Milan came away from Juventus with a 1-1 draw built on a single shot on target, and La Gazzetta dello Sport frames the night as evidence that both sides still sit a rung below the current top of Serie A.
The two-point gap to the leaders flatters them, in Gazzetta's reading. Chivu's Inter and Gasperini's Roma look like Champions League material on style of play, while Juve and Milan resemble Europa League sides for now. Between them at the Allianz, the two teams managed one effort on target apiece before the late goals arrived.
The match itself turned on tactical gambles from both benches. Spalletti set up in a 4-3-3 rather than his usual 4-2-3-1, pushing Nico Gonzalez up and down the flank to force a numerical edge in midfield, and started Alajbegovic on the left, though he faded after 15 minutes. Amorim answered by pairing Adrien Rabiot and Alexis Saelemaekers behind the striker, a shape that read closer to a 3-6-1 than the 3-4-2-1 on the team sheet, with Musah pressing high alongside Ramos as a second striker.
The decisive move came from Amorim's changes just after the hour. With the draw secure, he brought on Chukwueze for the erratic debutant Moreira, shifted Cissé to the left and used Loftus-Cheek as the stabiliser. Juventus, unused to opponents who attack the box directly rather than hold the ball, were caught out. Cissé finished from a tight angle on the left to beat Vicario, Milan's first shot on target of the night.
The opener came after a De Winter challenge on Kolo Muani that went unpunished, a call Gazzetta notes would need to be applied consistently under the new refereeing standards. Spalletti's response was more measured than sweeping: Boga and Koopmeiners first, then Woltemade and Gatti, with Boga ending the match at full-back. It paid off in the second minute of stoppage time, when Koopmeiners crossed for Gatti, deployed as a third centre-forward, to head home at the far post.
For all the frustration, Gazzetta credits Milan with a solid defence, with Koni De Winter winning every aerial duel, and with Luka Modrić, who at 41 is described as peerless in managing the ball and the game, a figure Juve simply do not have. The concern sits further forward. Milan look more of a work in progress than their hosts, with Ramos still an outsider and Amorim's most vertical, high-pressing spells too rare across the 90 minutes.
The warning from the draw is straightforward: Cissé and Chukwueze changed the game, and Milan cannot easily do without them. It worked against a predictable Juve, but a side with more defined attacking patterns would have had the Rossoneri chasing rather than protecting a lead. If the Champions League is the target, Amorim needs those vertical stretches to become the rule, not the exception.