Milan swept previous Roma to succeed in the Coppa Italia semi-final with a Tammy Abraham brace towards his outdated membership earlier than Joao Felix scored on an help from fellow debutant Santiago Gimenez.
Sergio Conceicao will face one in every of his former golf equipment, both Inter or Lazio, within the semi-final.
Each side had been very energetic on switch deadline day and had their new signings on the bench ready for his or her debuts. Kyle Walker began once more after the derby draw, whereas Youssouf Fofana returned from suspension, however Rafael Leao was rested. Abraham and Alexis Saelemaekers confronted their mum or dad golf equipment throughout loans, however Paulo Dybala, Leandro Paredes and Mats Hummels had been again within the Giallorossi XI after a draw with Napoli.
Dybala’s free header from a Saelemaekers cross was straight at Mike Maignan, however he was the mistaken particular person to be on the tip of that scenario.
As a substitute, when Mile Svilar parried a long-range Tijjani Reijnders strike and Theo Hernandez stood up the cross on the rebound, Abraham hung within the air for a looping header to open the scoring towards his outdated membership.
What a header by Tammy Abraham 👏
The on-loan striker nets towards his mum or dad membership and arms AC Milan the lead 🔴⚫
A sudden Eldor Shomurodov snapshot squirmed out of Maignan’s grasp to land on the roof of the online, whereas Fikayo Tomori nodded a Christian Pulisic cross over from shut vary, however Niccolò Pisilli went nearer when his header bounced off the highest of the crossbar from Angelino’s help.
Maignan bought right down to palm away the Dybala low drive, whereas Tomori made the decisive block on La Joya from one other Angelino pull-back.
Simply as Roma had been pouring ahead, they conceded the second when Yunus Musah received it again in midfield and the Theo Hernandez move allowed Abraham to destroy the offside lure, giving him loads of time and house to take a contact, then beat the on-rushing goalkeeper.
First-half brace for Tammy Abraham 🔥
The Englishman goes by means of one-on-one and makes no mistake together with his end 👊
Maignan pushed a curling Dybala free kick out of the close to high nook, however Roma made a triple substitution at half-time and moved to a four-man defence.
Milan continued to threaten, Angelino stopping an Alex Jimenez tap-in and on the ensuing nook Kyle Walker’s header clipped the crossbar.
Roma’s modified paid off, Artem Dovbyk profitable it again from Strahinja Pavlovic after which bundling in from point-blank vary on the far put up on a deflected Angelino cross.
Santiago Gimenez and Joao Felix had been thrown on for his or her Milan debuts, whereas Theo Hernandez’s free kick skimmed the upright and Alex Jimenez scored when visibly offside.
, as a result of inside 14 minutes Gimenez had threaded by means of a sensible ball for Joao Felix to spring the offside lure and hold his cool for a fragile lob over the on-rushing Svilar.
João Félix scores on debut! 🇵🇹
The on-loan Chelsea participant makes it 3-1 to AC Milan with a lovely chip 😮💨
Roma had the ball within the internet on 76 minutes when Reijnders anticipated Lorenzo Pellegrini to nod previous Maignan, however Dovbyk was offside within the build-up.
There was time for one more debut as properly, winger Riccardo Sottil who arrived on mortgage with possibility to purchase from Fiorentina.
Milan 3-1 Roma
Abraham 16, 42 (M), Dovbyk 54 (R), Joao Felix 72 (M)