Milan’s lead at the top of the table was cut to just one point after this disappointing stalemate with Bologna, despite 33 attempts on goal.
The pressure was on the Rossoneri after Napoli and Inter victories, but Alessio Romagnoli joined Simon Kjaer and Tiemoue Bakayoko on the treatment table. Bologna had their first match since coach Sinisa Mihajlovic returned to hospital for leukaemia treatment. Lorenzo De Silvestri and Nico Dominguez were out of action, with Riccardo Orsolini and Roberto Soriano benched.
Mitchell Dijks should’ve done better on an Aaron Hickey smart pass over the top, while Theo Hernandez tested Lukasz Skorupski from distance.
Rafael Leao and Marko Arnautovic blasted over, then Mike Maignan smothered Michel Aebischer’s effort after a good passing move.
There were penalty appeals for a Gary Medel block on Brahim Diaz from six yards, but he had his back to goal as he came sliding in.
Musa Barrow forced a flying fingertip save from Maignan with his scorcher from distance that had to be pushed out from under the bar.
Pierre Kalulu’s touch let him down on a corner from six yards before Theo Hernandez blasted the rebound wide.
Giroud thought he’d scored with a towering header on Tonali’s cross from the right, but Skorupski made a great save at the near post.
Ante Rebic replaced Junior Messias at half-time, moving Leao over to the right flank. It worked immediately, Leao combining with Brahim Diaz to force a reaction save from Skorupski’s trailing leg.
Davide Calabria went incredibly close with an angled drive that skimmed the far post thanks to a tiny deflection off Gary Medel’s shinpad.
Rebic ballooned over on the volley from a Leao pull-back and Bennacer’s strike was palmed round the upright.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic came on, but had a horrible clash of heads with Medel that left both veterans bleeding and the Chilean having to come off.
Alessandro Florenzi had a pop from distance, with Fikayo Tomori and Ibrahimovic headers off target. Deep into stoppages, Rebic rose to meet a corner, Skorupski palming the header out from under the bar.
Milan 0-0 Bologna
Scudetto will end up in Milano but it will be Inters! Milan suck big time!
I said that they would mess up against Bologna. They are not ready to actually win the league but credit to them for being at the top considering they are a very average team. Inter will grind it out and they have two best friends. 1 VAR and 2 Milan spoon feeding them. I think it will be at least 30 years until Milan can add another title.
Not a very good match
The remaining matches for them are the toughest compared to Inter and Napoli.
If this is the best team in Italy, then no wonder why Italian clubs suck in Europe and could not qualify for the world cup. I saw nothing from them and they have too many mediocre players like Diaz and Messias. Also asking Pioli to win something is asking way too much. He is too nice and does have that ruthless streak. They need to start taking a risk and adding a few quality players bit by bit not wasting time with the Messias of the world who do not bridge the gap to the bigger 2 clubs in Italy.
I think everyone will be shocked if Inter doesn’t win the Scudetto. Milan and Napoli have the hardest remaining schedules of the top 4 and they’re both notorious for blowing games. Inter’s hardest remaining game is Roma, who they haven’t lost to since 2017. Juventus has an absolute cake walk of a schedule remaining. I think the top 4 will finish 1. Inter 2. Juventus 3. Napoli 4. Milan. The bottom two could flip, but Milan’s schedule is a lot tougher with 6 of the last 7 games being teams in the top 11. As a Napoli fan, the silver lining is the top 4 are almost guaranteed Champions league spots.
This was always coming after the last few poor performances against “lesser” teams. It was just a matter of when. Thankfully the defence was pretty solid as usual but the performances of the likes of Leao, Giroud and Tonali were predictably average.
Thank you Bologna, hoping Napoli bag it in.
That stupid new shirt made the team play like pigeon droppings, which is just like how that new shirt looks like. They can’t drop points against a team like Bologna at this stage of the season!
1989-2006 Inter could not win the league and I see Milan are on course to break that record lol.
Before Giroud was made a perm starter, the team played football. Now its one dimensional. hoof and hopeful cross ball style with no unpredictability. The team has regressed, and gone is the quality and switch if play that had the team go on a long run of scoring 2 goals or more. Hoof ball, hopeful crosses and making wingers run just to get crosses to him is not football. played better with rebic as centre forward.
It seems Bologna didn’t have a single Italian starting. I could be wrong with my observation but I think this isn’t good for the future of Italian football
@Stefan totally agree with the mediocre players that are scattered throughout the squad. If and that is a big if, that they scrape it and pull it off, then it will be the worst Milan to have won the league period. It is also a reflection of how low the standards have become in Italy. Rebic, Giroud (old), Zlatan (old), Messias, Diaz and Leao are not Italian and surely there are younger and hungrier Italians out there. They dropped out of Europe early and only play one game a week. At least Inter and Juve have somewhat of an excuse and both will strengthen from May. This was the one and only time to win but I can see next year it will become even more impossible. No title in over a decade is a disgrace for a club that big and this is Arsenal in the making.
To be fair, Milan isn’t good enough to win the league. If they did, would be by far the weakest team to lift the trophy. They still only have 1-2 players that would currently start for inter. Inter have been just as bad form wise recently but a lot of that is down to mentality and exhaustion – players like barella are running on smoke fumes afte tv 2 packed seasons and the euros in between. Bring on end of season rest!!
@above as if Inter are some world beating team. Look they got the win in Turin but their twelfth man is var. Inter were bailed out with this as well when they played Torino. Zakaria was a penalty, Lautaro kicked boxed Locatelli into the ground, Barella is allowed to handle the ball and Bastoni holding onto Zakaria’s leg as if it is WWE. If they are so great they should be 10 pts clear.
Dire performance again. Looks like the least worst of a bad lot will win the league this season.
No guile at all from Milan, just hoping something will happen from a big cross to the big centre-forward.
Bad weekend for Milan, and this result keeps Juve’s tiny title hopes alive.
Leao poor again, he’s your typical winger – brilliant for 1 game, vanishes for the next 3.
*best of a bad lot
Milan will blow it just like they did last year and they have themselves to blame. Some people can think that Inter are getting all the calls and luck is bestowed upon them. If you cannot score at home to a mid table team knowing the Scudetto is on the line then that is your fault. They barely got past Cagliari and they suffer when playing against well drilled opponents sitting back. All I saw were crosses being flung in and they were not even great a getting that done either.
I thought that shirt was April Fools joke.
Would happen sooner or later that we would play a bad game.. don’t forget tho 33 attempts 9 at goal… with a bit of luck this could have easily been a big win.
@ Inter
Tonali, Theo, Tomari, Mike, Leao would all start for you. Makes it half of your team.
This weekends results will haunt Milan and Juve fans for a long time. When Inter or Napoli lift the trophy in a few months they will look back at this weekend as decisive.
Its why we love football so much.
poor poor game overall…very low standard of a game…don’t see any Italian clubs winning the Champions League / Europe League in the next foreseeable future…let’s face it Serie A is below Eredivisie and Portugal’s Primera Liga. Here is hoping that FIFA woud allow 60 teams to compete in World Cup Finals because with a league of this standard god knows when will Italy qualify for the World Cup…