M'Baye Niang
has put the nightmare of the Paris terror attacks behind him with a brace and
an assist as AC Milan crushed a sorry Sampdoria 4-1 at the San Siro on
Saturday.
Niang
admitted last week the events of the past fortnight had left him worried for
the safety of family and friends in and around the French capital.
But the
20-year-old from the Paris suburbs produced a confident performance for the
Rossoneri, first delivering for Giacomo Bonaventura's opener on 16 minutes and
then beating Emiliano Viviano from the spot after the Milan winger had been
hauled down in the area seven minutes before the interval.
Niang
secured Milan's seventh win of the campaign when he fired under Viviano four
minutes after the restart.
Milan moved
up to fifth place at seven points behind leaders Inter ahead of the remainder
of the weekend matches, with Sampdoria's second successive defeat under new
coach Vincenzo Montella leaving them 14 points adrift.
"It was
an almost perfect performance," said Milan coach Sinisa Mihajlovic, who
gave a special mention to Niang.
"He's a
big player for us, he was doing really well in pre-season then he got injured.
Now he's back in form and he's doing well, but he already showed at Genoa
(loan) what he was made of."
Earlier,
Torino moved up to eighth place with a 2-0 home win over Bologna thanks to
second-half goals from Andrea Belotti and Giuseppe Vives.
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