Champions: Salzburg-Milan 1-1, targets to Okafor and Saelemaekers

Well balanced recreation at Red Bull Arena: Austrians ahead with Okafor, the Belgian finds the definitive 1-1 right before the split. Post of the Portuguese in recovery

If a yr in the past Milan begun the Champions League with an illusion and a defeat at Anfield, this time they get started with strong realities: 1-1 in Salzburg and away, the ice is broken in a team E that claims to be really hard fought. Not a sparkling Devil like in the derby, but certainly combative, towards an opponent who has organization, substantial tempo and a few of pretty gifted factors. And by a hair Leao does not make the shot in total recovery.

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Equilibrium

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The result in Zagreb, with Chelsea defeated by Dinamo, straight away serves as a warning to all those people who regarded as the Blues and AC Milan to be leading favorites for qualification. Salzburg, then, has a current curriculum that invites respect, particularly at the Pink Bull Arena (3 wins in the team and an equal with Bayern in the knockout levels of the final Champions League). It is not shocking, therefore, that the Italian champions make an “even recreation” in a fantastic 1st fifty percent in Austria. Without a doubt, it is essential to remedy the drawback to go to the interval at 1-1, exhibiting character in the most complicated moment.

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Query and solution

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The ambitions are from Okafor and Saelemaekers. The Swiss forms a superior-amount attacking duo with Fernando, as is tradition in these elements (persons like Haaland and Mané have handed through here). And the Rossoneri undergo from their combinations, lit over all by Capaldo – 2 times capturing currently in the first minute of participate in – and Kameri. Kalulu goes into difficulty, who on 28 ‘loses his harmony in the spot in one particular on one particular with Okafor and ends up awkwardly on the ground: not even Maignan can do the wonder, the 1- ball passes amongst his legs. The Satan, having said that, reacts. The issue that had worked best so far had been Hernandez’s central solo, thwarted by a pair of unhappy readings by Giroud, but the equivalent aim on the 40 ‘was alternatively born from a collective function of ingenuity, as a person would say. for the newspapers: De Ketelaere cleans a pleasant ball in the center of the subject, Bennacer picks it up and places it on Leao’s operate, in the centre there is Saelemaekers who throws the 1-1 objective, favored also by the existence of Giroud.

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Thrill Lion

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Situation straightened, but the 2nd 50 percent opens with a thrill: Kjaergaard hits from the left for Fernando, pretty free of charge on the opposite submit, with Maignan pardoned by the Brazilian. Pioli has noticed adequate: inside of Pobega, Dest and Origi, outdoors Bennacer, Calabria and Giroud. But the first goalkeeper to execute soon after the substitutions is continue to Maignan, named to dive by a Seiwald fireball. The jewel Sesko and the Diaz-Messias duo are the final moves of Jaissle and Pioli to give the decisive blow to the race: Brahim virtually succeeds, but Kohn’s minimal exit seals the result. Then Theo presents a thrill, but to the Rossoneri admirers: passage from horror in the risky location, capturing all-around by Sesko who does not pass really significantly from the publish. Around? Not at all, there is time for the closing regret: Leao’s pole in the 94th moment, with a deflected proper. Milan will see the Austrians once again in a few of months, the up coming obstacle to assume about will be in a week: Dinamo Zagreb arrives at San Siro. As leaders of the group. Would you have said it?

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