Milan vs Torino

Torino will target a historic victory at the San Siro amid AC Milan's maligned run of results.

AC Milan head coach Stefano Pioli has made four changes to his starting line-up for the game to face Torino compared to the one that lost to Inter.

Rade Krunic and Sandro Tonali will be the midfield double pivot with Ismael Bennacer still injured, and the front three sees Brahim Diaz come in accompanied by Rafael Leao on the other flank and Olivier Giroud up front. Pioli has chosen to slightly tweak the 3-5-2 formation that he used against the Nerazzurri last weekend and move to a 3-4-3 system, with a double pivot instead of a midfield three and a trio of forwards instead. Alexis Saelemaekers and Theo Hernandez have been named as the right and left wing-backs, with captain Davide Calabria therefore dropping to the bench.

AC Milan are facing Torino at home looking to take one win out of the three games in the current season. Ivan Juric has thus far outsmarted Stefano Pioli ...

Diaz is often overpowered when playing as the CAM but should have more space down the wings where he can exploit his pace and his dribbling is more effective close to the box. We have only scored one goal against him in the previous three and that needs to change in this game. Milan are winless in seven games and really need to turn this around.

Milan bring back Rafael Leao and Brahim Diaz to support Olivier Giroud in a 3-4-3 formation with Malick Thiaw at the back, while Torino look to Aleksey.

The Granata were down to 10 men at the time in that knockout round, scoring on the counter-attack with Michel Adopo. That was only one of the low points in Milan’s 2023, as they go into this round in sixth place, coming off two draws and three consecutive defeats. These teams already met twice before this season and in both cases Torino emerged with a surprise victory, 2-1 in Serie A on October 30 and 1-0 in extra time on January 11 for the Coppa Italia Round of 16.