AC Milan failed to win either of their first two matches of the Serie A season for the first time in 13 years. After a 2-1 defeat at Parma, new coach Paulo Fonseca is still waiting for his first victory.
Christian Pulisic scored one of the easiest goals of his career in the 66th minute, cancelling out Dennis Man’s second-minute opener in Saturday’s game.
But substitute Matteo Cancellieri scored the decisive goal for Parma 11 minutes later.
Fonseca, who replaced Stefano Pioli in the off-season, has his work cut out for him. Milan needed two late goals to salvage a 2-2 draw at home to Torino on the opening day.
Inter Milan claimed their first win of the season with a 2-0 victory over Lecce. The defending champions drew 2-2 with Genoa in their first game last weekend.
Alvaro Morata scored on his debut but was out through injury and Milan got off to the worst possible start in Parma, falling behind within 90 seconds.
Man, who had scored a goal in Parma’s 1-1 draw with Fiorentina on Matchday 1, was completely undisturbed in the penalty area and was able to convert Emanuele Valeri’s cross into the goal.
Milan offered little until half-time in the middle of the first half. Shortly after the restart, Parma goalkeeper Zion Suzuki had to deflect a header from Strahinja Pavlovic onto the crossbar.
A few minutes later, Pavlovic headed a corner just past the near post.
The Milan debutant was also decisive at the other end in his usual position, as the centre-back charged in and made a sliding tackle to prevent Man – who had run free towards goal – from scoring what was almost a certain second goal.
The 23-year-old Pavlovic, who arrived from Salzburg at the end of last month, made another decisive tackle on Valentin Mihaila at the start of the second half.
This happened shortly after Tijjani Reijnders hit the crossbar for Milan.
Ange-Yoan Bonny thought he had doubled Parma’s lead after an hour, but the goal was disallowed for offside and Milan equalised shortly afterwards.
Rafael Leao danced down the left flank and played a one-two with Theo Hernandez before passing the ball to Pulisic, who only had to slot the ball into the empty net from five meters.
However, Parma were able to restore their lead with another devastating counterattack. Pontus Almqvist ran into the box from his own half and then rolled to Cancellieri, who fired into the bottom left corner.
Inter took the win effortlessly, despite being without captain and star striker Lautaro Martinez.
Lautaro, who was the last Inter player to begin pre-season training after being involved in Argentina’s Copa America victory, was unable to play due to muscle fatigue.
Inter took an early lead through a header from Matteo Darmian in the fifth minute and sealed the win in the 69th minute with a penalty from Hakan Çalhanoğlu after Marcus Thuram was brought down by Lecce defender Kialonda Gaspar.
Lazio were one of only four teams to win last weekend, but suffered a surprise 2-1 defeat in their second game at Udinese, who were playing with a ten-man team.
Lorenzo Lucca gave Udinese the lead in the fifth minute when he headed in a cross from Florian Thauvin, who doubled his side’s lead early in the second half with a wonderful individual effort.
Udinese were forced to play with a man down for more than 20 minutes after Hassane Kamara was sent off after receiving a second yellow card. Gustav Isaksen scored a consolation goal for Lazio in injury time.
Genoa beat Monza 1-0.
