PARMA starting XI (4-2-3-1): Suzuki, Coulibaly, Balogh, Circati, Valeri, Estevez (subbed for Cyprien), Bernabé, Man (subbed for Almqvist), Sohm (subbed for Cancellieri), Mihaila (subbed for Delprato), Bonny

Bench: Chichizola, Corvi, Camara, Hainaut, Haj, Kowalski, Mikolajewski

Goals: Man 2, Cancellieri 77’

MILAN starting XI (4-2-3-1): Maignan, Calabria (subbed for Emerson Royal), Tomori, Pavlovic, Hernandez, Musah (subbed for Fofana), Reijnders, Pulisic (subbed for Chukwueze), Loftus-Cheek, Leao, Okafor (subbed for Jovic)

Bench: Raveyre, Torriani, Gabbia, Terracciano, Thiaw, Bennacer, Saelemaekers

Goals: Pulisic 66’

Christian Pulisic scored one of the easiest goals of his career in the 66th minute to cancel out Dennis Man’s second-minute opener in Saturday’s match. 

But substitute Matteo Cancellieri scored what was to prove the winner for Parma 11 minutes later. 

Milan manager Paulo Fonseca, who replaced Stefano Pioli in the offseason, has a lot of work to do. Milan needed two late goals to salvage a 2-2 draw at home to Torino on the opening day.

Alvaro Morata had scored on his debut but was out injured and Milan got off to the worst possible start in Parma as they found themselves behind within 90 seconds.

Man, who had netted in Parma’s 1-1 draw against Fiorentina on the opening day, was left completely unmarked in the area to sweep home Emanuele Valeri’s cross.

Milan offered little until midway through the first half. Shortly after play resumed from the cooling break, Parma goalkeeper Zion Suzuki had to push Strahinja Pavlovic’s header on to the top off the crossbar.

Minutes later, Pavlovic headed a corner just past the near post.

The Milan debutant was also decisive at the other end, in his natural position, as the centre back rushed in to make a sliding tackle to prevent Man - who had gone clear on goal - from scoring an almost certain second.

The 23-year-old Pavlovic, who joined from Salzburg at the end of last month, made another decisive tackle to deny Valentin Mihaila at the start of the second half.

That was shortly after Tijjani Reijnders hit the crossbar for Milan.

Ange-Yoan Bonny thought he had doubled Parma’s lead on the hour mark, but it was ruled out for offside and Milan levelled shortly after.

Rafael Leao danced down the left flank and played a one-two with Theo Hernandez before rolling the ball across for Pulisic, who just had to tap into an empty net from six yards out.

However, Parma restored their lead with another devastating counterattack. Pontus Almqvist raced from inside his own half and into the box before rolling across for Cancellieri to slot into the bottom left corner.

AAP