The Bianconeri slumped to defeat by Benevento but senior figures at the club cannot lay all the blame on the manager
Pippo Inzaghi put his arm around Andrea Pirlo’s shoulder before kick-off at the Allianz Stadium. It was an instinctive moment of reconnection between two men, who played together for a decade at Milan. They were brought to San Siro by the same agent, Tullio Tinti, in the summer of 2001 and shared more than 200 matches side by side.
As players, they achieved some of football’s highest highs. On the footage of Milan’s 2007 Champions League final win over Liverpool, you can see them in an identical pose, Inzaghi pulling his friend close as they head for the changing rooms at half-time. He had scored the game’s opening goal moments earlier, deflecting Pirlo’s free-kick beyond Pepe Reina.
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Parma 1-2 Genoa, Spezia 2-1 Cagliari, Crotone 2-3 Bologna, Roma 0-2 Napoli, Fiorentina 2-3 Milan, Udinese 0-1 Lazio, Sampdoria 1-0 Torino, Juventus 0-1 Benevento, Verona 0-2 Atalanta.
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