AC Milan coach Stefano Pioli was left delighted after Friday night's 2-1 win at Roma.

Olivier Giroud and Rafael Leao struck for Milan, with Leonardo Spinazzola scoring a late consolation for Roma. Fikayo Tomori saw red for Milan on the hour mark.

Pioli said: "We approached all three games in a very good way and that's important, and we tried to control the game how we want to. I believe that we did that, we looked threatening without conceding dangerous chances, which is important.

“I was about to sub off Fik and Ruben because of the bookings and unfortunately, we went down to ten men. However, the group then showed a lot of character, desire and hunger to bring him the three points. Credit to my players."

On Tomori's red card, he added: “I must say that Fik was having a great game, reading it well and also building from the back. He has the great quality of being aggressive and fast, but I agree with you that he needs to understand sometimes when to make a move on a player. I'm sorry we won't have him available for the next game but I'm happy that he's been called up for England."