Milan drop to seventh in Serie A

Milan, who sacked coach Sinisa Mihajlovic three weeks ago and replaced the popular Serbian with youth team coach Cristian Brocchi, are now even further out of contention for a place in next season's Europa League -- a short order for a team that once rubbed shoulders with the giants of European football.

After a dismal draw with relegation-haunted Carpi and a shock defeat to basement side Verona, Milan were looking to make amends.

But frustrated Milan fans largely stayed at home amid reports club owner Silvio Berlusconi is on the verge of selling a majority stake to a Chinese consotrium, and their decision was largely vindicated.

Luca Paganini beat 'keeper Gianluigi Donnarumma from the edge of the box after two minutes and although Mario Balotelli and Brazilian defender Alex, whose header was fingertipped on to the post, came close to reducing arrears the visitors doubled their lead on the stroke of half-time when Oliver Kragl's free kick beat Donnarumma at the near post.

Hopes of a quick turnaroud were dented just after the restart when Balotelli's penalty was parried by Francesco Bardi, a former teammate when the pair played in Inter Milan's youth team.

Bardi then did well to palm Alex's piledriver from distance, but could not stop Milan reducing arrears on 50 minutes when Bacca slid in to meet Ignazio Abate's assist. 

But Milan's morale was hit again, Federico Dionisi pouncing on Alex's error to fire an angled drive across Donnarumma and into the far bottom corner.

Luca Antonelli came off the bench and, with his first touch, controlled with his chest to send an overhead kick past Bardi on 74 minutes.

But at the end of a desperate finale, the referee came to Milan's rescue when he pointed to the spot after Vasyl Pryima handled in the box.

Bardi came close but failed to stop Jeremy Menez's drive from sneaking inside the base of the near post to secure a share of the spoils.