{"id":31236,"date":"2025-07-23T13:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/31236\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T13:00:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T13:00:19","slug":"gds-predicted-xis-for-arsenal-vs-ac-milan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/31236\/","title":{"rendered":"GdS: Predicted XIs for Arsenal vs. AC Milan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AC Milan head coach Massimiliano Allegri has decided on the team he will field against Arsenal in the first summer preseason friendly.<\/p>\n<p>There are some absences for Allegri to contend with. Youssouf Fofana and Alex Jimenez are not expected to play a part as both have had slight injury problems and will not be risked but both are tipped to be available against Liverpool on Satuday.<\/p>\n<p>Then, there are the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sempremilan.com\/milan-26-man-squad-pre-season-2025#:~:text=Goalkeepers%3A%20Maignan%2C%20Raveyre%2C%20P,%2C%20Pulisic%2C%20Ricci%2C%20Saelemaekers.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">players not in the camp<\/a>\u00a0for various reasons. Emerson Royal, Ismael Bennacer and Yacine Adli are all waiting for their next clubs, while Luka Modric and Santiago Gimenez are currently on vacation.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal vs. Milan: Predicted XIs<\/p>\n<p>According to what is being reported by La Gazzetta dello Sport (seen below), Allegri will field a 3-5-2 formation. Mike Maignan will be in goal with Fikayo Tomori, Malick Thiaw and Strahinja Pavlovic the three centre-backs.<\/p>\n<p>The wing-backs will be Alexis Saelemaekers on the right and Davide Bartesaghi on the left. A midfield three of Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Samuele Ricci and Yunus Musah should operate behind Rafael Leao and Christian Pulisic up front.<\/p>\n<p>Predicted Milan XI (3-5-2):\u00a0Maignan; Tomori, Thiaw, Pavlovic; Saelemaekers, Loftus-Cheek, Ricci, Musah, Bartesaghi; Leao, Pulisic.<\/p>\n<p>Predicted Arsenal XI (4-3-3):\u00a0Raya; Timber, Saliba, Calafiori, Lewis-Skelly; Odegaard, Zubimendi, Rice; Saka, Havertz, Martinelli.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AC Milan head coach Massimiliano Allegri has decided on the team he will field against Arsenal in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-31236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}