLAYING IN THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE AT SAN SIRO “I’ve worked hard to get to this point. I hope that there are many people in the stands because that stadium is amazing when it’s full.”
👉 Here is the list of suspensions by the Sporting Judge Gerardo Mastrandrea assisted by Stefania Ginesio and the A.I.A Representative Carlo Moretti on Tuesday 2 November 2021 after the Serie A Round 11 concluded on Monday 1 November 2021.
Two Match Suspension
Adrien Silva (Sampdoria)
One Match Suspension
Martin Caceres (Cagliari) (and a fine of €5,000 euro)
Theo Hernandez (AC Milan)
Grigorios Kastanos (Salernitana)
Kalidou Koulibaly (Napoli)
Maxime Lopes (Sassuolo)
Tommaso Pobega (Torino)
Petar Stojanovic (Empoli)
👉 Clubs and Coach
José Mourinho “for having, at the end of the match, in the vicinity of the referee’s dressing room entrance, taken an ironic attitude towards the same, uttering disrespectful words”. For the Special One, a €10 thousand euro fine was imposed. Not only that, the Judge also punished the Curva Sud for the chants intoned against Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Franck Kessie: the closure for a round has been ordered, a suspended sanction that will become effective when similar episodes repeat.
In addition to having expressed himself specifically on what happened at the Olimpico during Rome-Milan (racist and discriminatory chants, plus Mourinho’s disqualification) and in Bergamo for Atalanta-Lazio (throwing coins to Reina), the measures also concerned Bologna (fine by €5 thousand euros “to have his supporters, at the 48th of the second half, thrown at the bench of the opposing team some objects”), Salernitana (fine of €4 thousand euros “to have his supporters, at the beginning of the match, thrown into the enclosure game two lighters “) and Juve (€3 thousand euros” to have his supporters, at the 6th of the first half, thrown a firecracker in the game enclosure “).
👉 The verdict regarding the Pepe Reina case
The Lazio goalkeeper, during the match against Atalanta at the Gewiss Stadium, was hit by a coin in the head thrown from the Atalanta curve. Here is the sentence: “Fine of € 25,000.00: to Soc. ATALANTA for having, during the match and in particular during the second half, repeatedly thrown various objects on the playing field, one of which (specifically probably a coin) hit, at the 46th minute of the second half, the goalkeeper of the opposing team, who collapsed momentarily to the ground, and then stood up and regularly resumed the game; mitigated sanction, pursuant to art.7 CGS, as the Club, immediately dissociated from the uncivilized behavior described in the report of the collaborators of the Federal Prosecutor’s Office, with their own active collaboration and contributed to the prompt identification of those responsible for the last episode, for the purpose of applying the consequent prohibition of access “. Atalanta has already identified those responsible for the gesture: daspo for three fans.