Milan set sail to fight for the newly promoted team at home: the opponent s old players gather, and the two usher in a redemption battle?

After a disappointing season, Milan urgently needs to regroup. The curtain of the team's 2025-26 season will be officially kicked off in San Siro in the early morning of tomorrow.

Milan has undergone a considerable operation this summer. Allegri returned to Milan and the team's lineup has also undergone significant adjustments. However, Ajiong still chose to be cautious. At the pre-match press conference, he said that based on his name alone, it would not bring any substantial changes. The basis for the team to regroup is further running-in and solid training and preparation. The team needs to regain the stable rhythm of the game, while Allegri hopes that the team will be able to find it from the first round of the league.

The team's lineup is relatively neat, but the absolute core Leo is sure not to attend. Due to poor performance last season, the team had to start the Italian Cup last week. Milan No. 10, who scored the first goal of the new season, was immediately injured. After the game, he found that his calf problem seemed to be more serious than he thought. In order to avoid risks, Leo will definitely miss the first round of the league, but is likely to return next week. Chukueze seems to be a little uncomfortable in the past few days, but the team has resumed joint training and should be on the roster.

If nothing unexpected happens, Uncle Zen should be in the three-back formation in this game. Tomori, Gabiya, and Pavlovic will start, and new player "Winter" Dwent will be on standby on the bench; there is no suspense at the wingback position at the moment, new player Estupinan and return to the team will go left and right respectively. Due to Leo's absence, Jimenez will definitely start, and he will be Captain America Pulisic. As for the goalkeeper position, there is no doubt that it is guarded by Manion.

or above should be the starter without any doubt, but in terms of midfield, there are variables in the arrangement of the first game. According to the prediction of Milan Sports News, Chik, Richie and Fofana will form a trio; but Sky Sports believes that Modric is likely to be the first to play, and Milan's top leader Ashari's physical condition is also fine this summer. The midfield is the area where Milan changes the most this summer. The first round of the new season will give all Milan fans a chance to observe them up close.

AC Milan predicts starters: Menion; Tomori, Gabiya, Pavlovic; Salmarkels, Loftus-Cic (or Ashari), Richie, Forfana (or Modric), Estupinenan; Pulisic, Jimenez.

Cremonese stood out last season and successfully returned to the Serie A. Stropa was their head coach at the start and end of last season, and was taken over by Eugenio Corini in the middle of the season. This kind of weird operation is not surprising in Italian football, and this summer the team chose to change coaches again, and David Nicola, who left Cagliari, became the new head coach of the team.

Selecting Nicola can also show the team's goal in the new season, which is relegation. Nicola is an expert in this regard: when Nicola became the coach of the newly promoted Crotone in 2016, he said that if he succeeded in leading the team in relegation, he would ride a bicycle from Crotone to Turin. In the end, the team won 6 games in the last 9 games and successfully defeated Empoli with a 2-point advantage in the last round of the league. Nicola fulfilled his promise and took 9 days to ride a 1,300-kilometer bicycle before returning to his home. Since then, in Turin, Saranitana, Empoli and Cagliari last season, he has led the team to complete the relegation mission, which is a good player in the firefighting world. Cremonese invited him, and naturally hoped that he would perform such a good show again. As a relegation team, Cremonese does not spend much: Serie A experienced central defender Baskiroto joined Lecce and spent 3 million euros, Belgian midfielder Vanderput spent 3.3 million yuan, and Turin's Paraguay striker Sanabria joined the team for 2.5 million yuan. This player with a net worth range is already a huge sum of money to the Gray Red Army, and he will definitely become the core figure of the team's three lines. In addition, Audro joined on loan from Como and is likely to become the main goalkeeper in the new season.

This team has a big relationship with Milan: Napo Nava, who once played the main role in the Milan Youth Team and the Future Team in the past few years, failed to renew his contract with his parent team and join him as a free agent. He definitely has the opportunity to hit the main position in the new season; Terraciano and Bondo, who were loaned by Milan, are strong contenders of Cremonese's main lineup, and they will definitely have more and more stable playing time in the new team. In the early morning tomorrow, fans should have a high probability of seeing them wearing new jerseys against the old master.

Cremonese predicts starters: Odero; Terraciano, Baschiroto, Bianketi, Pezera; Zerbin, Bondo, Grassi, Van der Putt; Sanabria, De Luca. The last time the two sides met at the league level was Cremonese's relegation in 2022-23 season, but Milan did not gain the upper hand and even almost capsized at home. If it weren't for Mesias' free kick savior before the end of the game, Milan would have even been taken away by the visiting team. Looking back, it is the relatively distant 1995-96 season: that season Milan defeated Cremonese 7-1 at home and finally won the Serie A championship in the season. However, the biggest memory point of that game was Tassoti's Milan farewell battle, not the victory itself. These past confrontations do not have much reference significance for the current competition.

There are two players worthy of attention in Milan in this game: Jimenez is currently in a very delicate situation and has a great possibility of leaving the team. If the Mexican still wants to save his Milan career, this game will be one of his few opportunities. With Leo absent, if he can help the team contribute on the offensive end, the team still has the possibility of keeping him; Chick is in a better position, after all, Allegri is quite interested in him, and the Englishman's performance is indeed good in the warm-up stage. However, Milan's midfielder is still sufficient in the new season, and Chick's position is not irreplaceable. The summer window is still one week (italia is closed at 8 pm on September 1), and Milan cannot rule out the possibility of subsequent actions. If you don't play well, the league opening game will likely become a farewell battle between the two.

In any case, facing an opponent who is far inferior to his own strength, Milan's goal in this game has no other options except to score three points.