Milan knocks Rome down and remains in the Europe zone

Milan achieved an important and deserved victory against Roma at San Siro. With this victory, the Pioli team march seventh along with Naples (who today will receive SPAL) and, in addition, cuts the distances with the fifth place of the capital (now six points), which complicate his dream of returning to the Champions League. Atalanta, fourth, today can increase their advantage to nine points beating Udinese.

The match was the second of eight to be played at 17:15, a time criticized for the inevitable heat It will be suffered in July (that is why, at least, it will never be used in the south). If yesterday Brescia-Genoa offered a good pace and four goals (finished 2-2), today Rossoneri and Giallorossi suffered more from the temperature and the pace of play took a long time to rise.

In the first part, Fonseca’s team controlled the game more, but there were only two occasions to clear the game, one for each set, with separate headers that ended out.

The first was from Dzeko to a pass from Kluivert and the second from Calhanoglu, after a cross by Theo. In the restart, Pioli replaced the tired Bonaventura and Castillejo with Paquetá and Selemaekers and his team grew to 1-0 in 76 ‘.

A bad pass from Zappacosta activated a rossonero counterattack that ended with Rebic shooting the post in the heart of the area and then taking advantage of the rebound for his eighth target in the last nine games.

There was hardly any Romanist reaction, and one minute from 90 ‘ an arrival of the ubiquitous Theo ended in a clash with Smalling, who according to the braid was a penalty. Calhanoglu did not fail from 11 meters and closed the second consecutive victory of the rossoneri, that are still in the Europa League zone and soon they will be able to count on Ibrahimovic again. His season still has a lot to say.