Milan seeks to deliver a "knockout" to Juventus

Milan seeks tomorrow to confirm its seriousness by competing for its first title since 2011, by beating its guest and rival Juventus in the seventeenth stage of the Italian Football League.

After watching Juventus monopolize the title for the past nine seasons, while he had even struggled to book his card to the Champions League, Milan this season imposed itself as a serious competitor despite his lack of ringing names, with the exception of Swedish veteran Zlatan Ibrahimovic, his absence from the team again for not fully recovering from an injury he suffered in Thigh during the Napoli (3-1) match on November 22.

Stefano Pioli's side, who tops the standings just one point ahead of their arch-rivals Inter Milan, knows that a victory will leave Juventus out of the race as they are 13 points behind the latter.

But Pioli rejected the saying that this confrontation will determine the fate of the season by saying on Sunday after beating Benevento 2-0 despite completing the match with ten players. What we have to do is keep going. "

"It is still too early. We will see where we will be in order by April to understand where we can get," he said.

As for the match on Wednesday, it "will not be decisive ... Our strength is that we deal with each match separately, and therefore we do not want to change this approach."

Milan did not taste defeat in the last 12 stages of last season, specifically since falling to Genoa 1-2 on March 8, and all 15 matches this season, but this series is threatened Wednesday, especially if Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo and his colleagues in the team of coach Andrea Pirlo presented the same level Which they appeared on Sunday against Udinese (4-1).

The most prominent player in Milan Ibrahimovic suffers from injury and is close to recovering, but the coach does not want to risk him in the Juventus meeting, although some reports indicate that he may participate in the second half of the match.

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