Official: Rapid Wien vs. AC Milan starting XIs – Fonseca names a young side | OneFootball

Paulo Fonseca has named his first ever starting line-up as AC Milan head coach and he will rely on a young side against Rapid Wien this evening.

Milan have had a lot of players on international duty this summer that are still on vacation and it shows in the available squad. Yunus Musah and Christian Pulisic took part in the Copa America with the USA and are still away.

Luka Jovic’s Serbia were knocked out in the European Championship group stage but he is on holiday, as are Mike Maignan, Theo Hernandez, Rafael Leao, Tijjani Reijnders and the new signing Alvaro Morata.

Fonseca has chosen to name Marco Sportiello in goal with captain Davide Calabria at right-back and Filippo Terracciano on the other side of the defence. Malick Thiaw and Matteo Gabbia will be the centre-back pairing.

Yacine Adli and Tommaso Pobega are the midfield double pivot with the Primavera starlet Mattia Liberali ahead of them in the playmaker role. Samuel Chukwueze and Chaka Traore are the right and left wingers respectively, with Lorenzo Colombo the man tasked with leading the line.

Official Milan XI (4-2-3-1): Sportiello; Calabria, Thiaw, Gabbia, Terracciano; Adli, Pobega; Chukwueze, Liberali, Chaka Traoré; Colombo.

Bench: Torriani, Longoni, Bennacer, Kalulu, Loftus-Cheek, Jimenez, Tomori, Florenzi, Maldini, Saelemaekers, Cuenca, Bonomi, Bakoune, Coubis.

Official Rapid XI: Hedl, Raux-Yao, Beljo, Grgic, Sangaré, Seidl, Schaub, Jansson, Auer, Cvetkovic, Bolla.

Bench: Goschl, Gartler, Burgstaller, Hofmann, Oswald, Hedl, Demir, Dursun.