AC Milan and Fiorentina played out an entertaining game at San Siro on Saturday night but were eventually forced to settle for a 2-2 draw.
Fiorentina got themselves firmly in control early in the first half, with a Malick Thiaw own-goal – his third of the season – gifting them the lead before Moise Kean was on hand to hammer in a cross from Dodo.
Tammy Abraham halved the deficit midway through the opening 45 minutes and then substitute Luka Jovic levelled in the second half. Both sides had chances to win it, but Mike Maignan and David De Gea stepped up.
It is a draw that in truth does very little for the sides in ninth and eighth place respectively, though it did once again show the Rossoneri’s fighting spirit and it was a good avert for Serie A, maybe not for defending though.
Sergio Conceicao made two changes to the starting line-up from the team that drew with Inter in midweek. Fikayo Tomori returned in the centre of defence, while Yunus Musah got his place back in the midfield.
Milan made a bright start to the game, and yet it was Fiorentina who took the lead after just seven minutes. An awful giveaway from Musah inside his own half allowed the visitors to break, with Gudmundsson shifting onto his left foot inside the box and sending a ball across goal that Malick Thiaw tried to cut out but ended up turning into his own net at full stretch.
Three minutes later, Fiorentina doubled their lead and it was the in-form Kean who got the goal. A switch of play from the left wing-back Parisi to Dodo on the opposite flank resulted in the latter providing an unopposed cut-back for the Italian striker, who just had to tap in from close range with Mike Maignan helpless.
The Rossoneri had a massive chance to get themselves right back into it when a lovely ball over the top found Rafael Leao in stride. He surged into the box and it looked like he would open up and shoot inside the far corner, but opted to square it where Tammy Abraham and Musah were a yard behind it.
