Rabiot came on at 57'. By the 66th minute the Serie A opener was over

Serie A 2026-27 started on a Sunday night in Turin, with 27,958 people in the Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino and a new Milan coach standing on the touchline for the first time. For an hour, Ruben Amorim's side had 59% of the ball and almost nothing to show for it.

Then he changed it. Adrien Rabiot and Luka Modrić came on together at 57'. Nine minutes later Milan were 2-0 up and the opening night belonged to them.

Two minutes, two goals

The first came at 64'. Yunus Musah drove forward, Rabiot picked out Alphadjo Cissè, and the 19-year-old finished — the same Cissè who had put an early chance into the side-netting inside the opening two minutes.

Two minutes later Samuel Chukwueze crossed and Rabiot arrived to make it 2-0. An assist and a goal in the space of 120 seconds, from a player who had been sitting down when the hour mark passed.

Chukwueze was the game's outstanding performer either side of that — Diego Mascardi had already denied him around the half-hour, in one of the few moments of a flat first half.

Torino's numbers do not match Torino's night

Ignazio Abate's side finished with a stoppage-time goal from Ché Adams and an expected-goals figure of 1.01, which sounds like a team that was in it. The shot chart says otherwise: eight attempts, one on target, and that one went in at 90+3'.

Milan had 19 shots to Torino's eight and completed 486 passes to 315. This was a comfortable win dressed up as a nervy one by three minutes of stoppage time.

A teenager's day, twice over

The opener was not a one-off. Three matchdays later, Cissè scored again to put Milan ahead in a 1-1 draw away at Juventus, cutting inside and finishing through Pierre Kalulu's legs — his second goal from open play already this season, at 19 years old.

Two paths diverge from matchday 1

Milan's slow start against Torino turned out to be part of a pattern, not a one-off. Ruben Amorim's side needed 69 minutes and three missed chances from Gonçalo Ramos to break down Venezia 2-0 at San Siro in their next match, then were outshot 14-3 by Juventus and still came away unbeaten, drawing 1-1, in matchday 3.

Torino's next two matchdays went the other way, then turned. They lost 2-1 at Sassuolo, substitute Domenico Berardi settling it late, before finally getting off the mark with a 2-1 comeback win at Fiorentina — Ché Adams, who had pulled one back in stoppage time against Milan here, scoring the winner on 82 minutes.

Match facts

• 64' — Alphadjo Cissè (AC Milan), assist Adrien Rabiot
• 66' — Adrien Rabiot (AC Milan), assist Samuel Chukwueze
• 90+3' — Ché Adams (Torino)
• Half-time: Torino 0-0 AC Milan
• Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino — Serie A matchday 1, Sunday 23 August 2026
• Attendance: 27,958. Referee: Luca Zufferli

Where the table stands after three rounds

Three rounds in, AC Milan are 4th on 7 points — two wins and a draw, five goals scored and two conceded — sitting in the Champions League places under Serie A's four-team allocation this season. Torino sit 13th on 3 points, their win at Fiorentina still the only one, having also lost twice. Roma and Inter share top spot, both unbeaten on 9 points from three wins.

What's next

Both sides are back after the international break for matchday 4, still chasing different things — Milan to keep an unbeaten start going, Torino to build on their first win of the season.