Milan hosted Napoli at the San Siro in the first leg of the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League. with a goal from Ismael Bennacer, they beat them 1–0 to advance to the second leg the following Tuesday 18 April by a margin.
The first dangerous actions occurred even before the minute of the game. The pass from the right flank was dead in the box, and it was converted by Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, who shot close to the goal line, but this did not enter thanks to the intervention of Rade Krunic.
In addition, at 4 minutes Andre Zambo Angissa also tested Mike Maigna’s reflexes from outside the court.n, the French goalkeeper who averted the danger and protected the wheelhouse of the Milan team.
As the minutes go by Napoli had various scoring opportunities and Milan were waiting for an opportunity to counterattack. something he did thanks to a spectacular run by Rafael Leão who didn’t set the 25-foot distance well.
However, after moments of tension and shock, Brahim Diaz worked wonders in midfield to avoid two opponents Neapolitans, and then, after a long bullfight, gave it to Leao, who quickly He passed to Ismael Bennacer, who set the goal with his left foot, after a bad reaction from Alex Meret in the 40th minute.
Then, a minute later, Napoli went out in search of equality, but faced Theo Hernandez, who celebrated the victory of the defender and angered Hirving “Chucky” Lozano facing the French strikerbut did not see a yellow card.
A few minutes before the end of the first half, luck smiled at Napoli, this motivated them to take a corner kick Simon Chier had the opportunity to make the score 2-0 in favor of the Milan team.. However, the ball hit the post and then flew out, thus drowning out the possibility of a goal celebration, thus leaving the match 1–0 to Milan after the first 45 minutes.
In the second part of the game there were different dangerous actions where Napoli tried and tried to match the actions. However, at 69, he still couldn’t move the marker, so Lozano, who had no value on the field, left the field, and Giacomo Raspadori entered the field.
But this is not the only thing that Naples lived, because Zambo Anguissa Andre-Frank received a yellow card in the 71st minutealthough that’s not all, because four minutes later he saw another card of the same color and took a red card, which knocked him out of the game and will not let him play the second leg with Diego Armando Maradona, The same situation that later happened to Kim Min Jae due to the accumulation of prevention boxes.
one person less Napoli tried but failed to equalize. On the other side, AC Milan did not press the accelerator pedal to take advantage of the numerical superiority and leave the coin in the air to sentence the whole key to the next duel as a guest.
Source: La Opinion
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