Serie A Week 24: Result AS ROMA 1 – 2 AC MILAN, Sunday 28 February 2021

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52% Ball Possession AS ROMA and 48% Ball Possession AC MILAN
AS Roma 1 – 2 AC Milan
50′ Jordan Veretout                   42′ Franck Kessié (pen)
.                                                          58′ Ante Rebić

Serie A Standing BEFORE the game:
AC Milan, 2nd position with 49 points and a positive goal difference of +17
AS Roma, 4th position with 44 points and a positive goal difference of +12

Mission accomplished for AC Milan on their race for the leadership.   AC Milan win the Serie A Week 24 game defeating AS Roma on Sunday 28 February 2021 at the Olimpico di Roma Stadium in Rome, Italy.  Roma failing to claim the home victory sending them down from the 4th to the 6th position and are now  being -2 points below Juventus in the 3rd position with 46 points. AC Milan with 52 points adding the fuel to recover the 1st position are now -4 points below Inter with 56 points in the 1st position.

AC Milan opening the score in the 42nd minute. Referee Marco Guida giving a penalty to Milan. It is Franck Kessié to convert the penalty defeating Roma goalkeeper with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner. The penalty is conceded by Federico Fazio after a foul on Davide Calabria.

AS Roma equalizing for the 1-1 in the 50th minute, Jordan Veretout defeating AC Milan goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma with a right footed shot to the top right corner. The assist is by Leonardo Spinazzola.

AC Milan taking the lead again in the 58th minute. It is Ante Rebic to take care of business with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner. The assist is by Alexis Saelemaekers.

  •   👉  Stats before the game, after the 3-3 draw in the first leg, Milan and Roma could end both Serie A matches in a draw for the first time since 1999/2000 with Alberto Zaccheroni and Fabio Capello respectively on the bench.  Roma won their last Serie A home match against Milan: the last Roma coach to achieve two straight home wins against Milan in the league was Fabio Capello in 2003.  Roma are the team that has earned the most points at home (30) in this Serie A, while Milan are the team that have won the most away (28).  Roma are unbeaten in 16 league home games (12V, 4N), best series for Roma since February 2017, when they reached 24 home games without defeat.  Milan lost four games in 2021 in Serie A: two more than in the whole of 2020; only in 1936 did he come to five defeats considering the first two months of the year.   AC Milan could lose three games in a row to score any Serie A goals for the first time since April 1967.   Roma’s Jordan Veretout has scored nine goals in Serie A this season and could become the first French midfielder to double-digit goals in a single season in the top European leagues since 2018/19, in which three have succeeded: Pogba, Thauvin and Oudin.  Roma forward Edin Dzeko has run out of goals in his last six Serie A appearances: worst streak for the Bosnian since January 2019 when he missed nine games, his worst in Serie A.

✅ Here is AS ROMA official starting lineup – formation by Coach Paulo Fonseca:

👉 Lineup AS Roma (3-4-2-1): Pau Lopez; Mancini, Cristante, Fazio; Karsdorp, Veretout, Villar, Spinazzola; Pellegrini, Mkhitaryan; B. Mayoral.

✅ Here is AC MILAN official starting lineup – formation by Coach Stefano Pioli:

👉 Lineup AC Milan (4-2-3-1): Donnarumma G.; Calabria, Kjær, Tomori, Hernández; Tonali, Kessie; Saelemaekers, Çalhanoğlu, Rebić; Ibrahimović.

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Referee Marco Guida from the section of Torre Annunziata will be assisted by Daniele Bindoni from the section of Venezia and Salvatore Longo from the section of Paola. The fourth official will be Marco Piccinini from the section of Forlì. The VAR will be Massimiliano Irrati from the section of Pistoia and the AVAR will be Dario Cecconi from the section of Empoli.

2020 – 2021 Italian Serie A Week 24

AS Roma 1 – 2 AC Milan
Sunday 28 February 2021
Olimpico di Roma Stadium
Rome, Italy

20:45

Referee: GUIDA
Assistants: BINDONI – LONGO
Fourth Official: PICCININI
VAR: IRRATI
AVAR: CECCONI

Goals:  42′ Franck Kessié (pen)(M), 50′ Jordan Veretout (R), 58′ Ante Rebić (M)

Official lineups – formations – tabellino:

👉 Lineup AS Roma (3-4-2-1): Pau Lopez; Mancini, Cristante, Fazio; Karsdorp, Veretout, Villar, Spinazzola; Pellegrini, Mkhitaryan; B. Mayoral.

Subs.: Fuzato, Mirante; Juan Jesus, Kumbulla, Peres; Diawara, Pastore; Pedro, Pérez, El Shaarawy.

Coach: Paulo Fonseca.

👉 Lineup AC Milan (4-2-3-1): Donnarumma G.; Calabria, Kjær, Tomori, Hernández; Tonali, Kessie; Saelemaekers, Çalhanoğlu, Rebić; Ibrahimović.

Subs.: Donnarumma A., Tătăruşanu; Dalot, Gabbia, Kalulu, Romagnoli; Castillejo, Díaz, Hauge, Krunić, Meïte; Leão.

Coach: Stefano Pioli.