Parma strike blow to AC Milan's title hopes with 1-0 win

22 Feb 2026, 19:24 · CNA · Join

Soccer Football - Serie A - AC Milan v Parma - San Siro, Milan, Italy - February 22, 2026 Parma's Gabriel Strefezza in action with AC Milan's Ardon Jashari REUTERS/Daniele Mascolo

Soccer Football - Serie A - AC Milan v Parma - San Siro, Milan, Italy - February 22, 2026 Parma's Mariano Troilo celebrates after the match REUTERS/Daniele Mascolo

Soccer Football - Serie A - AC Milan v Parma - San Siro, Milan, Italy - February 22, 2026 Parma's Edoardo Corvi collides into AC Milan's Ruben Loftus-Cheek during the match REUTERS/Daniele Mascolo

Soccer Football - Serie A - AC Milan v Parma - San Siro, Milan, Italy - February 22, 2026 AC Milan's Ruben Loftus-Cheek is carried off the pitch on a stretcher after sustaining an injury from a collision with Parma's Edoardo Corvi REUTERS/Daniele Mascolo

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Feb 22 : Mariano Troilo scored an 80th-minute winner as Parma stunned AC Milan with a smash-and-grab 1-0 Serie A victory at the San Siro on Sunday, all but ending their hosts' title chances and leaving leaders Inter Milan celebrating.

The defeat, a first in 25 games in Serie A, leaves second-placed Milan on 54 points from 26 games, 10 points behind city rivals Inter with 12 rounds remaining. Parma are in 12th with 32 points.

Milan had the better of the chances in a game that lacked clear-cut opportunities and struck the post through Rafael Leao.

Parma had frustrated them all game and then took a rare opportunity from a set-piece, something that has been a trademark of their season to date.

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"We are not happy. Parma played an excellent game as we expected, but the ball didn't want to go in," Milan assistant coach Marco Landucci, standing in for the suspended Massimiliano Allegri, told Sky Sports.

"If you don't score and don't get a result, it all (the tactics) seems wrong. But the attitude was right. And Parma were very good, they fought with determination for every ball. We were also unlucky, but that's football."

The home side dominated possession but created little in the way of clear-cut chances in the first half. The best fell to Christian Pulisic, but he scuffed his shot wide of the left-hand post.

Pulisic saw his goal-bound shot blocked early in the second half, before Leao crashed a volley against the base of the post and the ball flashed agonisingly across the face of goal.

Parma took the lead 10 minutes from the end as Troilo headed in, but referee Marco Piccinini initially disallowed the goal for a block on Milan goalkeeper Mike Maignan by Lautaro Valenti.

After a Video Assistant Referee review at the pitchside screen, Piccinini overturned his decision, likely providing a fatal blow to Milan's Scudetto hopes.

"I was with my back to Maignan, I didn't do anything, I stayed put," Parma defender Valenti said. "I was sure he would give the goal."

Parma strike blow to AC Milan's title hopes with 1-0 win

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