AC Milan, logically defeated 1-0 on the Feyenoord lawn in the first leg of the Champions League after a blunder of its goalkeeper Mike Maignan, will have to raise his level of play if he wants to qualify for the knockout stages.
The return dam is scheduled for next Tuesday in San Siro, Milan. The winner of the double confrontation will challenge in eighths, in March or Inter Milan, or Arsenal.
It is a first prestige success for Pascal Bosschaart, acting coach of Feyenoord, after the dismissal Monday of the Danish Brian Priske because of “Very irregular results and a lack of alchemy”.
A premature elimination of the prestigious European competition would be a camouflet for the Milanese club, the main animator of the January transfer window, supposed to relaunch a first part of the disappointing season in the championship.
But his main recruit, the Mexican Santiago Gimenez, recruited against 32 M EUR at … Feyenoord and author of five goals during the league phase, was particularly harmless in front of his former teammates.
His Portuguese phenomenon Joao Felix, who arrived on loan from Chelsea, has not weighed enough on the Rossoneri game while the defender and ex-captain of City, Kyle Walker, also loaned, did not always appear sovereign in his corridor right.
Untenable Peaceao
The men of Sergio Conceiçao, whose surprise defeat in Zagreb on the last day of the league phase deprived them of a direct qualification in the round of 16, were surprised at the entrance, in a stadium of kuip sprinkled by A pouring rain.
The fault of a blunder of their French captain and guardian Mike Maignan, whose fists did not manage to repel a harmless strike from Igor Paixaa (3rd) who opened the scoring.
The French goalkeeper of AC Milan Mike Maignan committed a foul against Feyenoord, offering victory to the Dutch at the high -access to the 8th finals of the Champions League on February 12, 2025 in Rotterdam / John Thys / AFP
The Brazilian, untenable on his left side, made Kyle Walker live in bad times while entering regularly on his right foot, and it was necessary to prevent him from doubling the setting of a super rolled strike (37th) .
If Milan has obtained some dangerous situations in front of the Dutch goal, none resulted in a frank occasion, for lack of details in the last gesture or the last pass, as this against badly negotiated by Leao (40th) well taken up by Read .
Feyenoord, capable of the best (3-0 victory against Bayern) as of the worst (6-1 defeat in Lille) in the Champions League, managed to manage his advantage in the second period, playing the counter and leaving the ball more to the Milanese.
The Lombards pushed strongly at the end of the meeting on a Dutch defense on the decline but were still as clumsy in the finish, like the strikes of Tijjani Reijnders (70th), not framed, then of Samuel Chukwueze (73rd) and Joao Felix (88th), well captured by an impeccable Wellenreuther Timon all the match.
(tagstotranslate) Feyenoord