Milan flop on Conceicao's San Siro debut

Sergio Conceicao's AC Milan flopped on the new coach's San Siro debut after the seven-time European champions could only draw 1-1 with struggling Cagliari in Serie A on Saturday.

Portuguese Conceicao immediately got fans onside by beating Inter Milan in a thrilling Italian Super Cup final in Saudi Arabia, but the pre-match cheers at the trophy soon turned into more familiar boos and groans for an insipid display.

An unusual error from Mike Maignan gave Cagliari a point, the France goalkeeper allowing Nadir Zortea's weak, speculative shot to escape his grasp nine minutes after half-time.

Zortea's soft leveller sucked away all the enthusiasm generated moments before when Alvaro Morata bundled home after Christian Pulisic was denied by Cagliari goalkeeper Elia Caprile and the base of the post.

Milan stay eighth and eight points behind fourth-placed Lazio who sit in the final Champions League spot, although Conceicao's team play one of their two games in hand at Como on Tuesday.

The hosts were as poor as they often were under Conceicao's sacked predecessor Paulo Fonseca but would have come away with the points had it not been for slack finishing and excellent goalkeeping from Caprile who stopped Pulisic and Tammy Abraham netting when clean through on goal.