Milan 2-0 Juventus: Delightful Diaz strike caps routine Rossoneri win

Spain
international
Diaz
charged
towards
the
Juve
goal
after
picking
up
the
ball
in
his
own
half
to
double
the
home
side’s
lead
early
in
the
second
half
of
Saturday’s
Serie
A
clash.

That
came
after
Tomori
had
made
the
breakthrough
in
first-half
stoppage
time,
though
Juventus
felt
there
was
a
foul
in
the
build-up
to
the
corner
from
which
the
defender
scored.

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Despite
being
without
a
number
of
key
men,
including
goalkeeper
Mike
Maignan,
Milan
saw
out
the
win
to
inflict
fresh
pain
on
their
former
head
coach
Massimiliano
Allegri.

Rafael
Leao
clipped
the
right-hand
post
with
a
back-heel
flick
with
20
minutes
played
and
hit
the
other
post
soon
after,
this
time
with
a
powerful
drive
from
outside
the
box.

Milan
took
the
lead
before
the
interval
through
Tomori,
who
got
in
the
way
of
Olivier
Giroud’s
goal-bound
shot
but
turned
the
loose
ball
past
Wojciech
Szczesny
from
a
few
yards.

Juve
were
unhappy
the
goal
stood
due
to
a
strong
challenge
from
Theo
Hernandez
on
Juan
Cuadrado,
but
VAR
could
not
intervene
as
it
happened
in
a
previous
phase
of
play.

Diaz
doubled
Milan’s
lead
as
he
intercepted
a
Dusan
Vlahovic
pass
a
few
yards
inside
his
own
half,
knocked
the
ball
past
a
couple
of
Juve
defenders
and
powerfully
fired
home.

What
does
it
mean?
Juve
winning
run
halted
as
Rossoneri
rise

Milan
were
poor
in
their
midweek
Champions
League
loss
to
Chelsea
–
a
second
defeat
in
three
games
in
all
competitions
–
but
they
responded
well
against
Juventus.

The
Rossoneri
move
level
on
points
with
pacesetters
Napoli
and
Atalanta,
who
are
both
in
action
on
Sunday,
with
this
their
sixth
win
in
nine
league
outings
this
season.

As
for
Juve,
they
have
failed
to
win
any
of
their
opening
four
Serie
A
away
games
for
only
the
second
time
in
the
past
40
seasons
and
could
drop
into
the
bottom
half
on
Sunday.

Diaz
doubles
up

Juve’s
defending
for
Diaz’s
goal
was
atrocious,
from
Vlahovic’s
loose
pass
to
Leonardo
Bonucci’s
failed
attempt
at
a
foul
and
then
Szczesny’s
weak
hand
at
the
end
of
it.

Diaz
is
one
of
the
three
Spanish
players
to
have
scored
more
than
one
Serie
A
goal
against
Juventus,
along
with
Jose
Callejon
and
ex-Inter
player
Luis
Suarez
(three
each).

Dusan’s
San
Siro
struggles

Not
only
did
Vlahovic
gift
the
ball
to
Diaz
for
his
goal,
the
Serbia
international
also
failed
to
have
any
sort
of
impact
on
the
game
in
an
attacking
sense.

He
failed
to
have
a
single
shot
and
is
now
scoreless
in
four
games
at
San
Siro
–
only
at
Sassuolo’s
Mapei
Stadium
(four)
has
he
played
as
many
Serie
A
games
without
scoring.

What’s
next?

Both
sides
switch
focus
back
to
the
Champions
League
on
Tuesday,
with
Milan
at
home
to
Chelsea
and
Juventus
away
at
Maccabi
Haifa.