Milan, 4 April 2024 – The championship challenge that the Milan will play on Saturday at 3pm against the Lecce at San Siro represents a new chance to consolidate the second place in the standings for the Rossoneri, and a victory would allow the Devil to reach the decisive match in the first leg of the quarter-finals of Europa League against Roma in the best possible way. Great attention, however, will be given to the match against the Salento team who, after Gotti’s arrival on the bench, have scored 4 points in two games and two consecutive clean sheets.
We see Kjaer again
Good news for Stefano Pioli: in this morning’s session, in fact, Simon Kjaer trained with the rest of the group and the Dane is moving towards a probable call-up for the match against the Salento team on Saturday afternoon. A different story, however, for the long-term patient Tommaso Pobega, still engaged in individual work. With the quarter-final first leg of the Europa League just around the corner, the manager he could opt for some rotations in view of the match with Roma: Giroud, therefore, will start from the bench to make room for one of Luka Jovic or Noah Okafor, with the Swiss already deployed as a striker in the last away match at the Bentegodi in Verona where he performed well. The Serbian, on the other hand, is returning from a positive period after a start to the season well below expectations: 8 goals have been scored so far in 24 appearances in the championship and cups but in this final, Jovic is called upon to make a greater contribution also in order to guarantee a renewal with the Rossoneri until 2025. Milan, in fact, has the possibility of exercising the automatic one-year renewal on the attacker’s contract, a decision that could come based on how the twenty-six-year-old ends the season.
In place of the suspended Loftus-Cheek, instead, the idea of remains alive advance Bennacer on the trocar line, with Adli alongside Reijnders: the former AZ Alkmaar player has played 2,215 minutes in Serie A, behind Mike Maignan (2,430) and Theo Hernández (2,330) and is one of the essential elements on Stefano Pioli’s board ahead of Christian Pulisic (2,001). Despite the tactical changes (from 4-3-3 to 4-2-3-1) implemented by Pioli, in fact, Reijnders did not lose his place as a starter, being joined from time to time by the various Adli and Bennacer, and since playing for the Rossoneri, the player also won the Dutch national team jersey, scoring his first goal during the last break. Place in defense guaranteed, however, for Tomori, who will miss the first leg of the European quarterfinals against Roma due to disqualification, but both he and his teammate at the center of the rearguard, Thiaw, have received a warning. With the next yellow card, therefore, they would miss a match and the period is not the best in the league, with the Devil who, after the trip to Sassuolo, will first face Inter in the derby and then Juventus.
Sport for All
Fondazione Milan will participate in the Relay Marathon 2024, the beating heart of the Milan Marathon Charity Program, which has the main objective of raising funds to support the solidarity projects of the participating associations. The Foundation will allocate the funds raised to support its Sport for All program, through which it has been committed for years to promoting social inclusion and offering personal development opportunities to young people with disabilities through sporting activity: its sixth participation, Sunday 7 April, the Rossoneri charity will field 40 teams, made up of 160 runners who in this edition will also be able to count on the Rossoneri legend Serginho.
