Author: Black Dog
Milan might not be done adding despite recently onboarding Youssouf Fofana, as they are still keen on Manu Koné, who was believed to be a fallback to the Frenchman, but they’ll have to sell Ismael Bennacer to open up one spot in the role, La Gazzetta dello Sport informs. Paulo Fonseca excluded Yacine Adli and Tommaso Pobega from the call-ups for the opener. The club is looking to offload them. However, they’d need to part ways with one more man to have space in their lists. Milan hope that the Saudi teams eyeing Bennacer will come forward in the next two weeks and would quickly utilize the windfall…
On Sunday night, the Miami Marlins revealed they are calling up infielder Connor Norby, per beat reporter Isaac Azout. Norby was acquired from the Baltimore Orioles at the trade deadline in exchange for starting pitcher Trevor Rogers. The Marlins also acquired outfielder Kyle Stowers in the trade for Rogers. Stowers made his major league debut in 2022 and has since been in and out of the majors. Stowers has already played in 16 games with the Marlins. In those games, he has had five hits and three walks. Marlins Call Up Infielder Connor Norby Connor Norby was drafted…
Something went quite wrong with NESN’s over-the-top streaming product NESN 360 Sunday. That came during the Boston Red Sox’s clash with the Baltimore Orioles, which saw Kutter Crawford starting for Boston and Albert Suárez there for Baltimore. But, during the seventh inning of that game, with the Orioles up 4-0 and Red Sox reliever Bailey Horn on the mound, the streaming feed of that game kept cutting back to the first inning of Friday’s game between the teams, which featured Cooper Criswell and Corbin Burnes as the starters: Cue the Mike Francesa “Is that a new report or an…
The Orioles elevated Eloy Jiménez to the cleanup spot for this afternoon’s series finale against the Red Sox. Jarren Duran robbed Jiménez of a home run last night with a leaping catch at the center field fence in the ninth inning. Jiménez is 14-for-33 (.424) with the Orioles Adley Rutschman returns to the lineup after pinch-hitting last night. He began the past two games on the bench due to lower back discomfort. Ryan O’Hearn is in right field and batting second. Anthony Santander isn’t in the lineup. Gunnar Henderson, in the third slot again today, is batting .346 against…
The game between AC Milan and Torino at San Siro last night had more drama than just the late comeback, as there were a couple of controversial moments involving the officiating. This morning’s edition of Corriere dello Sport (via MilanNews) has given the referee Fabio Maresca and his assistants a score of 5 out of 10 in their ratings from the 2-2 draw, and it is for one error above all. What the newspaper are contesting in Maresca is not so much the episode linked to Torino’s first goal, because in that case the referee…
The first game of the new Serie A season didn’t go as Davide Calabria would have hoped, to the extent that he left the field to boos during the second half. As MilanNews recall, Calabria was substituted off during the 82nd minute of Milan’s first game of the season against Torino at San Siro, with Noah Okafor coming on to take his place, the man who would go on to score the equaliser 13 minutes later. However, it wasn’t just a normal change as the captain left the field amidst heavy boos from the Milan fans present, as they evidently…
Torino denied Alvaro Morata a win on his Milan debut, yet the Spaniard inspired the Rossoneri to a late comeback in a nail-biting 2-2 draw. Paulo Fonseca’s side looked doomed heading into second-half injury time, trailing the Granata by two goals. However, Morata scored off the bench with an instinctive finish in the 89th minute before another second-half substitute, Noak Okafor, completed the comeback with a stunning volley in stoppages. It wasn’t the debut the former Atletico Madrid center-forward had hoped for, but it could’ve been worse for Milan. Fonseca’s tactical experiments nearly condemned Milan…
Alvaro Morata feels the comeback from 2-0 down to hold Torino 2-2 still ‘sends a message’ because Milan were ‘practically dead and would’ve won with another five minutes.’ The Rossoneri were heading towards an embarrassing home defeat in the opening round of the 2024-25 season, trailing 2-0 until the 88th minute to a bizarre Malick Thiaw own goal as he tried to clear and the Duvan Zapata free header. The substitutions made the difference, because Morata scored by redirecting a shot from Tijjani Reijnders, then Noah Okafor volleyed in a Yunus Musah cross at the 95th minute. A…
Paulo Fonseca provided quite a critical assessment of AC Milan’s first game of the Serie A season against Torino, a game in which his team had to battle from two goals down to earn a draw. Milan’s 2024-25 Serie A season could hardly have begun in a more dramatic way as they fought from two goals behind to draw 2-2 at San Siro against Torino on Saturday night. The memories of those preseason wins over Manchester City, Real Madrid, Barcelona and Monza quickly evaporated when the Rossoneri found themselves two goals down after Malick Thiaw…
Yacine Adli is on his way out of AC Milan, having been excluded from the squad for the Torino clash, and there could soon be some developments. Of course, as a report states, the main issue is convincing the player. Adli was signed by Milan back in 2021 but remained at Bordeaux on loan for one season. When he joined in 2022, he tried to break his way into the team but struggled big time, and it was only last season that he managed to get good playing time. However, as made clear by Fonseca’s squad list, he’s no longer…