Only 11 minutes had passed in the first half, Milan quickly soared into the lead. Rafael Leao pulled up from the left and signed into the penalty area for Ruben Loftus-Cheek to slot in at the far post. 1-0 wasn’t enough when the half was reached. Hours into the game, Olivier Giroud soared and shot the ball into the hands of Youssef Maleh. VAR confirmed the penalty before Giroud himself made no mistake, resulting in the end of the first half for the visiting team. 2-0 away
In the second half, the Rossoneri team relaxed a lot. It was close to getting many hits, but it turned out that Empoli, the second-bottom team, wasn’t as sharp, plus Mike Menyong pulled out his form to save. Until 2 minutes before the end of time, Christian Pulisic had a chance to counter, dragging him through more than half the field and giving it to youngster Shaka Traore, just 19 years old, who had just come on as a substitute, making a shot that nailed the coffin, making it 3-0. Let AC Milan firmly hold on to 3rd place, 9 points behind rival leaders Inter.
List of players from both teams
Empoli : Elia Caprile – Tyronne Ebouehi (Filippo Ranocchia 28), Sebastian Valukiewicz, Ardion Ismaili, Sebas. Tiano Luperto – Youssef Maleh, Alberto Grassi (Razwan Marin 74), Emmanuel Gyasi – Tommaso Baldansi ( Matteo Cancellieri 57) – Francesco Caputo (Daniel Maldini 74), Nicolo Cambiaki
AC Milan : Mike Mennon – Davide Calabria (Davide Bartesagi 70), Simon Kjaer (Matteo Gabbia 84), Theo Hergnon Ondez, Alessandro Florenzi (Alex Jimenez 35) – Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Yunus Musah 70), Ya Scene Adli, Tijani Reiders – Christian Pulisic, Olivier Giroud, Rafael Leao (Shaka Traore 84)
2024-01-07 13:27:00
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