Amorim: ‘Genoa really strong where Milan suffer, must be competitive’
ITALY - OCTOBER 28: Ruben Amorim, Head Coach of AC Milan, looks on before the Serie A match between AC Milan and Bologna FC at Stadio Giuseppe Meazza on October 28, 2026 in Italy. (Photo by Marco Luzzani/Getty Images)
Ruben Amorim warns Genoa are ‘really strong’ in areas where Milan have struggled recently, so they need to ‘be competitive’ this afternoon, and he explains why Yunus Musah becomes a left-back.
It kicks off at the Stadio Luigi Ferraris at 14.00 GMT (15.00 CET).
The Rossoneri are a Jekyll and Hyde team, able to go from a 4-2 home defeat to Bologna, through a 3-1 Derby della Madonnina triumph against Inter, to losing 2-0 at San Siro to Ferencvaros in the Europa League.
Amorim said after Thursday’s setback that this team was “not ready” to be competitive every three days, so in the final match before the break for international duty, it’s anyone’s guess which side will turn up today at Marassi.
Amorim has Milan demands
“The atmosphere doesn’t matter. We need to respond to the last game, we just need to be competitive, that’s what I want to see today. We showed during the season we can play good football, but we need to be competitive,” Amorim told DAZN Italia.
“The most important thing is to use what we didn’t do in the last game and do it today. We know Genoa are really strong from the first minute, with pressure, with transition, so if you look at the last game, we had issues in those aspects. So we tried to use those mistakes to prepare for this one.”
The injury crisis drags on, as Strahinja Pavlovic, Fikayo Tomori, Matteo Gabbia, Samuel Chukwueze, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Pietro Terracciano and Alexis Saelemaekers are still out of action.
There is squad rotation with the return of Mike Maignan, who was suspended on Thursday, Mario Gila, Luka Modric, Christian Pulisic and Diego Moreira to the starting XI, but Yunus Musah appears to be a makeshift left-back.
“Sometimes it’s the right foot, the characteristics of the player, the quality we want to have on the ball, so it’s a lot of things,” explained Amorim.
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