Milan stormed the leadership of Serie A this Saturday, at least for a few hours (Naples plays at 8:45 p.m. against Atalanta) by beating Salernitana 2-0 at San Siro. Napoli must beat Atalanta to regain first place.
Three days after the momentous game against Liverpool, in which Milan, Atlético’s European rival, play their way to the knockout stages of the Champions League, Stefano Pioli’s men won the bottom row without disheveled.
Nor was it necessary to pull from the Swede Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who was on the bench for ninety minutes, as goals from Ivorian Frank Kessié and Belgian Alexis Saelemaekers in the first twenty minutes were enough to put all three points on track.
Milan had a huge number of options to extend distances, the clearest for the Spanish Brahim Díaz, but he forgave them against a Salernitana in which the French Frank Ribéry could hardly appear.
The only negative news were the injuries of Pietro Pellegri, a striker who started as a starter, and the Algerian Ismael Bennacer, who ended up touched.
The Milanese, who dedicated their goals to the Danish Simon Kjaer after the crusader injury that ended his season, took a point ahead of Napoli, who in full emergency due to a long series of injuries will receive a Atalanta in great state of form.