AC Milan

Gregoire Defrel and Davide Frattesi, Domenico Berardi all struck in a stunning first-half for the visitors, with Olivier Giroud scoring for the hosts. Armand ...

22' - GOAL FOR SASSUOLO! 8' - DISALLOWED GOAL FOR MILAN! It's Berardi again the provider for Frattesi to score. Lauriente fires his spotkick into the bottom corner beyond the keeper's reach. The drama continued as Ante Rebic had a goal disallowed by VAR for offside. Dominico Berardi (Sassuolo): The 28-year-old, who has scored two goals in his previous four games, was on fire with three assists.

SERIE A champions AC Milan were thumped 5-2 in a fiery home game with Sassuolo that dealt their Champions League hopes a blow.Tempers flared in Milan.

[Milan ](https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/team/1302934/ac-milan/)are still in a [Champions League ](https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/champions-league/)qualification spot but have a game in hand over their rivals. And they also came away with the unwanted record of conceding four goals in successive Serie A games for the first time in their history. SERIE A champions AC Milan were thumped 5-2 in a fiery home game with Sassuolo that dealt their Champions League hopes a blow. Divock Origi grabbed Milan's second goal with a well-placed strike from the edge of the box in the 81st minute. Milan had their second goal ruled offside by VAR in the 54th minute when a set piece found an unmarked Rebic inside the box, who tapped it in the net. AC Milan 2 Sassuolo 5: Serie A champs thumped in fiery game with ELEVEN yellow cards in blow to Champions League hopes

Ex-Arsenal and Chelsea striker Olivier Giroud netted a brilliantly-placed header, while former Liverpool man Divock Origi buried a superb strike, but both were ...

In that streak, Stefano Pioli’s champions were knocked out of the Coppa Italia by Torino, while they lost the Italian Super Cup 3-0 to Inter Milan. Sassuolo had been without a victory in nine games before the drubbing, while the result leaves Milan on a five game winless run. The Italian giants lost 5-2 at San Siro to Sassuolo, which came in the wake of a 4-0 humiliation by Lazio.

The reigning Serie A champions look a pale imitation of their former selves and things could get worse before they get better.

[Sven Botman](https://theathletic.com/football/player/sven-botman-oC2Uvw0vxDoql7Y3/), a player they didn’t need in light of Kalulu’s emergence, not to mention the [PSG](https://theathletic.com/football/team/paris-saint-germain/)-bound Renato Sanches. [Lucas Paqueta](https://theathletic.com/football/player/lucas-paqueta-z9Bs36TX67TX0Cxh/)’s contract. Divock Origi arrived injured, Sergino Dest was a haphazard reaction to Alessandro Florenzi’s injury and the Aster Vranckx and Thiaw signings only came when Milan were paid the sell-on clause in Milan lost the month of June and wasted time on But Pioli turned it around and Milan’s trajectory has been onwards and upwards, the credit in the bank and goodwill undeniable, a place in posterity as assured as the Scudetto tattooed on his forearm. This was once true of Tonali and Leao, who only began to fulfil their potential after a year learning the ropes under San Siro’s red girders. [Serie A](https://theathletic.com/football/serie-a/) a decade ago, an achievement that frankly still beggars belief, a molecule in the helix of their football DNA seems predisposed to causing teams from Milan extremes of joy and pain. [Simon Kjaer](https://theathletic.com/football/player/simon-kjaer-FZYfPLs5GLmLwGzn/) joined the club, raising standards and taking the pressure off a group of kids with talent still yet to be fulfilled, had an exponential effect that endured. Hope in a reversal of fortune remains and perhaps it has already started with Pioli admitting: “The things that worked up until a few weeks ago are not working, so it’s clear there will be some changes. Off the pitch, the Portuguese is debating whether to commit to a new contract; on it, he has never been the most diligent at tracking back at the best of times. The training sessions since, Pioli said, “Were the best in recent times for concentration and application.” He did not see a 5-2 defeat coming. But there were some whistles, an atmosphere of disquiet exacerbated by Calabria’s team-mates scuffling with Sassuolo players as they descended the steps to the dressing room, making the long introspective walk down the tunnel with five goals and a historic defeat on their conscience.

At one point, AC Milan were firm favourites to sign the highly-coveted defender. Newcastle's precarious league position made it difficult to entice one of the ...

“The other month we were at a training camp in Saudi Arabia and we visited two other owners in their palace. (It is) really a whole other world.” Then they come over, take the kids and go and watch (the match). “The new owners (Amanda Staveley and Mehrdad Ghosoussi) really surprise me; they are at the club very often. To suggest his signing has been a roaring success would be an understatement. [Botman](https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/all-about/sven-botman) also admitted to being “surprised” at how involved the new regime is