The game against Sampdoria was difficult and physical, it was even harder with Rafael Leao's red card which will surely complicate things for AC Milan head coach Stefano Pioli in the next league game versus Napoli.
The Portuguese winger's back-up, Ante Rebic, will hardly recover for the game against Spalletti's team. There are some ideas being studied already by the Rossoneri boss, given this context and circumstances.
In the Champions League fixture against Dinamo Zagreb at the San Siro, Pioli will play with Giroud once again as his starter. Alexis Saelemaekers should be the right-winger, Leao on the left flank while Brahim Diaz is the playmaker.
AC Milan coach, Stefano Pioli, is hoping he can recover Divock Origi just in time against Napoli and deploy him in the increasingly probable 3-5-2 formation, with Theo Hernandez playing as a wing-back. Sergino Dest, for his part, should play on the other side of the pitch.
Simon Kjaer, Fikayo Tomori and Pierre Kalulu would be playing together as the centre-backs of the said formation against Napoli, writes Calciomercato.com.
