Predicted Milan XI vs. Roma – Tomori and Maignan to return

AC Milan are expected to line up with both Mike Maignan and Fikayo Tomori back in the starting eleven against AS Roma in the Europa League on Wednesday. 

As reported by Milan News, Stefano Pioli is going to have a stronger team available this time as Tomori is back from his suspension which ruled him out of the first leg at San Siro which ended 1-0 to Roma.

Maignan was absent for the 3-3 draw against Sassuolo at the weekend but he will be back to take the place of Marco Sportiello.

It is presumed that Matteo Gabbia will be partnering Tomori rather than Malick Thiaw, whilst both Simon Kjaer and Pierre Kalulu were not fit enough to train.

Davide Calabria and Theo Hernandez will be on the flanks, whilst Ismael Bennacer and Tijjani Reijnders are expected to start in the centre of midfield.

That means that the usual attacking quartet of Rafael Leao, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Christian Pulisic and Olivier Giroud. There had been talk of Samuel Chukwueze starting on the right, Pulisic moving central and Loftus-Cheek then moving back into the midfield two at the expense of Bennacer.

That seems the only potential change to this probable Milan lineup to face Roma.

Milan predicted lineup vs Fiorentina (4-2-3-1): Maignan; Calabria, Gabbia, Tomori, Hernandez; Bennacer, Reijnders; Pulisic, Loftus-Cheek, Leao; Giroud.