BEST DEFENSIVE PLAY 2021/22: ROUND OF 16

It has been a long and memorable season for the Rossoneri, but before diving into a new year we want to relive with you the season’s best moments for the men’s and women’s first-team squads, and the men’s Primavera.

In the coming weeks on our social media channels, you will be able to choose the best goal, the best assist and the best defensive play of 2021/22. We’ll be starting off with this final category first, where both first-team squads have excelled. The men had the best defence in Serie A conceding 31 goals and only 9 in the second part of the season, whereas the women rewrote the history books with the most clean sheets in a singular season.

Here is the draw, ready to face each other, starting from the Last 16 on our social media accounts of AC Milan:

• Fodé Ballo-Touré (AC Milan v Inter, Serie A) v Pierre Kalulu (AC Milan v Inter, Serie A)
• Mike Maignan (AC Milan v Empoli, Serie A) v Mike Maignan (AC Milan v Fiorentina, Serie A)
• Fotios Pseftis (Sassuolo v AC Milan, Primavera 1) v Sebastiano Desplanches (AC Milan v Torino, Primavera 1)
• Fikayo Tomori (Liverpool v AC Milan, Champions League) v Fikayo Tomori (Juventus v AC Milan, Serie A)
• Mike Maignan (Torino v Milan, Serie A) v Mike Maignan (Genoa v AC Milan, Serie A)
• Laura Giuliani (Inter v Milan, Women's Serie A) v Laura Fusetti (AC Milan v Roma, Women's Serie A)
• Simon Kjær (Roma v AC Milan, Serie A) v Alessio Romagnoli (Salernitana v AC Milan, Serie A)
• Ciprian Tătăruşanu (AC Milan v Inter, Serie A) v Mike Maignan (Liverpool v AC Milan, Champions League)

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