AC Milan won 2-0 on Sunday against AS Rome on match day 28 of Serie A and thwarted hopes of qualifying for the Giallorossi Champions League.
Once the resumption of the championship had been decided, the League had looked into the question of match schedules and had sought to favor the parties at night, at 9:45 p.m. or 7:30 p.m.
Only ten matches out of the more than 120 to be played were scheduled at 5:15 p.m., including this Milan-Roma, and we understood why on Sunday.
With a necessarily precarious physical condition after three months of interruption of competitions and in the stifling heat of the Milanese summer, the first period was thus extremely weak between the two teams.
But after the break, Milan were clearly superior to the obviously tired Roma who had very few chances.
Dominators, the Rossoneri opened the brand by Rebic (76th), who made three attempts before managing to take advantage of a gift from the Roman side Zappacosta.
One minute from the end, the Frenchman Théo Hernandez then obtained a penalty kick, transformed into strength by Calhanoglu (89th).
With this success, the first of the season against a Top 6 team, Milan moved into 7th place and can still believe in the Europa League.
For Roma, however, the dreams of a return to the Champions League are fading. Fifth, Paulo Fonseca’s team is six points behind Atalanta Bergamo (4th), which faces Udinese at 7:30 p.m.
At 9:45 p.m., Inter Milan (3rd) will be in Parma to try to keep pace with the two leaders, Juventus (1st) and Lazio Rome (2nd), who both imposed themselves respectively on Friday against Lecce ( 4-0) and Saturday against Fiorentina (2-1).
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