Official: Feyenoord vs. AC Milan starting XIs – four changes from Empoli win | OneFootball

AC Milan will face the red-hot atmosphere of De Kuip tonight, hoping for a positive result in the first leg of their Champions League play-off tie against Feyenoord.

While a lot of the talk about Milan coming into the game has been about the potential use of the ‘Fantastic Four’ or the ‘Fab Four’, it has been very different for Feyenoord.

Firstly one of the four mentioned is the star striker they sold to the Rossoneri, and secondly they sacked their head coach on Monday as they sit fifth in the league and are out of the cup.

The official starting XIs

The bad news for Milan is they have eight unavailable players. Alessandro Florenzi, Emerson Royal and Ruben Loftus-Cheek are injured, Yunus Musah is suspended while Alex Jimenez, Warren Bondo, Riccardo Sottil and Luka Jovic are not in the UCL squad list.

Tijjani Reijnders and Youssouf Fofana because of the lack of midfield depth, and Conceicao has made one change to the defensive with Kyle Walker, Malick Thiaw, Strahinja Pavlovic and Theo Hernandez ahead of Mike Maignan in goal.

The coach has indeed gone for the four forward players all together from minute one with Christian Pulisic and Rafael Leao flanking Santiago Gimenez, who makes his return to face Feyenoord after only leaving them nine days ago.

Joao Felix also starts, but it remains to be seen if he will be alongside Gimenez in a 4-4-2 system or in behind the Mexican striker in more of a 4-2-3-1.

Official Milan XI (4-2-3-1): Maignan; Walker, Tomori, Pavlovic, Theo Hernandez; Fofana, Reijnders; Pulisic, Joao Felix, Leao; Gimenez.

Bench: Sportiello, Torriani, Chukwueze, Tomori, Bartesaghi, Terracciano, Gabbia, Camarda, Abraham.

Official Feyenoord XI (4-3-3): Wellenreuther; Read, Beelen, Hancko, Smal; Milambo, Moder, Timber; Hadji-Moussa, Ueda, Paixao.

Bench: Andreev, Ka, Bueno, Ivanusec, Carranza, Mitchell, ‘T Zand, Osman, Van den Elshout, Giersthove, Redmond.