The victory brought the defending champions of Serie A within 18 points of second-place Inter Milan, which lost 1-0 to Bologna to remain in command of the league.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic made his season debut, and goalkeeper Mike Maignan made his return after five months out, in Sunday’s encouraging 2-0 victory for AC Milan over Atalanta in the Italian league.
Theo Hernandez scored with a blistering volley. The victory brought the defending champions of Serie A within 18 points of second-place Inter Milan, which lost 1-0 to Bologna to remain in command of the league.
At the San Siro, Hernandez scored halfway through the first half with a long-distance effort that hit Juan Musso in the back and bounced off the post before going in for an own goal.
Junior Messias finally made a shot that deflected off of Musso and into the empty net after Milan had several more chances.
When Ibrahimovic came on in the 74th minute, he beat Alessandro Costacurta’s record of 41 years, 25 days, to become the oldest Milan player in recent memory.
Maignan sustained an injury to his left calf in September, while Ibrahimovic had surgery on his left knee in May.
Atalanta remained sixth despite not making a single goal attempt, six points behind Milan.
For the first time since 1999. Bologna defeated Inter in consecutive home games thanks to Riccardo
Orsolini scored midway through the second half after Inter made a defensive mistake.
As Inter appeared to lack motivation following its 1-0 Champions League victory over Porto four days earlier, Bologna dominated the match and had several other chances.
Lautaro Martinez, a striker for Inter, stated, “If we play this way, we’re not going to achieve anything.” We need to make changes right away and be more consistent.
After a fantastic Champions League match, we now put on a performance like this. That is unfavorable.
Additionally, Salernitana scored goals from Lassana Coulibaly, Grigoris Kastanos, and Antonio Candreva to defeat Silvio Berlusconi’s Monza 3-0; Spezia and Udinese drew 2-2.