AC Milan Are The 2021/22 Serie A Champions

Milan has won their first Serie A title since 2010-11 after a dominant achievement away to Sassuolo, with a hat-trick of Rafael Leao assists for Olivier Giroud’s brace and Franck Kessie.

The Rossoneri knew a point at the Mapei Stadium would be enough to secure the Serie A title, as they had an outstanding head-to-head record with arch-rivals Inter and a two-point lead going into the final round. Simon Kjaer was the only absentee, while the Neroverdi missed Jeremy Toljan and Pedro Obiang. Over 18,000 Milan fans were in Reggio Emilia, so it felt like a home match.

Olivier Giroud got his head to a free-kick, but Andrea Consigli’s save was equal to it, then a flurry of chances in the expanse of a few moments. Ferrari tossed himself in the way to stop Rafael Leao from scoring an obvious goal, then on the corner, Fikayo Tomori attempted to chest it in only to be denied by a Maxime Lopez goal-line clearance.

Alexis Saelemaekers and Leao coerced more saves from Consigli, but they got the breakthrough after 17 minutes.

Leao harassed Kaan Ayhan into losing custody, then shrugged him off again on the run, the pull-back for Giroud took a deflection, but the Frenchman still slid the ball through the legs of both Ferrari and Consigli from 10 yards.

Consigli flew to palm a Sandro Tonali scorcher out from under the crossbar, then parried both an Alexis Saelemaekers half-volley and the Theo Hernandez follow-up.

The second goal arrived when Leao again robbed a defender, this time Ferrari in the box, and pulled back from the by-line for Giroud to once more fire in from 10 yards.

The third goal came from the right flank with Rade Krunic stealing it from Maxime Lopez, but it was yet another Leao assist from the by-line, this time for Franck Kessie to sweep in with the inside of his left boot from eight yards.

Source: Football-Italia