Fair enough: Milan beat Fiorentina and puts pressure on Inter in the fight for Serie A [Video]

We kept pushing and got our reward: forza Milan! ❤️‍🔥

Il goal si è fatto aspettare, ma alla fin è arrivato: grandi ragazzi! ❤️‍🔥#MilanFiorentina #SempreMilan @Acqua_Lete pic.twitter.com/rYSJghW2sJ

— AC Milan (@acmilan) May 1, 2022

Milan beat the rival, a priori, more complicated than he had in this complicated season finale. Despite the struggle of the Milanese with the goal, the victory fell on their side thanks to the more than fundamental and decisive Leao, who took advantage of the goalkeeper ‘Viola’s’ error in leaving the ball to sign the only goal of the game. A goal that could be worth a ‘Scudetto’.

Milan was better from the start, although Fiorentina, with their presence in Europe at stake for next season, did not make it easy at all. Those from Florence wanted to redeem themselves from the 0-4 conceded against Udinese last day and continue in the fight to enter European positions, but the Leaos, Theo Hernández, Maignan, Brahim Díaz, Tonali and company prevented them.

Great collective game for the leader, without individual mistakes, again very solid in defense and, this time, with more accuracy in attack. Of course, more than ten shots before the minute 80 presaged the worst, another match being superior but unable to score.

Milan had tried in every way, from the beginning. Giroud, Rebic, Tonali, Brahim, Theo… the goal didn’t come. It was necessary to wait for the last bars of the clash, with 8 minutes remaining, for the reward to arrive. The ‘Rossonera’ player of the season appeared. The ‘Fiorentino’ wall broke down and Leao did not forgive. The Portuguese intercepted Terraciano’s pass and didn’t think twice: he faced and shot.

And it is that, as much as his dribbling is always very similar, the insulting superiority to unbalance Leao turns it into an unstoppable move. He created the hole, shot and unleashed the madness in San Siro.

With this important victory, the ‘Scudetto’ is very close. Pioli’s men now put more pressure on Inter, who are five points ahead in the absence of playing their match for this day. The ‘Fiore’, meanwhile, remains seventh, out of European positions, although it can drop to eighth position if Atalanta beats Salernitana.