Zlatan Ibrahimovic maintained his scoring run with a goal in each half to help Milan earn a 3-1 win over 10-man Napoli that takes his side back to the top of Serie A.
Sassuolo moved to the summit earlier on Sunday with a 2-0 win at Hellas Verona but Milan responded with an Ibrahimovic-inspired victory at Stadio San Paolo to go two points clear.
The veteran striker headed in from 14 yards with 20 minutes played to score for the eighth league game running before kneeing in an unorthodox second after 54 minutes, but he worryingly limped off late on with a thigh injury.
Dries Mertens had responded for Napoli only for Tiemoue Bakayoko to be sent off 165 seconds later and Milan, without head coach Stefano Pioli and a number of other backroom staff members due to coronavirus, wrapped up the win through Jens Petter Hauge's debut Serie A goal in injury time to maintain their unbeaten start.
Line-ups
Napoli XI: Mertens, Manolas, Insigne, Mario Rui, Koulibaly, Bakayoko, Di Lorenzo, Politano, Meret, Lozano, Fabian Ruiz
Subs: Llorente, Ospina, Maksimovic, Demme, Malcuit, Ghoulam, Zielinski, Lobotka, Petagna, N. Contini Baranovsky, Elmas
Milan XI: Ibrahimovic, Kjaer, Calhanoglu, Rebic, Romagnoli, Calabria, Kessie, Bennacer, Theo, Donnarumma, A. Saelemaekers
Subs: Tatarusanu, Antonio Donnarumma, Conti, Castillejo, Krunic, Dalot, Gabbia, Brahim, Duarte, J. Hauge, Tonali, L. Colombo
babisaldeki
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AC Milan after Pioli vs AC Milan before Pioli
JohnWick7
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Fun Fact:- Serie A Goal Ranking race is now Much more Interesting than the table Ranking Race, Thanks to Zlatan 😉
klaus78
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This Picture tells it all 🔥
KishanMoh
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Zlatan to cr7 right now be like:
JamesWalker
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Hauge striking his way through to Milan's Starting XI in the next game be like:- 😏
deeney112
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zlatan after the match
Kdavids
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me explaining that Zlatan is 11yrs older than Lacazatte.
kingsblings92
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Truly, Zlatan is 39 years old 😳😳.. Was forced to look into his profile once again because it's highly unimaginable on how a 39 years old man can do such signs and wonders in the pitch..
JamesWalker
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Not only Cr7Airline is available in Italy, there is a new Airline in Town 🦁🔥
tuolnruy
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This man is immortal😭😭
Hillesanme
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everybody was busy fighting over who is the GOAT. but no one argue bout who the lion is. is name is ZLATAN
zutmnos
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Zlathan proves that age is nothing but just a number while Messi has proven that seize is nothing by winning 6 ballondor and 6 Golden shoes! Zlathan proves that whatever cristiano can do he also is able to do better while messi has proven that whatever cristiano is doing he has done it before!
Amirrezarafattalebi
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I was waiting for ibra to play his last season and instead he is playing like he has just started