Inter Milan took a step towards Istanbul, where the Champions League final match is scheduled to take place on June 10, by winning in the first leg.euroderbyAgainst Milan (2-0), Wednesday 10 May at San Siro in the semi-finals.
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| Inter Milan striker Edin Dzeko waves to the fans after the Nerazzurri’s 2-0 victory over AC Milan in the first leg of the UEFA Champions League semi-finals on May 10 in Milan, Italy. |
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The last Italian team to lift the ‘trophy with big ears’, in 2010 under the stewardship of Jose Mourinho, Inter remain more than ever in the race for a fourth trophy if it is confirmed next Tuesday. During the first half of One Way, Edin Dzeko (8H) and Henrikh Mkhitaryan (11H) Milan quickly cracked slow to enter the game and then a little helpless after that, in the absence of Rafael Leao, lost.
Rossonero coach Stefano Pioli, who also lost Ismael Bennacer, was injured (17).H), just hoping to find the Portuguese in the return leg to hope Milan present their first final since 2007, the year of their seventh and final coronation in the competition.
Insufficiently recovering from a thigh injury, the Portuguese were forced to sit in the stands where many “VIPs” and former stars of the two clubs, such as Andriy Shevchenko or Samuel Eto’o, stayed to watch this 236H Milan derby in history – 5H in C1.
Begins “demonic”
The winner will certainly be an outsider in the final match, against Real Madrid or Manchester City, but Italian and Italian football did not shy away from their happiness in this Calcio festival, a few months after the World Cup without Nazionale.
San Siro had dressed up in her luminous attire with an air of fire and giant banners all over the floors of her dazzling.”Diavolo“coast”Milanista“, in honor of the Rossonero club title. But it was Inter who signed an early game.”demonic Score from his first two chances.
Dzeko, who preferred Romelu Lukaku to support Lautaro Martinez in attack, opened the scoring after a corner kick from a lopsided rebound left Mike Mignan helpless (8).H). Barely recovered from that first blow, Milan took on the deep water three minutes later: Mkhitaryan found himself alone in front of Mignan after a feint from Martinez and finished strong (11).H).
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| AC Milan’s French goalkeeper Mike Mignan (right) speaks to the referee about the match between Inter Milan and his club in the Champions League semi-final first leg on May 10 at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy. |
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The match was heralded as a tactician, in the Italian style, which actually changed its spirit. The Rossoneri came close to trailing 3-0 with a big pace, but Minyan saved from his position after a missile from Hakan Calhanoglu, before falling back on Mkhitaryan’s recovery (16).H).
Milan encouraged by Djokovic
It again passed close to repairing a penalty awarded to Martinez for an alleged foul by Simon Kjaer before it was ruled out (30′).H), the Rossoneri finally put some pace in their game, thanks to Alexis Saelemaekers, responsible for making Leao forgetful on the left side, and Brahim Diaz. But a little too hasty.
Diaz (49H) and then Junior Messias (50HHe missed the goal in a good position, then saved Nerazzurri goalkeeper Andre Onana, in turn, by the post through a shot by Sandro Tonali (63).H).
Milan, bleeding more with the entry of Divock Origi, however, did not manage to reduce the score against Internazol in management, who wasted his best chances on the counter by Maignan, who is flawless in front of Dzeko (53)H).
This is the first defeat for the Rossoneri in C1 against Inter – after two draws (and one qualification) in the semi-finals in 2003 and two victories in the quarter-finals in 2005 – but it is already the third in three derbies in 2023, after the slap. In the Italian Super Cup (3-0) in January and then a brief setback in the league (1-0) in February.
But it’s not the feisty Novak Djokovic, a Milan fan also present in the stands before joining Thursday’s Rome Masters 1000, who will say the opposite: A match is never lost after the first round.
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