FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) – AC Milan suffered a 2-1 defeat at Fiorentina in Serie A on Sunday after goals from Yacine Adli and Albert Gudmundsson sealed the points in a clash with three missed penalties as David De Gea twice saved spot kicks to help the hosts.
In a pulsating encounter of near-misses and tense moments, De Gea and Milan keeper Mike Maignan pulled off breathtaking penalty saves. De Gea kept out spot kicks from Theo Hernandez and Tammy Abraham, while Maignan denied Moise Kean.
Adli broke the deadlock for Fiorentina with a low shot from the edge of the box that ricocheted off the far post and into the net 10 minutes before halftime.
On the hour mark, Christian Pulisic equalised with a perfect volley into the net from a precise cross before Gudmundsson’s strike in the 73rd minute put Fiorentina back in the lead.
Emotions ran high in the final moments of a pulsating match as Fiorentina coach Raffaele Palladino was sent off for protesting, while Milan’s Hernandez was also shown a red card in added time for arguing with the referee.
(Reporting by Tommy Lund in Gdansk; Editing by Ken Ferris)
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