POSITIVE START

There was a party atmosphere at Solbiate Arno for Milan's first outing of the season as the Rossoneri ran out 12-0 winners and Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who looked sharp, socred twice.

(In the photo: Zlatan Ibrahimovic in action at Solbiatese)

MILAN - Milan enjoyed a positive start to their pre-season series of friendlies with a 12-0 against semi-professional side Solbiatese Arno Calcio at the stadio Felice Chinetti di Solbiate Arno. The goalscorers were Seedorf (3'), Viscomi (og, 4'), Cassano (5'), Valoti (11'), Flamini (13'), Ibrahimovic (29') and Ibrahimovic again (40') Paloschi (48'), Zambrotta (59'), Emanuelson (69'), Inzaghi (77'), Comi (84').

Coach Massimiliano Allegri pulled something of a surprise by starting Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Antonio Cassno although both players reacted well which is a positive sign ahead of the Italian Super Cup in Beijing on August 6th against Inter.

The Swede, in particular, looked sharp and scored twice in the first half as well as setting up three goals plus the final ball for the own goal and no doubt had benefited from the extra time off, having only come back to training on July 18th.

Allegri used his full ratio of players including youth players Valoti, De Sciglio, Fossati, Ferreira and Comi as well as new signing Taye Taiwo, who looks to have settled into the Milan style of play immediately.

There was a positive showing from Filippo Inzaghi who was returning from a long injury lay-off and the striker also found the back of the net. Overall, it was a good all-round display ahead of the Audi Cup on Tuesday, July 26th at Bayern Munich.

Here are the Milan line-ups from the match:

First half: Abbiati (Amelia), Antonini, Nesta, Oddo, Taiwo, Flamini, Van Bommel, Seedorf, Valoti, Ibrahimovic, Cassano.

Second half: Amelia (Roma), Abate, Bonera, Ferreira(De Sciglio), Zambrotta (Fossati), Gattuso, Ambrosini, Emanuelson, Boateng, Paloschi (Comi), Inzaghi.