AS Roma vs AC Milan: 1-2
News from the football world this morning, "AS Roma vs. AC Milan: 1-2". And finally, AC Milan can keep its perfect run in the Italian League with a victory at AS Roma.
The Roma vs. Milan match in the third week of Serie A was held at the Stadio Olimpico. Roma's new striker Romelu Lukaku started from the bench.
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The visitors were 1-0 up in the first half thanks to Olivier Giroud's penalty. Rafael Leao's acrobatic goal early in the second half brought Milan to double the lead.
Milan then lost Fikayo Tomori who was shown a red card in the 61st minute. Roma only narrowed the gap in the 90+2nd minute through Leonardo Spinazzola's goal.
Thanks to this result, Milan topped the Italian League standings with nine points. They recorded three wins in three games.
Meanwhile, Roma have yet to win. Jose Mourinho's men are in 18th position with one point from one draw and two defeats.
The course of the match "AS Roma vs AC Milan"
Roma were already penalized in the eighth minute after the referee saw VAR. Milan was awarded a penalty after the referee judged Rui Patricio to have fouled Ruben Loftus-Cheek.
Olivier Giroud came forward as executor. Giroud managed to outwit Rui Patricio and put Milan 1-0 ahead.
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Milan almost doubled the lead in the 22nd minute. Rafael Leao fired in a cross and was met by Christian Pulisic with a first-time volley. But Patricio can still brush it off.
Not many chances were created in the first half. The score was 1-0 for Milan's lead to last until halftime.
After the intermission, Milan did not take long to add a goal. Rafael Leao netted for Roma in the 48th minute to make it 2-0.
Leao doubled Milan's lead with an acrobatic kick. With his back to goal, Leao met Davide Calabria's pass with an acrobatic kick.
Milan had to play with 10 men from the 61st minute. Fikayo Tomori was shown a second yellow card for a foul on Andrea Belotti.
Stephan El Shaarawy got a chance in the 69th minute after a stab from the left side. He then fired a shot that forced Mike Maignan to make a save.
Romelu Lukaku, who only came on in the 71st minute, almost marked his debut for Roma with a goal. But his shot still bounced over Milan's crossbar.
Roma only scored a counter-goal in injury time. Leonardo Spinazzola stabbed in from the left side and fired a flat shot. The ball hit Kalulu and outwitted Maignan.
After Spinazzola scored, Roma then threatened Milan's goal several times. However, the hosts were still unable to score a goal to equalize the score.
"AS Roma vs. AC Milan" line-up
AS Roma: Rui Patricio; Gianluca Mancini (Pagano 79'), Chris Smalling, Diego Llorente; Zeki Celik (Spinazzola 70'), Bryan Cristante, Leandro Paredes (Bove 70'), Nicola Zalewski; Houssem Aouar (Pellegrini 31'), Stephan El Shaarawy (Lukaku 71'); Andrea Belotti
AC Milan: Mike Maignan; Davide Calabria, Malick Thiaw, Fikayo Tomori, Theo Hernandez; Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Kalulu 65'), Rade Krunic, Tijani Reijnders; Christian Pulisic (Chukwueze 77'), Olivier Giroud (Pobega 70'), Rafael Leao (Okafor 77')