AC Milan close their Group B crusade at home to Liverpool at San Siro expecting to join their English guests in theround of 16.
While Liverpool have gained tranquil headway through the part, dominating each of the five games, Milan needed to hang tight until Matchday 5 for their first triumph, grabbing a late 1-0 success at Atlético de Madrid through contest debutant Junior Messias. That has taken them on to four focuses, level with the Spanish side and one behind second-put Porto.
Milan will go through assuming they win and the other game is drawn.
Liverpool started off the segment with a 3-2 success at home to Milan, Jordan Henderson's 69th-minute goal getting a 3-2 accomplishment at Anfield; Fikayo Tomori's 10th moment own goal had given the English side the lead before Ante Rebic (42)and Brahim Díaz (44) struck for Milan, Mohamed Salah evening out four minutes into the subsequent period.
The Reds are one of three groups to have won every one of the five gathering games up until this point, alongside Ajax (Group C) and BayernMünchen (E). AC Milan (1992/93), Paris Saint-Germain (1994/95), Spartak Moskva (1995/96), Barcelona (2002/03), Real Madrid (2011/12, 2014/15) and Bayern (2019/20) have all recently recorded six successes from six in a UEFA Champions League bunch stage, albeit just Bayern proceeded to lift the prize.
Past MEETINGS
The Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul was the setting when the groups met in the 2005 UEFA Champions Leaguefinal, and Carlo Ancelotti's Milan looked set to guarantee the prize for the second time in three years as they dashed into a3-0 half-time lead because of goals from Paolo Maldini (1) – the quickest in an European Cup last – and Hernán Crespo(39, 44).
Be that as it may, Steven Gerrard's 54th-minute header started an exceptional Liverpool resurgence, Vladimír Šmicer(56) and Xabi Alonso (60), following up after his penalty had been saved by Dida, presenting to Rafael Benítez's side level.
With no further goals, the match was chosen by a penalty shoot-out. Serginho and Andrea Pirlo neglected to convertMilan's initial two kicks and, however John Arne Riise's spot kick was saved by Dida, Dietmar Hamann, Djibril Cissé andšmicer all scored, which means Jerzy Dudek's save from Andriy Shevchenko affirmed Liverpool's 3-2 success.
Milan got their vengeance in Athens two years after the fact, Filippo Inzaghi striking late in every half (45, 82) at the OlympicStadium. Dirk Kuyt's 89th-minute exertion was adequately not to forestall the Rossoneri guaranteeing the latest of theirseven European Cups.
Structure GUIDE
Milan
European Cup victors on seven events, Milan are showing up in the gathering stage since2013/14. This is the eighteenth time they have included, four behind Juventus' Italian record of 22.
Milan's last 11 UEFA Champions League crusades have all reached out into the knockout rounds, albeit five of thelast six have finished in the round of 16.
The Rossoneri were beaten by Atlético in the 2013/14 last 16 (0-1 h, 1-4 a) having completed second in their sectionbehind Barcelona, getting nine focuses from their six matches.
Milan have included in European contest just multiple times since that 2014 loss by Atlético, all in the UEFAEuropa League. They came to the round of 16 of every 2017/18, losing to Arsenal (0-2 h, 1-3 a), preceding neglecting to progressbeyond the gathering stage the accompanying season.
In 2020/21, Stefano Pioli's group completed first in Group H in front of LOSC Lille, Sparta Praha and Celtic, picking up13 focuses, prior to taking out Crvena zvezda on away goals in the round of 32 (2-2 a, 1-1 h). Again they cameunstuck against English resistance in the last 16, in any case, going out 2-1 on total to Manchester United (1-1 a,0-1 h).
The Rossoneri had lost five progressive UEFA Champions League matches prior to drawing 1-1 at home to Porto onMatchday 4, while the triumph at Atlético was just their second in their last 12 games in the opposition (D4 L6). Athome they have two successes in their last 11 apparatuses, bunch stage to last (D6 L3), and none in the last five (D3 L2).
Last season's home loss by Manchester United means Milan have won only seven of their 16 games againstEnglish guests (D4 L5), losing the last two and five of the last six.
Home and away, a 4-0 loss of Arsenal at San Siro in the 2011/12 UEFA Champions League round of 16 first leg(4-3 total) is Milan's just success in their last 14 games against Premier League adversaries (D4 L9).
Milan are the main Italian side to win the UEFA Champions League at least a time or two having won in 1994, 2003and 2007. They were additionally beaten finalists in 1993, 1995 and 2005 yet have not arrived at the quarter-finals since2011/12.
Liverpool
Liverpool are in the UEFA Champions League bunch stage for the fourteenth time; they have simply neglected to advance to thelast 16 or further multiple times.
This is Liverpool's fifth progressive gathering effort, all under Jürgen Klopp; sprinters up to Real Madrid in the2017/18 last, they asserted their 6th European Cup to the detriment of Tottenham with a 2-0 triumph in the 2018/19final, goals from Salah and Divock Origi getting the prize at Atlético's Estadio Metropolitano in Madrid.
Liverpool's last two UEFA Champions League crusades have finished in shame against clubs from Madrid. Deposed by Atlético in the 2019/20 round of 16 (0-1 a, 2-3 h aet), they lost to Real Madrid in last season's quarterfinals (1-3 a, 0-0 h).
Klopp's side had completed first in Group D on 13 focuses, in front of Atalanta, Ajax and Midtjylland, before beatingLeipzig 2-0 in the two legs of their round of 16 bind with the two games played in Budapest.
Bosses of England for the nineteenth time in 2019/20, their first association title starting around 1990, Liverpool completed third in the2020/21 Premier League.
Liverpool have won eight of their last 11 UEFA Champions League matches away from Anfield (D1 L2).
Last season's 5-0 win at Atalanta finished the Reds' run of three progressive losses in Italy, in spite of the fact that they havenevertheless been beaten in just four of their last 11 away games against Italian clubs, winning four.
Liverpool have met Italian clubs in four European Cup finals, winning two (against Roma in 1984 and Milan in 2005)and losing two (against Juventus in 1985 and Milan in 2007).
Connections AND TRIVIA
Have played in England:
Olivier Giroud (Arsenal 2012–18, Chelsea (2018–21)
Giroud's record against Liverpool with Arsenal and Chelsea was W6 D6 L4; he scored eight goals against the Reds,including one in a 2-2 attract the 2019 UEFA Super Cup in Istanbul which Chelsea ultimately lost on punishments.
Ibrahimovic's late equalizer procured United a 1-1 Premier League attract at home to Liverpool on 15 January 2017.
Have played in Italy:
Alisson Becker (Roma 2016–18)
Mohamed Salah (Fiorentina 2015 advance, Roma 2015–17)
Salah won two of his three gatherings with Milan in Italy, scoring in Roma's 3-1 Serie A success at San Siro on 14 May 2016.
Have played together:
Alessandro Florenzi and Alisson Becker (Roma 2016–18)
Alessandro Florenzi and Mohamed Salah (Roma 2015–17)
Worldwide partners:
Alexis Saelemaekers and Divock Origi (Belgium)
Andy Robertson and Simon Kjær were contradicting chiefs as Scotland crushed Denmark 2-0 in Glasgow in a 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifier on 15 November.
Thiago Alcántara was brought into the world in Italy, where his dad Mazinho was playing in 1991. Mazinho was a partner ofcurrent Milan mentor Pioli at Fiorentina in 1991/92.
Most recent NEWS
Milan
Zlatan Ibrahimovic has scored 48 UEFA Champions League goals, bunch stage to last.
Ibrahimovic has shown up in UEFA club contest.
Milan acquired their first success in three Serie A home games on Saturday (D1 L1), goals in the initial a little ways from Franck Kessié – his third association strike of the period yet his first non-penalty goal since 10 April – and Alexis Saelemaekers, with his first club goal since 20 December 2020, procuring a 2-0 triumph against Salernitana.
Milan have 38 focuses after 16 games, their most elevated all out beginning around 2003/04 when they had 39 focuses at a similar stage and proceeded to win the title. They moved to the highest point of the table at the end of the week, one point in front of Inter and two above past pioneers Napoli.
Saelemaekers was the fourteenth player to score for Milan in Serie A this season; in Europe's main five associations, onlyChelsea have more various scorers (16).
Having been unbeaten in their initial 12 Serie A games this season (W10 D2), a 3-1 home misfortune against Sassuolo on28 November was Milan's second progressive loss.
The Rossoneri had started to lead the pack through a first goal of the mission from Alessio Romagnoli, who was shipped off 13minutes from time, and had not dropped focuses from a triumphant position already in Serie A this season. Without a doubt, theprevious event was one more home loss against Sassuolo, 1-2 on 21 April.
Ibrahimovic's free-kick opened the scoring in Milan's 3-0 triumph at Genoa on 1 December.
Junior Messias, who scored the Matchday 5 champ at Atlético, added two additional goals against Genoa, and has threein his 253 minutes of football with Milan in all rivalries.
That was Milan's greatest success since a 4-1 triumph against Cagliari on 29 August, their first home round of the period.
After 16 games, Milan have the subsequent best assault in Serie A with 35 goals scored.*
Goalkeeper Mike Maignan returned against Sassuolo subsequent to going through keyhole medical procedure to determine a repetitive leftwrist issue on 13 October.
Samu Castillejo has not played since experiencing a thigh injury against Bologna on 23 October.
Davide Calabria got a calf injury in the wake of coming on as a substitute in Italy's 1-1 draw against.
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