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Some further tactical indications have arrived from the final training session before the first summer friendly against Arsenal.
According to MilanNews, the squad have had a late afternoon training session in Singapore under the orders of the head coach Massimiliano Allegri. It is of course on the eve of the friendly against Arsenal, scheduled for tomorrow at 13:30 CEST.
Clues from training
In the training match, the Milan coach tried the following team: Maignan; Tomori, Gabbia, Pavlovic, F. Terracciano; Loftus-Cheek, Ricci, Musah; Saelemaekers, Leao, Pulisic.
Due to numerous absences, including injuries (Youssouf Fofana and Alex Jimenez) and players not in the camp (Emerson Royal, Luka Modric and Santiago Gimenez), Allegri has a very reshuffled starting XI compared to what his first choice will possibly be.
In practice, Leao was deployed as a striker with Pulisic on the left and Saelemaekers on the right. Out of necessity, Tomori was adapted to right-back, with Filippo Terracciano preferred to Bartesaghi on the left.
Lorenzo Colombo, who continues to be linked with a move to Parma, was not deployed in his natural central striker role. Tomorrow lunchtime will give us the official team, but for now the Milan boss seems determined to find solutions to work with what he has available.
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