The best match this weekend in the Serie A is between the number five and six of last season, Lazio and AC Milan. Last season, Lazio won 2-1 in Rome and won AC in Milan 4-1.
Lazio:
Lazio occasionally drops a stitch, but is generally well on track to meet the targets. After it lost a place for the Champions League on the final day of play last season, it is now in fourth place, but AC Milan and AS Roma are panting in the neck. The Romans were able to win five of the last seven games, at home against Inter there was a painful 0-3 loss and in the last round of play for the interland period, the points were left at Sassuolo (1-1). However, the team is already certain of overwintering in the European League, given that the weak brothers in the Marseille and Apollon group only managed to catch one point.
News was mainly around the star of last season Milinkovic-Savic. He is recovering from a muscle injury and trained again with the group on Tuesday, so he seems to be fit in time for the meeting with Milan. Yet his presence is a lot less important than last season, the game of the Serbian is very disappointing at the moment and both the chairman and the supporters after the draw against Sassuolo again complained about both Milinkovic-Savic and Luis Alberto.
AC Milan:
AC Milan hopes this season, after five seasons, finally to bring back to the Champions League, for this it will probably have to fight with Lazio and AS Roma for the fourth place, since the other three top teams have proved too strong. At the start of the season, Napoli was lost, last month it went into the last minute against Inter and in the most recent game was lost at home Juventus. In that match Milan got barely good chances and Higuain had the best chance to help, he shot a penalty on the post and ran very frustrated over the field in the remainder of the game. It was obvious that he wanted to prove himself to his old team, instead he ran into a red card because of aggressive actions towards the referee.
Higuain will be missing in this match, there is also a big injury list for the Rossoneri. With Romagnoli, Caldara, Biglia and Musacchio a full defense is eliminated until January, in addition, midfielder Bonaventura is in the rag basket for the rest of the season with a knee injury. When Strinic gets green light again to play with his heart problems is unclear, also the fitness of Torrasi, Calabria and Calhanoglu doubtful.
With all these injuries, Gattuso might choose the 3-5-2 formation with which he practiced against the youth players of Milan in a friendly match. Because Milan with three defenders has already proved rather weak, it seems more logical that four are chosen, where Simic takes the position of Calabria if he is not fit enough. The Czech only played six minutes in all of 2018 and it could therefore become a risky bet.
PREDICTION: Both teams to score / YES @ 1.71
