Genoa starts the second part of the competition with a home game against AC Milan. In the first meeting in Milan at the end of October, the home team was the better, but it remained 1-1 for a long time, until Romagnoli scored the equalizer in the curiosity in the injury time.
Genoa:
Genoa had a flying start this season, in the cup was simply won from Lecce and in the competition four of the first six games were won. The difference was made by one man, the new Polish striker Krzysztof Piatek made thirteen goals in his first eight games. Since then, Genoa has been a lot less successful and has since collapsed to fourteenth place. Of the ten league games that followed, none were won, in total only four points were taken. To make matters worse, Genoa was eliminated in the cup by Serie C-team Entella. However, Piatek has regained his scoring drive. After a drought of five games, another series followed in which he scored six times in six games. In addition, they finally won again, at the end of December the three points were held in-house against the well-performing Atalanta.
Calculated the Piatek in formation is suspended for this match and so it is questionable who can take over the role of the scoring pool. Piatek scored thirteen times this season, no other player has made more than three.
AC Milan:
Milan ended the year 2018 in minor. In December, only three points were caught in the four games against Bologna, Torino, Frosinone and Fiorentian and often the game was not to write home. The defense clearly lacked structure without the injured Romagnoli, Biglia and Caldara and also from an offensive point it was difficult, so there was only scored five times in the seven games in December. Especially the elimination in the Europa League was a painful, by a 3-1 defeat at Olympiakos ended the European aspirations.
Even in the cup match against Sampdoria last weekend, it was difficult in attacking. In regular playing time, both teams did not score, only in the elongation did substitute Cutrone cause the rossoneri to turn around, where Napoli is waiting in the next round. That same Cutrone may be able to count on many more basic positions this season, according to the latest news, Gonzalo Higuain is leaving for Chelsea immediately and would like Milan Piatek, Genoa’s striker in the stands today.
That Higuain would leave seemed clear before the midweek race for the Supercoppa, Cutrone was in the base because the Argentine would have the flu. For the second time this season, AC Milan lost the Dutch champion, Ronaldo makes the only goal of the match with a header. Not only grabbed Milan next to the cup, thanks to a red card for Kessie and yellow cards for Romagnoli and Calabria are missing today.
PREDICTION: Both teams to score / YES @ 1.76
