The collapse of Italian champions continues: "AC Milan" were crushed by "Sassuolo" at home © Reuters

Defending champions of Italy, the players of AC Milan are showing very poor athletic form after the season restart.

On Sunday at the San Siro stadium, Stefano Pioli's team lost 2:5 to the Sassuolo team.

In the 9th minute, Olivier Giroud beautifully sent the ball into the goal, but after a VAR review, it was disallowed.

In the 19th minute, Sassuolo took the lead with Gregoire Defrel, and two minutes later, Davide Frattesi doubled the score.

The goals kept coming - in the 24th minute, Giroud managed to score his goal. However, in the 30th minute, the visitors' leader Dominico Berardi restored a two-goal lead.

At the beginning of the second half, Armando Lauriente converted from the penalty spot to make it 1:4. Matheus Henrique scored another goal for Sassuolo in the 79th minute, and soon after Divock Origi scored a consolation goal with a fantastic strike.

Today in the league table, AC Milan could drop as low as 6th place if results in other matches go unfavorably.