In the early morning of April 5, Beijing time, the 31st round of the 2021-22 Serie A season ended the competition for the last two matches. After some battles, AC Milan drew 0-0 at home to Bologna and Genoa lost 0-1 away to Verona.
In the earlier game of this round, Inter beat the strong opponent Juve away, Napoli also defeated the strong opponent Atalanta, so AC Milan wanted to maintain a relatively good advantage, today must win, because it is at home against the weak team, AC Milan situation is still relatively optimistic, but what did not expect is that AC Milan today is in the home gutter overturned. In the 12th minute, Real Madrid's veteran Theo blasted from the left side of the penalty area, the ball was powerful, but the angle was more correct, and goalkeeper Scrupsky struggled to save the ball. Bologna also had some chances, in the 20th minute, the Chinese Super League veteran Arnautovic received the ball on the right side of the penalty area and received the ball continuously to get rid of the defense and shoot vigorously, the ball was only slightly above the crossbar. Two minutes later AC Milan attacked on the right side, Díaz inserted into the chest of the box to remove the ball from a small angle, the ball was suspected of hitting Medel's hand, referee Marinelli did not say.
In the 28th minute, AC Milan played a good match, Benasse exquisitely picked out the right side of the field, Giroud scored a header back from the penalty spot, but the follow-up Calabria close-range shot hit the plane and wasted the opportunity. Ac Milan's onslaught failed in the first half, and it was tied at 0-0 at halftime. Easy side to fight AC Milan continue to besiege, but all of them today seem to forget to wear shooting boots, in the 67th minute, Leo entered the left side of the penalty area to invert the triangle accurately picked out, Rebić back point small penalty area front undefended, ultra-close range shot is still hit the plane. In the last moments of stoppage time, AC Milan had a corner kick opportunity on the left side, Theo sent the ball to the middle of the small penalty area, Rebic's super close-range head mallet attacked the goal, goalkeeper Scrupsky bravely lifted the ball out of the bottom line, with the failure of this attack, AC Milan shot 33 times but did not get any gains, and finally broke out at home, was forced to draw by Bologna, and the 3-game winning streak was terminated.
Verona have been almost the same this season and last season, with the level of the upper midstream, but they are a little worse off the European zone, and today they can still win at home against genoa, a weak team in the relegation zone. Only 4 minutes into the opening, Verona midfielder broke the ball and counterattacked, Bessa received a teammate's header and sent a delicate straight plug, Simeone plugged in at high speed before Vázquez who was defending and the goalkeeper Siligu, fell to the ground and the back of his foot, the ball rolled into the net, verona made a fantastic start 1:0. In the 10th minute, Verona counterattacked to recreate the killing opportunity, Simeone into the right side of the box has a small angle single knife opportunity, but he wanted to pick a better position in the middle of the Cabrelli, the ball was cut off by the returning defender. After that, both sides still had some chances, but they failed to score for most of the battle, and Verona ended the three-round winless game with a 1:0 laugh.
In the standings, AC Milan was terminated by the weak team to win consecutively, but they still used this 1 point advantage to push Napoli back to the top of the table, while AC Milan was 4 points ahead of Inter Milan in the first round of the junior round, 8 points ahead of Juve. After Verona stopped the decline with a win, they overtook Sassuolo by two points to move back to 9th.
In terms of the top scorers, Verahović and Immobile are still in tandem, with 21 goals tied for the top spot. Simeone scored one goal today to close the gap with Immobile to five goals, surpassing Tammy Abraham by one goal to finish third. AC Milan remain the only top 6 teams to have no players in the top 10.