Genoa vs AC Milan - prediction, team news, lineups

With a spot successful adjacent season's Champions League perchance slipping done their grasp, AC Milan volition sojourn Genoa for a important Serie A clash astatine Stadio Ferraris connected Sunday.

Having fto respective different teams backmost into the premix with a woeful tally of results, the Rossoneri indispensable triumph their last 2 matches to corroborate a spot astatine Europe's apical table.

Match preview

Watching connected portion their metropolis rivals observe a uncommon home double, Milan's 2025-26 run has been heading successful a wholly antithetic direction.

Still wrong striking region of Inter conscionable 2 months ago, aft winning the Derby della Madonnina, the Rossoneri are present facing a combat conscionable to unafraid Champions League football. 

Juventus person already overtaken them, portion Roma and Como are some closing successful connected Max Allegri's men, who are nary longer truthful definite of a captious top-four finish.

After starting May with a 2-0 decision against Sassuolo, Milan slipped up again past week, erstwhile they trailed by 3 goals astatine location to Atalanta earlier pulling 2 backmost and astir nicking a precocious leveller.

Now occupying 4th spot with 2 games remaining, the Rossoneri are lone up of Roma connected head-to-head record, portion Como prevarication conscionable 2 points further behind. 

Amid wide discontent successful the stands, 4 points from their past six Serie A fixtures is the club's worst specified tally since 2019, continuing a immense drop-off successful form.

With Allegri's aboriginal coming nether aggravated scrutiny, Milan person accrued 17 less points successful the 2nd fractional of this play - and that is the biggest diminution successful Italy's apical tier.

However, past volition beryllium connected the visitors' broadside this weekend, arsenic they person won connected their past 3 visits to Genoa and person mislaid conscionable 1 of the clubs' past 16 league contests - either location oregon away.

Much has changed since the astir caller gathering - a 1-1 gully successful January, erstwhile Rafael Leao struck a precocious equaliser astatine San Siro - due to the fact that the Grifone nary longer person to interest astir top-flight survival. 

In opposition to Milan's crisp decline, they person added 25 points to their tally during the 2nd fractional of this season, already 9 much than they took from the archetypal - lone Fiorentina person improved more.

Roma fable Daniele De Rossi has surely made a large interaction since taking implicit successful November, and his broadside distanced themselves from the driblet portion with 5 wins from 8 arsenic wintertime turned to spring.

However, arsenic the decorativeness enactment approaches, the Rossoblu person precocious failed to people successful 3 consecutive matches, including last week's 0-0 gully with Fiorentina. 

After taking conscionable 2 points from those games, De Rossi volition beryllium keen to get backmost connected way with triumph successful Genoa's last location fixture, which would coincidentally bash Roma a large favour.

Genoa Serie A form:

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AC Milan Serie A form:

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Team News

Milan indispensable question to Liguria without respective regulars, arsenic injured playmaker Luka Modric volition beryllium joined connected the sidelines by 3 suspended players.

Rafael Leao, Alexis Saelemaekers and Pervis Estupinan are each unavailable, though Fikayo Tomori tin present instrumentality aft serving a one-match ban.

Both Leao and Christian Pulisic person been struggling to nutrient for respective months, and the second has gone 17 league games without scoring. 

So, Christopher Nkunku - who recovered the nett past week - Niclas Fullkrug and Santiago Gimenez are besides successful contention to commencement up front.

Genoa's onslaught is usually led by ex-Milan antheral Lorenzo Colombo, who has recorded 8 Serie A extremity involvements this season, 2 of which came against his aged club.

The hosts are inactive missing erstwhile Rossoneri midfielder Junior Messias owed to injury, but Tommaso Baldanzi and Brooke Norton-Cuffy person immoderate anticipation of overcoming muscular problems.

With information already secured, De Rossi whitethorn marque changes, truthful the likes of Ruslan Malinovskyi, Stefano Sabelli and Johan Vasquez could instrumentality to his starting XI.

Genoa imaginable starting lineup:

Bijlow; Marcandalli, Ostigard, Vasquez; Sabelli, Frendrup, Malinovskyi, Ellertsson; Ekhator, Vitinha; Colombo

AC Milan imaginable starting lineup:

Maignan; Tomori, Gabbia, Pavlovic; Athekame, Fofana, Ricci, Rabiot, Bartesaghi; Nkunku, Gimenez

We say: Genoa 2-2 AC Milan 

Milan person been shambolic since mid-March - leaking some goals and points astatine an alarming complaint - truthful a pugnacious travel to Marassi is not perfect erstwhile their top-four spot is astatine superior risk.

Free from immoderate pressure, Genoa person won 5 of their past 8 location matches, and they tin dent the Rossoneri's Champions League dreams by holding retired for a draw.

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