Milan, draw with Roma è fatal for Paulo Fonseca

All that is missing is the official announcement but the 1-1 draw with Roma has made AC Milan take the decision to relieve coach Paulo Fonseca.

According to reports on X by Gianluca Di Marzio, Sky Sport’s soccer market expert, the club’communicated the exoneration to Fonseca immediately after the match. Thus ends the Portuguese coach’s adventure after 18 league games.

Tomorrow, Di Marzio adds, Sergio Conceicao, also a Portuguese, will be the new Rossoneri coach. Fonseca confirmed the communication of the exoneration to Peppe Di Stefano, correspondent of Sky Sport, coming out of the garage of San Siro.

Fonseca in Serie A coached Roma from 2019 to 2021, collecting a fifth and a seventh place finish. Conceicao, a former Lazio, Parma and Inter Milan player, coached Porto from 2017 to 2024 winning 3 championships, a Super Cup, a League Cup and 4 domestic cups.

Milan-Roma, Claudio Ranieri è amused

These are the words to DAZN microphones of Roma coach Claudio Ranieri after the 1-1 draw against AC Milan. “È it was a vibrant match, the draw è a fair result and that also entertained the fans”.

“Everything they did to us in the first half, we did to them in the second half, incredibly both teams did not score”.

“Dybala? The whole team is helping him, he is training with continuityà and when Paulo è in this state of form è nice to pay the ticket to see him”, says Ranieri again.

“The derby next Sunday? Now we recover the energy spent. Congratulations to Lazio for the championship. But the derby comes out of any concept”, he concludes.

Reijnders’ strike, Dybala’s response: è draw between Milan and Roma

At the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza ends on’1-1 the Sunday post-match of the 18th day ofSerie A between Milan and Roma.

Immediately a’chance for the Giallorossi on 4’: Angelino shaved for Dybala, shot that Maignan blocks. On 6’ Reijnders answers, shot that Svilar parries in two times. At 11’ Dybala serves Dovbyk who hits the outside post of the Rossoneri goal.

At 16’ Milan took the lead: Fofana on a counterattack serves Reijnders who beats Svilar. Two minutes later another counterattack with Morata who could double but his shot ends up wide.

After another two-timer save by Svilar, this time on a shot by Theo Hernandez, Roma equalized on 23’ Dovbyk’s volley for Dybala who scored a great goal on the volley.

After a double chance for Reijnders and Chikwueze, within two minutes Fonseca got himself expelled for protests, specifically because of an intervention by Pisilli in the box on the unleashed Reijnders that was not sanctioned by Fabbri.

Resume. At 49’ Dovbyk forces Maignan into a corner deflection. At 55’ Bennacer engages Svilar, who a minute later deflects into a corner, saying no to Chukwueze.

At 85’El Shaarawy, apena entrato, is denied the goal of the’ex by Maignan. Shortly afterwards, Shomurodov’s header off Paredes’ free kick hits the crossbar. It ends 1-1, a draw that satisfies no one.