Milan’s loss to Lazio lands them in the Europa League spot
Lazio 3-0 Milan
Correa and Immobile scores for Lazio as they beat AC Milan by 3 goals.
Lazio played AC Milan at home in a hope of a victory. Milan started with a typical 4-2-3-1 formation whereas Lazio played 3 at the back with 3-5-2 formation. Correa and Immobile played up top for Lazio and Mario Mandžukić played as a sole striker for Milan as Zlatan Ibrahimović was unavailable.
AC Milan have won both of their last 2 Serie A games against Lazio, their longest streak against the team since 2009. Lazio on the hand has not kept a clean sheet against Milan in a Serie A game since February 2012.
The game kicked off with Milan attacking with full force and Mandzukic gifted a beautiful back-heel pass to Çalhanoğlu who kicked the ball straight into the hands of Lazio’s goalkeeper Pepe Reina. In the next minute Bennacer’s lose touch was pounced by Correa, who played a give and go with Immobile and found himself behind Milan defenders and one-on-one with Donnarumma. The Argentinean forward took the ball around the goalkeeper and tapped it into an empty net.
Lazio 1-0 Milan. Milan could have been in-front in the first 20 seconds if Çalhanoğlu had scored the opportunity but after 90 seconds it was Lazio who took the lead. In 30th minute Çalhanoğlu again got a great chance in the penalty box as he was one-on-one with the Lazio goalkeeper but he again shot the ball straight into the hands of the Keeper.
42 minutes in the game, Lazio started a counter attack led by Correa and Lazzari, Lazzari scored for the team but VAR disallowed the goal as it was offside. Half-Time, Lazio-1-0 Milan. 6 minutes into the second half Correa strikes again for the team, courtesy of Luis Alberto’s sublime assist. Lazio 2-0 Milan. To put cherry on the top Immobile scored the 3rd goal in the 85th minute for the team and the game was done and dusted.
Lazio won by 3 goals against AC Milan. Milan certainly missed Zlatan, as the forwards were unable to find the net. Milan sat at the 1st position for 14 weeks, but with this defeat, the team is now at 5th place (Europa League spot) and would have to fight hard to get into the top 4.