Christopher Nkunku scored in the 90th minute to earn Milan a 1-1 draw at Fiorentina on Sunday but, despite extending their unbeaten league run, the visitors continue to lose ground in the Serie A title race with their second stalemate in four days.
Milan remain second on 40 points, two behind Inter, who could increase their lead when they host Napoli later on Sunday, while Fiorentina are third bottom on 14 points.
“I’m not thinking about it [Inter v Napoli] at all,” the Milan manager, Massimiliano Allegri, told Dazn. “We have to think about ourselves, we have to return to winning ways, there are a lot of points still to play for.”
Milan’s only league loss this season came on the opening day and after struggling once more against a relegation-battling side – they also came from behind in Thursday’s 1-1 draw with Genoa – have gone 18 matches without defeat.
Allegri left Luka Modric, Rafael Leão and Adrien Rabiot on the bench, giving Niclas Füllkrug and Ardon Jashari their first league starts, with Füllkrug and Christian Pulisic looking very comfortable together up front. The pair played a neat one-two which launched Pulisic through on goal once more, this time going around David de Gea but taking the ball too far wide and his finish ended up in the sidenetting.
“We played a good first half, we had chances to score but didn’t take them,” Allegri said. In the second half Fiorentina pushed a bit more.“
Fiorentina began brightly after the break, Dodo’s deflected shot looping over the bar and Mike Maignan gathering Robin Gosens’s header from the resulting corner.
Fiorentina hit the front in the 66th minute from a corner, Pietro Comuzzo rising unchallenged and his glancing header finding the net off the far post. The hosts had failed to win in their opening 15 league games but have shown signs of recovery of late and came close to a third successive home win.
Nkunku, on as a substitute, timed his run to get on the end of Youssouf Fofana’s ball and fired past De Gea from a wide angle.
Elsewhere on Sunday, Bayern Munich resume their Bundesliga campaign at home to Wolfsburg.
