Milan’s title defence in tatters after dwelling humbling by Sassuolo

AC Milan’s season went even additional off the rails on Sunday after a humiliating 5-2 dwelling defeat by the hands of Sassuolo left them liable to dropping out of the Champions League locations.

Every little thing that might go fallacious for troubled Milan did at a gloriously sunny San Siro, with two targets dominated out for offside and a stunning defensive show condemning the champions to a second straight heavy loss after being hammered 4-0 at Lazio on Tuesday.

Stefano Pioli’s facet dropped right down to fourth and can discover themselves a whopping 15 factors off the Scudetto tempo if league leaders Napoli beat fierce rivals Roma in Sunday’s late match.

Milan’s title defence lays in tatters and they’re going to additionally drop out of Serie A’s prime 4 if both Roma or Lazio, who host Fiorentina later within the day, keep away from defeat.

Domenico Berardi was the star man for Sassuolo, who’re sixteenth after successful for the primary time since late October, the Italian having a hand in Gregoire Defrel and Davide Frattesi’s targets which put his staff two forward after simply 20 minutes.

Olivier Giroud, who had a tremendous early end disallowed, then headed Milan again into the sport however Berardi reestablished Sassuolo’s two-goal lead with a header of his personal from a Thirtieth-minute nook.

Pioli introduced on Rafael Leao at half-time after leaving his star attacker out of the beginning line-up however Milan have been three targets down seconds after the restart, Armand Lauriente smashing dwelling a penalty after being introduced down by Davide Calabria.

And an terrible afternoon became a nightmare when Matheus Henrique drilled within the fifth with 11 minutes remaining, leaving Divock Origi to twist dwelling a fantastic however solely irrelevant comfort objective for the hosts.

Later Paul Pogba may make his first Juventus look since coming back from Manchester United final summer season after being named among the many substitutes for his or her conflict with shock bundle Monza.

France midfielder Pogba injured the meniscus in his proper knee in July and missed out on the World Cup.

He initially elected to not go below the knife in a bid to make the Qatar event however regardless of later altering his thoughts he did not get well in time to play for Les Bleus.

Juventus sit eleventh in Serie A after being docked 15 factors for illicit switch exercise and will likely be overtaken by promoted Monza ought to the Turin giants lose to the membership owned by Silvio Berlusconi as they did in September.

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