AC Milan vs Atalanta BC - prediction, team news, lineups

After watching their metropolis rivals assertion the Serie A title, ailing AC Milan indispensable effort to get backmost connected way erstwhile they invited Atalanta BC to San Siro connected Sunday.

Now facing a combat to unafraid Champions League football, Milan slipped up again past weekend; meanwhile, La Dea's mid-season renaissance has petered out.

Match preview

New champions Inter Milan person already booked their place, with Napoli precise adjacent to joining them, but Milan are getting sucked into a conflict with 3 different contenders for Champions League qualification. 

Juventus, Roma and Como are each closing successful connected the Rossoneri, who are nary longer truthful definite of a top-four finish.

After losing fractional of their past 10 league games, Max Allegri's men indispensable retrieve immoderate composure oregon hazard missing retired connected Europe's apical competition.

With conscionable 1 extremity from their past 5 outings - less than immoderate different broadside since the commencement of April - Milan's signifier has nosedived aft beating Inter successful the Derby della Madonnina.

That effect seemingly reignited the Scudetto race, but they person alternatively endured a fig of setbacks, including last week's 2-0 nonaccomplishment to Sassuolo.

A regular tormentor of the Rossoneri, Domenico Berardi typically popped up with an aboriginal opening goal, earlier Fikayo Tomori was sent disconnected midway done the archetypal half.

So, amid wide disapproval of antagonistic 'Allegri-ball', Milan lone person 3 games near to crook things around.

The archetypal comes astatine location to Lombardy rivals Atalanta, who person won 4 and mislaid nary of the past six meetings, including a 1-1 gully successful October's reverse fixture.

Looking further back, Sunday's visitors person mislaid conscionable 2 of their past 11 league games against Milan astatine San Siro.

However, their springtime signifier has been adjacent much dismal than the Rossoneri's, efficaciously ending immoderate hopes of a top-six finish. 

Lying 7 points down aft last week's goalless location gully with Genoa, the Bergamo nine indispensable anticipation that Como earnestly gaffe up, successful summation to winning each of their past 3 fixtures.

More realistically, seventh spot could yet assertion a Conference League place, providing Inter assistance the Coppa Italia.

Raffaele Palladino's broadside precocious missed retired connected reaching the cupful last by losing to Lazio connected penalties, and immoderate affirmative momentum seems to person dissipated. 

After taking 23 from the erstwhile nine, Atalanta person accrued conscionable 10 points from their past 9 matches; lone 5 teams successful the bottommost six person fared worse implicit that period.

AC Milan Serie A form:

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Atalanta BC Serie A form:

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Atalanta BC signifier (all competitions):

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Team News

Milan volition beryllium missing 2 members of their first-choice XI, arsenic Luka Modric has been sidelined for the remainder of the play by a superior facial wounded and Tomori indispensable service a suspension.

Otherwise, Allegri should person a afloat squad to take from, arsenic helium seeks to find the close look up front.

Potential Manchester United people Rafael Leao is acceptable to marque his 250th league appearance, but some helium and Christian Pulisic person been struggling to nutrient for respective weeks. 

The second has gone 17 Serie A games without scoring, truthful Christopher Nkunku, Niclas Fullkrug and Santiago Gimenez are besides successful contention.

Similarly, ex-Milan antheral Charles De Ketelaere - who volition marque his 100th league quality for Atalanta - has not scored successful Italy's apical formation since January.

Even so, the Belgian guardant should commencement connected his latest instrumentality to San Siro, supporting either Gianluca Scamacca oregon Nikola Krstovic, some of whom person netted 10 league goals but failed to gel erstwhile paired unneurotic past week.

Only Lorenzo Bernasconi is ruled retired by injury, truthful La Dea should beryllium precise adjacent to afloat spot connected Sunday evening.

AC Milan imaginable starting lineup:

Maignan; De Winter, Gabbia, Pavlovic; Saelemaekers, Fofana, Jashari, Rabiot, Bartesaghi; Leao, Gimenez

Atalanta BC imaginable starting lineup:

Carnesecchi; Scalvini, Hien, Ahanor; Bellanova, De Roon, Ederson, Zappacosta; De Ketelaere, Zalewski; Scamacca

We say: AC Milan 1-1 Atalanta BC 

Milan whitethorn person lone suffered 3 location defeats successful Serie A, but 2 person travel successful their past 5 outings astatine San Siro; meanwhile, Atalanta person won conscionable 1 of their past 8 distant games crossed each competitions.

As neither broadside is successful bully shape, they volition shingle hands connected a low-scoring draw.

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