AC Milan, reduced to ten shortly after returning from the locker room, bit the dust at home against Feyenoord who qualified for the 8th finals of the Champions League by snatching the draw (1-1) in San Siro, Tuesday.
Six days after its defeat in the Netherlands dam (1-0), Milan had ideally started the return match by opening the brand after less than a minute of play.
Faced with his former teammates whom he left in January, the Mexican striker of the Rossoneri Santiago Gimenez brought back the two teams equally.
The Dominator Lombard club has missed several opportunities to take the advantage, especially when Joao Felix has taken over his shot too much in the 17th minute or when the Portuguese, loaned by Chelsea, stumbled on the goalkeeper of the Rotterdam club and that Théo Hernandez saw in the process his strike hit the amount of the Dutch goal (23).
Without scoring, the French international of Milan was receiving at the end of the first period of a warning for a bad gesture on Jabub Moder (44).
Back from the locker room, the French side, still as nervous, was excluded for a second warning for simulation after trying to obtain a penalty (51).
Reduced to ten, Milan left control of the ball in Feyenoord which logically equalized thanks to Julian Carranza who shot from the head at close range Mike Maignan (73).
“Disappointed and angry”
Despite the entrances to Tammy Abraham and Samuel Chukwueze at the end of the match, Sergio Conceiçao’s team failed to resume the ascendant.
“We were for a long time the team on the field, but a decision of the referee changed the match”regretted the former Manchester City captain, Kyle Walker, one of the five recruits of the winter transfer window.
Two years after reaching the last square in the C1, Milan, septuple winner of the event, stops before the 8th finals and its 2024-25 season is catastrophic: despite its coronation in Italian Supercoupe , the Lombard club which changed coach at the end of December in dismissing Paulo Fonseca, is relegated to 7th place in its championship fifteen points from the leader, Naples.
“We are disappointed, we are angry, we lacked maturity when you lead 1 to 0, you don’t stop playing. We will have to react in the league and bounce back ”analyzed Zlatan Ibrahimovic, the special advisor of the president and owner of the Milan.
Surprise of this 2024-25 edition of the Champions League, Feyenoord will challenge Inter Milan or Arsenal in the next round.
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