Good evening and welcome to our LIVE text coverage of the 2011/12 Serie A curtain-raiser as reigning champions Milan host Lazio!

Milan attack again, but Cassano cannot chase after it as he knows he's offside.

More like it from the champs. And a warning to Lazio that they can't afford to drop off.

Brilliant ball from Aquilani to Cassano, he's through. But he plays it selflessly to Ibrahimovic for the tap-in! 1-2!

Hernanes drops back to cut out a decent Milan build from the right. Antonini was free on the left.

Antonini shows good pace on the left but his cross is headed away.

Aquilani again tries to feed a team-mate through. Cassano again triggers the flag. Milan need to shake their approach up, and fast.

Aquilani pulls off an impressive delivery of his own into the Lazio area, but Cassano fouls his marker trying to latch onto it.

Boateng shoots straight at Bizarri.

22 minutes. 2 debut strikers. 2 goals. Bad to worse for Milan.

Mauri has time and space again... BIG MISTAKE. Another excellent deep cross and a bullet header from Cisse.... 0-2!

Hernanes concedes a free-kick just inside the Lazio half.

Looks like the defensive mess-up is leading to our first change. Gattuso is unable to continue and will be replaced by new signing Mark Van Bommel.

Moments after a Cassano header is caught by Bizarri, a collision between Nesta and Gattuso allows Cisse to pounce... his low strike is blocked by Abbiati and Klose is unable to convert the rebound under heavy pessure from Bonera. This is a nightmare start to the title defence thus far for Milan!

Mauri's ball towards Klose and Cisse goes straight to Abbiati.

Klose is lurking again, but Abbiati has this one.

But what a debut for Miroslav Klose. And we're only a fraction of the way in!

The home side's attempt to respond immediately is thwarted by the offside flag.

GOAL! Lazio are ahead! And it's Klose! Great diagonal assist from Mauri and the German striker's first touch completely befuddled Nesta. The finish was academic. 0-1!

Ambrosini has a shot blocked and then cleared, overhead-kick style.

Hernanes beats three men, feeds Rocchi, to Mauri on the right hand side of the area... his cross just flashes past Klose! And close that was, too.

Aquilani is put though on goal! Great block by Bizarri at point blank range!