{"id":248998,"date":"2025-09-23T13:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T13:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/248998\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T13:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T13:08:11","slug":"gds-predicted-xis-for-milan-vs-lecce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/248998\/","title":{"rendered":"GdS: Predicted XIs for Milan vs. Lecce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AC Milan head coach Massimiliano Allegri is expected to make changes to the team for the game against Lecce, but it will be far from a full rotation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Milan take on Lecce for the second time in the young season, this time with a place in the last 16 of the Coppa Italia at stake. However, the magnitude of the game on Sunday against Napoli cannot be ignored, even if Allegri seems determined <a href=\"https:\/\/sempremilan.com\/why-allegri-limited-rotation-lecce\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>to keep a good thing going<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AC Milan vs. Lecce: Predicted XIs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The injury absences are as follows: Rafael Leao will miss out as he gets close to returning from a calf issue, Ardon Jashari is recovering from a leg fracture and Mike Maignan is not expected to be risked as he too <a href=\"https:\/\/sempremilan.com\/pavlovic-returns-leao-maignan-alone\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>sustained a calf issue<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to La Gazzetta dello Sport this morning, Pietro Terriacciano should be in goal with Koni De Winter coming into the three-man defence in Matteo Gabbia\u2019s place. He will be flanked by Fikayo Tomori and Strahinja Pavlovic.<\/p>\n<p>Alexis Saelemaekers keeps his spot but Davide Bartesaghi is tipped to replace Pervis Estupinan. In midfield, Luka Modric should get a rest but not Adrien Rabiot, who is joined by Samuele Ricci and Youssouf Fofana.<\/p>\n<p>Up front, there will be a first start for the summer signing Christopher Nkunku who will want to impress in front of the San Siro crowd. Santiago Gimenez should get the nod too, hoping for a goal amid a difficult start to the campaign.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Predicted Milan XI (3-5-2):<\/strong> Terracciano; Tomori, De Winter, Pavlovic; Saelemaekers, Fofana, Ricci, Rabiot, Bartesaghi; Gimenez, Nkunku.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Predicted Lecce XI (4-3-3):\u00a0<\/strong>Fruchtl; Veiga, Gaspar, Gabriel, Ndaba; Coulibaly, Berisha, Helgason; N\u2019Dri, Camarda, Morente.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"lazyload\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/G1g42ziWQAAxWJo\" alt=\"Image\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AC Milan head coach Massimiliano Allegri is expected to make changes to the team for the game against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":248999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-248998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115253772580718912","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}